§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. KEOGHsaid, that, with a view of meeting the objections of several hon. Members, he proposed, when the Bill was committed, to introduce into it certain clauses giving power to appeal under its operation from the decision of the magistrates to that of the assistant barristers.
§ VISCOUNT BERNARDsaid, that many magistrates of Ireland had urged to him to protest most strongly against the passing of the Bill now before the House, and he must express a hope that Her Majesty's Government, in introducing the proposed Amendments, would in no way interfere with the practical working of the measure of last year, which had done incalculable good in the way of diminishing drunkenness.
§ Bill read 2o.
§ The House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock.