§ In reply to Major GAVIN,
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDsaid, that Colonel Stanton had reported on March 30 from Alexandria the death of Captain Charles Agnew, of the 16th Lancers, at Ismailia, 1684 after having been wounded at Suez on the evening of the 20th of that month. Both Mr. West, Her Majesty's Consul at Suez, and the Italian Vice Consul would appear to have acted with energy and promptitude, and three men undoubtedly implicated in the affair had been arrested; but, unfortunately, the early departure of the steamship Golconda prevented the evidence of two engineers of that ship being taken as to the identity of two of the men who were arrested. Orders had been sent to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's agent at Bombay to send these two men back to Suez as early as possible for the purpose of giving further evidence in the matter. Mr. Consul West stated, moreover, that the three men were retained in arrest by order of the Italian Vice Consul, Signore de Gayzueta, to whose prompt and energetic action in the matter he bore the highest testimony.