SIR E. ASSHETON CROSSI wish to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received any telegraphic information which would either confirm or, as I hope, qualify the statements as to massacres in the interior of Egypt which have appeared in the newspapers?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEWe have received no information since yesterday on the subject. Yesterday I stated that we had heard of massacres in the inte- 1683 rior of Egypt; but we really did not know how much credit to attach to accounts of Native travellers who came down to Alexandria. I hesitated, therefore, to say anything on the subject, because frequently before statements have been made and repeated hero which afterwards have been proved to be inaccurate. I stated a few days ago that we had received information of two Englishmen having been murdered in the interior, and names were given; but one of these Englishmen is now stated not to have been murdered, but to have escaped.