§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked whether the Government had received any information as to the statement which had appeared in the newspapers that the trial of Arabi Pasha would come to an end at once, he being exiled, but retaining his rank and sword?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI have received no information on the subject since I answered a similar Question yesterday.
§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONwished to put to the hon. Baronet a Question of which he had given him private Notice—namely, Whether he had noticed, in the correspondence of the "Standard" of that day, a statement to the effect that there was not an atom of direct or documentary evidence to connect Arabi Pasha with the riot at Alexandria on the 11th of June; and whether the hon. Baronet would take any steps either to sustain or withdraw the charge which he had brought against Arabi in the House of Commons of complicity in the riot at Alexandria?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe only words I ever used in this House in regard to the riots at Alexandria on the 11th of June are perfectly justified by the intelligence in the hands of the Government.
§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONsaid, that the words which the hon. Baronet was reported to have used were to the effect that he had no doubt that Arabi Pasha was one of the leaders who had been guilty of complicity in the attack on the Europeans at Alexandria on the 11th of June.
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEsaid, his words were that there was grave reason to suppose that he had been guilty of complicity in the riot.
§ MR. MOLLOYasked whether the Government had received any information from Lord Duffer in about the trial of Arabi Pasha?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEsaid, the Question was so vague that he could not give an answer to it.