HC Deb 23 June 1873 vol 216 c1250

In reply to Lord JOHN MANNERS,

MR. GLADSTONE

said, he did not intend to propose that the Orders of the Day should be postponed to allow the Motion of which Notice had been given by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Bouverie) to be brought on, for the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry with reference to this subject. As no Notice had been given of any opposition to the right hon. Gentleman's Motion, he had been under the impression that no objection would be offered to the names intended to be proposed by his right hon. Friend. If objection were taken to those names, of course the subject would not be brought on at a very late hour.