§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, since the renewed 1431 representations of Her Majesty's Government, any steps have been taken by the Porte to give effect to that part of the 23rd Article of the Treaty of Berlin, which provides that local institutions analogous to those of Crete (or as subsequently stated of Eastern Roumelia) shall be granted to the several Provinces of European Turkey for which separate provision is not made?
§ MR. BOURKESir, in consequence of the representations which have been made by Her Majesty's Government on this subject, Sir Henry Layard has been informed that the Porte intends immediately to submit to a Local Commission the question of the organization of these Provinces, which under the Berlin Treaty are not specifically provided for. We have also reason to believe that at this moment an organic Statute has been passed for Eastern Roumelia which is at present under the consideration of the Porte with the view to making it applicable to those Provinces which have been alluded to by the hon. Member who asks the Question.