§ MR. HENRY SAMUELSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Sir Henry Elliot, having stated in Despatch No. 1,081 on page 745 of the Blue Book on Turkey, No. 1, 832 1877, that the Porte had sent him a note "giving unqualified denial of Mr. (Consul) Freeman's statements" as to atrocities committed in Bosnia by the Turks in the spring of 1876; and, that he had forwarded the Turkish note to Mr. Freeman for observations, ho will lay upon the Table Mr. Freeman's reply, if any, to the Porte's denial of his statements; and, if there was a reply, if he would explain to the House why it was not published in the Blue Book?
§ MR. BOURKEThere has been no reply from Mr. Freeman to the Porte's denial of his statements upon the subject of the atrocities in Bosnia by the Turks in 1876. Papers on this subject (Turkey, No. 5) have to-day been laid upon the Table, comprising Mr. Freeman's original Report and the Porte's rejoinder.