HC Deb 27 February 1871 vol 204 cc933-4
MR. MONK

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When he proposes to bring in the general measure on the Laws of Marriage, which he informed the House in the Session of 1869, that he would introduce at the earliest possible moment?

MR. BRUCE

begged to inform the hon. Member that what he had stated in 1869 was that he could not, on the part of the Government, undertake to introduce a Bill on this subject in 1870; and he now begged to state that he could not, on the part of the Government, undertake to introduce a Bill on the subject during the present Session.