§ DR. CAMERON (Glasgow, College Division)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to a Reuter's telegram, dated Tangier, March 16th, to the effect that the Moorish Minister for Foreign Affairs had sent a messenger to the Sultan's Court to inform His Majesty that the British Channel Squadron had come to Tangier to support the demands of the British Minister with regard to the cable and other claims, and that it was reported that the squadron would not leave until the Sultan's answer was received; and whether it is true that a British Squadron had gone to Tangier to support demands of the British Minister; and, if so, what demands?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.Some ships of the Channel Squadron have gone to Tangier. There are certain serious questions unsettled between the Shereefian Government and that of Her Majesty, especially the treacherous murder at Cape Juby of a British subject by some of the Sultan's soldiers, as well as the prohibition to allow the submarine cable to be repaired. I cannot enter into these questions further, as they are still under discussion between the two Governments.