HC Deb 23 February 1882 vol 266 cc1369-70
MR. BOURKE

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Despatch purporting to be signed by Lord Granville on the 26th of January upon the affairs of Egypt, and published in the "Times" of the 22nd of February, is authentic; and, if so, whether the Despatches alluded to by Lord Granville can now be produced?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

I can inform my right hon. Friend that the Despatch to which he refers is authentic; but, with regard to the second portion of his Question, I may state that the Question which stands in his name for to-morrow, and to which I shall then reply, is in substance the same as that which he now proposes to put.