§ SIR JOHN LUBBOCK,in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the better protection of Ancient Monuments, said, that the Bill was now introduced as passed by the Select Committee which sat last Session; but that he had accepted some verbal Amendments which the Chairman of Committees had been so good as to suggest. The object of these Amendments was to give even greater security to the owners of property, and they had been most willingly accepted by those interested in the Bill, whose great object was to preserve these interesting monuments, but who had every wish to respect existing rights. He hoped the Amendments might satisfy some, at any rate, of those who had hitherto felt it their duty to oppose the Bill.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill to provide for the better protection of Ancient Monuments, ordered to be Brought in by SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN, and Sir RICHARD WALLACE.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 50.]