MR. GLADSTONEsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, with reference to Parliamentary Paper No. 575, of Session 1867, Whether that Paper correctly describes the Bishopric of Columbia as endowed with property derived from a benefaction of Miss Burden Coutts; whether it is not the fact that the Bishoprics of Adelaide and Capetown have been endowed in like manner by the same donor; and, if so, whether the Return might not with propriety be amended so as to describe the three foundations with the same correctness and precision?
§ MR. ADDERLEYreplied that the Paper in question was compiled, as all other such Papers were, from Returns furnished by the Governors of the different Colonies. The Governor of British Columbia gave more details than were contained in the Returns from Adelaide and Capetown. In these two Returns no statement of Miss Coutts's endowment of £17,500 for each place had been made. The Colonial Office had, however, obtained information on the point from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and an amended Return would be laid on the table.