§ SIR JOHN SHELLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he thought it was right that the Bill for the reform of the Corporation should be brought forward at this period of the Session? Under the circumstances, he wished to ask the right hon. Gentleman if he intends to proceed with a measure which must call up much opposition?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, he could 1203 only state that he had been led to understand that there would he no general opposition to the Bill. His present wish was to fix a day for the second reading of the Bill.