§ SIR JOHN KENNAWAY (Devon, Honiton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make inquiries, through 791 Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, as to the reason of the long delay in granting the firman applied for for the erection of a new Hospital for Poor Sick Jews on the Jaffa road, outside the walls of Jerusalem, for which a site has been purchased and £5,000 provided to begin the building; and whether Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would move Sir Clare Ford to use his best endeavours to facilitate and expedite the granting of the firman?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickThis matter is receiving the attention of Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople.