§ SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFFasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any assurance has been given in writing to Her Majesty's Government by the French Government to the effect that the French Forces will be withdrawn from Tunisian territory as soon as the Kroumir question has been disposed of?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEHer Majesty's Government have received no written assurance to this effect from the French Government; but the French Minister for Foreign Affairs has more than once disclaimed in his conversations with Lord Lyons any intention on the part of the French Government to annex Tunis. The latest assurances given to Lord Lyons by M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire, which were of a very decided character against conquest or annexation, have already been made known to Parliament by my noble Friend, Lord Granville.