...Wigtownshire (less than a sixtieth part of Scotland) had been mapped : this memorial was followed by the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the whole subject of the survey. The Council's report of this year contains a special tribute to ' the...

...excellent and easy Remedy though they observed that I smiled upon hearing it proposed ; and lastly the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into their Case. Upon this I gave no answer or opinion. 224 Gladstone to Palmerston [Quoted in Glad. II....

...should at least have been only gradual. The insurrection of 1848, and the events connected with it, led to the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons to investigate the affair, and Lord Torrington was fully acquitted of the various charges brought against...

...the proposed change [to a centralized and military police force]. Sir Robert Peel obtained in 1828 the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons, to inquire into the expediency of establishing a uniform system of police in the metropolis. The Committee reported favourably...

...Mr Sheridan readily undertook to be their champion, and at an early period of the session obtained the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons, to inquire into the abuses of the Scottish Burgh system. It was while on his way to London, with a mind intensely occupied...

...the expense. The usual course has therefore been taken to satisfy the wishes of the disaffected by the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons, " to inquire into the causes of the great excess of cost in prosecuting the war with Abyssinia over the estimate submitted...

...Robert Peel. It is the melancholy issue of the wilful destruction of life and property there, which led to the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to inquire what was the matter; the reportevidence oral and documentary, and resolutions, giving a verdict against...