§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. MUNDELLAsaid, the object of the Bill was to institute a close season for freshwater fish. It was a further progress in the direction that the House had taken in many measures, such as the protection of wild birds, sea birds, and small birds. The hon. Member 1191 for Cambridgeshire, he was informed, would reserve his opposition to the Bill until it was before a Select Committee. Withoutfurther remarks, he should move that the Bill be now read a second time.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Mundella.)
Mr. ASSHETON CROSSconsented to the second reading of the Bill, on the understanding that it should be referred to a Select Committee. Before the Bill came before the Committee, hon. Members would have in their hands the Report of the Fisheries' Inspectors. The Bill would require considerable alteration in Committee, and he did not wish to pledge himself to it as it stood; but, on the principle that there was to be a close time, he had no objection to it.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed to a Select Committee.