HC Deb 15 May 1884 vol 288 cc448-9
MR. M'COAN

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or, if he cannot answer the Question now, I will give Notice of it for to-morrow. Whether there is any truth in the statement telegraphed from Paris, from two independent sources, that the French Government insist upon the scope of the proposed Conference being extended so as to include the whole Egyptian Question, and not merely the financial difficulty to which the Prime Minister said it was to be confined?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

I certainly cannot undertake to answer that Question now; but I will endeavour to give an answer to-morrow.

MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT

asked the Prime Minister whether he accepted the words which had been ascribed to him by the hon. Member for Wicklow—namely, that he had stated that the Conference would be strictly limited to the consideration of the Law of Liquidation?

MR. GLADSTONE

My words are on record, and the hon. Member can refer to them.