§ Earl WINTERTONasked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if his attention had been called to the protest of the European doctors at Tientsin against the refusal of the foreign consuls to order a sanitary cordon round the European settlement; and if he would instruct His Majesty's Consuls at Tientsin and elsewhere to support the proposals of the foreign medical officers?
§ Sir E. GREYHis Majesty's Government have not so far heard of the protest referred to; but His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been asked by telegraph for a report on the matter.