§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information which corroborates the report in the Daily News of 3rd July, that Russian troops are moving towards the Armenian frontier to make a demonstration to compel the payment of the war indemnity; whether his attention has been called to various expressions of opinion (reported in the Daily News of the 3rd instant), in newspapers and otherwise, of a strong desire by the Russians to intervene in Armenia, in order to expel the Kurds, and put an end to their oppression of the Armenians; and whether Her Majesty's Government will bring pressure to bear on the Porte to introduce radical reforms into Armenia, if it be not too late?
*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FER-GUSSOX,) Manchester, N.E.We have received no corroboration of the statements in the first two paragraphs. With regard to the third, Her Majesty's Ambassador has lost no opportunity of counselling the Ministers of the Sultan to take effective measures for the security of life and property in Asiatic Turkey; and it cannot be denied that the Porte has shown a desire to do so by the appointment of Governors of high character, who are exerting themselves to check disorders and to punish the unruly.
§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)As the Sultan is usually in the habit of disregarding the friendly advice of Her Majesty's Government, will the Government in this casa stick to their guns or run away from them?
§ [No answer was given.]