HC Deb 21 June 1880 vol 253 c435
SIR BALDWYN LEIGHTON

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the re-assembling of the Turkish Parliament forms any part of the policy of Her Majesty's Ministers in Turkey, seeing that all reference to such a course is absent from the instructions sent by the Foreign Secretary to the Special Ambassador at Constantinople as lately laid upon the Table of the House?

MR. GLADSTONE

Sir, in answer to the Question of my hon. Friend, I have to say that I am afraid he has not been quite so careful and accurate in the perusal of the Papers as, no doubt, he usually is. At page 12 of the Papers (Turkey, No. 7) the question of the assembling of the Turkish Parliament, or the constitution of the Turkish Parliament is referred to.