§ MR. BAXTERasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the Sixty-first Article of the Treaty of Berlin, which is as follows:—
The Sublime Porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security against the Circassians and Kurds. It will periodically make known the steps taken to this effect to the Powers, who will superintend their application,If he would state to the House what "improvements and reforms" have been carried out, what "steps taken to this effect" have been "made known to the Powers," and what guarantee the Armenians have obtained against attacks from Circassians and Kurds?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, the various administrative and judicial reforms which have been promised by the Porte will be found in their Notes of July 5 and October 3, which have already been laid before Parliament. The inadequacy of the proposed measures was 768 pointed out by the Representatives of the Powers; but I regret to say that the reforms promised have as yet either not been put into operation, or carried out in such a manner that no benefit has been derived from them.