§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ (12.5.) MR. J. MORLEY (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)In moving that this Bill be read a second time, I need not detain the House, I think, with any explanatory remarks. The Bill has received the approval of lawyers and other distinguished persons in another place, and its object is one as to which, I think, there cannot be two opinions, though no doubt there are remarks to be made as to the means by which the framers of the Bill propose to carry out that object. The Bill makes it a penal offence to send circulars and advertisements to minors with the object of inducing betting or the borrowing of money from money-lenders; and if the House is agreed on the desirability of the object and the general lines of the Bill, all else is matter for Committee, and I think I need say no more.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for to-morrow.