§ *SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, after recent revelations as to the administration of the Congo State, Her Majesty's Government will consider the possibility of revoking the temporary lease, by Lord Kimberley, to the Sovereign of the Congo State, of territory on the Nile, the consideration for the granting of the lease, in the shape of a lease of other territory by the Congo State to Great Britain, having been withdrawn by the action of the Congo State?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. G. CURZON,) Lancashire, SouthportAbuses will, it is hoped, be prevented by the Commission for the protection of the natives in the Congo State, which was appointed in September last. Her Majesty's Government do not regard the present as an opportune occasion for consideration of the circumstances produced by the cancellation of part of the Agreement of 1894.