§ Lord Wharncliffebegged to ask the noble Viscount whether he had considered the hardship to which individuals who had private bills before the House would be exposed by the dissolution, and what the noble Viscount proposed to do?
§ Viscount Duncannonsaid, that he was quite aware of the great hardship that those parties would be subject to, who were interested in the progress of private bills through Parliament this Session, by having their bills set aside by the dissolution of Parliament, and the heavy expense they had been already put to, thrown away. He had made inquiries into the subject, with a view of, if possible, providing some remedy for these grievances, and he had found, that on former occasions, of a similar description to the present, the Government had introduced a resolution into the new Parliament to place those parties in the same situation as that in which they would have stood had there been no dissolution. He begged to assure the noble Lord, that the same course would be pursued by her Majesty's Government, in the ensuing Parliament which had been adopted by other Governments to which he had alluded.