Rt. Hon. James Stuart Wortley.

"The present state of the law is fruitful of immorality and demoralization amongst the lower classes, and of suffering and cruel hardship to parents and to children in every class; and it will surely be admitted, that it is the duty of the legislature to apply some remedy to an evil which, as the Commissioners state, is not only already great in itself, but is daily increasing in magnitude."—Speech of Rt. Hon. James Stuart Wortley.