§ Alderman Wood moved the Order of the Day for the Committee on this Bill.
§ Dr. Bowring moved, as an amendment, the postponement of the Committee for six months.
§ The House divided on the amendment: —Ayes 5 Noes 45; Majority.40.
§ The House resolved itself into Committee.
§ Mr. Wakleyhaving declared his determination to use every means in his power to oppose a measure so unfit to secure the object which it professed to have in view, moved as a proviso to one of the clauses, that to the back of every carriage drawn by one or two horses, and not being a hackney carriage or a metropolitan stage, a board should be affixed, with the name and residence of the proprietor painted in golden or yellow letters of an inch in length, on a purple ground. The hon. Member however did not persist in his amendment.
§ The Committee divided on the question that the clause stand part of the Bill. Ayes 32; Noes 4; Majority 28.
§ House afterwards counted out.