§ MR. ASHLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether either of the two foreign Powers, parties to the Convention respecting the Aland Islands annexed to the Treaty of Paris in 1856, has proposed to His Majesty's Government that the Convention should be modified; and whether he is aware of any negotiations between these Powers to that end.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI beg to refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave to the hon. Member for Mid Armagh on 20th February last. I do not know of any negotiations being in progress, and no alteration of the Aland Islands Treaty is now under discussion as far as I am aware.
§ *SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is now able to state when the Congo further Papers, promised for the earliest possible date, will be laid before the House.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI hope to lay the Congo further Papers next week. They have been somewhat delayed to admit of the inclusion of some additional correspondence.
SIR GILBERT PARKERasked as to the most recent communications which had passed with the Belgian Government.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI understand that my right hon. friend has a Question for Thursday on that point, and I should like to defer my answer till then.