§ The House then went into Committee of Ways and Means.
§ The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, that the vote he was about to ask for, large as it might appear, was really only a pro formâ one. It was for the usual 8,558,700l. Exchequer-bills.
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Motion made—
That, towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty, the sum of 8,558,700l., be raised by Exchequer Bills for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
§ COLONEL SIBTHORPinquired what those millions were for? Was any part of the vote for the New Houses of Parliament, on which, as he had that evening been informed, 2,000,000l. had been spent already, and 1,500,000l. more was about to be expended? And what was the edifice after all? A piece of mere frippery and flummery, not fit to accommodate the Members of that House, and much more suitable in style for a harem than a place of meeting for a grave and important legislative body. Neither internally nor externally was it likely to contribute to the honour or the credit of the nation.
§ The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, he would not interfere with any purpose to which the hon. and gallant Member proposed to apply the New Houses of Parliament.
§ House resumed.
§ Resolution to be reported this day; Committee to sit again on Friday.
§ The House adjourned at One o'clock.