The Marquess of Northampton, in postponing, sine die, the second read- 1087 ing of the Bill to prevent Members of the House of Commons from vacating their seats on accepting office, said, that he was not one of those who entertained the opinion, that the subject to which the Bill referred was one with which their Lordships had no right to interfere. In bringing the question forward he had not been actuated by any party spirit. He was not impelled by a desire to serve any party; his motives were purely of a public nature. His reason for now moving the postponement of the Bill was, because, as they had arrived at so late a period of the Session, he feared that it would not be possible to carry the measure through. If some individual of greater influence than himself did not take up the subject, he would himself, at a future period, again bring it forward.
§ The order for the second reading of the Bill discharged.