§ MR. MONK, who had given Notice of his intention to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Sir Daniel Lange has been dismissed by his CO-directors from the office of director of the Suez Canal Company, remarked that his Question had to some extent been answered in The Times of that morning, and he desired now to put it in a different form—namely. Whether Sir Daniel Lange has been dismissed by the directors of the Suez Canal Company from the position of representative of the Company in England; and, if so, what was the cause of his dismissal?
§ MR. BOURKE,, in reply, said, that no Notice had been given of the Question in its amended form, but that the answer to it had been anticipated by the letter in The Times to which the hon. Member had referred. The information contained in that letter was on the highest authority—namely, that of M. 1208 de Lesseps—and the cause of the withdrawal of Sir Daniel Lange from the position he held in the Company was clearly stated. The Government had no information on the subject further than that published in The Times, and he could only refer the hon. Member to the letter in question. He might add that from M. de Lesseps' statement in The Times it was perfectly clear that Sir Daniel Lange had never been a director, but had been merely a salaried officer of the Suez Canal Company.