§ MR. LABOUCHEREPerhaps the noble Lord the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will be able to answer this Question now, although I have not given him Notice of it. It is, Whether any information has been received other than that which appears in the public Press with regard to a telegram from Arabi Pasha to Said Bey Khandeel, implicating the former in the massacres at Alexandria, which it has been alleged by the Egyptian Public Prosecutor has been discovered; and whether, considering that the noble Lord the Member for Woodstock (Lord Randolph Churchill) has stated in the House that the Khedive himself was the instigator of the massacres, and that he has undertaken to prove that charge, any steps will be taken by Her Majesty's Government to see that Said Bey Khandeel, now on his trial for being connected with the massacres, will be allowed to put questions to witnesses for the prosecution, and to call witnesses on his behalf, with a view of proving his own innocence by endeavouring to show that the massacre was instigated by others, and that he himself acted under superior orders?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThis Question raises a great number of complicated issues, and I think it is only fair that the hon. Member should give Notice, and put the Question on Monday, when there will, no doubt, be a full and satisfactory answer given to it.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREI will put it on Monday.