§ MR. WOOTTON ISAACSON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Despatches from the French and Egyptian Governments relating to the Conversion Scheme; and whether any financial house will be employed to issue the new bonds, and at what rate of commission?
§ * SIR J. FERGUSSONIt would be premature to lay Papers while the negotiations are still proceeding. The conversion, if effected, will be carried out by the Egyptian Government, and not by Her Majesty's Government, who are not responsible for the details of the measure. Her Majesty's Government have no information as to the arrangement for the issue of new bonds which the Egyptian Government may propose to make.