THE EARL OF GALLOWAYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as to the correctness of Reuter's telegram which appeared in yesterday's Observer and in this morning's newspapers, which says, dated—
Cairo, April 26, 8 p.m.—The reply of the British Government to the proposal to send an expedition to Berber has been received. It says that such an expedition is impossible at present, and could not, in fact, start for four months hence;and, if correct, whether there is any objection to stating upon what grounds such an expedition is deemed impossible?
§ EARL GRANVILLEMy Lords, it may be satisfactory to your Lordships to know that the Papers which have been laid upon the Table of the House this evening upon this subject, and which will be in your Lordships' hands early next week, contain the instructions which Her Majesty's Government have, upon their own responsibility, thought it right to send.