§ MR. WILSONsaid, for the convenience of the House it was thought desirable that the Motion of the hon. and learned Member for Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck) should take precedence of the Orders of the Day to-morrow, and he had been required by the noble Lord at the head of the Government to move that the Orders of the Day for to-morrow be postponed till after all Notices of Motion, in order that the Motion for the nomination of a Select Committee to inquire into the state of the army before Sebastopol might be brought on at an early period of the evening.
§ MR. DISRAELIsaid, he wished to know whether he was to understand that the noble Lord at the head of the Government intended to make a statement before the Motion of the hon. and learned Member for Sheffield was brought on?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, he thought it was very desirable that the explanations of the right hon. Gentlemen who had recently withdrawn from the Government should take place, and a decision on the Motion for the nomination of the Committee to inquire into the state of the army before Sebastopol be come to before the House went into Committee on the Army Estimates. With that view, his hon. Friend (Mr. Wilson) had moved that the Notices of Motion should take precedence 1737 of Orders of the Day for to-morrow. This would give his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sheffield an opportunity to bring forward his Motion, at which time the explanations of those right hon. Gentlemen to whom he had referred would be given.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ The House adjourned at half after Five o'clock.