VISCOUNT STRATFORD DE RED-CLIFFE,seeing the noble Lord the Under 2038 Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, wished to put a question before the Orders of the Day were proceeded with. He had no doubt that most of their Lordships had seen in the public prints an account of events which had occurred at Warsaw, which were attended with circumstances of great interest, and were likely to be followed by very important consequences. It had come to his knowledge that there was much reason to believe that the accounts of these events which had been given in one of the leading journals of the day were substantially and mainly correct. The matter was specially interesting at the present time when so many political changes were taking place. But the principal reason for his taking the opportunity of calling their Lordships' attention so early to the subject was that all that related to Poland had a most important bearing upon the Treaties of 1815, which, although they had, during the last few years, received some very rude shocks, had not yet been entirely set aside; and the events to which he referred, although attended with some loss of life, had been accompanied by so much moderation on the part of the people, and in many respects on the part of the authorities, that both had a claim upon the attention of their Lordships. He should therefore be glad to learn from his noble Friend, Whether Her Majesty's Government had received through the usual official channels any information upon this subject, and whether there would be any objection to laying upon the table any papers which they might have received?
LORD WODEHOUSEsaid, that the Government had received from Her Majesty's Consul General at Warsaw an account of the important events which had occurred in that capital, which, as far as he was aware, for the most part confirmed the accounts which had been published in the newspapers. He did not receive his noble Friend's note in time to communicate with the noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Office, and he, therefore, could not at present promise to lay that despatch upon the table. He would on Monday inform his noble Friend whether or not it could be produced.