§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEI wish to put a Question with regard to the course of Business; and it is after what hour the second Order—the adjourned debate on Business of the House (Putting the Question)—will not be taken?
MR. GLADSTONEI had purposed giving an engagement not to bring it on after half-past 10; but, looking at the nature of the Votes to be taken in Supply, I think, upon the whole, it is hardly worth while to trouble the House by keeping the Order on the Paper, and I will put it off till to-morrow.
§ SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOTsaid, there would be a discussion on going into Committee on the Rivers Conservancy and Floods Prevention Bill; and it was, therefore, desirable that the Order should come on at a time when the subject could be properly discussed.
MB. GLADSTONEsaid, that, without promising that the Bill should be put down as the first Order, he might give a general assurance that the Motion to go into Committee should not be made at an inconvenient hour for any discussion that was likely to arise.