§ MR. E. STANHOPEasked the Chairman of Ways and Means, Whether, as Tuesday next is the only day during the past two years when any opportunity has been found to discuss any matters relating to India, except on the day of the Budget Statement at the end of August, he will postpone the Motion which stands in his name, at the time of Private Business, to some other day?
§ THE CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (Sir ARTHUR OTWAY), in reply, said, he fully recognized the importance of the subject to which the hon. Gentleman had referred in his Question; but he had also received a letter from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Montrose (Mr. Baxter), who was Chairman of the Committee appointed by the House last year to examine into the matters which were regulated by Standing Order 167, informing him that he had been suddenly summoned to Scotland, and would be unable to attend to-morrow to take part in the discussion of his (Sir Arthur Otway's) Notice of Motion. Under these circumstances, he would postpone the Motion till another day.