§ MR. JOHN REDMOND (Waterford)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the letter of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, addressed to the Foreign Office with reference to the prosecution and imprisonment of his servants in connection with the fox hunting affair near Cairo, will now be published.
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFATRS (LORD CRAN-; BORNE,) RochesterThe letter is extremely voluminous, and there has not yet been time to receive Lord Cromer's observations upon it. No decision can be taken as to its publication until those observations have been received and considered.