§ MR. EMMOTT (Oldham)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's 976 Government has received from the Acting Consul at Boma a copy of the judgment of the Boma Court in the case of M. de Tiège, who was condemned on 24th June last to fifteen years imprisonment for atrocities committed upon the natives, he having succeeded in escaping while the trial was in progress; and, if no such copy has been received, will His Majesty's Government endeavour to secure one.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Earl PERCY,) Kensington, S.His Majesty's Government have not received a copy of the judgment referred to, but the Acting Consul at Boma will be instructed by telegraph to furnish one.