§ MR. ATKINSON (Boston)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if anything can be done 1897 to influence the Emperor of Russia in favour of the Jews in his Empire, now threatened with severe affliction?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONThese proceedings, which, if they are rightly reported to us, are deeply to be lamented, concern the internal affairs of the Russian Empire, and do not admit of any interference on the part of Her Majesty's Government.