§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the Papers laid before the House relating to the Cottenham Charity Lands; whether the Charity Commissioners were justified in refusing the application of an inhabitant of Cottenham on behalf of the parishioners for a Copy of the opinion given by them to the Charity upon the question whether they were bound to accede to the unanimous vote of the parishioners, in vestry assembled, that the land held upon trust for the charities should be let as garden allotments, and in refusing to answer the question whether, apart from any legal obligation, the trustees would not be justified in letting the said lands as garden allotments, if secured the same rents as at present; and, whether he considers that the trustees of the charities would be justified in acceding to the wishes of the inhabitants in thus letting the land?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSWith reference to the first Question, I have no right to interfere in the matter. With regard to the second, it is rather a complicated one of law, and whatever answer I should give to it would not be binding upon the parties.