§ MR. GRIEVEasked the President of the Board of Trade, If it is his intention this Session to introduce a Bill to amend the Laws relating to unjust Weights and Measures, which he had to abandon last Session for want of time to carry it through?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, in reply, said, the hon. Member was under a misapprehension in supposing that any Bill on the subject of weights and measures was introduced last Session. No such Bill was introduced. A Bill was to a considerable extent prepared; but it was a Bill of a detailed character, which might occupy a considerable time; and, therefore, he was not yet in a position to say whether it was possible to introduce it during the present Session. He hoped it might be possible.