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objected to the bill had to say. The interview would take place 
at the Home Office on Saturday, and he should be very happy to 
see the hon. member on that occasion \hear~\. 
Mr. Hume said, if all parties were heard before a committee 
it was very probable that the differences on this question would 
be accommodated. The bill brought in by the right honourable 
baronet opposite (Sir James Graham) had failed, because he was 
assailed by different parties privately, and because he would never 
allow any bill to go before a committee, where only adverse inte- 
rests and opinions could be reconciled. He was, therefore, sorry 
to hear that the right honourable baronet (Sir G. Grey) was about 
to take the trouble of losing the whole of Saturday by receiving 
the deputations he had referred to [a laugh\. 
Sir James Graham said, he thought the appointment of a com- 
mittee would greatly depend upon an assurance which he hoped 
this House would receive from the honourable member for Fins- 
bury and the honourable member for Montrose. If those honour- 
ble members would undertake to improve their time — the one by 
presiding over and the other by daily attending the committee [a 
laugh ] — until they had exhausted all that would be said by the 
medical practitioners [* renewed laughter ], he should feel much dis- 
posed to vote for a committee. Unless they would promise to give 
their attention to all the complaints they would have, he did not 
think it would be unreasonable on the part of the House not to en- 
tertain this bill with any great favour [hear, hear\ 
Mr. Hume said this was the first time he had ever been asked 
to make such a promise. All he could say was, he would do his 
best. 
Mr. Wakley could make no such promise [a laugh]. If he 
were to preside over the committee till all the differences among 
the profession were settled, it would be at the sacrifice of his life. 
To adjust all their differences would occupy till one day after 
eternity [ laughter ]. 
After a few words from an honourable member, which were 
inaudible, 
Mr. Wakley intimated that he would accept the invitation of 
the right honourable baronet to call at the Home-office on Satur- 
day to hear the objections to this just and reasonable measure. 
The second reading of the bill was then postponed till Tuesday. 
*** We observe that Mr. Wakley has postponed the second 
reading of the bill until Monday the 1st of June. 
