§ SIR HENRY TYLER (Great Yarmouth)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the reports of famine and misery throughout the Soudan are confirmed; and whether it is true that at Khartoum and Kassala the people who die are being eaten; and, if so, whether any steps have been taken, or are in contemplation, in regard to this state of affairs?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONHer Majesty's Government have received no such information; but, as I have just now stated, the action of the predatory bands must be causing much suffering; that action is in no way due to the conduct of the Egyptian Government or of Her 590 Majesty's Government. The prosperity of the Soudan can only revive by the cessation of the tribes from rapine and warfare.