§ MR. ALLISON (Cumberland, Eskdale)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether, having regard to the fact that, on Wednesday last, a measure of great importance, on which a large number of honourable Members have given pledges to their constituents, was talked out, he will consider the propriety, without waiting for the appointment of a Committee on Procedure, of proposing some alteration of the Rules of Debate on Wednesday which will secure the judgment of the House being taken in the future?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE) (Edinburgh, Mid Lothian)I very much regret what happened on Wednesday last; but, at the same time, I do not think it would be possible to interrupt the Business of the House for the purpose of submitting to it a fractional part of the great and important 826 question of Procedure; and I think it would be embarrassing to the Committee if we were to take out of their hands any portion of that great question.