§ MR. BUCHANANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he can give any further information to the House as to the destitution in the Western Islands, and as to the adequacy of the means at present available for its relief?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)I would ask my hon. Friend to postpone his Question for a few days. The officers of the Board of Supervision have been pursuing a personal inquiry in the districts affected by the destitution; and I learn by telegraph that some of their Reports have already reached Edinburgh, and will be in London to-morrow or Monday.