§ MR. STEVENSONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is able to communicate any information as to the progress of the steps taken for securing the proper execution of the joint scheme of reforms for the Macedonian vilayets.
LORD CRANBOUNEWe have no special information to report; the British Consuls have been instructed to keep in communication with their Russian and Austrian colleagues, and to assist and 1462 support them, both in obtaining information and in joining in any representations calculated to promote the effective application of the reforms.