SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he could say whether the approaching departure of Mr. Vivian, the British Consul General in Egypt, at the present time of the Egyptian Crisis, was merely for the purpose of consulting him, and not for the purpose of withdrawing him from his post, and so strengthening the hands' of another Englishman in the service of the Egyptian Government.

ASHMEAD-BARTLETT asked whether, in view of the gravity of the Egyptian Crisis and the dangers that threatened the interests of England in that country, the Government would fix an early day for the discussion by that House of the policy to be pursued with regard to Egypt and the Ottoman Power?

The Government had written a despatch to their Minister at Paris on the 10th of December, in which they had described the actual position they wished to assume in the Egyptian Crisis as an "attitude of a pacifying and calming character".

They could not vote with the hon. Baronet, because his Amendment implied that at no time during the Whole Egyptian Crisis was the employment of British troops justifiable; while, on the contrary, they held that, after the June massacres, the use of force became inevitable; They called the war unnecessary, because a wiser policy would have prevented the occurrence of the massacres.

They are nothing but blank cartridges, and the diplomatist who has a strong backing, like Sir Edward Grey at the present moment in the Turco-Egyptian Crisis, will carry the day.

The 371 Army Reserve was called out for the Egyptian Crisis in 1882.

In particular, during the Egyptian Crisis Transport Command carried some 10,000 Army troops, nearly 400 vehicles and a considerable tonnage of military equipment and supplies.

Mr. Foot writes:'During the Egyptian Crisis' - we owe the description to Sir Beverley Baxter - 'the Tory back-benchers met frequently.