§ MR. BAUMANN (Camberwell, Peckham)for Mr. ISAACSON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney):I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will place upon the Table of the House the correspondence relating to the rejected offers for the conversion of the Egyptian Five per Cent. Domains Loan?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.Her Majesty's Government are not in posses- 1370 sion of any correspondence on the subject, but have merely heard that the Egyptian delegates for the conversion (Mr. Palmer and Tigrane Pacha) did not consider the proposals for the Domains Loan acceptable. The matter is referred to in Sir E. Baring's Report on the financial situation in Egypt, which has just been distributed.