§ Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on Question [27th March], "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Question again proposed.
§ SIR H. AUBREY-FLETCHER (Sussex, Lewes)said he did not see the hon. 1353 Baronet the Member for South Somerset in his place. He was very anxious to make some remarks in connection with the Bill, and to put one or two Questions to the hon. Baronet in order to satisfy I himself and his constituency as to the character of the Bill. He should like to ask whether it was a Bill taken up from the remainder of the Bill brought forward in last session of Parliament by the previous Government or an entirely new Bill. There were many classes of people interested in this; not only farmers, but cake merchants and seed merchants, and even chemists were interested in it. Last session he received many letters from these professions and industries calling his attention to the Bill then brought forward, and which, unfortunately perhaps, the time did not permit to be passed into law.
And, it being half-past Seven of the clock, the debate stood adjourned till this Evening's Sitting.