§ EARL GREYhoped that, on the second reading of the Bill, Her Majesty's Government would be able to state what measures had been adopted, and were in operation, for reducing the military expenditure in India. On that point he thought some explanation was required.
§ THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGHtrusted there would be no delay in passing the Bill; it was most desirable that the Bill should go out, enacted, by the mail on Monday, with the terms on which the late loan had been contracted.
§ THE EARL OF DERBYsaid, he would take the second reading of the Indian Loan Bill on Thursday next; it was the anxious desire of Her Majesty's Government that not a moment should be lost in passing the Bill. He should therefore on Thursday move that the Standing Orders be suspended, that the Act might receive the Royal Assent before Monday next.
§ Bill read 1a To be read 2a on Thursday next; and Standing Orders Nos. 37 and 38, to be considered, in order to their being dispensed with.