§ Sir CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Russia has withdrawn both from the Tientsin Provisional Government and from the conference at Peking which has modified the conditions of evacution; and, if so, whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government and of the Government of Japan to continue to act in the matter with France, Germany, and Italy, in the absence of co-operation from Russia and the United States.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRANBORNE,) RochesterThe amended conditions for the transfer of the Provisional Government are to be brought before a full meeting of the Foreign Representatives which will include the United States and Japanese Ministers. His Majesty's Minister at Peking reports that the Russian Member of the Provisional Government who has just left Tientsin will not be replaced, and the Russian Minister, who has, we understand, concurred in the reference to the diplomatic body, has stated that he is not authorised to take any part in pressing conditions on the Chinese Government of which he does not approve. His Majesty's Minister has been instructed to endeavour to obtain the modification of some of the conditions proposed.