COLONEL BERESFORDasked the Vice President of the Council on Education, Whether, before taking the Vote for the "Science and Art Department," he will lay upon the Table of the House a Copy of any further Correspondence between the Science and Art Department and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United Westminster School, in continuation of Papers already presented; and, whether he would in- 301 clude the documentary evidence referred to on page 37, Parliamentary Paper, No. 86, consisting of the boys' note-books and notes of their written admissions, and of the notes taken by Captain Abney of the answers of four of the boys?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONSir, there will be no objection to the production of further Correspondence on this subject, and the Correspondence will itself explain the difficulty of producing the notes and documentary evidence alluded to in the way required. As the suspension of Mr. Goffin has in certain quarters excited a great deal of interest, and as the Governing Body of the school of which he is head-master are dissatisfied with that decision, it may be convenient if I were now to state the course which we propose to pursue. The hon. Baronet the Member for Maidstone (Sir John Lubbock), who is the head of the Governing Body, has, within the last few days, put a Notice upon the Paper, asking for a Select Committee to inquire into this case. Facts have, within the last few days, also come to our notice which makes it, in our opinion, very advisable that a searching inquiry should at once be instituted into all the transactions connected with Mr. Goffin's suspension. I shall, therefore, propose to move, as soon as is possible, for a Select Committee to inquire into and report upon the circumstances relating to the charges against Mr. Goffin.