§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the publication known as the Foreign Office List, with a large royal crown upon it, is a Government publication or is subsidised by the Government and edited by a Government official; if so, whether the Secretary of State has sanctioned its being made up in great part of trade 1469 advertisements, and mixed and interleaved with such advertisements, so as to render it very troublesome to find indexes, maps, &c, hid among the copious advertisements of patent medicines, insurance offices, and other matters?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. FERGUSSON, Manchester, N. E.)The Foreign Office List is not an official publication, and is not subsidised by Her Majesty's Government. It purports to be edited by a member of the Civil Service. There is only one page of advertisements interleaved immediately before the maps and one before the Index at the end of the book.
§ SIR G. CAMPBELLHave the publishers any authority for putting the mark of the crown upon this publication?
§ * MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!