§ MR. MONKsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether any definite answer has been received at the Home Office as to the probable time it will take to comp- 939 lete the inquiry into the Laws of Marriage, and when he expects that the Report of the Marriage Law Commission will be presented to Parliament?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, he had been informed that afternoon by the Secretary of the Commission that a large body of evidence had been collected upon the subject, and that Resolutions were being prepared for a Report; but in consequence of the Members of the Royal Commission living in different and distant parts of the Kingdom, it was not an easy matter to bring them together. There was no expectation of being able to present the Report to the House before July, and certainly not in time to form the basis of legislation this year.