§ MR. HOWELL (Bethnal Green, N.E.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Whether the designation of Her Majesty as Queen and Empress by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff in his despatches from Constantinople is in accordance with usage; and, 1891 whether the introduction of such designation by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff is to be regarded as a precedent?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)The designation in question does not transgress the exclusion of its use in instruments whose operation extends only to the United Kingdom, which is the only exception enjoined by the Royal Proclamation of 28th April, 1876.