§ * SIR CHARLES W. DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can inform the House when it is likely that he will be able to present to Parliament the despatch lately sent by His Majesty's Government to Belgium in reference to the transfer of the territory of the Congo State to that Power.
§ MR. MCKINNON WOODIt is proposed to lay the despatch on the 23rd instant.