Letter from Lyon Playfair to Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

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Playfair writes to SCC regarding the wasting of time in the House of Commons. He lists different examples of where time has been wasted and recommends that the order of the day is changed so that "heterogenous motions" are heard on a Friday and "homogenous motions" are set on the other nights. Sent from: London, date stamped, 7 Aug.

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