§ SIR EARDLEY WILMOTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Earl Dufferin did at 5.39 a.m. on the 11th July last, in consequence of an urgent request made to him by Said Pacha, accompanied by an assurance that satisfactory propositions for the settlement of Egypt would be laid before the British Government in the course of the day, telegraph to Sir Beauchamp Seymour, asking him, provided he had any discretion in the matter, to suspend the opening of fire on the Forts of Alexandria for a few hours; and, if so, whether Sir Beauchamp Seymour received such telegram before he opened fire?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe only information on the subject in the possession of the Foreign Office is contained in the Blue Book laid before Parliament (Egypt, No. 17).