HC Deb 27 March 1862 vol 166 cc130-1
MR. SELWYN

said, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether the undermentioned Letters were not omitted from the "Copy of Correspondence between the Secretary of State for War and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, relating to Military Education," ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11th March, 1862, and whether there is any objection to the production of those Letters—namely, Letter dated Cambridge, 23rd April, 1861, signed Latimer Neville, Vice Chancellor; Letter from Lord Herbert, dated War Office, April 30th, 1861; Letter dated 6th May, 1861, signed Latimer Neville, Vice Chancellor; and enclosing a scheme for Military Education, signed by L. Neville, Vice Chancellor; W. Whewell, G. E. Corrie, W. H. Bateson, and by twelve other members of the Council of the Senate,

MR. LEFROY

said, he would also beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether a Letter of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Dublin of the 10th of February was not omitted from "the Copy of Correspondence between the Secretary of State for War and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, relating to Military Education," ordered by the House to be printed 11th March, 1862; and whether there is any objection to the production of that Letter?

SIR GEORGE LEWIS

said, in answer to the question put by the hon. and learned Member for the University of Cambridge (Mr. Selwyn), that the documents referred to appeared to the late Lord Herbert as private, and they were not in the War Department. With respect to the letter alluded to by the hon. Member for the University of Dublin (Mr. Lefroy) that was certainly omitted by inadvertence, but Supplementary Returns, in which it was included, had already been laid on the table of the House.