§ BARON HENEY DE WORMSasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether it is the fact, as stated in a telegram from Paris, that "the question of the slave trade in the Soudan, as raised by 1372 General Gordon's proclamation, has given rise to an active interchange, which is still going on, of Diplomatic Notes between London and Paris," and that Lord Granville has declared to the French Cabinet "that England will only accept General Gordon's acts up to a certain point;" and, if so, whether the Government still accepts full responsibility for all the measures which General Gordon adopts; and, whether the Correspondence above referred to will be laid upon the Table of the House?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON,in reply, said, that he had referred to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was informed that there had been no interchange of Diplomatic Notes on the subject. There was no Correspondence to lay on the Table.