HC Deb 02 August 1858 vol 151 cc2377-8
MR. WALPOLE

appeared at the Bar, and read the following reply from the Queen to an Address from the House for the issue of a Royal Commission relative to Harbours of Refuge in the Report of a Select Committee of this House upon Harbours of Refuge.

Answer to Address [26th July] reported, as follows:—

I have received your Address, praying that I will give directions for the appointment of a Royal Commission to complete the Inquiry in the terms recommended in the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, in the present Session, on Harbours of Refuge.

And I have given directions that a Royal Commission shall issue for the purpose which you have requested.