§ MR. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to 132 a report telegraphed to the French paper, the Estafette, of Paris, that the British Mediterranean Fleet would shortly proceed to the Piræus to enforce the demands recently made by the British Minister at Athens on the Greek Government, for satisfaction of certain claims by British subjects against the Syra Steamship Company and in regard to the Lake Copaïs Company; and whether Her Majesty's Government will communicate to Parliament what is the nature of those claims, and how long they have been in existence?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONThe movements of the Mediterranean Squadron have no connection with the cases referred to. It will be considered whether the Papers can be presented just now with a due regard to the interests concerned.