§ MR. PHINNsaid, he would beg to ask the right hon. Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in consequence of the Report of the Cambridge University Commissioners in reference to King's College, Cambridge, Her Majesty's Government were prepared to recommend to the authorities of Eton College to concert measures with the Provost and Fellows of King's College, for the improvement and extension of the two foundations?
§ MR. WALPOLE, in reply, said, that a Copy of the Report of the Commissioners had been sent to the University, and to the Heads of the several Colleges in the University, with the request that they would make their observations upon that Report either as affecting the University generally, or the Colleges separately. With regard to the question to which the hon. Gentleman more immediately referred, it was perfectly true that the College of Eton, as mentioned in the Report, was intimately connected with King's College—he had, therefore, thought it proper to send a Copy of the Report to the authorities at Eton, in the same way as he had sent it to King's College; and when he had received their observations upon it, he should be prepared to state what course he might deem it necessary to take upon the subject.
§ SIR DE LACY EVANSgave notice, that in the event of any measure being introduced by the Government for the allocation of the four seats now vacant in that House, he should propose that those seats be given to the metropolitan districts of Chelsea and Kensington.