§ MR. DILLWYNasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, What was likely to be the first Order on Wednesday?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERProbably, Supply—the Educational Votes—but it is rather difficult to say at this stage. The East India Loan (£5,000,000) Bill will be taken at a convenient time.
§ MR. CHILDERSunderstood that the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed on Thursday to make a statement as to the financial arrangements in connection with the Vote for the Zulu War, and asked, Whether the right hon. Gentleman would lay on the Table a day or two before Thursday the Estimate for that war, so that Members might have an opportunity of considering it before the Vote came to be discussed?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI am not quite sure that it would be the most convenient course to lay the Estimate on the Table before Thursday. There will, of course, be plenty of opportunities for discussing it after I move the Vote. I propose, tomorrow, to take, as the first Order of the Day, the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Banking and Joint Stock Companies Bill, and later in the evening to take a Vote in Supply to pay off the Exchequer Bonds, which will be maturing during the autumn. On Thursday, I propose, in Committee of Ways and Means, to move Resolutions authorizing the Treasury to borrow the £2,000,000 in Consols which is to be advanced to India, and to borrow also the money required, for paying off the Bonds. On that evening I will lay on the Table the Estimate for the expenses of the Zulu War, and explain what the position of the question is, and I think that possibly 1416 it will be more convenient that serious debate on the subject should be reserved for a later day.
§ MR. CHILDERSThen the House will not be asked on Thursday to Vote the expense of the Zulu War, either in form or in substance?