§ MR. BRYCEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there is any truth in the statements made by the Turkish newspaper the "Vakit" (as reported in the "Daily News" of Wednesday June 29th), that Mr. Goschen made certain proposals to Prince Bismarck regarding reforms in Asiatic Turkey, that Prince Bismarck disapproved these proposals, and that Her Majesty's Government in consequence abandoned the instructions which it had drawn up for Lord Dufferin?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI suppose my hon. Friend has put this Question believing the statement to be untrue, and desiring it to be contradicted. There is no truth whatever in the statement. Mr. Goschen was not charged with any proposal of this kind, and did not make any such proposal to Prince Bismarck. The general conversation that occurred on the subject of Armenia was of a very satisfactory character.