§ Major ANSTRUTHER-GRAYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any details of the maltreatment of British-Indian traders and their families at Kertch, Crimea, by a gang of roughs; whether the culprits have been arrested and punished; and whether His Majesty's Government will demand compensation to be made to the victims of the outrage?
§ Sir E. GREYThe British Vice-Consul at Kertch, telegraphing on the 8th inst., reported that a British-Indian subject named Mahomet Ali Omar, and a certain Zorab Samat, applied to him for assistance on May 2nd, Zorab's brother having been robbed and wounded at a boarding-house. The Vice-Consul brought the matter to the notice of the local authorities, and three of the aggressors have now been arrested. A full report has been called 1638 for, and must be awaited before a reply can be given on the last point mentioned in the question.