HL Deb 08 July 1861 vol 164 c484
LORD LYTTELTON

said, that no counter Motion having been made the other evening, the decision of the House was simply to negative the going into Committee on the Subdivision of Dioceses Bill at that time. The Bill still stood for committal, and he or any other Peer could move that it be committed. He did not, however, intend to move any further in the matter either in this or in any future Session. He had been advised in the course of the discussion to resume the subject. Whether the advice was given in earnest or not he did not know, but he did not intend to follow it, being convinced that no independent Peer or Member of Parliament could legislate on these Church questions with any hope of success. With regard to the vote of the House he believed it was the single instance in which, after allowing a Bill to be referred to a Select Committee, and after it had been fully considered by a Select Committee, they had refused to allow it even to go into Committee of the whole House.

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