§ SIR HENRY TYLERasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, in any settlement of the Transvaal Question, Her Majesty's Government will take into consideration the question of providing not only for the protection of the loyal inhabitants of the Transvaal of European origin, but also in respect of the lives, liberties, and property of the native inhabitants of that country?
MR. GLADSTONEI really think I need only refer to what has been said by myself and by other Members of the Government upon the subject to show that the position of the Native population in the Transvaal was one of the most important matters present to our minds in view of any practicable settlement of the question.