§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. HADFIELD moved the second reading of the Bill.
§ MR. HENNESSYsaid, he hoped the Bill would be enlarged in scope, so as to wholly abolish whipping in prisons. Universal praise was accorded to the prison discipline of Ireland, though there was more whipping in one gaol in England than in all the gaols in Ireland.
§ Bill read 2o, and committed for Wednesday next.
§ House adjourned at half after Five o'clock.