Mr. CATHCART WASONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to an Act recently passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature, United States of America, by which the ordinary procedure for divorce has been annulled, and the right hitherto exercised of trial by jury practically abolished; and if he will ask the British Ambassador at Washington to make inquiries, if it is possible, to protect the interests of an English lady and her children against the alterations of the law against her?
§ Sir E. GREYThe lady who is referred to in the hon. Member's question as an English lady is, I understand, married to an American citizen, and has consequently ceased to be a British subject. The matter is one, therefore, in which His Majesty's Ambassador cannot intervene.