§ MR. HANBURYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it is true, as stated in a telegram in "The Daily News" of 22nd April, that "the Chinese Government have appointed a person of inferior position as Commissioner to investigate" the circumstances connected with the murder of Mr. Margary; and, when the Despatches of Her Majesty's Minister at Pekin, in reference to this subject, are expected, and whether he will take an early opportunity of laying them upon the Table of the House?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, as regarded the first part of the Question of the hon. Member, the Government had not received any information from Mr. Wade with respect to the statement in the telegram referred to. That gentleman's despatches were not expected to arrive in this country for some days to come; but they should be at once placed on the Table of the House, should the noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs be of opinion that that could be done without injury to the public interest.