LORD NAASsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government will give a day for the discussion on the Superannuation Act Amendment, and whether the noble Lord 1568 will allow the Second Reading to be taken pro formâ to-night, and the discussion to take place in Committee at a morning sitting. He believed that such an arrangement would be productive of considerable convenience.
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, that it was impossible to assent to the proposition to read a second time, as a matter of form, a Bill, the principle of which must be discussed, more especially as he was not prepared to agree to the Bill of the noble Lord. He might, perhaps, be able to give the noble Lord a morning sitting, when the more urgent business at present before the House should be disposed of, but he could not, in the existing state of business, consent to postpone any Government measure to make way for it.
LORD NAASsaid, that under those circumstances no other course was open to him than to move the second reading of the Bill that night, and he gave notice that he should do so at whatever hour it might come on.