HC Deb 28 February 1890 vol 341 cc1507-8
MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will lay upon the Table a Copy of the Correspondence that has taken place with regard to the case of Mrs. Barker; and, if he is unable to do this, whether he will cause a Copy of the Correspondence, and especially of the Report and Letters of Consul Henderson, to be placed in the Library of the House of Commons?

SIR J. FERGUSSON

I do not think that it would be justifiable to print this voluminous correspondence which relates solely to the legal proceedings of a single British subject in a foreign country. We have had no discussion in regard to it with the Turkish Government, and we have no ground beyond Mrs. Barker's assertions for believing that there has been any failure of justice in the tribunals. If the hon. Member desires to peruse the correspondence I shall be happy to enable him to do so at the Foreign Office.