§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can now give any further information regarding the circumstances attending a recent Petition of Egyptian soldiers to the Khedive?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEA Petition was presented to the Khedive by six men belonging to the Artillery, 1607 stating that they did not wish to go to the Soudan or elsewhere with the English, unless they had Mussulman officers. The incident has not had any further consequences.