§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. AYRTON, in moving to discharge the Order for the second reading of this Bill, observed that he had introduced the measure for the purpose of fulfilling the assurance which he had given last Session, when the Act for appointing a Commission to prepare a scheme for preserving the remains of the Forest for the recreation of the people was being passed through Parliament. As the Bill was confined to objects which were within the province of a Private Bill, he had hoped that it would have been sent to a Select Committee without opposition, in order that all parties interested might be heard against the 1675 measure; but a Notice of opposition having been placed on the Paper, be was unable, under the new Standing Orders, to move the second reading after half-past 12 o'clock, and he had failed in repeated attempts to bring it on before that hour. Under these circumstances, and looking at the many subjects of great public importance to which the attention of the House was directed, he thought he should best fulfil the promise he had made by proceeding immediately with the Bill in the other House, which would be better able to investigate the subject, and deal with the legal questions involved in the Bill at an early period.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Order discharged; Bill withdrawn.