§ Commons Amendments considered (according to Order.)
§ LORD LYVEDENsaid, he desired some information with regard to a collateral subject—the Imperial guarantee of the loan for constructing the Intercolonial Railway.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMsaid, that a Resolution on the subject would be laid before the House of Commons within a week, and it was proposed to defer the progress of the present Bill until the discussion had taken place on that Resolution.
§ LORD REDESDALEasked whether the guarantee was to be permanent or for a term of years?
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMsaid, that he must defer his answer to these questions of detail until a Bill founded on the Resolution should have been laid on the table of the other House.
§ Amendments agreed to.
§ House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, to Thursday next, half past Ten o'clock.