§ THE LORD CHANCELLORI have to inform your Lordships that the difficulty which had arisen between my noble Friend Lord Branwell and me has been satisfactorily adjusted. When I desired that the Bill should be referred to Committee of the whole House, 1220 my object was (to put it very plainly) to avoid the Bill being tied up with the Bill of my noble Friend. I am happy to inform your Lordships that my noble Friend, after considering the reasons which I put to him, has consented to withdraw any further progress of his Bill, in order that mine may proceed with due diligence to another place. The result of that is that if your Lordships will allow me, I shall now move that this Bill go to the Standing Committee for Bills relating to Law, &c., and the other Motion, which stands in the name of my noble Friend, he has authorized me to withdraw.
Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read, and discharged; and the Bill committed to the Standing Committee for Bills relating to Law, &c.