§ SIR J. COLOMB (Tower Hamlets, Bow)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the 1134 loyal Address to Her Majesty, unanimously adopted by the Dominion House of Commons, declaring the unswerving determination of the Canadian people to maintain the political connection between Canada and the rest of the British Empire, has been presented to Her Majesty; what reply has been graciously made by Her Majesty to the Address; and whether both the Address and the reply will be printed and circulated to Members?
§ THE UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. de WORMS,) Liverpool, East ToxtethThe Address has not yet been received. It would not be in accordance with the usual and Constitutional practice to present to the House of Commons here an Address to the Queen adopted by the House of Commons of another portion of the Empire. Loyal Addresses embodying similar sentiments are frequently received from the Colonial Parliaments, and Her Majesty's Government would exceed their functions if they were to call the attention of Parliament here to the proceedings of another British Parliament, unless under exceptional conditions such as this case happily does not present.