§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, For some information with regard to an item in the last financial accounts presented to the House. He would not have troubled the right hon. Gentleman had he not already sought for information from the best financial authorities on his own side of the House, and failed to obtain it. There appeared, both on the debit and credit side of the account, the following entry:— "To balance due from Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, £2,212." He had compared all the financial accounts for eleven or twelve years buck, and found the same entry in them; he supposed, therefore, that the money had been due to the State for more than eleven years, and had never yet been received. In the thirty-ninth report of the Woods and Forests he found the same sum entered as an "available balance;" and some time ago there appeared a note in the accounts stating that Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson were "late receivers at Glasgow ' Would the Secretary of the Treasury ex plain the nature of the entry?
§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUstated, he would repeat his Question on Friday.