§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. P. W. MARTINsaid, he would suggest that the Bill should extend to Tuesday, the 10th, as well as Saturday, the 7th of March. It would be a great boon to clerks and persons in that station of life, who desired to make the 10th of March a general holiday.
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, the reason for the present Bill was, that on the 7th there would be great crowds in the streets, and it had been represented to him that there would be great risk in bankers' clerks going about on that day. The same remark would not apply to the 10th—the marriage day—because, although the day might be observed as a general holiday, there would not be great crowds in the streets. The holiday would be purely a voluntary one, and it was not desirable that Parliament should make it compulsory.
§ Bill read 2°, and committed for To-morrow.