§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD DENMAN, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that, as he proposed before, he asked their Lordships to give a Second Reading to this Bill, postponing discussion till the Motion for going into Committee, which he would not hasten forward. In 1884, on July 10, when a similar Bill was printed, the late Earl Cairns wrote to him not to press it, as he himself was in favour of the principle, and, he (Lord Denman) supposed, wished to bring it forward himself; so he brought in a Bill with a beginning and ending, but with the enacting line left out. It was postponed, with two other important Bills. No one had opposed the principle of the Bill, and a Bill from "another place" might come up before it.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Denman.)
§ On Question? Resolved in the negative.
§ House adjourned at Seven o'clock, o Thursday next, a quarter past Ten o'clock.