§ MR. LEES KNOWLES (Salford, W.) moved the Second Reading of this Bill.
§ MR. C. DIAMOND (Monaghan, N.)said it was intolerable that such a Bill should be taken without a word of explanation.
§ MR. LEES KNOWLESsaid that the Bill provided for the registration of plumbers, and the encouragement of their better education.
§ MR. DIAMONDsaid that it was a most edifying subject, but the House had no opportunity of adequately realising the importance of the measure at that hour of the night. The hon. Member had hardly given an adequate description of the Bill; and the House, if it agreed to the Second Reading in a few minutes before midnight, might commit itself to some scheme which would be most injurious to plumbers as a class. During the great frost of this year, everyone knew the importance which was attached to plumbers.
§ Debate adjourned.
§ House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.