MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether Her Majesty's Government are aware that the Stamboul, the Orient, the Moniteur Oriental, the Sabach, and the Ikdaru newspapers, published in Constantinople, have alleged the existence of grave irregularities among the officials of the British Consulate at Constantinople; whether they have received any, and, if so, what, information from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople relative to these charges, and whether 176 they have taken any, and, if so, what, steps in regard to the matter; and, whether they will make inquiry into the subject?
MR. CURZONNone of the newspapers referred to have reached the Foreign Office with the exception of copies of the Moniteur Oriental of the 19th and 20th inst., in which allusion is made to the case of Guerillot v. The Building Society. We are not acquainted with the details of that case, but inquiry will be made.