§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Debate arising.
§ MR. CREMER (Shoreditch, Haggerston)formally moved the Second Reading of this Bill.
§ SIR WILLIAM BULL (Hammersmith)said that they ought not at that hour of the night to proceed with a private Bill on a most important subject, containing sixty clauses.
§ And, it being Midnight, the debate stood adjourned.
§ Debate to be resumed to-morrow.
§ GEORGE WHITELEY ( (Yorkshire, W.R., Pudsey)moved the adjournment of the House, and said that on Monday the Prime Minister would move the suspension of the twelve o'clock rule.
§ Adjourned at one minute after Twelve o'clock.