§ MR. MONKasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill to amend the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts during the present Session?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, a Committee which sat last Session reported that the Acts required amendment, but they did not at all indicate what amendment ought to be made. Their Report was under the serious consideration of Her Majesty's Government, and he hoped in a short time to be able to announce the decision at which they had arrived.