These Resolutions we are asked to pass now are of importance because they are going to be made the basis of some kind of attempt made outside this House, some kind of guarantee demanded either from the House of Lords or elsewhere, and these Resolutions passed in the brief time allowed to us are to be represented in a Great and Difficult Crisis as expressing not merely the intentions and will of the Government, not merely the re- 330 sult of their mature reflections, as the Chancellor of the Duchy observed, but the decision of the House of Commons, taken after elaborate discussion.