§ COLONEL WILSON PATTENsaid, he had given notice of his intention, on going into Committee of Supply, to call attention 1128 to the distress existing in Lancashire connected with the cotton manufacture. He wished, however, to state that he had been requested by his right hon. Friend the President of the Poor Law Board to put off his Motion till Monday. He had promised to do so, but on coming down to the House he found that Supply did not stand first on the paper. Another subject preceded it, which would likely occupy the greater part of the evening. He therefore wished to know if the Government would give him another early opportunity of bringing forward his Motion? He had not been aware, when he acceded to the request of the President of the Poor Law Board, that an arrangement had been made to take the education question first on Monday night, and he could not depart from the understanding with his right hon. Friend, who was now absent, without a breach of good faith.