Mr. Baringpresented the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the subject of emigration. This duty, he observed, had devolved upon him, in consequence of the indisposition of the chairman of the committee. He strongly recommended the report to the attention of the chancellor of the Exchequer, and trusted that the right hon. gentleman would dispose of this important subject as soon as possible. The present was not a final but a special report, and the measure which was proposed in it, he thought it right to state, was recommended unanimously by the committee. It was proper that the question should be quickly decided, either one way or other; as there were, at this moment, a number of poor individuals kept in suspense in consequence of their uncertainty as to the intentions of government.
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, he was not unaware of the tenor of this report. The hon. gentleman had yesterday communicated to him, that it would be presented in the course of the present evening, and that certain propositions had been founded on the evidence taken before the committee. He could assure the hon. gentleman, that he had lost no time in endeavouring to make himself master of the facts detailed in the evidence. That evidence he had received last night, and he had read himself almost blind, without being able to get through it. Whatever might be the opinion which he had formed upon the subject, he thought the hon. gentleman could not expect him to state that opinion, until the House should be put in possession of the same opportunity which had been afforded to him, of becoming acquainted with the nature of the evidence.
Ordered to be printed.