§ Order of the Day for Second Reading read.
§ THE PRESIDENT or THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir MICHAEL HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.This Bill, which contains only one clause, has been prepared in accordance with the unanimous recommendation of a Committee which sat last year, under the presidency of Lord Herschell, the hon. and learned Member for Stockton being also a Member of the Committee. The object of the measure is to enable companies, with the leave of the High Court, to alter their Memoranda of Association. I hope the House will allow the Second Reading to be taken now, as the Bill simply carries out the recommendation of the Committee.
§ DR. TANNERI object.
§ Second Reading deferred till Tomorrow.