§ MR. H. GARDNER (Essex, Saffron Walden)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he will present to the House, before going into Commmittee on the Local Government Bill, a Return showing the Electoral Divisions, County Districts, Licensing Divisions, and particulars respecting all the other Divisions into which Lancashire will be distributed if the Bill passes in its present shape, and showing the areas, divisions, localities, and populations; and, whether he will consent to a similar Return in the case of Devonshire?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's), in reply, said, that, looking to the fact that the County Councils had to settle the matter, and not the Local Government Board, it would be obvious that it was impossible 1241 for him to give a sketch model of any value whatever. The Electoral Divisions, except in the case of boroughs, would be determined by the Court of Quarter Sessions, and the Licensing Divisions would depend upon the Electoral Divisions.