§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, If Her Majesty's Government have yet sent any definite instructions to Africa laying down the terms on which a suspention of hostilities with the Boers may be agreed to, with a view to an arrangement and pacification?
MR. GLADSTONEIn reply to my hon. Friend, I have to state that Her Majesty's Government have taken such steps as appeared to them to he best calculated to promote a satisfactory settlement and to spare effusion of blood, consistently with maintaining the honour of the British Crown. It would not be for the public advantage to enter, at the present time, into details.