§ MR.CHILDERSasked, When, and to what extent, it was intended to proceed with the Banking and Joint Stock Companies Bill?
§ MR. ANDERSONsuggested that a little more general information as to the Business of the week should be given; and he particularly wished to know, Whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to proceed with his Resolutions on the Business of the House?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, if the Banking and Joint Stock Companies Bill were not reached that night, it would be taken as the First Order to-morrow (Tuesday). The Government proposed to go on in Committee with the 1st clause, which gave power to unlimited banks to change themselves into limited ones. The next provision related to reserve liability, and he should submit that to the judgment of the Committee, in the hope that they would take a favourable view of it; but he believed the substantial point would be to pass the 1st clause.