asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any Reports have been received from Her Majesty's Agents in Greece relative to recent acts of brigandage in that country; and, whether the Correspondence with the Greek Government relative to the assassination of Mr. Herbert and others is finally closed?

Sir, reports have been at various times received during the present year from Her Majesty's Consuls at Salonica and Corfu reporting the appearance of brigands and acts of brigandage in Salonica, Macedonia, and Thessaly, and Albania. Major Stuart, lately Consul at Janina, reported the murder of a boy by brigands, in a despatch received a few days ago. Her Majesty's Ministers at Athens reported recently that the brigand chief Spanos, on the Ottoman side of the frontier, has lately killed two other brigands from motives of revenge. The Correspondence with the Greek Government relative to the assassination of Mr. Herbert and others is, to all intents and purposes, closed.

asked the noble Lord the Member for North Derbyshire, On what principle the arrangements recommended with regard to the Teignmouth and Dawlish Turnpike Trust are founded?

in reply, said, the principle on which the arrangements recommended had been founded was that which the Committee had endeavoured to apply in all cases of insolvent trusts—namely, the doing of justice to all by making equitable arrangements between the public, the ratepayers, and the creditors. The first Act of Parliament was granted to the Teignmouth and Dawlish Trust 50 years ago. Their last Act dated back six years, and the trust had since been continued from year to year. They had 24 miles of road, and in that distance there were 22 gates and bars, seven of which formed a network round the town of Teignmouth. Their ordinary bonded debt was over £24,000, in addition to which they had a preference debt, with which the Committee could not interfere, of £700. The tolls averaged about £1,100 a-year, and the trustees had applied the income to paying the interest on their debt. They had not paid off any part of the corpus, nor had they repaired the roads. The Local Board of Teignmouth had therefore applied that the trust be at once discontinued.