§ MR. LOCKEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been directed to the present state of the Law as to the Licensing of Theatres and other places of amusement in the Metropolis, and whether it is his intention to bring in a Bill on the subject?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, that his attention had been called to the subject, which was a very complicated one—the more so because the law rested upon old statutes, which, to a certain extent, had become obsolete. His hon. Friend the Under Secretary for the Home Depart- 345 ment intended to move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the law before any proposal was laid before the House on the subject. That Motion his hon. Friend would make on an early day.