§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)I wish, Sir, with your permission, to utter one word of explanation in reference to a sneer, if I may so gay, used yesterday by the right hon. Member for Preston (Mr. Hanbury), who in bringing before the House a letter addressed to a certain newspaper made use of these words:—" Unfortunately the hon. Member who sent the letter is not in his place to-day. I should have supposed that after writing such a letter he would have made it his duty to be in his place. I have not had the opportunity of communicating with him." If the hon. Member had communicated with his Whips he would have known that I had paired, and that I went down to Liverpool on Saturday afternoon to fulfil certain public engagements. The letter in question was written in the train as I went to Liverpool, and I had no possible means of knowing either that it would be published or that it would be brought before this House.