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The following Question appeared on the Paper—
LORD H.CECIL: To ask the Attorney General whether his attention has been called to statements showing the heavy cost of proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council under the Clergy Discipline Act; and whether it is in the power of the Rule Committee under that Act, or of the Privy Council, to diminish the expenses of such proceedings by regulations; and, if so, whether he can suggest in the proper quarter the issue of such regulations?
§ LOED H. CECIL (Greenwich)I do not see the honourable and learned Gentleman in his place. I deferred this Question from Tuesday until to-day at his request, and have come up specially from the country to-day in the hope of getting a reply.
§ MR. GEDGEI have two Questions on the Paper—one to the Attorney General and the other to the First Lord, and as the latter depended on the answer to the former I can get a reply to neither. I hope the Leader of the House will use his influence with the Attorney General and induce him to attend in his place when Questions addressed to him are on the Paper.
§ MR. HAZELL (Leicester)I am also in the same position of having a Question down to the Attorney General.