§ MR. WREN HOSKYNSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether any and what measures have been taken to obtain the Return of the acreage of land held by public corporate bodies in each county in England and Wales, for which an Address was moved on the 10th of August last?
MR. BRUCE, in reply, said, that all possible steps had been taken in the matter, but hitherto with indifferent success. Application had been made to the Charity Commissioners, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the municipal bodies. The Charity Commissioners were only able to give Returns of the parts of England over which their operations had hitherto extended. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were not able to make Returns of the land of which they held the reversionary interest, but only of that which was in their own hands; and from about half the municipal bodies no Returns had yet been received.