§ MR. BOVILLsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, in the Bill for repealing the Paper Duty, in order to avoid injury to Printers, from the probable stagnation of their trade during the next five months, the Government will consent to allow them a drawback of the Duty on their stock of Paper purchased and printed after the passing of the Bill, and remaining in sheets unbound at the time it was proposed that the duty shall cease, or whether the Government will consent to the Duty being repealed at a date earlier than the 15th day of August next? Unless that were done, he said, the necessary effect would be to suspend the operations of printers and publishers until the duty was abolished.
§ MR. SPEAKERobserved, that the question stood for discussion that evening on a distinct Motion, and it was not in order, on the Motion for Adjournment, to anticipate a Motion which was set down for discussion the same evening.
§ MR. BOVILLsaid, that in that case he would ask the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to state whether the Bill is to come on to-night?
§ MR. SPEAKERI must repeat that the discussion on a subject which is spe- 1167 cifically to come before the House, cannot with propriety be anticipated on the Motion for Adjournment.