§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state why a British gunboat is no longer stationed at Alexandria, and why no military or naval protection of British interests is afforded at Port Said.
§ * LORD CRANBORNEIt is believed that at the present moment there is a British ship of war at Alexandria. But the arrangements for providing naval or military protection there or at Port Said are left to the discretion of the naval Commander-in-Chicf in the Mediterranean and the officer commanding the British force of occupation, who are in direct communication with His Majesty's Agency and Consulate General.