§ Order read for Second Reading.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, that "The Bill be now read a second time."
§ Sir C. W. DILKEThis is the second of these three Bills to which my observations on the former one applied, and I wish to press the unwisdom of creating fresh appointments and additional Ministerial offices without a thorough review of all the Departments taken altogether, with 2126 the object of greater co-ordination in their work.
Attention called to the fact that Forty Members were not present. House counted; and, Forty Members being found present,
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Resolved, "That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House for Monday next."—[Mr. Joseph Pease.]