SPEAKER, The-cont.

Bill-Time for Motion-Mr. Hubbard having
spoken against the second reading of the
Burials (Ireland) Bill sat down without
making his Motion "That the Bill be read a
second time on this day six months." Seve-
ral hon. Members having spoken, Mr. Hub-
bard rose to make the Motion-Mr. Speaker
ruled that the hon. Member could not now
do so, [191] 1083

Committees-Chairman of Committees-Order
-A point of Order arising in Committee
should be addressed at once to the Chairman,
and cannot be questioned on a subsequent
occasion. The Chairman of Committees is
the proper judge of those matters which
come under his notice in Committee-Mr.
Speaker said, he could not interfere with
the decision of the Chairman at the sugges-
tion of an individual Member: to authorize
him to do so, the question must be brought
before him by the direction of the House.—
Abyssinian Expedition, [190] 426-Estab-
lished Church (Ireland), [191] 1948
Debate Adjournment of a debate on Wednes-
day. Mr. Gladstone rising to move for leave
to bring in the Established Church (Ireland)
Bill-Mr. Newdegate objected, that it was
then seven minutes to six o'clock (it being
a Rule of the House that on Wednesdays
no opposed Business shall be proceeded with
after a Quarter before Six o'clock)

Mr. Speaker said, that according to the Rule
of the House if the hon. Member objected to
the Motion being brought on at that hour it
could not be proceeded with, [192] 232
Debate-Latitude of speaking-Bill considered
as amended. On Question, "That the said
clause be now read a second time "-Mr.
Speaker said, that the Question being whe-
ther this particular clause should pass, a
general argument could hardly be allowed.-
Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings Bill,
[191] 1565

Debate Explanation-Time for Explanation
-An hon. Member desiring to explain his
remarks must reserve his explanation until
after the hon. Gentleman then in possession
of the House has concluded his remarks,
[191] 1106

It is at the option of the Member in pos-
session of the House to give way or not to
an immediate explanation, [191] 1106; [192]
749

Debate Personal Explanation-Question re-
lating to the Foreign Office, asked and an-
swered. Mr. Layard (late Under Secretary
of State) wished to say a word or two by
way of explanation-Mr. Speaker said, the
hon. Member for Southwark desires to make
a personal explanation, and under these cir-
cumstances a statement is generally allowed,
[190] 607

Debate-Limitation of Explanation. It is not
competent for an hon. Member, in explana-
tion, to reply to a speech just made: he must
confine himself to any point on which he
may himself have been misunderstood.-
Canongate Annuity Tax Bill, [191] 1106

[cont.

SPEAKER, The-cont.

Debate-Premature Discussion of a Motion-
An hon. Member having given Notice of a
Motion respecting the Declaration against
Transubstantiation, cannot, on a Motion for
a Copy of the Declaration, enter at length
into the subject, which stands for future con-
sideration, [192] 1099

Debate-Premature Discussion-It is not com-
petent to discuss the question of referring a
Bill to a Select Committee on the Motion
for the Second Reading: that could only be
considered when the Bill had been read a
second time.-County Financial Boards Bill,
[191] 1556

Select Committees-If a Committee has not
reported it is out of Order to comment in this
House on the evidence taken before it.-
Navy-Iron-clad Fleet, [193] 1124

Debate Questions-Mr. Speaker suggests that
it would not be convenient that a debate
should take place on [a] subject merely on
the putting of a Question.-Abyssinia-
Production of Papers, [190] 650

Debate-Reference to a past Debate in this
House is not in Order, [190] 422, 610; [191]
1302; [192] 1074

Debate-Comments on Debates in this House-
An hon. Member is not in Order in intro-
ducing in this House any comments by other
individuals upon the debates which have
taken place in this House, [190] 422, 425;
[191] 2030

Debate-Reference to Debates in the House of
Lords-The rule of the House is that allu-
sion to debates in the other House of Par-
liament should not be made in this; but it
is scarcely possible that, under all circum-
stances, the rule can be construed in an ab-
solutely literal manner. And Mr. Speaker
referred to certain exceptional circumstances
then existing, [191] 1786

There is no Rule in existence, forbidding
reference to debates in the other House, in a
shape that it can be formally rescinded-
Certain Rules are to be found in a book
which defines what the observances of Par-
liament are; but they are not in the nature
of Standing Orders, [192] 1078
Debate-Relevancy of Debate, [190] 1260
Debate-Speaking twice on the same Question
-Question proposed; Amendment moved,
and negatived; original Question again pro-
posed-Mr. Newdegate rose to address the
House-Mr. Speaker said, that in moving
the Amendment the hon. Member had spoken
on the original Question, and therefore could
not speak again.-Abyssinia-Motion for
Papers, [190] 674

Order for Committee read; Question
proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave
the Chair;" Amendment moved, and nega-
tived; original Question put, and negatived.
The Motion, "That Mr. Speaker, &c.," when
made on a subsequent day, is a new Motion,
and the Member moving is in order in ad-
dressing the House.-Revenue Officers Disa-
bilities Removal Bill, [193] 289, 301

[cont.

SPEAKER, The-cont.

The Prime Minister having, in the course
of debate, introduced a proposal of an en-
tirely new character-namely, that the ques-
tion of Boundaries of Boroughs be referred
to a Select Committee-Mr. Speaker sug-
gested that it might be the opinion of the
House that other hon. Gentlemen, who might
feel an interest in the matter, should also
have the opportunity of speaking upon it,
[192] 279
Debate

Mr.
Unparliamentary Language
Rearden, having given notice to ask a Ques
tion relative to Her Majesty the Queen, and
being called to Order-Mr. Speaker said,
"The House has anticipated my decision by
the expression-the indignant expression-
of feeling with regard to the terms employed
in the Notice of the hon. Member. No doubt
Questions may be addressed by a Member of
this House to the confidential Advisers of the
Crown as to any matter relating to the dis-
charge of public duties by the Sovereign;
but these Questions must be addressed in
respectful and Parliamentary terms. The
Question of the hon. Member is not couched
in such terms, and cannot be put, [192] 711
Debate Unparliamentary Expressions - An
hon. Member having used the expression
"factious opposition to the Bill," in reference
to the course pursued by a right hon.
Member-Mr. Speaker said, that under the
circumstances of the case, he certainly
thought the expression was too strong a one.
-Motion for Adjournment, [193] 1742
Debate-Unparliamentary Expressions-It is
scarcely in order for an hon. Member to use
the word "dodge" in reference to the pro-
ceedings of another Member in a Parlia-
mentary proceeding.-Metropolitan Foreign
Cattle Market Bill, [193] 1297

-

Divisions-Mr. Speaker's Vote-On Division
on Motion for second reading of the Married
Women's Property Bill, the numbers being
equal, Mr. Speaker declared himself with the
Ayes, and stated his reasons for so doing,
[192] 1378

Instructions Time for objecting to an Instruc-

tion-The proper time for objecting to any
Instruction to be given to a Committee is
when the Instruction is under discussion.-
Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill,
[192] 469

Members' Seats in this House-Mr. Speaker
repeats the rule, generally accepted by the
House, in regard to the retention of Mem-
bers' seats. Any Member who, having come
down to the House in the morning in the dis-
charge of his duty on a Committee, shall, be-
fore prayers, place his hat on a seat as an
indication of his personal attendance within
the precincts of the House, will be permitted
to retain that seat, as though he were present
in the House, [191] 698

Oaths of Roman Catholic Members-Mr. Fre-
ville-Surtees, having stated that Mr. Speaker
had ruled that the Roman Catholic Members
who took the Oath before the 30th April,
1866, are bound by the Oath taken by Ro-
man Catholic Members previously to that
time-Mr. Speaker: The hon. Member has

SPEAKER, The-cont.

misconceived my meaning. I gave no such
decision as he apprehends.-Roman Catholic
Oath, [191] 1582; [192] 1208

Order of Business on Tuesdays-It is an an-
cient rule of the House that on Tuesdays
Notices of Motion have precedence of Orders
of the Day. Mr. Bouverie complained that
on the Notice Paper of Tuesday, March 31,
the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills were
set down in precedence of the Notices of
Motion-Mr. Speaker said, that there was
nothing irregular or unprecedented in this
proceeding; the course taken with regard to
these Bills was quite in conformity with pre-
cedent, and only for the promotion of the
despatch of Public Business, [191] 573
Petitions-The time for presenting Petitions is
before five o'clock, and up to that hour, at
any moment when there is no business before
the House, a Member is perfectly in order
in presenting Petitions, [190] 1893
Questions-To whom they may be put-The
rule with regard to Questions is, that Ques-
tions may be put to Ministers of the Crown
relating to public affairs, and to other Mem-
bers relating to any Bill or Motion connected
with the Business of the House in which such
Members are concerned, [192] 717
Questions-Pertinency to Subject before the
House-There being a Motion before the
House upon which it is competent for any
Member to address the House-to address a
Question to the Government on a subject not
connected with anything before the House is
not pertinent to the argument, and ought not
to be introduced.—Ex-Governor Eyre, [192]
839

SPEAKER, The-cont.

Select Committees-Powers of a Select Com-
mittee A Bill being referred, the powers of
the Select Committee are confined to the sub-
ject-matter of the Bill: if it be desired to
proceed further, and to take into considera-
tion [a subject not within the scope of the
Bill] that could not be done without a Special
Instruction to the Committee.
Sale of
Liquors on Sunday Bill, [190] 1869
Select Committees-If a Committee has not
reported, it is out of Order to comment in
this House on the evidence taken before it.-
Navy-Iron-clad Fleet, [193] 1124
Supply-Latitude of Observation-On Motion,
"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair,"
an hon. Member having asked a Question re-
lating to Coal Mines, Mr. Whalley rose to
call attention to Riots at Ashton; objected,
that the previous subject was not disposed
of:-Mr. Speaker said, that the Motion being

that he do leave the Chair, he had no power
to prevent the hon. Member from pursuing
his observations, [192] 1086

STANHOPE, Mr. J. Banks, Lincolnshire, N.
Compulsory Church Rates Abolition, Comm.
el. 4, Amendt. [190] 1419, 1420

STANLEY, Right Hon. Lord (Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs), Lynn
Regis

Abyssinia-Questions, &c.
Cameron, Consul, [190] 180
Egypt, [190] 1003

Foreign Office, [190] 606
Mules, Purchase of, [190] 145
Queen's, The, Letter to King Theodore,
[190] 179

Rassam, Mr., Mission of, [190] 680, 1005
Abyssinia-Beke, Dr., and Mr. Layard, [190]
649; Motion for Papers, 670, 673

Address in Answer to the Speech, [190] 80;
Report, 101

Adjouri, Case of, Motion for Papers, [193] 388
African Slave Trade-" The Aberdeen Act,"
[192] 718

Andover, Late Member for, [190] 536
Austria-Commercial Treaty with, [192] 653
Belgium-Riots in, [191] 837
Brazil-War in, [191] 359

British Factory at St. Petersburg, [193] 1667,
1824

"Bubulina," Explosion of the, [190] 519
Cattle, Foreign, Importation of, [193] 1285
Cattle Plague, [192] 1852

Rinderpest in Austria, [193] 609
China-Embassy, The, [190] 1224

Treaty of Tien-tsin, [190] 1150; [191]
1147; [193] 1947

Cholera in the Mediterranean, [191] 704
Church Rates, [190] 507

Consular Courts in Turkey and Egypt, [193]

STANLEY, Right hon. Lord-cont.

Foreign Office-Diplomatic Agents, [190] 542,
631, 986; [192] 1562; [193] 1712
France-Arrests of Englishmen, [190] 152

Belgium and Holland, [193] 1940
Honduras-Treaty of Guarantee, [190] 148
Italy-Conference, Proposed, [190] 513

Consular Chaplain at Naples, [193] 1947
Japan-Outrages in, [192] 922
Mexico-Diplomatic Relations with, [190] 1007;
[193] 1825

Ministerial Statement

- Resignation of the

Earl of Derby, [190] 1097, 1098;-Re-con-
struction of the Ministry, 1100

Neutrality Commission, [192] 1854

Papal Government and Mr. Odo Russell, [190]

162

Parliament - Order of Business, [190] 545
Plate River, War in the, [190] 652

Portugal-Commercial Treaty with, [190] 331
Representation of the People (Scotland), [190]
1103

Russia and Bokhara, [192] 955

Saxony-Diplomatic Relations with, [190] 519
Scientific Instruction in Foreign Countries,
[192] 1560

Servia-National Assembly of, [192] 2136
Slave Trade Papers, [190] 1687
Slave Trade, Zanzibar, [191] 1578
Spain and Chile, [190] 1458
Spain and Prussia
[191] 1147
Spain-Questions, &c.

-

Treaty of Commerce,

"" Mermaid," Destruction of the, [190] 328
"Queen Victoria," The, [190] 641, 1003
Religious Persecution in, [193] 1479
"Tornado," Case of the, [190] 1103, 1455;
[192] 1563; [193] 1820

Supply Abyssinian Expedition, [190] 206,

226

British Embassy Houses, [191] 986, 987,
989, 995, 996

Consular Establishments Abroad, [192]
2171, 2172

Embassies and Missions Abroad, [193] 674
Embassy Houses Abroad, [192] 312
Establishments of China, Japan, and Siam,
[193] 672, 673

Mission House, Teheran, [191] 998, 999
Totnes, &c. Writs, 3R. [190] 546
Turkey-Questions, &c.

Brigandage near Smyrna, [192] 1014
Crete-Vice Consul at, [190] 1116

Ottoman Empire, Maintenance of the, [190]

642

Railways, [193] 718

Sanitary Regulations, [190] 1811

Thessaly and Epirus, Annexation of, to
Greece, [190] 328, 512

Wiseman, Sir W., Appointment of, [190]

1071

United States-Questions, &c.

Iron-clads, [192] 655

"Lizzie Lina," Case of the, [190] 1219

Relations with the, [190] 330, 690

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Springbok," Case of the, [190] 1812;
[191] 2002

United States-"Alabama" claims, The, Mo-
tion for an Address, [190] 1168, 1181
Assassination of President,
Lincoln, Res. [193] 1946

United States -

-

Ways and Means-The Abyssinian Expedition,
Res. [190] 356

STANLEY OF ALDERLEY, Lord

Alkali Act Continuance, 2R. [192] 510
Boundary Commission, [190] 1795
Consecration of Churchyards Act Amendment,
Comm. cl. 1, Amendt. [192] 897, 898
Cotton Statistics, Comm. [192] 918

East London Museum Site, Report, [190] 859,
860

Ecclesiastical Commissioners Orders in Coun-
cil, 3R. [190] 1678

Foreshore and Bed of the Sea, [192] 1831
Ireland-Established Church, The, [190] 1795,

Business of the House, [190]
1099; Report, [191] 569

Poor Relief, Comm. [191] 465; cl. 22, [192]
948

Postal Communication with the East-New
Contract, [190] 157

Railway Communication between Drivers and
Guards, [190] 575

Regulation of Railways, 2R. [190] 1971, 1973;
Report, cl. 14, Amendt. [192] 412, 413, 416
Sea Fisheries, 2R. [191] 466; Comm. cl. 5,
[192] 238, 239

University Elections (Voting Papers), 2R.
[193] 982

Army-War Office-Department of Control,
[193] 1245

Registration (Ireland), 3R. [193] 1897

STRONGE, Sir J. M., Armagh Co.
Established Church (Ireland), [192] 1210
Representation of the People (Ireland), 2R.
[191] 1956

STUART, Colonel W., Bedford

Army-Daily Payment of Men, [191] 263
Army Estimates-Surveys, [193] 964
Burials (Ireland), 2R. Amendt. [191] 1083
Dunstable Road, [192] 1396

Ecclesiastical Titles, 2R. Motion for Adjourn-
ment, [192] 1697

Established Church (Ireland), Comm. Res.
[191] 1924

London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance,
Comm. [191] 201

Marine Mutiny, 2R. [191] 99

Poor Relief, Comm. cl. 3, [193] 1423; Amendt.
1424; cl. 6, 1613; Motion for Adjournment,
1614

Regulation of Railways, Comm. add. cl. [193]
1736

Representation of the People (Ireland), Comm.
add. cl. [192] 1804

Supply-Houses of Parliament, [192] 311
Turnpike Acts Amendment, Comm. Amendt.
[193] 968

STUCLEY, Sir G. S., Barnstaple

Army-Cavalry Uniforms, [192] 1111

Transport of Troops to India, [192] 1111
Navy-Sheathing Iron Vessels, [190] 330

Sugar, Refining of, at Cologne
Question, Mr. Crawford; Answer, Mr. Stephen
Cave June 29, [193] 305

SULLIVAN, Mr. Serjeant E., Mallow
Established Church (Ireland), Comm. Res. 1,
[191] 1518

Grand Jury Cess (Ireland), 2R. [191] 215
Representation of the People (Ireland), Comm.
cl. 3, [192] 1585; add. cl. 1769, 1785

Sunday Trading (Metropolis) Bill
(Mr. T. Hughes, Lord C. Hamilton, Mr. Lusk)
c. Ordered; read 1°* Feb 20
[Bill 40]
Moved, "That the Bill be now read 20"
April 22, [191] 1084

Amendt. to leave out "now," and add " upon
this day six months" (Mr. Graham); Ques-
tion, "That now,' &c;" A. 68, N. 31;
M. 37; Bill read 2o

Bill withdrawn June 23

Supply

Proceedings in Committee of Supply, Resolu-
tion [9th February 1858] relative to Pro-
ceedings in Committee of Supply read, as
followeth :-

"That when it has been proposed to omit
or reduce items in a Vote, the Question
shall be afterwards put upon the original
Vote or upon the reduced Vote, as the case
may be, without amendment" April 21, [191]

1025

Moved, "That the said Resolution be re-
scinded" (Mr. Ayrton); after short debate,
Debate adjourned

Debate resumed April 28, 1464; after short
debate, Question put, and agreed to

1. Resolved, That when it has been proposed
to omit or reduce items in a Vote, the Ques-
tion shall be afterwards put upon the origi-
nal Vote or upon the reduced Vote as the
case may be

2. Resolved, That after a Question has been
proposed from the Chair for a reduction of
the whole Vote, no Motion shall be made for
omitting or reducing any item (Mr. Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer)