§ MR. NEWDEGATEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he rightly understood him on Friday last, when proposing Resolutions which the House had adopted, that it was his in- 227 tention to propose Resolutions on the same subject, and to move for a Committee of the House early next Session?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, he had been rightly understood. What he said was that it was the intention of the Government in the Recess to examine carefully the different recommendations that had been made by Select Committees which had sat upon the subject of Public Business, and to consider the whole question preparatory to initiating some scheme which would be submitted to a Select Committee early next Session. The Committee would not be bound by the scheme that might be submitted to it, but would undertake a general survey of the whole question.
§ MR. WHALLEYafter this statement would not bring on his Resolution on this subject.