§ SIR EDWARD BULLERsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, When he proposes to introduce the Bill for the amendment of the Law relating to the Registration of Electors in Counties and Boroughs in England and Wales?
§ MR. DISRAELIreplied that he regretted he had neglected to communicate privately with the hon. Baronet, as it had been his intention to ask him for some explanation of his Question. He was not under any obligation that he could recall to introduce a Bill relating to the Registration of Electors in England and Wales; and he believed that if the Boundary Bill were passed at the period he at present thought quite practicable, all that was requisite for the proper registration of electors in England and Wales would be provided for in that measure and the Bill of last year. He did not attach any definite idea to the Question of the hon. Baronet; he must, therefore, excuse him from answering, and not set it down to any want of courtesy.
§ SIR EDWARD BULLERsaid, he had certainly been under the impression that a Bill was to have been introduced for the express purpose of calling upon certain officers in parishes and boroughs to put upon the registration those persons who, in their lists, stood entitled to the possession of the franchise.