§ Mr. JOHN ROBERTSONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether His Majesty's Government undertook, in connection with the French entente, that the rights of the Khedivial Government of Egypt should be ultimately be sold to the Canal Company; whether negotiations are now in progress between the Canal Company and the Egyptian Government for the transfer to the former of the rights of the latter in the Suez Canal; or whether any change was contemplated as regards the present status and proprietorship of the Khedival Government with regard to the Canal?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer is in the negative.