asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Whether it is the intention of the Government to bring in any Bill for the Registration of Firms?

, in reply, said, the question of the registration of firms was one which belonged rather to the Board of Trade than to the Home Department. He had however, communicated with his right hon. Friend the President of that Board, in reference to the subject, and could state it was not the intention of Her Majesty's Government to bring in a Bill upon the subject.