§ MR. RYLANDSasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople has been instructed to make any representations to the Porto in the nature of a protest with reference to the recent honours and employments conferred by the Sultan upon Hafiz Pasha, who was mentioned in Lord Derby's Despatch, of the 21st September 1876, as being responsible for the perpetration of great atrocities in Bulgaria, and whose dismissal from office had been demanded by Sir Henry Layard immediately before the conferring of the honours and employments above referred to?
§ MR. BOURKENo, Sir. No such instruction as that suggested by the Question has been sent to Sir Henry Layard, and mainly for this reason—that he, as Her Majesty's Ambassador, never loses an opportunity of letting the Porte know what the opinion of Her Majesty's Government is upon appointments and rewards of this character.