MR. J. A. SMITHbegged to ask the right hon. Secretary of the Home Department whether any communication had been made by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Government with reference to the present sitting of Convocation, and whether it was intended that it should continue to sit or be prorogued as usual?
§ MR. WALPOLEsaid, that as far as he was aware, no communication such as the hon. Member referred to had been made to any Member of the Government; certainly none such had been made to him. In answer to the other branch of the question—namely, whether the Convocation was to be allowed to continue sitting, or to be prorogued as usual, he begged to state 147 that the usual course would be observed, and this was intended from the beginning.