§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury when Class 7 of the Estimates will be printed, and also why the Estimates were not all printed and presented together, in order that Members may be aware what business may be expected to come on during the Session?
§ MR. LAINGsaid, he hoped that Class 7 of the Estimates would be in the hands of Members on Wednesday next. The reason why all the Estimates are not printed together appeared to him to be obvious. Some of the Miscellaneous Estimates, for example, embraced subjects of great variety, and involved matters of general detail. Those were necessarily kept back to the latest moment for consideration, and perhaps alteration. It would be a waste of valuable time if they delayed proceeding with one class of Estimates until the whole were ready.