§ Order of the Day for the House to he put into a Committee on the Tithe Commutation Bill read.
THE BISHOP OF OXFORDsaid, he had been requested to draw attention to the way in which it was alleged this Bill had been introduced and passed through the other House. It very greatly affected private interests, and especially the interests of St. John's College, Cambridge, and it would override a local Act of Parliament. He understood that the provisions of the Bill would expose the parties to ruin if they were agreed to, and it would inflict a great injustice upon others. He would suggest that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee, and not passed in so great a hurry through the House.
EARL DE GREY and RIPONsaid, this Bill was a public Bill, and therefore the complaints as to want of notice were unfounded. The Bill had been passed through the other House in the same manner as all other public Bills, and therefore if the complaints were well-founded it was the business of the parties and their representatives in the other House to pay attention to the Bill. But it passed without opposition in the other House, and it was only reasonable to suppose there would be no serious opposition to it in this House. He did not understand that there was any wish to defeat the passing of the Bill by delay, and therefore he would not object to its being sent to a Select Committee.
§ Order discharged; and Bill referred to a Select Committee:
§ The Lords following were named of the Committee:—
| M. Salisbury | L. Portman |
| E. Spencer | L. Cranworth |
| E. Carnarvon | L. Churston |
| E. De Grey | L. Egerton |
| L. Bp. Bath and Wells | L. Taunton |
| L. Wynford |