LORD STANLEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, When the Report of the Jamaica Commissioners will be laid upon the table of the House?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, the Report which was received at the commencement of the present week, and the evidence which accompanies it, are exceedingly voluminous—so much so, that what we have already received will occupy from 1,500 to 2,000 pages of our usual Parliamentary 365 blue books. But that is not all, for it is accompanied by an Appendix, which, I am informed by the Commissioners, contains an important part of the evidence, and which should be laid before the House with the Report. The Appendix is on its way from Jamaica. I have made inquiry, and find that, with the utmost speed which it is possible to exert, it will not be less than three weeks before the whole of the documents can be laid on the table. I will, however, take - care that the papers shall be presented as soon as possible. I cannot refrain taking the opportunity of stating that the House and the country are under great obligations to those gentlemen, of well known ability and reputation, who, at great sacrifice of time, have devoted so much labour to this subject.