§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether he will now fulfil the promise he made at an early period of the Session to bring in the Clauses of the Merchant Shipping Bill, which relate to the safety of life and property at sea, as a separate measure, in the event of the state of Public Business making it unlikely that there will be time for the proper discussion of the whole of that Bill?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUEsaid, he could assure the right hon. Baronet that he had not forgotten the pledge he had given to the House on the occasion referred to; but he was still in hopes he might be enabled to proceed with the whole Bill. Certainly that period of the Session had not yet arrived which would make it necessary for him to separate the clauses relating to the safety of life and property at sea from the general Bill.