§ MR. NEWDEGATEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government would consent to an Address for information, in continuance of that furnished under the Address of the 27th of July 1874, with reference to the Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations relating to Monastic and Conventual Institutions; and within what period such continued information would be ready for delivery to the Members of this House?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that Papers on the subject had been laid on the Table on the 4th of March last, relating to France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and Spain. His hon. Friend, however, was not satisfied with those Papers, and requested him (Mr. Bourke) to lay further Papers on the Table and obtain other information upon the subject, more particularly from Dresden, Wütemberg, and other smaller States in Germany. Those Papers had been received at the Foreign Office. They were considerably voluminous. They were printed, and would be laid on the Table in a few days. Now, however, the hon. Gentleman wished to have additional information, without stating where it was to be obtained from or what was to be its nature. He would be happy to get for him all the information he could procure, but he could give him no decided answer as to when he would be able to lay it upon the Table of the House.
§ MR. NEWDEGATEsaid, that, as it was always understood that a continued Return was to be made in the terms of the original Return, he would on a future day ask the hon. Gentleman the Under Secretary of State, whether he would continue down to the present time the information furnished under the Address of the 27th of July last.