§ MR. PERCY WYNDHAMasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether the various Addresses to Her Majesty in Council with reference to Commissions recently issued under the Union of Benefices Act have yet been laid upon the Table of the House; and, whether, considering the Commissions involve the destruction of five City Churches, namely, St. Matthew Friday-street, St. George Botolph-lane, St. Mildred Bread-street, St. Ethelburga, and St. Margaret Pattens, exclusive of St. Dionis Backchurch, now in process of demolition, he would consent to give the House some notice before the Addresses to Her Majesty in Council are, in accordance with the Act, laid upon the Table of the House?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, in reply, said, that the Question of the hon. Member referred to schemes which had been submitted to Her Majesty's Government for the consolidation of benefices and the demolition of churches. No such scheme had yet been laid on the Table of the House. Under the 15th section of the 23 & 24 Vict. c. 142, all such schemes must be laid on the Table of the House for two months before they were submitted to Her Majesty in Council, and thus his hon. Friend would have an ample opportunity 1371 of calling attention to such schemes before they were submitted to Her Majesty in Council.