§ THE DUKE OF RICHMONDMy Lords, with your permission I wish to make a correction in reference to a few words which fell from me last evening. It will be in the recollection of your Lordships that I quoted a newspaper report of the proceedings on an occasion when a deputation waited on the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department. From that report it appeared that the gentlemen composing the deputation made some very extravagant statements, and the right hon. Gentleman was reported to have said that he agreed more or less with those statements. I then asked whether the right hon. Gentleman adhered to the same opinions. My Lords, this morning I received from Mr. Bruce a letter, in which he says— "You will much oblige me by stating in the House of Lords my unqualified contradiction of the accuracy 144 of the report quoted by you. "I am exceedingly glad to receive this statement from the right hon. Gentleman, and of course I am happy to make the correction he desires. I will only add that I am very glad that the right hon. Gentleman has repudiated the sentiments attributed to him.
§ EARL GRANVILLEEvery one who has any experience of deputations knows that the members of the deputation sometimes give their own reports of what they conceive to have occurred when they were received; and as they have neither the training nor experience of the gentlemen who sit in our gallery, we cannot look for the same accuracy in their reports.