§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. W. WILLIAMSsaid, he had great objections to the substitution of a house duty for a window tax. Unless reduced in amount, it would be a severer imposition than even the window tax itself, and in Committee he should move its reduction—a proposition he hoped the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would assent to; because, upon the principle upon which he had preferred a house tax to a window tax, he ought to have taken off the latter without the imposition of any additional burden upon the people.
§ Bill read 2°.