Lord Stanleysaid, he would take the present opportunity of redeeming the pledge he had given on a former evening—that within a sufficient time of the period for which his bill for registration of voters in Ireland stood fixed, he would state to the House the course which he intended to pursue respecting it. He had given the matter the fullest consideration in every point of view, and, as his only object was to proceed with the bill in that way which he thought most likely to conduce to its becoming the law of the land, and looking at the small majority by which the House had affirmed the principle of the bill of his noble Friend the Secretary for Ireland, he would now, with leave of the House, move, that the order of the day for which his bill now stood be discharged, for the purpose of fixing it for the 28th of April, in the full understanding and confidence that the Government would adhere to its declared intention of proceeding to the full discussion of its own bill on the 23d of April, for which they had fixed it.
§ Order of the Day for the second reading of the bill discharged, and fixed for the 28th of April.