§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read the third time."—(Sir Charles Forster.)
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read the third time, and passed.
§ (Queen's Consent signified.)
§ MR. BROADHURSTsaid, he did not know whether he was quite in Order; but he wished to have an explanation in regard to the Metropolitan District Railway Bill, the third reading of which he had come down to the House, at considerable inconvenience, to oppose. He had been sitting there ever since the House was made with that intention, and he could assure the House that the Bill was one in which great interest was taken.
§ MR. SPEAKERI put the Question distinctly from the Chair that the Bill be read a third time, and there was no opposition. I am, therefore, afraid that the hon. Member is now too late.
§ THE CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEAN'S (Sir ARTHUR. OTWAY)said, he had heard the Question most distinctly put from the Chair. Not only so; but the hon. Baronet the Member for Walsall (Sir Charles Forster), who had charge of the Private Business of the House, within his (Sir Arthur Otway's) hearing, called upon the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. Broadhurst) by name.