§ SIR ALEXANDER GORDONasked the Lord Advocate, Whether it is the intention of the Government to take any action on the Report of the committee appointed last year to inquire into the question of the Herring Fisheries?
THE LORD ADVOCATE, in reply, said, it was not intended to take any action on the Report, the results arrived at being that the Commissioners were generally against legislation, and those points on which legislation was suggested by them were either of themselves so unimportant, or involved so much of what was controversial—at least, in Scotland it was controversial—that it was not intended to take any action in the matter.