§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Wexford, N)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the reasons for the delay in the publication of the manuscripts of the Irish Franciscans, which publication was promised more than a year ago, and whether the Historical Manuscripts Commission propose now to publish a fuller and more useful Report of those manuscripts than they originally intended.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINYes, Sir, it has been decided to publish a fuller description of many of these papers than was at first prepared by the editor, and that is the cause of the delay in their publication.