§ COLONEL ALEXANDERasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention had been called to a paragraph in the "Pall Mall Gazette" of the 2nd instant, in which it is stated that eight Jewesses had been bastinadoed by order of the interpreter to the British Consul at Casabianca—
That this barbarous act has aroused the indignation of all classes of Europeans on the coast, especially as the instigator is in receipt of an English salary;and, whether he proposes to institute an inquiry into the matter?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, Her Majesty's Minister at Tangiers was instructed, on the 26th ultimo, to make immediate inquiries on the subject of this paragraph. I may, however, inform the hon. and gallant Member that we have been unable as yet to identify the place mentioned, where certainly no British Consular officer exists.
§ MR. O'DONNELLasked, whether the noble Lord had seen an account of these transactions given in the last number of The Jewish World?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEIf the hon. Member will send me a copy of the paper I will look into it.