MR. JOSEPH COWENasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the British Diplomatic Agent at Sofia has ceased to hold relations with the Bulgarian Government; and, if so, for what reason?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEMr. Lascelles, Her Majesty's Agent and Consul General at Sofia, informed Lord Granville that he proposed to hold no further communication on the subject of the Varna-Rustchuk Railway with the Bulgarian Government until he had received a reply to the two notes referred to in my reply to the Question of the hon. Member for Evesham (Mr. Dixon-Hartland) on Monday last. Mr. Las-cellos was approved. The Report alluded to by my hon. Friend has, no doubt, grown out of this circumstance. It is, I need hardly add, entirely incorrect.