§ LORD ERNEST BRUCEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Ministers to advise Her Majesty, in consequence of the cession of the Ionian Islands to the kingdom of Greece, to enlarge the statutes of the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, so as to enable Her Majesty to confer that Order upon such persons as She may think proper, who have served Her Majesty in any part of Her Colonial Possessions?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, in reply, that it was true that, since the cession of the Ionian Islands, the Order had become confined to Malta. The subject of its extension was well worthy of consideration, but Her Majesty's pleasure had not yet been signified.