§ *SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the proposed conditions for the evacuation of Tientsin have been further modified; and, if he can state to the House in what position they now stand.
§ The UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRANBORNE,) RochesterHis Majesty's Minister reports that the conditions for the dissolution of the Provisional Government have been further modified in a sense favourable to China; amongst other modifications the distance within which Chinese troops may not approach the Foreign Troops garrisoning Tientsin has been reduced to about six miles. A Note embodying these conditions, signed by the Ministers of those Powers having representatives on the Provisional Government, was sent in to the Chinese Government on the 14th instant.