§ MR. COCHRAN-PATRICKasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the Historical Manuscripts Commissioners will print in their next, or an early volume, the Catalogue of the Scottish State Papers and other Historical Records relating to Scotland recently 392 acquired by the German Government from the Hamilton Collection.
§ MR. HIBBERT (for Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT), in reply, said, that an account of the Historical Manuscripts at Hamilton Palace had been drawn up by Dr. Smart, of Edinburgh, for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and their Report was issued in 1870. Under these circumstances, it was doubtful whether there was any necessity for reprinting the catalogues.