§ MR. HANKEYwished to know when the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department intended to proceed with the Bill for the reform of the Corporation of London?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYSir, there are two reasons that have prevented me from asking for leave to introduce this Bill. The first is that I have recently received a communication from the Lord Mayor, informing me that certain resolutions connected with the subject were under the consideration of the Court of Common Council, which he was anxious I should see before my Bill was introduced. I requested that he would transmit them to me as early as possible, and I received them yesterday. Independently of this, the state of public business affords no prospect that we shall be able to proceed with this Bill for several weeks, and there has therefore been no delay. 836 It is my intention, however, to take the earliest opportunity of asking for leave to bring in a Bill after I have considered these resolutions.