MR. GATHORNE HARDY, who had a Notice on the Paper, to ask the honourable Member for Barnstaple, Whether, having charged the authorities of Oxford with "gross and wilful neglect" to the sanitary condition of that place, he will at once place upon the Paper the Resolution which he proposes to move, that they may become acquinted with the specific charge made against them, said, that as he understood that that hon. Member had withdrawn his Notice, he (Mr. Hardy) did not think it necessary to put to him the Question he had placed on the Paper.
§ MR. T. CAVEsaid, he was almost sorry that the right hon. Gentleman had 256 withdrawn his Question, especially as there was another immediately following it to be put by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for the City of Oxford (Sir William Harcourt) relating to the same subject. Immediately on the appearance of his (Mr. T. Cave's) Notice of Motion, he received so many communications from various parties interested in the City of Oxford, and especially from one of the authorities of one of the principal Colleges, that he thought it his duty to make a fuller investigation into the matters referred to in that Notice of Motion before bringing it under the consideration of the House, and in consequence of that he had removed it from the Paper under the best advice he could obtain in that House. He hoped at an early day to be able to state to the right hon. Gentleman on what day and in what mode he would bring the subject before the House.