§ MR. DALRYMPLEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to a memorial signed by nine hundred medical practitioners, published in a recent number of the "Lancet," setting forth the evils resulting in their opinion, especially to women, from the purchase under the guise of necessaries of spirituous liquors from licensed grocers; and, 1522 whether he will bring that memorial under the notice of the Commission about to take evidence on that subject?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSMy attention was not called to this matter until the Notice of the hon. Member appeared on the Paper; but I made inquiries this morning, and I do not find that any memorial has been presented at the Secretary of State's Department. The Lord Advocate is about to nominate the Commission to take evidence, and if the memorial in question comes before me or the Lord Advocate, it will receive full consideration.