§ MR. THOMSON HANKEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether the Bill for Brown's Charity was introduced into the House of Commons at the instance of the Charity Commissioners; why the Bill was withdrawn from the House of Commons, and subsequently introduced in the House of Lords; and, whether, when so introduced into the House of Lords, it was stated to be a Government Bill, and placed directly under the charge of the President of the Council, as the Parliamentary representative of the Charity Commissioners?
§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUreplied, that the Bill had been introduced at the request of the Charity Commissioners into 170 that House, and had been withdrawn at their express request for the purpose of its being introduced into the House of Lords. There was, he might add, no Parliamentary representative of those Commissioners in the House of Lords. The Lord President of the Council was in no way connected with them, and they were aware of that fact. They had applied, in the first instance, to Lord Granville to introduce the Bill before the House of Lords, and he was informed that that noble Lord had asked the Lord President to take it up. It was not at all a Government Bill.