§ MR. BAINESsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he can inform the House when the Factory Returns, ordered by the House so long since as the 2nd of December 1867, are likely to be presented: and also when the Reports of the Factory Inspectors for October 31, 1868, will be laid before the House?
MR. BRUCEsaid, that the Returns mentioned in the first part of his hon. Friend's Question which had been so long delayed would, he was informed, be on the table of the House in about; three weeks; while the Reports of the Factory Inspectors would be produced in about a week.