HC Deb 14 August 1857 vol 147 cc1704-5

Order for Committee read. Motion made and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."

MR. ROEBUCK

objected to the House going into Committee upon this Bill owing to the lateness of the hour (twenty minutes past one).

Motion made and Question proposed, "That the Debate be now adjourned."

SIR ERSKINE PERRY

said, that the hon. and learned Member had already given in his adhesion to the principle of the Bill, and he was not acting fairly in opposing the Bill going into Committee.

MR. BERNAL OSBORNE

said, he thought the House was much indebted to the hon. and learned Member for having watched the progress of the measure through the House, as it was a most mischievous Bill whatever may have been the motives of those who introduced it.

SIR GEORGE GREY

thought the Bill should not be proceeded with at that hour of the morning.

MR. MALINS

said, the Bill was not new to the House if it was new to the Secretary of the Admiralty. The Secretary of State for the Home Department had given it his full approval, and yet the hon. Gentleman had come down and designated it as a mischievous measure.

Original Question and Motion by leave withdrawn. Committee deferred till Wednesday next.

House adjourned at Two o'clock.