EARL POWISasked, Why only a portion of the Twenty-sixth Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 1873 has been presented to Parliament? He asked the Question because the portion which had not been presented contained very valuable appendices.
§ EARL BEAUCHAMPsaid, the reason was that an objection had been taken by the Treasury on the ground of expense to the publication of those Appendices. In that objection the Home Office concurred. If the noble Earl moved for the Correspondence on the subject between those two Departments and the Home Office, there would be no objection to produce it, and it would furnish their Lordships with the grounds of the objection.
EARL POWISsaid, he would move for the Correspondence.
Address for Correspondence as to printing the Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, agreed to.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Five o'clock.