, who had a Notice on the Paper to ask the Home Secretary, Whether he could give the House any information as to the progress made by the Ritual Commissioners, and when it was probable that their primary Report would be published? said, after the announcement made on Monday by the most rev. Prelate (the Archbishop of Canterbury) in "another place," it was unnecessary that he should ask the first part of that Question; but he hoped the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary would be able to assure the House that the primary Report of the Commission would be made public as soon as possible.

said, that in order that the Report might be printed as soon as possible, he had that day presented it informally to the House.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether a large increase of vagrancy had not taken place in the Metropolis?

admitted that the subject was worthy of attention, but he was not aware that a large increase of vagrancy had taken place in London, though undoubtedly there was a great amount of it existing there. There could be no doubt that the Houseless Poor Act gave encouragement to vagrancy of every kind, and that a great number of able-bodied men took advantage of it.