§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the despatch which has reached Her Majesty's Government purporting to come from the Emperor of China was handed to the Government by the Chinese Ambassador in the ordinary course; and when the Government will communicate the con-tents of that despatch to the House of Commons.
§ * MR. BRODRICKThe despatch was received from the Chinese Minister in the ordinary course. It will be laid with the Papers.