§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, who represented this country at the recent Conference convened by the Italian Government upon Commercial Education, and when his report will be published; and if, in connection with the proposed scheme for establishing the University of London in the Imperial Institute, it will be possible for Her Majesty's Government to make it a condition with the Senate of the University that the University shall establish a Chair of Commercial Education and grant diplomas of knowledge in commercial science, bearing in mind that the United Kingdom possesses no Schools of Commerce similar to those at Paris, Antwerp, Leipzig, Vienna, Moscow, and other Continental centres.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (MR. T. W. RUSSELL, TYRONE, S.) (FOR SIR J. GORST)Captain Abney represented this country. His report is in course of preparation. It is not possible to say when it will be published. The Government cannot at present interfere with the scheme for establishing the University of London, which has been entrusted by Parliament to a Commission.