§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in the last Report of the Commissioners for the Publication of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, the Commissioners state that there are in other libraries tracts bearing on the Brehon Laws, which have not yet been edited or properly examined, and that the Commissioners recommend the consideration by the Government as to whether a competent scholar should be employed to visit the Continental libraries and furnish report as to any additional matter which may be extant in them; and whether he proposes to give effect to the suggestion of the Commissioners.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (MR. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.The Report was only presented on the 7th inst., and has not yet been issued; therefore the Government are not in a position to make any statement on the subject.