§ MR. BEITHI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has received a resolution from the Trades Council of Inverness in favour of placing laundries, in which women are employed, under the Factories Act; and if he has yet seen his way to include laundries within the provisions of this Act?
§ MR. H. GLADSTONEI have received this resolution and many others of a similar character. The Inspectors of Factories have received instructions to make special inquiries all over the Kingdom into this question. It is, of course, impossible to legislate on the subject this year.