§ VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH,in rising to ask Her Majesty's Government whether inductions can be issued to the Consular Agents in France and Belgium to transmit to the Foreign Office Reports (if any) made to the Governments of those countries, or such other information as may be procurable, respecting experiments recently made with the object of curing the disease in potatoes, said: I understand that Reports have been presented, and I believe that some answer has been given on the subject by the Minister of Agriculture in the House of Commons, which I have not yet seen; but if the noble Marquess will give those instructions, no doubt it would be more satisfactory to have them from official sources in the full Reports which have been presented from the various ports in France and Belgium.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (The Marquess of SALISBURY)I will see what information is to be procured on the subject, and I shall have great pleasure in giving orders that it shall be procured through Her Majesty's Consuls as the noble Lord desires.