§ MR. LABOUCHEREasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to a telegraphic Despatch from the Special Correspondent of the "Daily News," dated "Giurgevo, July 9," which appeared in that journal on the 11th instant, in which it is stated that the recent elections to the Constitutional Assembly have been stamped with illegality, and containing very severe strictures on the mode in which those elections were conducted, and also imputing to Prince Alexander of Battenberg the intimidation of the electors by military force and other means; whether he has had his attention called to a Despatch that appeared in the "Times" on Saturday last, in which it was stated that the Representatives of all the Foreign Powers would attend the Prince on his opening the so-called Constituent Assembly on 13th July; and, whether in view of the unconstitutional and arbitrary manner in which the elections to this Assembly are stated to have been con- 638 ducted, Mr. Lascelles, Her Majesty's Representative in Bulgaria, has been, or, if he has not, will be, instructed to abstain from officially appearing at the opening of the so-called Constituent Assembly?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI observed the correspondence to which my hon. Friend called my attention; but we have received no official confirmation of the fact to which he refers. No instructions have been sent to Mr. Lascelles as to his attendance at the opening of the Constituent Assembly.