§ EARL GRANVILLEdesired permission to read to their Lordships a note which he had received from the Postmaster General. The note was as follows:—
§ "My dear Granville,—The Duke of Richmond is reported to have attributed to me last night the statement 'that it was the intention of the Government to supplement the Land Act of last Session by another measure in the course of a couple of years.' Will you kindly take the trouble to say for me that I never made any such statement? What I said was—to repeat a promise made by C. Fortescue in the House of Commons with reference to labourers' dwellings—that a measure for improving them would probably be introduced in the course of the next two years.
§ "I am, yours sincerely,
§ W. MONSELL."