§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If it is his intention to introduce this Session a measure for the reform of the Lunacy Laws?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, the Report of the Committee which had sat on this subject was at the present moment engaging the earnest atten- 736 tion of the Lord Chancellor; and as soon as the House re-assembled after the Christmas Recess the course it was intended to pursue would be stated, and probably legislation would follow.