§ SIR EDMUND LACONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, If he can give any information to the House, with reference to the statement which has appeared in the London papers to- 73 day, that the military authorities have under consideration the eventuality of deferring the return of the Nile Expedition until the next rising of the river?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONI can give no explanation whatever of this statement. I have heard nothing about it; and I do not know to what it refers.