§ MR. W. E. FORSTERasked, When the Report would be laid on the Table? The Question was asked some time ago, and the Report was then promised, but nothing had since been heard of it.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, that when he made the statement referred to by the right hon. Gentleman, he was in hopes that the Papers would have been ready shortly after the Whitsun Recess. It appeared, however, that the translation of some of the Papers had required time. The right hon. Gentleman could understand that, under present circumstances, the Foreign Office was very much overworked, and that the Printers also were very much pressed, and this would account for the delay. He was every day expecting the Report; but his hon. Friend the Under Secretary would be better able to say when the Papers were likely be ready than he was.