§ Order for Committee read; Motion made and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair."
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, that there were very objectionable clauses in the Bill, especially that making the agent responsible for the petitioner, which was an entirely new principle in the Law of England. The affidavit referred to in the Bill was not printed with it, and nobody could therefore express any opinion upon it. He should move that the House adjourn.
§ Motion made and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
§ Mr. ADDERLEYsaid, that he had adopted all the Amendments of the Attorney General, and the object of the Bill was now simply to impose double costs where a petition was withdrawn without leave of the House. He thought that a very harmless measure, considering the great evil it was directed against.
MR. FITZROYsaid, the Bill was by no means urgent, and it would be in ample time next Session, as all the matters it referred to were now passed and gone by.
§ Motion and Original Question, by leave, withdrawn: Committee deferred till Tomorrow.
§ House adjourned at Two o'clock.