LORD CAMPBELLasked what was to be done with the Oaths Bill? He would suggest that that Bill should now be dropped altogether, and that next Session a new Bill should be introduced to deal with the subject of oaths.
§ THE EARL OF DERBYsaid, he could not at all consent to that course. In point of fact, both Houses of Parliament were agreed in the main features of that Bill; the only question of difference between them was that relating to the Jews, and that difficulty, he hoped, was now in a fair way of being obviated by the Bill of his noble and gallant Friend. He considered that Bill as a supplement to the Oaths Bill, and they would go down to the other House, not certainly as one Bill, but as two parts of one measure. Perhaps some Amendments might be necessary in the Reasons that were about to be sent down to the Commons for not assenting to their Reasons, and therefore he had proposed to postpone the consideration of those Reasons till Tuesday next. The House of Lords would still insist on their objections to the clause that Jews should sit not only in the Commons, but also in their Lordships' House; but along with that they would send down this Bill, which, to a considerable extent, would meet the wishes of the House of Commons.
§ EARL GRANVILLEagreed in the course traced out by the noble Earl, and hoped that nothing of a controversial tone would be inserted in the reasons.
§ THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGHthought it would be very difficult, after assenting to one Bill, to name Reasons for rejecting the other.
§ After a few words from Earl STANHOPE and Lord REDESDALE,
§ Consideration of Report of Reasons to be offered to the Commons for the Lords insisting on their Amendments (which 730 stands appointed for this day), put of to Tuesday next.
§ House adjourned at a quarter past Nine o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.