§ MR. CARINGTONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, considering that the Royal Commission on Cathedral Churches has been occasionally sitting since the month of July 1879, and that no Reports on Cathedrals have yet been delivered to honourable Members, he will urge the Commissioners to complete their labours 782 before legislation on this subject is proceeded with?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that three Reports had, up to the present, been completed. The question of further legislation must depend on the character of the legislation; but he thought it was a matter for serious consideration whether further legislation should go on until the Commission had completed their labours.