HC Deb 06 February 1840 vol 51 cc1319-21
Mr. E. Tennent

moved for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the stage coaches running in Ireland.

Viscount Morpeth

intimated that the Government had no objection to this measure, and had intended to bring in a bill on the same subject.

Mr. Hume

observed, that the hon. Member opposite had not offered a syllable in explanation on behalf of his bill. The Secretary to the Irish Government had expressed his readiness to bring in a bill on the same subject, and why should not the measure of the hon. Member be handed over to the noble Lord, in order that the matter should receive due attention? He decidedly objected to the proceeding.

Sir R. Peel

said, that the subject was a very complicated one, but he saw no reason why his hon. Friend should not have leave to introduce his bill. The pre. sent was the third occasion in which the Ministers had, by their own avowals, been anticipated in their own measures, and he would only express a hope that his hon. Friend would continue in the same course.

Leave given.