MR. SCOURFIELD (for Sir H. DRUMMOND WOLFF)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether Her Majesty's Government are taking 219 any steps, in conjunction with other European Powers and the Porte, to substitute for consular tribunals a more convenient and uniform system of jurisdiction over foreigners in Ottoman territory?
§ MR. DISRAELISir, the only instance in which the Government have agreed with other European Powers and the Porte to substitute other tribunals for those now in existence is in Egypt. Arrangements for this purpose are nearly completed. The French Assembly have not yet ratified their Convention with Egypt. A Correspondence has passed with regard to a reformed system in Tunis, but no progress had been made in that direction.