THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, he proposed formally to move his Resolution that night relating to the charging to the Revenues of India the cost of the transport of Indian troops to Egypt, with the object of the debate being immediately adjourned, the Motion be made an Order of the Day, and be placed first or second on the list of Orders of the Day, or, as his right hon. Friend suggested, immediately after the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill. That would be the most convenient course to adopt.
§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEpresumed that those who had Notices of opposition to the Resolution would not lose their power of bringing them forward. The only thing to be desired was that the Resolution should occupy an early place on the Orders, and should not be brought forward at an inconvenient hour.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked whether the Resolution would come within the terms of the Rule exempting Money Bills from the operation of the Half-past 12 Rule?
§ MR. SPEAKERIt appears to me that the Resolution would not come within the operation of that Rule, and might be brought forward after half-past 12 o'clock.
§ MR. O'DONNELLgave Notice that to-morrow he would ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he had seen a telegram in one of the daily papers stating that a body of British troops, on the ground of searching for supposed plunder, blew up with gunpowder a house in a village in which a number of women and children had taken refuge; and whether such proceedings were approved by the Government, or any steps would be taken to prevent the recurrence of such an outrage?