§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Stirling Burghs)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury when the measure required for the purpose of meeting the ecclesiastical difficulty in Scotland will be introduced.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIt is not very easy for me to answer the Question with precision, because we only had the Report in our hands a few days before the House separated for the holidays. Although I have been in communication by letter with my right hon. friend the Lord-Advocate on the subject in the course of the holidays, it has been impossible for us to meet and we are not therefore in a position at this moment to lay on the Table our proposals to deal with this matter, which is one of undoubted urgency, but the difficulty of which is equally obvious. I hope to be able to do so at a very early date.