§ MR. DALZIELI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in view of the appointment of a new Royal Commission to inquire into the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland, he will propose, for the information of Members of this House, the reprinting of the Parliamentary Return (No. 366 of Session 1869), ordered by the House on 24th July 1866, giving a detailed account of the public income and expenditure of Great Britain and Ireland separately from 1688, or will consent to the issue of a further Return bringing the figures to the close of the present financial year.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.I have made inquiry and have ascertained that there are considerable 728 numbers of copies of this Return still in print—310 of Part I. and 370 of Part IL, and these are on sale in the usual manner. The Return has proved of very great value, but there is a later Return issued on the Motion of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wolverhampton, giving the required facts of expenditure in a form more convenient for discussion.