§ MR. W. LOWTHERasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Whether Colonel Walker, the Military Attaché at Berlin, did not in 1866 accompany the triumphal entry of the Prussian Troops into Berlin at the termination of the War with Austria; and, whether General Walker will receive instructions with regard to entering Berlin with the Prussian Army in triumphal procession at the termination of the War with France?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDIt is perfectly true, Sir, that Colonel Walker was present at the entry of the Prussian troops into Berlin at the close of the war with Austria in 1866, but I have reason to believe that he was there as a spectator, and that, although in uniform, he did not join in the military cortége as it proceeded from the Brandenburg Gate to the Blucher statue, where the King and Princes took up their position. In his own account Colonel Walker stated that as he did not take part in the military cortége he could not report as to the way in which the troops were received by the crowds who lined the streets. With regard to the second Question, I beg to inform the hon. Gentleman that General Walker is under orders to return to England as soon as the Imperial Crown Prince shall have quitted France, in order to report himself to Her Majesty's Government.