MR. CURZONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has been a Correspondence between Sir William Marriott, Lord Cromer, and Lord Rosebery on the subject of the claims of Zobehr Pasha against the Egyptian Government, and whether there is any objection to laying the Correspondence upon the Table of the House; whether Sir William Marriott has suggested a Parliamentary or judicial inquiry into the matter; and whether Her Majesty's Government intends to accede to that suggestion?
§ * SIR E. GREYSuch a Correspondence has taken place, and Sir William Marriott has suggested a Parliamentary or judicial inquiry into the matter in this country. Her Majesty's Government do not think such a procedure would be suitable or desirable, and cannot, therefore, support the suggestion. The question is, in their opinion, one for decision by the Egyptian Government or Tribunals, and it would serve, no useful purpose to 343 lay the Correspondence before the House.