§ Order for Consideration, as amended, read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill, as amended, be now considered."—(Sir Charles Forster.)
§ MR. HOPWOOD,in moving, as an Amendment—
That it is inexpedient to proceed with the consideration of the Improvement Bills, or any of them, included in the reference to the Committee on Sanitary and Police Clauses of March 13th, 1882, unless such portions thereof as create local sanitary or police law, exceptional to the Law of the Realm, be omitted therefrom,said, he was quite sensible that his Amendment was somewhat ill-timed, considering the present block of the Business of the House; but he hoped that indulgence would be extended to him while he pointed out that this was a continuation of what he considered to be a useful protest in regard to legislation in this direction which he had made a few weeks ago. It would be in the recollection of the House that certain Bills which were connected with sanitary arrangements and police matters had been referred to a Select Committee; and the whole of those Bills now stood on the Paper for further consideration. He had objected to them when they were originally before the House, on the ground that a large number of provisions were contained in them which would, if they were passed, effect an alteration in the general law of the land; and that it was inexpedient to sanction such provisions in Private Bills.