§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any official accounts have been received respecting the recent outbreak at Fez against the Jews, many of whom were seriously injured, while an old man seventy years of age was killed, and his body burnt by the mob; whether any instructions have been sent to our Consular representative on the subject; and, whether, seeing the precarious position of Non-Mahommedans in Morocco, it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to continue the Consular protection hitherto extended to them?
§ MR. BOURKEYes, Sir; the details of this outrage have reached Her Majesty's Government; and we have been informed that Sir John Hay, Her Majesty's Representative at Tangiers, has addressed to the Vizier of the Emperor of Morocco a remonstrance on the subject. A copy of that remonstrance has been sent home, and Her Majesty's Government think that it has been couched in language suitable to the occasion, and approve of the course taken by Sir John Hay. With regard to the second part of the Question of the hon. and learned Member, the Protectorate afforded by foreign Cousuls in Morocco is now under the consideration of many 797 Powers, and these Powers are in communication with Her Majesty's Government on the subject.