§ MR. RANKINasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he would grant, unopposed, a Return, taken from a number of workhouses in various districts sufficient to give an average result for the whole Country, of the causes which have led to the pauperism of the various inmates; especially noting the condition of the paupers while between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, and also a Return of the occupations of the paupers before they entered the workhouse?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE, in reply, said, the Return would be so voluminous and costly that he could not agree to its publication. Moreover, he did not think that such a Return could be given in a satisfactory manner, or so as to afford trustworthy results.