§ COMMITTEE. [Progress, Clause 1, 19th July.]
§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ MR. WRIGHTSON (Stockton-on-Tees)said, the Government had placed certain Amendments on the Paper, and he had accepted them because they did not affect the principle of the Bill. He trusted the House would allow the Bill 1168 to proceed, as it was one which would confer great benefit on the working classes.
§ * SIR C. W. DILKE (Gloucester, Forest, of Dean)thought that as the hon. Member in charge of the Bill had been allowed to speak on going into Committee a reply might have been permitted. Many hon. Members had a most insuperable objection to the Bill, regarding it as one of the most mischievous Bills that could be proposed. The hon. Member hail said that the Government had put down Amendments, but be had not said whether or not the Government were in favour of the Bill. He (Sir C. Dilke) could not conceive that that could be the case; but even if it were, he should be obliged to object to the Bill. The most strenuous opposition would be offered to the Bill in all its stages.
§ Committee report Progress; to sit again upon Tuesday next.