MR. OSBORNE MORGANasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether he can state when the Royal Courts of Justice, at present in course of erection between Carey Street and the Strand, will be sufficiently completed to admit of judicial business being transacted therein?
§ MR. GERARD NOELAccording to the contract, the Royal Courts of Justice should be completed by the end of the present year. Unfortunately, on account of the strike in the building trade and the protracted frosts of the two last years, the work has been considerably delayed; but rapid progress is now being made, and I hope before the end of the year 1881 the Courts will be sufficiently advanced to admit of judicial business being transacted therein.