§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to communicate any further information to the House relative to the orders of the Sultan with regard to the prisoners sentenced to death at Angora, all stated to be the victims of a cruel conspiracy; the prisoners sentenced to various terms of imprisonment; the Archbishops of Marash and Zeitoun, the Bishop of Moush, and the Bishop Suffragan of Fournouz; and the political prisoners in Aleppo Gaol; and whether efforts are still being made to secure the release of these prisoners, as well as a re-consideration of the sentences on the Armenian Christians, against whom sedition is alleged, who are now undergoing imprisonment at Van, Rhodes, Tripoli in Barbary, St. Jean d'Acre, and Konieh?
§ * SIR E. GREYI regret that I have no further information to give, and that it would not be possible for Her Majesty's Government to interfere in cases in which they are not in possession of positive evidence of the prisoners' evidence.