§ MR. M'COANI beg to give Notice that to-morrow I shall ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in sending the troops now said to have been telegraphed for by the Khedive 1226 and Dervish Pasha, the Sultan will do so as Sovereign of Egypt or as mandatory of the European Powers; and, in either case, whether any and what guarantee has been taken by the Powers that the intervention thus made by the Porte shall be strictly limited to, and cease with, the suppression of the present revolutionary movement?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, I think it only courteous to the hon. Member to say that I shall not be able to answer the Question. It is, no doubt, an extremely interesting Question, but I shall be quite unable to answer it.
§ MR. BOURKEI beg to give Notice that to-morrow I shall ask the Prime Minister, Whether His Majesty the Sultan has shown any indisposition to take those measures which the Governments of England and France have suggested to him for the restoration of order in Egypt, and to make good the authority of the Khedive; whether he will state the reasons which induced Her Majesty's Government to press the Sultan to consent to a Conference; and whether Her Majesty's Government will join in any demand the Powers may make upon the Sultan to act as their mandatory instead of as Sovereign of Egypt?
§ MR. ONSLOWI beg to give Notice that to-morrow I shall ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is true that the officers and men of Her Majesty's ship Superb who were killed in the recent outbreak were buried at sea, and why they were not buried at Alexandria; whether Her Majesty's Government have warned British subjects at Cairo, whose safety now depends upon Arabi Pasha, that they had better leave Egypt; and what arrangements have been made to receive the large number of European refugees now at Alexandria on board the ships of the fleet?