§ MR. BOURKEasked the First Lord of the Treasury, When Her Majesty's Government will be prepared to state what they propose to recommend to the Khedive in pursuance of the inquiry and advice of Lord Northbrook?
MR. GLADSTONEMy noble Friend, by great activity and exertion, has completed a most onerous and laborious inquiry in a very short time; but Her Majesty's Government have not yet been put in possession of his Report. My Colleagues have only to-day received the first preliminary intimation of any recommendation that he is to make; and, therefore, all I can say is what I have stated before—that we shall lose no time, as soon as we have had an opportunity of considering the recommendation, in announcing to the House our decision.