§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ MR. HARRINGTON (Dublin Harbour)I hope the House will allow this Bill to be taken now. It is simply a Bill to remove certain difficulties which stand in the way of the construction of light railways in Ireland, and it assimilates the law of Ireland to the law in England. It is a measure which the Government ought to have introduced, and I can see no objection to it.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.It is a controversial measure in many respects, and the Government cannot accept it without discussion.
§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)May I express the hope that the Attorney General will not take up a non possumus attitude towards this measure, but that he will approximate his mind to the views of Irish Members in the matter. We are only asking that the law of England should apply to Ireland, and we are now met in this unreasonable, manner by the Attorney General.
§ MR. ATKINSONI have carefully considered the matter, but we cannot! accept the Bill without discussion.
§ MR. T. M. HEALY. I bet you will accept it before the session is over.
§ Second Reading deferred till Thursday next.
§ Adjourned at live minutes after Twelve of the clock.