§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Return of the revenues of the Church of England,, which was expected in June, will be laid upon the Table of the House before the end of the Session?
§ MR. MATTHEWSThe hon. Member is aware that this Return was formally presented to Parliament at the end of last month. The proofs are still with the printers, and the Ecclesiastical Com-missioners inform me that it will take a week at least to check the proofs, owing to the great mass of figures that have to be corrected. I hope, however, that it will be found possible to place the Return in the bands of Members before the end of the Session.