§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether there is any truth in the allegation in the Paris correspondence of the "Times" of Wednesday, that Mr. Rivers Wilson had pledged himself to great financial bodies holding enormous quantities of Egyptian Stock not to reduce the interest before a certain date; and if it is in consequence of any such engagement that the pay of the Native Egyptian officials was withheld?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, he was not in the least aware of any such promise as that referred to having been given by Mr. Rivers Wilson; and no communication had been made to the Government on the subject.