§ MR. SYDNEY HERBERTsaid, he wished to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Government to bring in any Bill during the present Session to regulate Chathedral Chapters; and whether it was intended to renew the Act 16 & 17 Vict. c. 35, by which all appointments to capitular offices were made subject, for two years, to the provisions of any measure which might be passed, founded on the Report of the Cathedral Commission of 1852; and whether any stipulation had been made with the Canons lately appointed that they shall hold their Canonries subject to the provisions of future legislation?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, the Government had not, at present any intention of proposing a Bill upon the subject. Since he had been in office he had appointed, he believed, one canon; but it did not occur to him to enter into stipulations, and no stipulations of the sort had been made.