§ MR. JOHN ELLISI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will lay upon the Table a Memorandum of a similar nature to the one he caused 936 to be issued in 1890 (Parliamentary Paper No. 163), relating to the progress of population, revenue, and expenditure, bringing the figures up to the end of the financial year 1901–2.
§ * SIR M. HICKS BEACHI do not think a satisfactory Return of this kind could be prepared at the present moment: the matter is complicated by the war expenditure of the past three years.