§ PUBLIC BILLS.—2o Fortifications (Provision for Expenses); Consolidated Fund (£10,000,000); Conjugal Rights (Scotland). 3o Industrial Schools Act (1857) Amendment.
§ Order for Committee (Supply) read.
§ MR. LAING,in moving that the House go into Committee of Supply, appealed to hon. Members who had Motions on the Paper to postpone them till the evening sitting. It was now the 9th of August, and it would take ten days after all the Votes of Supply were agreed to before the Session could terminate. There were still 200 Votes in Supply to be considered, and "business would be greatly facilitated if the morning sittings were devoted to the discussion of the Votes themselves.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed,—
§ "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."