§ MR. BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when it is intended to present to Parliament Papers relating to the conversion of the Egyptian Debt; and whether those Papers will include the Despatch lately mentioned by M. Ribot in the French Chamber, in which Lord Salisbury, according to M. Ribot's statement, explained or disavowed expressions contained in a recently-published Despatch from Her Majesty's Representative in Egypt?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONThere are no Papers of importance which could be laid at present. The observation mentioned by M. Ribot that it was the duty of an officer reporting to Her Majesty's Government, to express his own views, and his own views only, was made in conversation and has not formed the subject of a Despatch.