§ MR. SOTHERON ESTCOURTsaid, that he wished for the convenience of the House to put a question to the hon. Baronet the Member for Tavistock in regard to the Business of the House for Wednesday next, for which day the third reading of the Church Rate Abolition Bill was fixed. He wished to ask him Whether, in consequence of, and in deference to, the strong desire expressed in the House at the last stage of the Bill for some measure of compromise, and in order to give hon. Gentlemen who, in consequence of that desire, had been engaged for the last month in endeavouring to devise the terms of such "compromise, and who, he might say, had made considerable progress, he would not 468 consider it consistent with his public duty to postpone the third reading for a fortnight, in order to give an opportunity of completing a Bill to effect the object in view? If the hon. Member assented to that course he (Mr. Sotheron Esctourt) would undertake that in the course of that fortnight he would bring forward a Bill, agreed upon by those Gentlemen, and the particulars of which should be communicated to him. The hon. Baronet could then take whatever course he might think proper respecting it.
§ SIR JOHN TRELAWNYsaid, that he considered that any question coming from the right hon. Gentleman on such an occasion was entitled to consideration on the part of the House. There was undoubtedly a large body of Gentlemen in that House who considered, perhaps erroneously, that it was possible to carry out some compromise on that question. He was not sanguine about that being done, but at the same time he thought it right, out of respect to those hon. Gentlemen, that they should have time to consider every plan which they thought desirable to introduce. Under these circumstances he should take upon himself the responsibility, though he might be blamed for so doing, of assenting to the request of the right hon. Member, though he begged it to be understood that he did so purely out of deference to the wishes of the right hon. Gentleman and his friends.