§ MR. BAXTERasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether it is true that the British Consul at Adrianople has made reports, either to Sir Henry Elliot or to the Foreign Office, confirming the accounts published in the "Daily News" of the atrocities committed by the Turks in Bulgaria; and, whether it is not a fact that our Ambassador at Constantinople some time ago remonstrated with the Turkish Government in regard to these outrages?
§ MR. DISRAELISir, if the right hon. Gentleman had asked the Question when he gave Notice of it, it would have been my duty to say that the Consul at Adrianople had made no reports confirmatory of the statements in The Daily News, and, consequently, that the Ambassador at Constantinople could have made no remonstrances on the subject. But since Notice was given of the Question we have received intimations of an interesting kind relating to the matter. I promised the House, on a former occasion, when the Government were in possession of authentic information on the 1477 subject, and when we had received answers from Sir Henry Elliot, after repeated inquiries, I would state the result to the House, and I am prepared to do so to-day; but I think, perhaps, it would be more convenient to allow the course of Questions to be proceeded with now, and on moving the Order of the Day I may be permitted to make a statement.