§ SIR ROBERT INGLISinquired whether there was any objection on the part of Her Majesty's Government to lay upon the Table the Report of the Scientific Commissioners who had been appointed to take into consideration the question whether the works of the Croydon Railway were likely to interfere injuriously with the operations of the Observatory at Greenwich?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELreplied that there could be no objection to lay on the Table select extracts from the document in question. It unfortunately happened that some excited feeling had been mutually manifested between the scientific men engaged in this inquiry, and he did not see what good end would be obtained by publishing mere matters of wrangling. Everything, however, of a scientific character—everything that was calculated to throw light on the merits of the question at issue, he would have much pleasure in laying before the House.