§ MR. BROADHURSTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can inform the House of the date of the meeting of the proposed International Congress on the hours of labour?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir J. Fergusson, Manchester, N.E.)The Swiss Government have proposed that the meeting of this Conference shall be postponed until the spring of next year, but they have not yet specified the date when they propose that it shall assemble.
§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)Will it be possible to lay on the Table of the House before we separate the Return ordered some time ago upon this question as to the regulation of hours of labour by law in European countries?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONI do not know whether the correspondence is complete, but I will make inquiry. We have received a great many answers.