§ MR. MICHELLsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Gentleman the Secretary to the Treasury why the annual finance accounts had not as yet been delivered, and whether they had been printed?
§ MR. WILSONsaid, that the reasons why the finance accounts which had been prepared on the 1st day of June had not as yet been laid before the House was, that the land revenue accounts of Scotland, which were discharged to a great extent in kind, had not been ready with the other accounts, in consequence of the delay which necessarily occurred in converting those payments in kind into cash. Arrangements had, however, been made by which that account would be prepared at an earlier date in future.