§ MR. STEVENSONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is now able to state the steps which will be taken to obtain from the Porte the compensation claimed by the British merchants of Constantinople in their petition of September 1896, asking for redress in consequence of the losses sustained by them in August of that year through the massacre of Armenians residing in Hasskeui and Stamboul?
§ MR. BRODRICKI am unable yet to state the steps that will be taken to obtain the compensation claimed from the Porte. The matter has not been lost sight of, and Her Majesty's Government are concerting with other Powers for the purpose of obtaining consideration of the claims. The British Ambassador and the United States Minister made fresh representations on the subject in November last.