§ The Chancellor of the Exchequer,on withdrawing the Joint Stock Banks (Scotland and Ireland) Bill, stated that he should bring forward a general measure on the subject next Sesson, for the purpose of rendering joint-stock banks in Scotland and Ireland subject to the re- 1340 gulations of similar banks in this country under the provisions of the Bill of last year, and wished, at the same time, to give notice to those joint-stock banks which might be established between the end of the present Session and the beginning of the next, that they would be included in the operation of that measure. He gave this notice in order that parties might not be taken by surprise
§ Bill postponed three months.
§ House adjourned at eight o'clock.