§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTgave Notice that to-morrow he would ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he could give any information as to the alleged military preparations of France?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI think it will be as well to say at once that I shall not be able to give any information on this subject. If I possessed any information I do not think it would be proper to give it. A similar Question was addressed the other day in the French Chamber to M. de Freycinet, and received a similar reply.
§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTsaid, in consequence of the reply of the Under Secretary of State, he begged to give Notice that on an early day he would ask whether there was any truth in the report of an intended joint military occupation of Egypt by England and France?