LORD WODEHOUSEasked the noble Earl the Under Secretary for the Colonies, whether there would be any objection to lay on the table of the House certain correspondence relating to the Clergy Reserves in Canada?
The EARL of DESARTsaid, the correspondence was not yet ripe for discussion: but he confessed he had not clearly heard what the noble Lord asked, owing to the conversation going on in the House on the termination of the previous question. The correspondence that had taken place on the subject was very scanty, but such as it was, there was no objection to its production. He could assure the noble Lord that Her Majesty's Government were deeply impressed with the importance of this subject. It was now fully under the consideration of his right hon. Friend at the head of the Colonial Office, and he trusted that ere long some final settlement would be arrived at, which would be consonant with the just rights of all parties concerned.