§ MR. FREELANDsaid, he rose to ask, Whether any information has been received by the Government with reference to a defeat of Hussein Pasha in the Herzegovina, announced by telegram from Ragusa, by way of Vienna, and with reference to other reverses which the Turkish Troops are said to have sustained?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, he would recommend his hon. Friend not to pay too much attention to telegrams from Ragusa, unless he wished to judge of them in a non-natural sense. So far from the Turks being defeated, he believed, as far as the Government had received information, that they had been successful in their operations. There was no doubt that they had sustained some losses, and, through treachery, a party of Turkish irregulars had been seized by the Montenegrins. He might add that the Turkish Government were acting with great moderation, although exposed to great provocation. He did not know who sent those telegrams, or whether they were sent for stock-jobbing or other purposes.