§ MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT, who had given Notice to ask the First Lord 28 of the Treasury, Whether the Russian Government have yet consented to send their Commission to delimitate the Afghan frontier; whether the Russian Government have asked that the debatable zone shall be extended southwards some sixty miles to the line of the Parapronisus and the Murghab; and, whether Her Majesty's Ministers have offered to give up to Russia Penj-deh, Ak-Tepe, Zulfagar, and the salt lakes of Er Oilan, or any of these positions, which have all been occupied by Russia since the appointment of the Boundary Commission '? said: Before I put this Question. perhaps, it would be better to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he wishes to reply to the Leader of the Opposition should he wish to ask him any Questions?
MR. GLADSTONEThe right hon. Gentleman will probably do so, and I was about to say that I am not able to enter on the matters touched by the hon. Member in his Question.