§ MR. H. SEYMOURsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he has received any information relating to the Abyssinian prisoners?
LORD STANLEYThe latest accounts, Sir, which I have received from Massowah are of the date of July 20th. It is represented that the King's power is greatly diminished, that rebel troops are actually in sight of his camp, and that communication between Debra Tabor, where he is, and Magdala, where the prisoners are detained, 1108 is cut off. But I cannot say whether it will be permanently cut off, and it would, therefore, be premature to assume that the prisoners were about to be immediately liberated.