§ Mr. Littleton moved the second reading of this bill, and briefly explained the object of the measure. Mr. Cripps, Mr. Davenport, and alderman Wood, spoke in favour of the bill; and Mr. Hume objected to it, as interfering between master and man. Mr. Baring would have been inclined to oppose the bill, if the country had been in a very different and more quiet state. Under the present circumstances he should support it. Mr. John Smith supported the bill. Colonel Wood opposed it; and was desirous to see all restrictive acts of this character abolished. After a few words from Mr. Wrottesley, lord Stanley, and Mr. Lockhart, in favour of 1317 the bill, the question of its second reading was put and carried without a division.