§ MR. BOURKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he will lay before Parliament any Despatches which have passed between Her Majesty's Government and Foreign Powers upon the re-organisation of Egypt?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEMy right hon. Friend will find in the Correspondence recently presented to Parliament (Egypt, No. 14) the communications which, as I have already stated in this House, have been received from the Governments of Russia and Italy, in reply to Lord Granville's Circular of the 3rd January last. These Papers also include a Note from the French Government on the subject of the house tax in Egypt. No other communications have been received.
§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEasked if the noble Lord would lay on the Table any Papers relating to the progress of the re-organization in Egypt later than May 3rd, which were, he thought, the latest given as yet?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE, in reply, said, that he had made up a Blue Book, headed "Egypt (Reorganization)"—that was as regarded what had happened since the Blue Book issued at the beginning of the Session, and it had been laid on the Table a few days ago. He thought it was Egypt, No. 13.
§ MR. BOURKEasked whether any answers had been received from Foreign Governments to Lord Granville's despatch on the Suez Canal, which was sent some months ago?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE, in reply, said, that two replies had been received to the Circular despatch, which was the last Paper presented last year, and was in the Blue Book of 1882. Those two replies were from Russia and from Italy, and were the only replies received from Foreign Governments.