Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether 1458 he had yet received any reply to the protests lodged by the British Government against Mulai Hafid's treatment of prisoners; and whether any assurance had been given that punishment involving-mutilation or lingering death shall cease?
§ The UNDER SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. T. McKinnon Wood)The representatives of all the Treaty Powers at Tangier have signed a collective note of protest to the Sultan which was despatched to Fez on the 3rd instant. There has been no time as yet for an answer to be received.