MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to state the result of the representations which have been made with regard to the Armenian prisoners who have been sentenced to death by special tribunals at Sivas and at Yuzgat?
§ * SIR E. GREYThe sentences are still under examination. No decision has yet been taken, but there is every reason to hope that, except in cases of assassination, the Sultan will exercise his clemency and commute the death sentences.