§ MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has taken, or intends to take, any steps to bring about an arrangement with the Porte for the commutation of the annual payment of £92,800 now due as a tribute from Cyprus, and an arrangement with France to pay off the Guaranteed Four per Cent. Loan of 1855, and to raise the money on cheaper terms?
§ *MR. GOSCHENThe two questions—namely, the commutation of the tribute of £92,800 now due to the Porte as a tribute from Cyprus, and an arrangement with France to pay off the Guaranteed Four per Cent. Loan, are not interdependent. The latter is the easier subject of the two, and I have not neglected it, but I cannot say that I have made progress.