§ MR. WHALLEYasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is the intention of the Government to adopt any measure for the protection of members of the Established Church against the Confessional practices of such of the clergy of that Church as recognises the doctrines disclosed in the book called "The Priest in Absolution," having regard to the Act known as Lord Campbell's Act, which prohibits the publication of such doctrines and practices?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI must confess that the last part of the Question appears to me to be not altogether intelligible. I have looked at the Act to which it refers, and I do not see that there is anything in it relating to "doctrines and practices;" but with regard to the main Question which the hon. Member puts, I do not see that there are any measures which the Government could adopt in this matter, and I must venture to express my own opinion that members of the Church will find their best protection against any mischief from the practices to which he refers in the fact of those practices having been disclosed and made a matter of public notoriety and reprobation.