§ MR. NEWDEGATEsaid, he wished to appeal to the indulgence of the House 699 to enable him to make a statement with reference to a Notice of Motion which stood in his name for that evening. It was for—
An Address for Copies and Translations of any Laws, Ordinances, or Regulations relating' to Monastic and Conventual Institutions connected with the Church of Rome, and to the inmates or members thereof, especially to the regular Orders of the Church of Rome, which may be enforced by the authority of the State, and are at present operative in France, in the German Empire, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the Russian Empire, in Italy, in Sweden and Norway, in Belgium, in Spain, and in Switzerland; and, of any projects of Law relating to these subjects that may have been proposed by the Governments, and are under the consideration of the Legislative Assemblies of the above States.He found that his hon. Friend the Member for Longford (Mr. O'Reilly) had put an Amendment upon the Paper, including with the Motion, Returns from several other countries. The Government had notified to him (Mr. Newdegate) that his Address was already objectionable, as likely to produce too voluminous a lie-turn, and he had endeavoured to communicate with the hon. Member to that effect, but found that he had left London. Under these circumstances, in compliance with what he believed to be the opinion of Mr. Speaker in such a case, he (Mr. Newdegate) proposed to defer the Motion until Tuesday, the 9th of June.