§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs a Question which, though it was handed in at the Table last night, does not appear on the Paper. It is whether he can say if Article 4 of the Suez Canal Convention stipulates that vessels of war belonging to belligerents shall only remain 24 hours at Port Said excepting in case of exceptional distress; whether it is not the fact that several warships of one of the present belligerents has been in Port Said since Sunday; and if he can say who is responsible for this prolonged stay—the Government of Egypt or Her Majesty's Government?
MR. CURZONNone of these Questions is of a character which it is possible for me to answer without notice.
§ MR. DAVITTI will put them down for to-morrow.