§ Order for Committee read.
MR. HEADLAM, before moving that the Order for the Committee upon this Bill be discharged, wished to say a few words in explanation. After the House had assented to the second reading of the Bill, it became the duty of those who were charged with the conduct of it, to consider whether there was any prospect of being able to pass it during the present Session. It appeared to them that it would be useless to proceed at present. He wished, however, to call the attention of the Government to this important and difficult subject, and as the House had by a considerable majority sanctioned the measure he had introduced, he thought it would be the duty of the Government to bring in a Bill based upon the same principles. Should they do so, he undertook to give it his most earnest support; but if they should not do so, or should seek to legislate in the spirit of their recent Bill, he should offer his most strenuous opposition. With these remarks, he should now move, that the Order for the Committee be discharged.
§ Order discharged.
§ Bill withdrawn.