§ SIR E. HILL (Bristol, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the present rate of contribution levied on British ships in support of the seamen's hospitals in the Ports of Smyrna and Constantinople; the total receipts in the years of 1890, 1891, and 1892 in each port; the actual expenditure in each of the said years; the amount of the surpluses, and how they have been disposed of; and the number of the in-patients and of the out-patients treated in each hospital?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickA Return will be prepared, but reference to Constantinople and Smyrna will be necessary.