§ SIR R. TEMPLE (Surrey, Kingston)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any representations can be made to the Porte in the cases of the Pastor of Gemerek, sentenced to imprisonment, and believed to bear a high character, also of Dikran Gulbankian, a student, awaiting trial at Angora; and whether the Sultan's clemency can be solicited on behalf of several graduates of the Marsovan College, who are understood to have arrived at Constantinople, before they are scattered and sent to distant prisons?
§ *SIR E. GREYThe sentence on the first-named prisoner has been reduced already from 15 years' penal servitude to six years detention in a fortress. Inquiry will be made as to Dikran Gulbankian. Representations on behalf of some of the prisoners already sentenced have been made to the Porte. Further efforts must depend upon subsequent information.