CAPTAIN AYLMERasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, What decision the Cabinet have arrived at regarding the Memorial presented to the First Lord of the Treasury last Session, praying him to consent to the appointment of a Royal Commission on Irish Industries?
§ MR. TREVELYANI can only refer the hon. and gallant Member to a com- 300 munication which, I am informed, was addressed to him by the Prime Minister on the 3rd of November last, to the effect that his Colleagues agreed that they could not recommend the Crown to grant a Royal Commission. No different conclusion has, I understand, been arrived at by the Cabinet since the receipt of the Memorial referred to. Possibly, however, the Bill of which the hon. Member has given Notice will show some subject calling for inquiry of which the Government is at present unaware.