§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)asked, Whether the First Lord of the Treasury intended to proceed to-night with his Motion for a Select Committee to examine into the Army and Navy Estimates, and to report their observations thereon to the House?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster), in reply, said, he had certainly hoped that the House would have accepted this Motion without debate. In the circumstances, it would not be in his power to proceed with it to-night. It was his intention to have made the Motion, in fulfilment of an engagement he made to the House; but it was not expected that a debate would arise upon it, seeing that full powers would be possessed by the Committee under the terms of the Motion.