§ MR. GLADSTONEinquired. when the Government intended to move the second reading of the Bill for guaranteeing a loan on behalf of Prince Edward Island? That Bill involved two important questions—the principle of guaranteeing loans for colonial purposes; and the peculiar form in which the arrangement in the present instance was proposed, a colonial Act having actually been passed for raising the loan in anticipation of a guarantee being given by the Imperial Parliament—and it was of the utmost consequence that the second reading should not be taken without a full discussion. He had moved for some information bearing on those colonial guarantees, which was not yet supplied to the House, but he hoped that it would be produced before the House was called on to assent to the second reading of the Bill.
§ SIR BULWER LYTTONsaid, that having been so short a time in office, he had been unable yet to come to a decision upon the Bill; but if the right hon. Gentleman would repeat his question on Monday, he would then give an answer.