§ MR. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)moved the Second Reading of this Bill, the object of which, he said, was to prohibit the catching of wild rabbits and the coursing of them in enclosures, and to prevent the hunting of 652 stags originally wild and kept in confinement.
§ SIR FREDERICK BANBURY (Camberwell, Peckham)yielded to no one in his desire to put down cruelty to animals, but he was not at all sure that this Bill did not go a little too far. It was doubtless introduced with a good object, but sufficient consideration had not been given to the possible results arising from the passage of the Bill.
§ And, it being midnight, the debate stood adjourned.
§ Debate to be resumed this day.