MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has a new regulation been made by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the effect that the duration of the appointments of heads of missions at Foreign Courts shall, in future, not be" extended beyond five years; and, if so, on what date was that new regulation, made.
§ LORD CRANBORNEThe regulation dealing with the duration of the appointments of heads of missions was made in 1872, and has not been altered since that date.