§ The Earl of Radnor moved the second reading of the Final Register of Electors Bill. The chief object of the Bill was to preserve the right of voting to voters who should happen to change their residence 1836 between one registration and another. Now he thought it exceedingly hard that a party under such circumstances should be deprived of the elective franchise. The Bill also provided that votes, which were undisputed before the revising barrister, should not be brought in question before an Election Committee. This he thought a useful arrangement, and fully in accordance with the arrangements provided by the Reform Bill for the registration of voters.
§ Lord Redesdalemust object to a measure, the principle of which was to give persons a vote who had no qualification, merely because he had happened to have had one at a former time; and, even though he felt no hostility to the principle of the Bill, he should object to its passing on the eve of a general election. He moved as an amendment that the Bill be read a second time that day three months.
§ The House divided on the original motion: Contents 34; Not-contents 67: Majority 33.
§ Bill put off for three months.