§ MR. LEVESON-GOWER (Stoke-upon-Trent)I beg to ask the Under Secre- 1355 tary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give the House any information as to the condition of Upper Macedonia, as described from personal experience by the special correspondent to the Daily News in the issue of the 29th instant; whether Her Majesty's Government have received any reports throwing light upon the brutal murders alleged to have been committed by Arnauts upon Christians in the neighbourhood of Pristina and Prisrend; and whether, in the event of the Porte being unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of its Christian subjects in that Province, Her Majesty's Government would think it advisable to confer with the other Powers as to the best means of restraining the excesses of the Arnauts?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.I am unable to add anything to the reply given to the hon. Member for Aberdeen on the 22nd instant, as we have received no subsequent information. No information has reached Her Majesty's Government which would, in their opinion, justify so serious a step as inviting a conference of the Powers on the internal affairs of Turkey.
SIR. G. CAMPBELLIs anything being now done to fulfil the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin as to giving Home Rule to Macedonia?
§ [No reply was made.]