§ Postponed proceeding on Amendment to Question [9th April], "That the Bill be now read a second time."
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Which Amendment was—
To leave out from the word 'that,' to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 'this House, though anxious to increase the capacity for expansion of the force of the Crown in time of war, regrets that the Government should make proposals which, while destroying the Militia, discouraging the Yeomanry, and imposing new and uncertain liabilities on the Volunteers, would not, in a period of national peril, provide an adequate force for Home defence or prompt support for the Regular Army in the field.'"— (Mr. Wyndham)—instead thereof, resumed.
§ Question again proposed," That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
§ And, it being after Eleven of the Clock, and objection being taken to further proceeding, the debate stood adjourned.
§ Debate to be resumed To-morrow.