§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the accounts of the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland by the High Commissioners with a Royal salute and a body of horse, foot, and artillery; and if he will consider whether the time has not come when the practice might, with advantage, be discontinued?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSI think, Sir, that the usual forms and ceremonies accompanying the visit of the Lord High Commissioners, as representing Her Majesty, were observed on the occasion referred to, and I see no reason why they should be discontinued.