§ MR. M'LAREN (for Sir ROBERT ANSTRUTHER)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will state the nature and extent of the inquiry which he has intimated that he intends to institute regarding grocers' licences in Scotland; also when and where the Commission will sit?
THE LORD ADVOCATE,in reply, said, that the Commission would be issued without delay—at least without any further delay than was necessary for the purpose of communicating with those gentlemen whom it was proposed to make members of the Commission. The terms of the Order of Reference to the Commission had not yet been adjusted; but he might say generally that they would embrace all those matters connected with grocers' licences which had been put forward in the recent discussion of the Bill of the hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Anstruther). As to the places where the Commission would sit, he thought that was a very proper matter for the Commissioners themselves to determine in the course of their inquiry.