§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ SIR GEORGE GREY,in moving the second reading of this Bill, said that it; had been introduced for the purpose of enabling the trustees of that museum to lend certain objects of art to the Commissioners for the Royal Exhibition.
§ MR. TITEsaid, that the trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum had very unwillingly consented to lend the objects in question to the Commissioners for the Royal Exhibition. They had, in fact, only been induced to adopt that course in order that the collection of Hogarth's pictures might be shown in a complete form at the Exhibition.
§ SIR PHILIP EGERTONsaid, that as a trustee he could corroborate the statement that the trustees had reluctantly given their consent to the Bill which authorized the removal of the Hogarth pictures from the Museum to the International Exhibition. He would, however, express a hope that the example thus given would not be lost upon the trustees of other institutions.
§ Bill read 2o, and committed for Tomorrow.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock.