§ MR. COLLINSsaid, he begged to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if Her Majesty's Government intended to bring in a Bill with reference to savings banks, or to appoint a Select Committee to con- 460 sider the whole subject, including the appropriation of savings-bank securities for purposes other than those required for answering the drafts of the trustees of such institutions?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, in reply to the question of the hon. Member, I beg to say that it is not my intention to ask leave this Session to bring in a Bill upon the subject of savings banks, but it is my intention, unless I find the House should offer any objection to that course, to move after the holidays, that the whole question of savings banks,—including the appropriation of savings-banks securities, adverted to by the hon. Member—shall be referred to a Select Committee. I will therefore take an opportunity of moving that the law relating to savings banks be referred to a Select Committee.