§ MR. M'COANasked the Prime Minister, Whether, as the public Press announced that documents relating to the charges first made in that House against the Khedive of Egypt by the noble Lord the Member for Woodstock had now been submitted to Her Majesty's Government, a copy of those Papers would be laid on the Table by the Government?
MR. GLADSTONEMy answer to this Question should be in the negative. The noble Lord has forwarded to me Papers of very considerable extent, which I have been able to peruse; but I have not yet been able to take any further step in reference to them.
§ LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILLMay I be allowed to state that the hon. Member opposite has put this Question without the slightest consultation with me?
§ MR. M'COANThat, I think, goes without saying. I am not in the habit of consulting the noble Lord.