§ MR. WILLIAM ALLENI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether there is any grave objection to altering the order of Business of the House, so that on each day on which the House meets at Three o'clock the ballot for Notices of Motion (if any) shall be taken at ten minutes past Three o'clock and Questions immediately thereafter, and that Private Business shall be taken on each such day immediately after Questions.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI do not think that the present method of carrying on the discussion of private Bills is altogether satisfactory. It upsets the general arrangements of the House, and sometimes makes it impossible to say when public business will begin, however important it may be. But I have ready no solution of the difficulty, which has pressed upon the present as well as on the late Government. Whether the difficulty might be met by discussing Private Business after twelve—[cheers and laughter]—I do not know, but I sometimes think so.