§ MR. J. G. HUBBARDasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, in fulfilment of their promise last Session to influence the Porte in favour of the bondholders of the 1854 Turkish Loan, the Government will represent at Constantinople the injustice of the Turkish Ambassador in London withholding from the Bank of England the formal instruction to pay to the bondholders the money belonging to them now in the Bank, and under no possible circumstances available for any other purpose?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, the House was aware from the Answers given to former Questions that the matter referred to had been brought under the notice of the Porte, and that joint representations had been made on the subject by the Governments of England and France. He might add that the Government proposed to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the return of the British Ambassador to Constantinople to press the matter again upon the attention of the Porte, and to make remonstrances in its own interests as well as in the interests of the bondholders.