§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he will lay on the Table the telegram of General Gordon, referred to in the last despatch of Sir Evelyn Baring, dated the 8tb of April, in which he states "General Gordon evidently think he is to be abandoned, and is very indignant?"
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE, in reply, said, that the telegrams presented, in the Blue Book, which came down to a very late date, were simply those portions of telegrams sent by Sir Evelyn Baring to the Foreign Office. The full telegram of General Gordon referred to, had not, as far as he knew, been received by the Foreign Office.
§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTasked, whether the full text of the telegram could not be given, now that Sir Evelyn Baring was in England?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEsaid, that the hon. Member would see that, in accordance with the undertaking that was given, the telegrams presented were simply those portions of the telegrams received by Sir Evelyn Baring from General Gordon which Sir Evelyn Baring had transmitted to the Foreign Office. They fully stated what had occurred.