§ MR. BOURKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can lay before Parliament any Despatch or other official document corroborating the report that the first act of the new Emperor of Russia was to recall General Skobeleff to St. Petersburg, and to put a stop to the operations which that General had been conducting in Asia; whether any of the troops which had been commanded by General Skobeleff had been recalled; and, whether he can state when the orders to recall General Skobeleff had been sent?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe communication which I made to the House on the 24th ultimo was received, as my noble Friend the Secretary of State for India afterwards stated, from a good, but not a Russian source. All the information which we are in a position to place before Parliament as to the return of General Skobeleff and the suspension of the Russian operations in Central Asia is contained in the Blue Book just presented.