§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he will give the dates and particulars of the Documents which Her Majesty's Government hold to be International engagements, and of which they have held that the voting of the unassigned portion of the Budget by the Egyptian Chamber of Delegates would be a breach; and, whether he will lay upon the Table Copies of all such alleged International engagements (as distinguished from municipal ones) which the Government hold as binding the Egyptian State to submit its finances to European control?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, I stated in the House on Saturday, the 15th of July, that the question of the powers of the Egyptian Chamber of Notables was one that was still pending, and that the English and French Governments had agreed that it would be unadvisable to publish at present the Papers relating to it. It would, I feel sure, be equally unadvisable to make a statement on the subject at present.