SECOND READING. (Hansard, 27 February 1883)

§ VISCOUNT FOLKESTONE
said, he had placed upon the Paper a Notice for the rejection of the Bill. The opposition to the Bill was precisely the same as that against the previous Bill, and it was convenient that this Bill should be postponed in the same way as the other one. No arguments could be adduced in favour of the second reading of the Bill other than those which had been adduced in the case of the Alloa, Dunfermline, and Kirkcaldy Railway Bill. He did not know who was in charge of the Bill; but he should like to have an assurance that the Bill, and some of the others which followed, would be postponed.

§ MR. LYON PLAYFAIR
said, there were several Bills which came under the same category—the Exeter, Teign Val- 967 ley, and Chagford Railway Bill, the Hull and Lincoln Railway Bill, the Oxford, Aylesbury, and Metropolitan Junction Railway Bill, the Seafield Dock and Railway Bill, and the Windsor, Ascot, and Aldershot Railway Bill. All of them contained the same differential clauses in regard to manures, and therefore they ought all of them to be postponed.

§ VISCOUNT FOLKESTONE
said, that if he was in Order, he would move that the consideration of the Barry Dock and Railways Bill be postponed until the same day as the Alloa, Dunfermline, and Kirkcaldy Railway Bill. He wished to add that he should oppose these Bills to the utmost extent in his power, unless the objectionable provision were taken from them before they appeared in the House on the next occasion. He had received a letter from somebody that morning, whose signature, however, he could not read, informing him that he was going to consult with the right hon. Gentleman the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means upon this Bill before the House met. He gathered from that that there was some hope of effecting a satisfactory compromise upon the question. But even if that satisfactory compromise had not been arrived at, he hoped that in the course of next week the promoters of the Bill would see their way to the elimination of these objectionable clauses which he had taken the liberty to oppose.