§ MR. RYLANDSasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to a statement in the "Times" of Saturday, contained in the letter of the "Times" Correspondent lately with the Turkish army at Schumla, in which the writer states that he had heard that his name had been attached to a document describing "atrocities by Cossacks and Bulgarians," which document he had never seen; and, whether the document so referred to is that inserted in the Blue Book on Turkey (No. 23, page 18), communicated, with the signature of the "Times" Correspondent, by Musurus Pasha to the Earl of Derby, as being "of great value from the quality and character of those who have signed it, their reliability being beyond doubt?"
§ MR. BOURKEMy attention was first called to this matter by the hon. Baronet the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke), and I have only to state that the document was inserted in the Blue Book in the form in which it was communicated to Lord Derby by Musurus Pasha; and that we have no means of ascertaining whether it is the same document which is alluded to in the letter from The Times Correspondent at Schumla.