§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If it is true, as recently stated in several newspapers, that a Ministry has recently been appointed in Bulgaria, of which the President and the Home Secretary are both Russian Generals, quite recently introduced into the country; if it is true that M. Zancoff, the head of the late Liberal Ministry, is still in prison, and has only been given the option of taking up his abode in Russia, which he has refused to do; and, if it is the intention of the Government to intercede on behalf of M. Zancoff?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, we have no positive intelligence of the formation of a new Ministry; but the British acting agent has reported that it was in contemplation to appoint General Sovoleff to the posts of President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior. He is a Russian general officer. General Kaulbars has also arrived at Sofia, and is to be Minister of War. M. Zancoff is still interned at Wratza. We have no confirmation of the report 1531 that he has been given the option of taking up his abode in Russia. Her Majesty's; Government are not prepared to make any isolated representations on behalf of M. Zancoff, as they consider that if any such stop is adopted it should be taken in concert with the other Powers who are parties to the Treaty of Berlin.