§ EARL DE LA WARRasked the noble Earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any information could be given with reference to the trial of Midhat Pasha, which was now proceeding at Constantinople? He was quite aware that this was a question of great delicacy as regarded interference on the part of Her Majesty's Government; but it could not be otherwise than a matter 1915 of deep interest to their Lordships, and to the country generally, to know that all that was possible was being done to insure a just trial, as upon the issue of the trial might depend the life of a distinguished statesman.
§ EARL GRANVILLEMy Lords, I have been in communication with Lord Dufferin on this subject, which is exciting great interest in Europe. Of the trial I have received no authentic Re-port, and it would clearly not be right for me to express any official opinion upon it. I am not, at the present moment, able to give your Lordships any further information on the subject.