§ CAPTAIN NORTONIn view of the great interest taken in the Port of London Bill may I ask whether the Government still have hopes of getting that Bill through during the present session?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI had hoped that the discussion on the Scotch Education Bill would have been shorter and that the Port of London Bill would have come on this week; but I am afraid there is now no chance of its being taken this week, or next week, or, so far as I can see, for some little time to come; but I should hope the House would find it in its power to pass a Bill on which so much money has been spent and which there is so great a desire to see passed into law.
§ CAPTAIN NORTONMay we take it that the right hon. Gentleman still hopes to pass the Bill this session?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURYes. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."