§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether he has received the Report of Sir Edward Reed's Manning Committee; and, when it will be laid before Parliament?
§ MR. RITCHIEI have not yet received the Report of the Departmental Committee on the Manning of British Merchant Ships. When it is received I propose to lay it at once upon the Table of the House.
§ * SIR C. DILKEWould the right hon. Gentleman ask that the evidence should now be circulated? It has been ready for nearly a year.
§ MR. RITCHIEI think perhaps it would be a pity to circulate the evidence, because I understand the Report will be very shortly ready.