§ Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received recent Consular Reports concerning the Christian population of the Turkish Empire in Europe, for the well-being and just treatment of whom this country is partly responsible; and whether he can state what steps are being taken to relieve the distress and remedy the grievances suffered at present in Albania?
§ Sir E. GREYI have received reports on the subject in question which are not entirely satisfactory, and I may mention that the Turkish Government contemplate the immediate dispatch of a commission to Macedonia and Albania to examine into the grievances complained of, to find remedies, and to apply such as are possible. The mission will consist of the Minister of the Interior in person, who will act as president, and of delegates of the Ministries of War, Justice, Public Instruction and Public Works, and of the Gendarmerie. It will also be accompanied by Mr. Graves, formerly of the Mixed Financial Commission in Macedonia, and now an adviser to the Ministry of Finance, and the representative of the Gendarmerie above mentioned will be selected from among the French officers serving with that body. From dispatches which I have received from His Majesty's representatives, it would appear that the Turkish authorities are taking steps to carry out their promises to the Malissors in Albania, though some of the reforms called for 1692 cannot from their nature be carried out immediately.