HC Deb 25 July 1867 vol 189 c86
MR. DENT

asked, Whether it was the intention of the Government to proceed with this Bill, seeing that it had been postponed so often?

LORD ROBERT MONTAGU

said, he hoped to go on with the Bill; it had been postponed once on account of the illness of the hon. Member for Reading; a second time on account of the absence of the hon. Member for Scarborough who put the Question; a third time, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of the right hon. Member for Oxfordshire; and a fourth time, in consequence of the absence of the hon. and learned Member for Cambridge University, pending his re-election.