HC Deb 20 March 1885 vol 296 cc54-5
MR. PULESTON

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is a fact, as telegraphed from Cairo, that it has been proposed that Lord Wolseley should be made Governor General of the Soudan, in place of the late General Gordon, and that Lord Wolseley himself approves of this plan, and that the necessity of adopting it has been urged upon Her Majesty's Government?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

Lord Wolseley has not been appointed Governor General of the Soudan. It is not consistent with the public interest that I should enter into the confidential communications which may have passed between him and Her Majesty's Government.