§ Order for Committee read.
§ MR. W. SOMERVILLE moved, that the House go into Committee on this Bill.
§ MR. REYNOLDShoped, that at that late hour the right hon. Gentleman would not proceed with the Bill.
§ SIR W. SOMERVILLEsaid, he had that day postponed the Bill to suit the convenience of the right hon. Gentleman, on the understanding that no opposition would be offered to its being proceeded with after the other Orders of the Day.
§ MR. REYNOLDSsaid, it was true he had given his reluctant consent to that arrangement, but he did not expect that the Motion would come on so late as two o'clock in the morning. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Solicitor General for Ireland had on a former occasion stated that this Bill was the result of a compact; but he (Mr. Reynolds) denied that any compact whatever had been entered into with his constituents. The hon. and learned Gentleman, at the same time, took the opportunity of sneering at his (Mr. Reynolds') constituents, and of remarking that he (Mr. Reynolds) had said that he was the representative of the respectable electors of the city of Dublin; or that, at least, he (Mr. Reynolds) thought so. Well, he did think so; and he thought so still. And he would take the opportunity of telling the hon. and learned Gentleman, that his (the Solicitor General's) superior in office (the Attorney General for Ireland) was the first man who recorded his vote in his (Mr. Reynolds') favour at his election. He had not the honour of being acquainted with that hon. and learned Gentleman, but he begged to say that he had been elected by a large majority of the citizens of Dublin, among whom he had lived during the whole of his life, and that he had not been compelled to seek a seat in an English rotten borough.
§ House resumed.
§ Bill reported, without amendment.
§ House adjourned at half-after Two o'clock.