§ Mr. Rigby Wasonproposed a resolution, that the system which permits Members of the House of Commons to vote in Committees on private Bills, without having heard the whole of the evidence adduced, is inconsistent with the first principles of justice, and ought to be altered.
The Chancellor of the Exchequorthought that the system relative to private Bills should be altered, but he did not think that the course proposed by his hon. Friend would answer: on the coutrary, if carried out, it would interrupt the whole proceedings of Parliament.
§ Mr. Humesuggested to the hon. Member to withdraw the motion, as it merged in the question of the formation of private Committees, which must soon be brought before the House.
§ Mr. Aglionbyhoped the hon. Member would postpone the motion for the present and trusted that the Government would take up the subject, and introduce some general measure.
§ Motion withdrawn.