§ MR. ADDERLEY, on rising to put the questions of which he had given notice, said, that there were now in this country delegates representing the discontented 371 parties in the Cape, and also delegates who were more inclined to the measures of the Government; and he complained of the want which they experienced of information on important particulars connected with the affairs of the colony. In the other House of Parliament a question had been put to the noble Lord the Secretary of the Colonies on the subject, and his answer was, that the information would not be given until fresh despatches had arrived from the colony; that was, until too late a time to be of any use. However, the present facts which he (Mr. Adderley) wanted, being complete in themselves, up to the failure of the letters-patent, he begged to ask the Under Secretary of Stale for the Colonies, "whether he intends to lay on the table of the House the correspondence which has passed between himself and the Governor of the Cape subsequently to the receipt in that colony of the Order in Council, empowering the Governor and his Legislative Council to frame a representative constitution?" And he also asked for a return of the petitions from the various municipalities which had been sent to Her Majesty on the same subject? He would also be glad if the hon. Gentleman would lay on the table of the House copies of the resolutions that had been entered into at the meetings that had taken place.
§ MR. HAWES, in reply to the questions of the hon. Gentleman, begged to state that the whole of the correspondence would be laid on the table of the House at as early a period as was possible. The correspondence was now in progress of being printed, but it would be highly inconvenient to lay that correspondence on the table before the despatch arrived. With regard to the petitions to which the hon. Gentleman referred, he did not put his question in the form that it was on the paper. It was late on Saturday when the petitions were received. Of course the resolutions will be found in the papers.