§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ COLONEL SANDYS (Lancashire, S.W., Bootle)said, when he formerly asked that the Bill might be postponed, it was because he had a suspicion of what might be effected under cover of the measure. Having since then satisfied himself that the only object of the Bill was to relieve the unfortunate people from the anomalous and invidious position in which they were placed, an object with which he had every sympathy, he would offer no opposition to the Bill.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed; considered in Committee, and reported, without Amendment.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)said, he hoped the House would now agree to take the third reading.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read the third time."—(Mr. Jackson.)
253§ THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN (Mr. SEXTON) (Belfast, W.)said, the Government had passed over the preceding Order, the Local Bankruptcy Bill for Ireland. It was practically a Government measure, though not marked so, and there was an understanding that it should be proceeded with. In such an expectation, he and his hon. Friends had waited while the Government made progress with their Business. If they were to be humbugged after all, he certainly should object to any further Business being taken. There was no opposition to the measure.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)Very well.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill road the third time, and passed, without Amendment.