§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. BRYCEsaid, the Bill proposed, among other things, to take, for the purposes of their undertaking, certain small portions of Barnes Common, one of the open spaces set apart for the enjoyment and recreation of the inhabitants of the Metropolis. In consideration of the importance of the subject, he should have deemed it his duty to oppose the Bill, if it had not been that the London and South-Western Railway Company had recognized the justice of the claim put forward on behalf of the public in that part of London, and had agreed to throw into the common certain pieces of land belonging to them larger in extent than that which they proposed to take. Under these circumstances, he did not intend to oppose the Bill, and he ventured to mention the matter as a precedent which he thought might be advantageously followed by Railway Companies in other cases.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed.