§ MR. MOLLOYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in the event of taxes being sought to be raised to enable the Egyptian Government to carry out the views of Mr. Sheldon Amos (now alleged to be a member of a Committee to arrange measures for carrying out Lord Dufferin's Constitution), that the coupons on the debt "must be paid at all hazards," Her Majesty's forces now in Egypt will not be allowed to interfere should the Egyptian peasants refuse to pay such taxes, until they shall have been voted by their own duly elected representatives?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICESir, I regret that the alleged appointment of Professor Sheldon Amos should cause so much disquiet to the hon. Member; but it is impossible for me to reply to a purely hypothetical Question, and to say what Her Majesty's Government will do under circumstances which have not arisen, and which are not likely to arise.