HC Deb 13 March 1883 vol 277 c374
MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Government will now undertake to grant a day for the discussion by this House of the proposed change in the Criminal Procedure of India, in view of the great and widespread opposition of the British population to that measure, and of the revolutionary language of the Native Press?

MR. GLADSTONE

Sir, I am afraid my answer to the hon. Gentleman must be in the negative. The facilities which he asks for mean public time, and public time I am not able to afford him.

In reply to Mr. E. STANHOPE,

MR. J. K. CROSS

said, that, so far as he knew, Lieutenant General Wilson had not written a Minute in opposition to the change of the law. The text of the Bill in question, with an account of the proceedings on its introduction, would be in the hands of Members in a very few days.