LORD WILLIAM COMPTON (Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon)asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether accommodation has been secured for the proposed Emigrants' Information Office; and, whether the unpaid Committee charged with the management of this Office has been formed; and, if not, whether it is possible to hasten the necessary arrangements, so that the Office may be thoroughly organized and at work before the winter sets in, when it is most necessary that some of the unemployed should be able to obtain reliable information as to emigration?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN) (Denbighshire, E.)I can assure my noble Friend that nobody can have more at heart the subject to which his Question relates than Earl Granville and myself; but the sum at our disposal is, as he knows, not a very munificent one, and, to use a familiar phrase, "we must cut our coat according to our cloth." I am sorry to say we have not yet secured suitable premises for the proposed Emigrants' Information Office; but we hope shortly to do so. The Committee to be charged with its management is in course of formation, and I trust that the office itself will very soon be open, and that long before the winter it will be thoroughly organized and at work.