MR. CARVELL WILLIAMS (Notts, Mansfield)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether there has been received by the Committee of the Privy Council for the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey a Memorial from the committee appointed by the ratepayers of St. Peter Port, in the Island of Guernsey, asking for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the question of public primary education in Guernsey, and especially into the bearing of the recently-passed Act relating to education on the rights and privileges of Her Majesty's subjects in that island; whether there has been received a Petition to Her Majesty from a committee of Nonconformists in Guernsey, praying that an inquiry be made into the circumstances connected with the passing of such Education Act, 814 and into the changes effected by the same, and the probable effect thereof on the progress of education and the rights of the population of the island; whether any, and what, answers have been given to such Memorial and Petition; and whether there is any objection to placing the same, and the replies thereto, upon the Table of this House?
§ MR. ACLANDThe Memorial and Petition referred to have been received, and the Memorialists have been informed that the Act in question having been so recently passed, the subject could not be re-opened until there has been time to asertain the effect it will have on education in the island. There can be no objection to laying the Papers before Parliament.