§ MR. SUMMERSI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will obtain from the Committee of Head Masters permission to publish their confidential Memorandum on the subject of examinations for the Army; and whether he will in, future, decline to correspond with this Committee on public matters except upon the understanding that the correspondence may, if it is thought necessary, be published?
§ *MR. E. STANHOPEThe War Department benefits by receiving in confidence a free expression of the views of the Head Masters; and it would militate seriously against that freedom if the idea gained ground that such Reports might subsequently be made public. It follows that I am not prepared to comply with the suggestion in the second paragraph of the question.