§ MR. BREMRIDGEasked the President of the Board of Trade, whether (after the notice of a Bill for consolidating the Boards of Excise and Taxes) it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to continue the present Railway Board as an independent Board, or whether Her Majesty)s Government contemplated, in the present Session of Parliament, bringing forward any measure to place the railway business of the country under the management of the Board of Trade?
§ MR. LABOUCHERE, in answer to the question, was understood to say, that it was not in the contemplation of Government to bring in a Bill to abolish the Railway Board. Considerable reductions had been made in the railway department, but he did not think that the Railway Commission would be made a branch of the Board of Trade, and abolished as an independent board.