§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the 1484 Treasury, For how long a time the money proposed to be taken on account for Civil Services will enable the Public Service to be carried on, and whether he can name a day when the Miscellaneous Estimates will be proceeded with?
MR. PEELsaid, that the sum proposed to be taken on account would not be sufficient to pay more than the salaries and pensions which would fall due at the expiration of the current quarter, and to meet other demands which would probably be made in the course of the first week in July. Not having been able to see his noble Friend at the head of the Government since the hon. Baronet gave him notice of his question, he could not name a day on which the Miscellaneous Estimates would be taken, but as the money to be taken on account would not be applied to defray the cost of any of the services which were included in Class I., and as it was extremely desirable that the authority of the House should be given to the execution of the works comprised in the Votes of that class, he thought it important that the Miscellaneous Estimates should be proceeded with on as early a day as possible.