HC Deb 13 July 1864 vol 176 cc1434-5

Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [22nd June], "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."

Question again proposed.

Debate resumed.

MR. AYRTON

said, he was aware of the difficulty there would be in proceeding with this Bill, but he thought the House ought to have some distinct statement of the intentions of the Government.

MR. SCLATER-BOOTH

said, this was a subject that the Government ought to take up. For fifty years past the system in Jersey had been condemned, and he contended that the Government ought to make this an Imperial question, and not leave it in the hands of a private Member.

MR. T. G. BARING

, on the part of the Government, said, he could assure the hon. Gentleman that the attention of the Secretary of State would be seriously given to the subject.

MR. LOCKE

said, that on that understanding he was willing not to press the Bill, but he hoped that the Government would do more than consider the subject, and that in the next Session they would be prepared to deal practically with it.

MR. SOTHERON ESTCOURT

thought it was desirable that the States of Jersey should themselves take up the question, and he hoped that they would do so before next Session.

Motion, by leave, withdrawn.

Bill withdrawn.