§ MR. DALRYMPLEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Bill promised in Her Majesty's most gracious Speech, for the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers, will be extended to Scotland as well as to England; or whether he will bring forward a measure of the same kind for Scotland?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the Government had already issued a Royal Commission to inquire specially into the pollution of the Clyde and its tributaries, but whether they would be able to bring in a Bill relating to Scotland until that Commission had reported, or to extend the Bill for England to Scotland, was under the consideration of the Government. He should be happy to give an answer to the Question after Easter.