§ Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [10th July], "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Question again proposed.
§ Debate resumed.
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, he must appeal to the hon. Member for Bath to postpone the Bill. His hon. and learned colleague (Mr. Locke), who was engaged in the discharge of professional duties at Brighton, had given notice of an Amendment that the Bill should be read a second time that day six months, and took a great interest in the question.
§ MR. TITEobserved, that the hon. and learned Member for Southwark had already spoken against the Bill for three-quarters of an hour, and he did not see why he should postpone the second reading in consequence of the learned Gentleman's absence. The Bill had now been on the paper for a second reading twenty-six times, and he begged to proceed with it.
§ Bill read 20, and committed for to-morrow.