§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ MR. LEWIS (Flint Boroughs)I do not rise for the purpose of opposing this Bill, the object of which everybody will approve. I would remind the House that Nonconformist Bills do not receive the same indulgent treatment as do measures of this kind. I hope this Bill will prove to be the thin edge of the wedge, and that the principle of equalisation will be applied in a great many other directions
§ MR. CARVELL WILLIAMS (Nottinghamshire, Mansfield)Will this measure operate as regards existing canons, because there is a provision that nothing in the section shall operate to reduce the income of any person who is a canon at the passing of the Act except with his, consent?
§ THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir R. B. FINLAY,) Inverness Burghswas understood to say that the words were introduced to prevent any injustice being done to existing canons.