§ Order for Second Reading read.
MR. E. ELLICEsaid, he would beg to ask if it was the intention of the Government to proceed any further with this Bill?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATEsaid, that, looking to the period of the Session and to the difference of opinion which had arisen upon the subject of this measure, he believed that it would be impossible to carry it through in the present Session. He considered, however, that the matter to which the Bill related was of importance, and he should endeavour to deal with it again next Session. In the meantime he begged to move that the order for the second reading be read for the purpose of being discharged.
§ Order discharged; Bill withdrawn.