§ MR. MELLYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will give the names of "the one or two parishes" beyond the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Work for which he proposes to fix half-past twelve as the closing hour for licensed houses instead 482 of eleven p.m. the hour at which they are now closed?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, the only difficulty about the matter was of a technical character connected with some change that had taken place with regard to the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The only parish which Her Majesty's Government wished to include, and which was not included, was that of West Ham