§ MR. H. SAMUELSON, asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether any communications have passed from Sir H. Layard to Her Majesty's Government containing references to a proposed guarantee of a Loan of a considerable amount to be raised by the Turkish Government; and, if so whether he will lay them, or any part of them, upon the Table of the House?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, a letter relating to a proposed guarantee of a loan of a considerable amount, to be raised by the Turkish Government, had been received from Sir Henry Austen Layard by the Foreign Office and the Treasury. He had not had time fully to examine it, but he might observe, that as far as Sir Henry Austen Layard was concerned, he stated that he had not held out any hopes to the Sultan 952 that the proposed loan would be guaranteed by Her Majesty's Government. No such engagement or guarantee would be entertained by Her Majesty's Government without the previous approval of Parliament.