§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ SIR DOMINIC CORRIGAN, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, he proposed in no way to deal with the licensing laws in Ireland beyond introducing there the system which had prevailed for 14 years in Scotland, and under which no beer or spirituous liquors could be sold on Sundays except in hotels. The effect of the drinking habits in Ireland, under the custom of what was called "rounds," was peculiarly pernicious; and they led, not only to the ruin of the men themselves, but also to the great waste of their wages, which, received on the Saturday, were but too often dissipated in whiskey on Sunday. The measure had no connection whatever with the Permissive Bill agitation, nor was it in any degree connected with the present question of the licensing of public-houses.
§ And it being a quarter of an hour before Six of the clock, further Proceeding stood adjourned till To-morrow.