§ MR. BOURKESir, I wish, with the permission of the House, to correct an Answer which I gave to the hon. Baronet the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke). It will be in the recollection of the House that two or three days ago the hon. Baronet asked me a Question as to jurisdiction in Cyprus, and I told him there had been no Correspondence with foreign Powers on that subject. He repeated that Question yesterday; and I think it fair to the hon. Baronet to say that if he had asked me that Question to-day, my answer would have been different. It would have been to the effect that questions have been put to us quite recently with respect to judicial arrangements in Cyprus.
§ MR. E. STANHOPESir, I also have to ask the kind indulgence of the House while I offer a few words of personal explanation. In the course of the debate on Monday last I described a letter of Sir Henry Norman's as "misleading." That description still appears to me an accurate one. But I am sorry to learn from the gallant officer that it has caused him some annoyance; because he thinks that the inference might be drawn from it that I imputed to him a desire to deceive the public. With the permission of the House I wish, therefore, to state 745 publicly what I have already said privately, that such was far from being my meaning. I did not say, or think of saying, or suggesting, that Sir Henry Norman wrote the letter in question with the intention of misleading the public, nor did I think of implying anything derogatory to his personal honour.