§ 2. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any conditions of a political nature will be made or have been proposed in connection with the Russian loan; and whether this bond of common objects shared by the Russian and the British Empire will be made the occasion of less restricted trade and intercourse between Russian and British subjects?
§ Sir E. GREYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The chief bond of common objects between the two Empires at present is the prosecution of the War, and I cannot make any statement as to permanent trade arrangements at present.