HL Deb 08 May 1874 vol 218 c1925
THE EARL DE LA WARR

asked, If Her Majesty's Government could lay upon the Table of the House the Papers and recent Correspondence relative to the Suez Canal? The noble Earl said, that while he desired to abstain from pressing any question that would be inconvenient to Her Majesty's Government, he was quite sure that the noble Earl at the head of the Foreign Office would understand that there was not unnaturally a wish—doubtless on the part of their Lordships as well as of the public generally—to be assured that some arrangement had been or would be made which would place the future management of the Suez Canal upon such a basis as would permanently secure the commercial interests of this country.

THE EARL OF DERBY

was understood to say that he had no objection to give the Papers for which his noble Friend asked, but that they were not at present ready for publication. They would, however, be laid on the Table before the close of the Session. He observed that there was a Motion which stood for next week in regard to the Suez Canal, when the whole question would be raised, and perhaps it was desirable that he should defer till then any remarks on the question to which the noble Earl had alluded.

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