§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ MR. STUART-WORTLEYsaid, that, instead of moving that it be now read a third time, he would move that it be recommitted; and he hoped the Secretary to the Treasury would look favourably upon that proposal. He (Mr. Stuart-Wortley) would not ask the House to go further than to get the Bill into Committee, and then immediately report 2041 Progress. He was very anxious to get all the Amendments inserted.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed," That the Bill be re-committed."—(Mr. Stuart-Wortley.)
§ MR. COURTNEYsaid, he was rather unwilling to assent to this proposal. Nothing would be lost by deferring the Bill till to-morrow. It was absolutely necessary that all these Amendments should be put upon the Paper, so that they might be understood; and the Motion could be as well made to-morrow as to-night. He was not prepared, without seeing the Amendments, to commit himself to their principles.
§ MR. TOMLINSONsaid, that some of the Amendments were already on the Paper. He would suggest that the recommittal might take place with respect to them. It was quite an accident that the Bill had assumed its present shape. 2042 Some of the Amendments were certainly worthy of consideration.
§ MR. STUART-WORTLEYexpressed his willingness to postpone the Bill until to-morrow, on the understanding that the Secretary to the Treasury, if he could see his way to it, would then consent to the re-committal, and also to taking the last stage, of the Bill.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Third Reading deferred till To-morrow.