§ Colonel Trenchmoved the Second Reading of the Election in Ireland Bill. The object of the Bill was two-fold: first, to make it incumbent on candidates at an election to warn every person who tendered his vote against giving it unless duly qualified; and, secondly, to settle, what was now in some degree a matter of doubt, whether a freeholder who held property in detached portions, of the value of 10l. in the whole, had a right to vote. He was anxious, as a hint of a dissolution had been thrown out, to have these matters settled before the next general election.
§ The gallery was cleared for a division, but the Motion was agreed to without the House dividing, and the Bill read a second time.