§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether communications have passed between the British and Italian Governments with reference to the attempt to suppress the teaching or the use of the Italian language in Malta, and with reference to the change in the Council at Malta by constituting the official members the majority of that Council, or placing the elected members, who had formerly been in a majority, in a permanent minority; and whether he is prepared to state the purport of these communications.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (LORD CRANBORNE,) RochesterNo communications have passed between the two Governments since the beginning of last year, when we were informed by the Italian Ambassador of the satisfaction with which he had read the speech of my right hon. friend the Colonial Secretary, delivered in this House on the 28th January of that year.†