HC Deb 21 April 1845 vol 79 cc1095-6
Sir J. Graham

said he intended to make certain alterations in the Physic and Surgery Bill, which then stood for its Second Reading, but he was not prepared to state what they were, arrangements being still pending with regard to them. Considering the state of the Session, he wished to make some progress with the Bill, and, though he did not think it right to press the second reading of either the Physic and Surgery Bill or of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons Bill that night, he proposed to fix the second reading positively for Friday next; and he trusted that then the House would allow him to take the second reading of the two Bills. On a subsequent night he should propose to go into Committee pro formâ, in order that he might introduce into the Bills all the alterations and amendments which he had in contemplation. He should next move, on an early day after the Whitsuntide holidays, that the House should go again into Committee, for the purpose of discussing the details of the Bills.

Mr. Wakley

said, that until the alterations were made, they did not know what they had to discuss. There was much anxiety felt on this subject, in consequence of the profession considering that there was a great disagreement between the speech made by the right hon. Gentleman and the Bill he introduced. I They did not consider that the right hon. Gentleman had carried out his own views in his own Bill; and one of his correspondents had suggested that perhaps the right hon. Gentleman, in taking out a Bill from one of his official pigeonholes, had hit upon a wrong Bill. He understood the right hon. Gentleman to say that before Whitsuntide he would go into Committee upon the Bills pro formâ, and that then he would have them printed, so that they might be in a perfect state in the hands of the profession. If the profession had an opportunity of considering them for a fortnight or three weeks after the alterations were made, he (Mr. Wakley) should have no objection to this arrangement.

Bills postponed.

House adjourned at twelve o'clock.