§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it has been brought to the knowledge of Her Majesty's Government that the usurers in many districts of Upper Egypt have lately made contracts with the Local Governors to collect their debts on condition of receiving a per-centage; and, whether in this way the Government forces, police and soldiers, have been turned into bailiffs, with the result of making the Government more than ever detested by the fellaheen?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICENo information to this effect has reached Her Majesty's Government; but the whole subject of the indebtedness of the fellaheen is occupying the careful attention of the authorities in Egypt, as the Blue Books already presented will show.