§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether, looking to the excitement which at present prevails in the Metropolis on the subject of the price of Gas, there is any objection to printing the accounts of the Metropolitan Gas Companies for the year 1872 at once instead of at the end of the Session of Parliament?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUEI am not able, Sir, at once to have the accounts of the Metropolitan Gas Companies printed, because they have not yet been received, the meetings of the companies not having been held; but I believe they will soon be presented, and that I shall be able to lay the Return before Parliament at an earlier period than usual.