§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to state the result of the efforts which Her Majesty's Government are stated to have made with the object of securing the liberation of the Archbishops of Marash and Zeitoun, and of Bishop Kazandjian, exiled to Boun-boudj, near Aleppo, all three of whom are believed to be innocent men, and the victims of a cruel conspiracy?
§ * SIR E. GREYI regret to say that the representations made by Her Majesty's Embassy have not been successful in procuring a mitigation of the sentences passed on the Archbishops mentioned. At the request of Her Majesty's Ambassador in October, 1892, inquiry was made into the case of Kazandjian, Bishop of Hadjin, who complained of being exiled at Bounboudj. The Turkish Authorities declared that he could not be allowed to remain in the vilayet of Adana, as he had baptized and received in his monastery a Moslem woman who had become a Christian 336 woman without notifying the authorities, and had afterwards assented to her marrying an Armenian though she was said to be already the wife of a soldier. The Bishop appears to have admitted the facts, which, however, occurred five years previously.