Mr. Powellbegged leave to ask the noble Secretary for Ireland whether it was in the contemplation of the Government to introduce a bill for the purpose of remedying the technical defects of the Irish Municipal Reform Act. These defects had been productive of great practical inconvenience.
§ Lord Eliotwould take that opportunity of expressing a hope that any hon. Gentleman who might be desirous of putting questions to the Government of a nature similar to that which the hon. Member had asked would, in the first place, give previous notice of his intention. He did not wish to enter at that moment into the subject to which the hon. Member had alluded, and, as he had not the honour of a seat in the Cabinet, he was the less able to intimate the intention of her Majesty's Ministers. He was, however, convinced that if any practical grievances were pointed out, the Government would be anxious to apply a remedy as speedily as possible. As to the particular question which the hon. Gentleman had put to him, he was not aware that her Majesty's Ministers had any measure in contemplation on the subject.
Mr. Powelldid not wish to press any question improperly upon the noble Lord. He would give notice, however, that he would to-morrow renew his question on this subject.