§ MR. COLLINSsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Member for Oxford City, If his attention has been called to the fact that a draft of the Report of the Committee on the Registration of Voters for Boroughs has appeared in the "Liverpool Mercury" before it has been printed by this House; and, if so, if he is aware how that newspaper became possessed of it?
§ MR. VERNON HARCOURTsaid, in reply, that it was not the fact that a draft of the Report had appeared in the paper named in the Question of the hon. Member. An article had, however, appeared in it which conveyed to him the impression that the writer must have obtained a copy of the draft. If a draft 1888 of the Report had been obtained for the Liverpool Mercury he was not aware how possession of it had been obtained. The publication referred to had taken place after the Committee had reported, and the Report had been laid on the table of the House.