§ MR. COBBasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to introduce in the present Session any measure dealing with the question of free education in elementary schools?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir LYON PLAYFAIR),in reply, said, that, Her Majesty's Government having issued a Royal Commission on the subject of elementary education in general, it was not the intention to deal with the separate and important question of free education until they knew the result of the labours of that Commission.