§ MR. BRADYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he intended introducing any measure in accordance with the recommendation of that part of the Report of the Committee (which sat in 1853) "to examine into the system under which public-houses, hotels, &c., were regulated" which related to night coffee-shops, with the view to their being in future closed at proper and stated hours, many of which were now open through the night as harbours of refuge for abandoned characters of both sexes?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, that Report had referred to a variety of matters, among which was the subject mentioned by the hon. Gentleman. In order to carry out the recommendations contained in that Report, it would be necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament, and, as yet, no measure for the purpose had been prepared.