GIBSON said, he could not but think that it was an extraordinary satire on the way in which Public Business 1006 was conducted in this country that, in a Grave and Important Crisis like the present, that House should be kept from serious and important Business by a Motion of this kind, which occupied a couple of the most important hours.

There are many other minor questions that we should like to discuss, had it not been for the Grave and Important Crisis which has arisen between the Home Office and Scotland Yard, and which must now engage the attention of the House.