§ SIR DAVID WEDDERBURNsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there has been any recent Correspondence between the Ottoman Government and that of Her Majesty relative to the alleged oppression exercised by the Turkish officials upon the Christian inhabitants of the Sporades Islands; and, whether there is any objection to laying such Correspondence upon the Table of the House?
MR.OTWAYsaid, in reply, that there had been no recent Correspondence on this subject between the Government and the Ambassador at Constantinople; but a Consular officer some time since suggested to the Government certain measures which might be adopted 1170 for removing the real ground of complaint from the islanders, expressing, at the same time, his conviction that the commotion was due in a great measure to the influence of certain persons in London. Several communications had been addressed to the Foreign Office on the part of these persons; but they were not of sufficient importance to be laid on the Table of the House.