§ MR. J. GOLDSMIDsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce a measure for the more effectual discovery and punishment of persons using false weights and measures?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, the Question was a very important one, but a Commission had been appointed to inquire into the state of the standards, which in many parts of Great Britain were in an unsatisfactory state, and advise as to their better regulation by the Board of Trade. Where the standards were in that unsatisfactory state convictions could not be obtained, and until the Commissioners had made their Report it would not be advisable to introduce a Bill on the subject.
§ MR. CRAWFORDsaid, he would beg to ask whether the latter part of the answer of the right hon. Gentleman described the state of the standards in the metropolis?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDYsaid, he could not say.