§ MR. D. A. THOMASI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the fact that the letter of the Home Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated 11th May, 1842, provided that the money collected in the several parishes at the instance of the clergy for the relief of the working classes in England and Scotland should be paid into the hands of, and be accounted for by, the Bank of England, he will make further inquiry to ascertain how the balance of £12,552 10s. 3d. remaining in June, 1844, when the account was closed, came to be reduced to £4,965 7s. 10d. in 1874; and what has become of this latter sum.
§ * MR. AKERS DOUGLASThe hon. Member put a series of Questions to me last year on this subject, and after making all the inquiries I could without obtaining the information necessary for an answer in every detail, I replied to a Question similar to the present one that
†See (4) Debates, exxvii., 1158.726 I had no power to pursue the matter further. I can only repeat that reply.