MR. J. COWENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he can place upon the Table of the House a detailed and explanatory list of the privileges enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Channel Islands?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that it was impossible, without much more power in the way of expenditure than he possessed, to give a detailed and explanatory list of the privileges enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Channel Islands. One of their great privileges was exemption from Imperial taxation, and the other, which he considered a doubtful one, was the privilege of Home Rule. A great deal of information on the subject would be found in the Report of the Commission which sat about 1847.