§ MR. W. VANSITTARTsaid, he would beg to ask the President of the Board of Control whether it is his intention, considering the important duties of the office he now holds, to continue any longer Com- 1371 missioner for the University of Cambridge?
LORD STANLEYsaid, at the beginning of the present year, when it devolved on him to undertake the duties of a Secretary of State, he proposed to the other members of the Cambridge Commission to resign the position he held in that body. There, however, was, he was entitled to say, an unanimous expression of opinion that it was not desirable he should cease to be a member of the Commission. That desire was founded upon two reasons—the first was, that no new member coming into the Commission after a period of eighteen months from its first sitting could have cognizance of all that had been done; and the second was, it was not thought advisable in the event of any of the subjects considered before the Commission coming under discussion in that House, that that Commission should lose its Parliamentary representation. It was, therefore, urgently desired that he should continue a member of the Commission, and he had consented to do so.