§ EARL STANHOPEsaid, it would be in the recollection of their Lordships that a Committee sat last Session on Public Business, and that one of its recommendations was that the use of Proxies in Divisions should be discontinued, and that a Standing Order should be made against their use. He wished to be informed by the Lord Privy Seal, What course the Government intended to take for the purpose of giving effect to that recommendation?
§ THE EARL OF MALMESBURYsaid, he intended to call the attention of their Lordships on an early day to the recommendations contained in the Report of that Committee, and to bring forward certain proposals founded thereon, embodying those recommendations. He should, perhaps, be able to fulfil that intention in the course of next week.