§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, he understood the Bill was unopposed, his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the 545 Home Department having abandoned the first portion of it which related to the necessity of obtaining the sanction of the Attorney General for a prosecution, and asked only to retain the second, which empowered him to remit the penalties arising in certain actions.
§ MR. WHITWELLobjected to a Bill of this description being hurried through the House at so late an hour, and suggested its postponement.
§ Second Reading deferred till Tomorrow.