§ Order read, for resuming adjourned de-journed Debate on Question [1st August], "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Question again proposed.
§ Debate resumed.
§ MR. BYNG moved, that the Bill should be read a second time that day three months.
§ Amendment proposed to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day three months."
MR. WHITESIDEwas willing to consent to the insertion of any clause which might be proposed to prevent Sir T. B. Wilson interfering with Hampstead Heath.
§ LORD FERMOYsaid, that the Bill would have the effect of giving power to Sir Thomas Wilson to enclose Hampstead-heath, and that was a measure to which, as a metropolitan Member, he was determined to give his strenuous opposition. The Bill had been already rejected seven times, four times by the House of Lords and three times by the House of Commons.
§ MR. MALINSdenied that the object of the Bill was to enclose Hampstead Heath. It only gave powers to Sir Thomas Wilson to enclose land which was scarcely within view of the Heath, and the promoter of the Bill was prepared to introduce a clause to prevent the enclosure of Hampstead Heath.
§ Question put, "That the word 'now' stand part of the Question."
§ The House divided:—Ayes 36; Noes 68: Majority 32.
§ Words added.
§ Main Question, as amended, put and agreed to.
§ Bill put off for three months.