HC Deb 12 May 1885 vol 298 cc357-8
MR. DIXON-HARTLAND

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether France has made any proposal to place the enforcement of the various regulations agreed upon by the Suez Canal Commission, now sitting at Paris, under the control of an International Committee, consisting of the Consuls of the European Powers who are represented at Cairo; and, if so, whether such a proposal is an infraction of Lord Granville's proposals, in accordance with which this House was assured the Commission was to conduct its deliberations; and, whether the introduction of any such proposal will lead to the immediate withdrawal of the English delegates from the Commission?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

I must refer the hon. Member to the reply which the Prime Minister yesterday gave to a similar Question.