§ SIR GEORGE SITWELL (Scarborough)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Archbishops of Marash and Zeitoum are still in prison without trial; and whether any steps have been taken with the object of procuring their release?
§ SIR E. GREYThe Archbishops were tried and sentenced, and are still in prison; but Her Majesty's Ambassador has from time to time made unofficial representations at the Porte as to the irregularities at the trial. It is to be hoped that the Sultan will see fit either to pardon the prisoners or to order a strict inquiry on the spot into the mode in which the trial was conducted.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESMay I ask if the individuals named in the question are not subjects of the Sultan, and upon what ground interference is made by-England on their behalf?
§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)May I ask, at the same time, whether the continued imprisonment of the two Archbishops is not a violation of 507 the 61st and 62nd Articles of the Berlin Treaty?
§ SIR E. GREYI hope both hon. Members will give notice of the questions.