§ MR. J. WHITEsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the sum of £20,579,434 9s. 9d. in No. 38, the sum of £11,405,057 15s. 10d. in No. 39, and the sum of £7,340,268 15s. 11d. in No. 40 of the Finance Accounts to the 31st of March last will together, make the total amount of advances issued from the Exchequer by way of loan for Land Improvements, &c. during the reign of Her Majesty; and, if not, from what date have those issues been made?
§ MR. STANSFELDsaid, in reply, that the hon. Member's language was somewhat vague, and he rather hesitated in replying to a Question in which the word "&c." found a place; but he might inform him that the total in those accounts included advances made prior to the present reign. If the hon. Gentleman would look at the items and the explanatory notes attached to them, he would find that they went back in the case of Ireland to the year 1800, and in the case of Great Britain to 1817.