§ MR. G. R. ROBINSONasked the President of the Board of Trade if he intended to lay his resolution on the subject of the Navigation Laws upon the table of the House, before proposing that the House should go into Committee thereon?
§ MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, the hon. Member would probably recollect that some 497 discussion took place upon this very subject last year, when he stated the reason why he thought it would be inexpedient that the resolution should be laid upon the table of the House before it went into Committee. The obvious consequence would be that a debate would ensue before the Speaker left the chair. Believing, then, that it would be more convenient for the debate to take place in Committee, he must decline, as he did last year, putting the House in possession of the resolution until he had made his explanation in a Committee of the whole House.