§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, N., BlackpoolThe Bill I propose to lay on the Table of the House is substantially identical with that which I presented last year, when there was, unfortunately, no time to press it to a Second Reading. Before I ask the House to take the Second Reading of the Bill, I will lay on the table of the House the rules which it is proposed to make under the Bill, should it become an Act, so that the House will be in full possession of what, I may say, will practically be a new prison Code.
§ Bill read first time.