§ LORD LAMINGTONasked Her Majesty's Government, Whether their attention has been drawn to the dangerous 1095 foul state of the Suez Canal; and that the cholera was introduced into France by one of the ships that had passed through it; and also whose duty it is to take charge of the sanitary state of the Canal? He thought that when it was remembered that 79 per cent of the shipping passing through the Canal was English, the importance of the question of the sanitary condition of the Canal would be recognized.
§ EARL GRANVILLEsaid, Her Majesty's Government had received no special information as to the foul state of the Canal. It was alleged the other day that a French transport to Toulon passed through the Canal, and had experienced some foul effluvia; but he was not aware that any report had been made on the subject. In reply to the last part of the Question, he believed the sanitary arrangements of the Canal were now in the hands of the Company, under the stringent rules made in 1878 for the regulation of the Canal.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock, to Thursday next, a quarter past Ten o'clock.