§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEI will ask a Question of which I have given Notice to the Prime Minister—namely, Whether the Government have received any information as to the reported engagement between the Russians and the Afghans mentioned in this morning's newspapers?
MR. GLADSTONEWe have received no confirmation of the statements in the newspapers, and we have, indeed, no information on the subject, excepting what we have gathered from them.