§ MR. NEWDEGATEI wished to put a Question to the Leader of the House of which I gave him Notice, but he has requested me to defer it. I therefore give Notice that I will ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is his intention, as Leader of the House, to propose any means by which this House may mark and record its sense of the great inconvenience to which it was yesterday and the day before put by the obstructive conduct of a very small minority—about one-fiftieth part of the Members in attendance? I will put the Question on any day which the right hon. Gentleman may indicate.
§ MR. PARNELLsaid, that after the Notice given by the hon. Member for North Warwickshire, he would on an early day ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, as Leader of the House, he intended to propose or adopt any method whereby the unprotected and independent Members of that House might be protected from the constant interruptions to which they were sub- 329 jected while endeavouring to address the Chair on the subject-matter before the House, and also whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer—in view of the practice which had lately been common of originating discussions on points of Order when Members were addressing themselves to the subject before the House—intended to adopt any means for preventing this practice?