§ MR. HOLLAND (Salford, N.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in view of the exceptional circumstances of the present Session, Her Majesty's Government will consider the possibility of proposing a Resolution carrying over until next Session such Bills as still remain on the Order Book and have been read a second time by large majorities after full debate?
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEI cannot hold out to my hon. Friend any hope that we shall be able to adopt the measure to which he points. No doubt it is a great pity that the labour of this House should appear to be wasted, but I think if any Bill ought to be made the subject of exceptional treatment it should be a Bill mentioned in the Speech from the Throne. But we have already renounced that claim for those Bills, and, I think, with the approval of the House; and that being so, it would hardly be consistent to put it forward with regard to private Members' Bills.