§ Mr. Scarlettbegged before the business was proceeded with any further to call the attention of the House to a circumstance of unusual occurrence, and which in his opinion, demanded immediate attention. It was as the House knew, the custom every morning to send round printed papers to the Members containing the business of the preceding day, as well as the notices of motions that were to come on. He held in his hand two separate printed papers of that description, each signed by the Speaker, each purporting to be the votes of the preceding evening, one of which contained two more notices of motions than the other, there being eighteen notices in one, and twenty in the second. He begged to draw the attention of the House to this circumstance, and to ask the right hon. Gentleman in the Chair which of them he was to consider as the authentic paper containing the votes. His reason for pressing the question at that moment was because he observed in one of the papers of votes a notice of motion respecting the divisions of the House by the hon. Member for St. Alban's, which he did not understand had been given by him.
§ The Speakerobserved, that as far as he was concerned the circumstance to which the hon. Member alluded arose from the two notices contained in the paper of votes of twenty were given at so late a period of the evening that he did not clearly understand until afterwards that they had been given, and the consequence was that a second paper of votes was 1192 printed and circulated in order to correct this error.