§ MR. T. DUNCOMBEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When he intends to lay upon the Table his Bill to amend the Corrupt Practices Act? He put this question more especially in relation to the case of the boroughs of Gloucester and Wakefield.
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, he apprehended it was quite competent for any Member to make a Motion respecting the issue of Writs for Wakefield and Glocester; the only impediment consisted in the Resolution agreed to by the House requiring a week's notice of any such Motion. As regarded the particular Bill to which the hon. Member referred, he had to state that the Parliamentary draughtsman of the Government was at present so much occupied with other business that he had been unable to take it in hand. He hoped, however, that it would soon be in his (Sir George Lewis's) power to ask leave to introduce it.