§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Newdegate.)
§ MR. NEWDEGATE, in rising, remarked upon the absence of all the Members of the Government, and said, that the Bill embodied a principle which the House had affirmed. Another measure upon the same subject had been sent up to the House of Lords, and was, it appeared, to be referred to a Select Committee. He should be glad if the House would consent to allow his Bill to go before a similar tribunal, having good reason to think it would bear the examination of a Committee of the House of Lords. In the present state of that House (there were only a few Members present), he thought that the best thing he could do—considering the determination manifested by a majority of the House to disestablish the Church in Ireland, and in other ways to curtail the property of the United Churches of England and Ireland — was simply to move that the Order of the Day for the second reading of his Bill be postponed until tomorrow.
§ Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Bill to be read a second time To-morrow.