§ MR. C. BULLERthought he should behave ill to the House if he did not announce as speedily as possible his intentions respecting the Bills which he had announcd. One of these Bills—the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Allowances Bill—had not been discussed in that House; but he understood that strong objections to that Bill had been entertained in the House, and that those objections also extended very much to the country. He would therefore move that the Order of the Day for that Bill be discharged. With regard to the Poor Law Union Charges Bill, he had received letters from the country, which led him to believe that he should obtain the general assent of all parties to the passing 925 of this Bill. But the opponents of this Bill were able to wield one power which was irresistible at the present period of the Session—the power of time. He could not, however, drop this Bill altogether, as he proposed to do the others, because there was one provision which it was absolutely necessary he should pass this Session, namely, the renewal of Mr. Bodkin's Act of last Session. There was also another provision of the Bill which he hoped to pass; all partiess appeared to be of opinion that the charge for vagrancy should be made a charge on the unions; and unless the House passed this clause, it would he quite hopeless for him to attempt to struggle against the present great evil of vagrancy. It would therefore be his duty to press this clause, and also the renewal of Mr. Bodkin's Act. If the House would permit the Bill to be read a second time that evening, and allow it to go into Committee pro formâ, he would cut out all the provisions except those to which he had referred. He would move that the Order of the Bay for the second reading of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Allowances Bill should be discharged.
§ Order read and discharged.