§ MR. CHAPLINI wish to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a Question, of which I have not given him Notice, but the propriety of answering which he will probably admit. It is, Whether the rumour, rather widely circulated yesterday, that Sir Edward Malat is seriously ill at Alexandria is correct?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI am happy to say, Sir, that Sir Edward Malet is not seriously ill. He has a mild attack of fever, which will probably incapacitate him for work for about a week.