§ Mr. Humeput a question to the chancellor of the exchequer relative to the manner in 1025 which government inserted its advertisements in the daily journals. He wished and that, to know whether the system of confining the advertisements of government to the government papers, which had been so generally acted upon in Ireland, had been introduced into England. He asked the question, because he had observed that from papers of a certain description these advertisements were carefully excluded. "The Times," for instance, had not had a government advertisement for the last eighteen months.
The Chancellor of the Exchequerreplied, that every office under government selected the paper in which it advertised. There was no order from the Treasury to exclude advertisements from any particular paper.
§ Mr. Humesaid, that if such were the case, it was a strange coincidence that all the public offices should have combined to exclude their advertisements from one particular paper.