HC Deb 23 July 1888 vol 329 cc213-4
MR. BARTLEY (Islington, N.)

asked the hon. Member for the Penrith Division of Cumberland (Mr. J. W. Lowther) a Question of which he had given private Notice, What sum of money the Charity Commissioners contemplated assigning to the General Governing Body to be constituted by them under the City Parochial Charities Act?

MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)

rose to Order, and asked why the hon. Member for North Islington and the hon. Member for South Antrim (Mr. Macartney) were allowed to put Questions of which they had given private Notice, while his hon. Friend the Member for the Ossory Division of Queen's County (Mr. W. A. Macdonald) was prevented from putting his Question?

MR. SPEAKER

It entirely depends on the nature of the Questions which are asked. I understood that the hon. Member for the Ossory Division of Queen's County had given private Notice on Friday last. That is a very unusual way of proceeding; and the Question was so large and important that I thought it more respectful to the House that it should be put on the Paper.

MR. W. A. MACDONALD (Queen's Co., Ossory)

I may be allowed to explain——

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!

MR. T. M. HEALY

I wish to ask whether it is not a fact that the Question of the hon. Member for Antrim related to a matter which appeared in the newspapers on the 16th instant?

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!

MR. MACARTNEY (Antrim, S.)

said, his Question appeared on the Paper on Friday last. Unfortunately, he was unable to put the Question to the right hon. Gentleman on that occasion, and he now took the earliest opportunity of asking it.

MR. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith)

The Charity Commissioners hope to be able to place a sum of £5,500 per annum, or thereabouts, at the disposal of the General Governing Body to be constituted under the City Parochial Charities Act. Perhaps the House will allow me to correct an inaccuracy of which I was guilty during the debate on the Vote for the Charity Commission. I then said that a scheme was under discussion for St. Giles's, Cripplegate. I should have said St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate.