§ SIR ROBERT PRICEbegged to ask the right hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in case of Private Bills being prevented from passing the House of Commons by an early dissolution of Parliament, any steps will be taken to facilitate their being passed in the next Parliament, so that the great expense incurred in respect to them, up to their present stages, may not be thrown away?
§ The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERwas sure the hon. Baronet must, on reflection, feel that it was not in the 244 power of the present Parliament to take any steps to facilitate the progress of Private Bills in the next Parliament. That indulgence it would be in the power of the next Parliament to afford, and he believed that in 1831 that indulgence was afforded by the new Parliament. But the hon. Baronet must feel that there must be circumstances of grave and pressing necessity to justify the new Parliament in taking that course. The new Parliament would decide on the question of the existence of such a necessity as would call on them to come to such a decision. He must remind the hon. Baronet that no resolution of the present House would be binding on its successor.