§ LIEUT.-GENERAL LAURIEI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade when it is probable the Committee at present inquiring into the Mercantile Marine Fund will make their Report, so that the question whether some improvement should not be made in the position of lighthouse-keepers may be decided by the Board of Trade?
§ MR. RITCHIEI have every hope that the Committee at present inquiring into the Mercantile Marine Fund will be in a position to make its Report at no distant date. Further consideration of the draft Report will take place when an elaborate Return, which is being prepared by the Trinity House, is received.