§ Mr. STEPHEN GWYNNasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has noticed that candidates for 1885W appointments in the Egyptian Public Works Department are ineligible, though natural-born British subjects, if the father is not naturalised; that the same rule applies to the Indian Public Works Department, but not to the Indian Medical and Indian Civil Service; and if he can see his way to establish an equality of privilege for all natural-born British subjects?
§ Sir E. GREYThe regulations affecting admission into the Egyptian Public Works Department are drawn up by the Egyptian Government; and the decision on questions of such detail must be left to the discretion of the authorities on the spot.