§ Mr. Benett 647 moved the Second Reading of the Liverpool Franchise Bill. He proposed that the Committee upon it should be postponed to some distant day, so that it might be proceeded with after the recess.
Mr. Ewartsaid, the Reform Bill having failed, and this Bill being in all its enfranchising clauses a re-enactment of the provisions contained in that measure, he of course intended to support it, for he considered that part of the Bill as highly valuable to the important community he had the honour to represent; but he could not agree to the disfranchising clauses contained in the Bill, and should feel himself bound to oppose them whet the Bill came before a Committee. The extension of the franchise to a most respectable class would have the effect of purifying the old constituency.
§ Bill read a second time, Committee appointed for that day three months.