HC Deb 13 February 1849 vol 102 c648
MR. URQUHART

asked the noble Viscount the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the documents connected with the recent transactions in Sicily, which have already been published in the newspapers, would be laid on the table of the House?

VISCOUNT PALMERSTON

said, there was an inconvenience to the public service in introducing into the papers of that House what had already appeared in the newspapers.