§ MR. BARTLEY (Islington, N.)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Inns of Court and the Incorporated Law Society are willing to assist in forming a Law Faculty in the proposed University of London, according to recommendations of the Gresham University Commission; what inquiries the Government have made on the subject; and whether the Government can give any Return as to the annual amount of income and expenditure of the Inns of Court during the last five years, and the sums appropriated by these bodies to the purpose of legal education during that period?
§ SIR W. HARCOURTI have inquired of the Lord Chancellor about this matter, but my noble Friend has no knowledge of any such intention as that assumed in the question; and as to the Return from the Inns of Court, the Government have no control over the Inns of Court, and therefore have no power to call for a Return.