§ On going into Committee on the Customs' Act Bill.
§ Mr. T. Duncombeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he had any objection to the evidence given before the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry being printed with their Report? The Report of the Commissioners had been ordered yesterday to be printed without the evidence, although he had given notice of his intention to move as an Amendment to the Motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the evidence be printed. He was sure if that evidence was not printed, the public would feel great dissatisfaction and disappointment, and justly so. He would, however, take good care to read in the House the evidence that was attached to that Report, so that it might be published and the public be made acquainted with it.
§ The Chancellor of the Exchequerhad no wish to conceal the evidence; his only objection to it being printed was, that it cast imputations on different individuals.
§ Mr. T. DuncombeWith regard to some of the evidence being offensive to certain individuals, the hon. Member for Buckinghamshire had told him, that it contained observations reflecting on a Mr. Rose, but he had Mr. Rose's authority for stating, that he wished that part of the evidence to be printed. He understood that in another part of the evidence a merchant in the city was called "an old screw," and he supposed that was a reason for inducing the right hon. Gentleman to suppress the evidence.
§ Bill went through Committee.
§ House adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.