§ MR. E. JENKINSasked the Vice President of the Council, If he has any objection to lay upon the Table a Copy of the last Report of the London School Board upon Educational Endowments?
§ MR. A. MILLSsaid, before the noble Lord answered that Question he should like to know, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Report to which the Question of the hon. Member for Dundee refers is a folio volume of 486 pages?
§ MR. E. JENKINSrose to Order. He had asked a Question of the noble Lord, and he wished to know if it was regular or proper for any other hon. Member to interpose between the Question and the noble Lord's answer? It was quite open to the hon. Member to put his Question after the noble Lord replied.
§ MR. SPEAKERAs the Question of the hon. Member relates to the same matter it seems to me that he is in Order.
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, in reply, said, when the hon. Member put his Question before he had no information on this subject; but he was now informed by a member of the Board that no regular Committee had been appointed by them on the subject of Educational Endowments of London. Since then, however, a large volume had been sent to the Education Office, from which it appeared that it had been the habit of a Committee appointed to inquire into various schemes of Educational Endowment to make various reports. These had been collected, and the result was a Blue Book of 480 pages. He did not think any object would be served by making it a Parliamentary Return, since any ratepayer could obtain it on application.