§ SIR CHARLES RUSSELLsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether it is true that in a Report of a Committee (composed of Mr. Goulburn, the Vice Controller of Customs, Mr. Farrar, and Mr. Williams, of the Board of Trade), presented to the Treasury in June 1865, a strong recommendation was made of the expediency of employing Commissionaires in the various Civil Departments of the United Kingdom, on the special grounds of "efficiency" and "economy;" and, if so, whether there will be any objection on the part of the Government to produce that part of the Report relating to the Corps of Commissionaires?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH, in reply, said, he had to inform his hon. and gallant Friend that the Report to which he had alluded made no such recommendation as he appeared to suppose. The Committee confined their recommendation exclusively to the employment of two Commissionaires in the office of the Registrar General of Seamen. It was not their duty to report generally. The Report was a confidential one, addressed to the Board of Trade, and he therefore could not lay it on the table.