§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. CHANCE (Kilkenny, S.)This is a Bill to assimilate the law in Ireland to that in England. It carries out the recommendations of a Select Committee of this House which sat in 1860; it also carries out the unanimous recommondations of the Lunacy Authorities, and I believe it has the assent of the Government. I hope it may now be read a second time. If so, I shall be quite prepared to postpone the Committee stage until a fairly distant day.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."—(Mr. Chance.)
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. HOLMES) (Dublin University)The Government are prepared to assent to the second reading, without pledging itself to the details of the Bill, on the understanding that the hon. Gen- 1126 tleman will allow a reasonable time to elapse before he takes the Committee.
§ Question put, and agreed to.