§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time." — (Mr. Redmond Barry).
§ LORD R. CECILsaid the Second Reading had been moved without a word of explanation, although the House did not know anything about the Bill. He thought the Government was becoming very cavalier in its treatment of the House.
§ THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. REDMOND BARRIE,) Tyrone, N.said the object of the Bill was to apply to Irish prisons a single section of the English Prisons Act giving certain powers as to the revision of sentences according to rules prescribed by the Prisons Board.