The Marquess of Normanbymoved the Order of the Day for the second reading of the three Bills —the Buildings Regulation Bill, the Boroughs Improvement Bill, and the Drainage of Towns Bill, he said, that in the present state of public affairs, he should, of course, not take upon himself to propose any measure on which there was likely to be a difference of opinion, but the bills he had mentioned had gone through their several stages last Session with general concurrence, although their progress was stopped by the dissolution. The principles had met with universal assent, and the details had been patiently examined by Committees up stairs. He was very desirous, therefore, that the bills should now be placed in the situation they had formerly attained, and that without needless delay. He would move, at once, the second reading of them. 339 With reference to the Boroughs Improvement Bill, an amendment bad been introduced by a noble and learned Lord, as to the manner in which the law was to be administered in Birmingham, and that amendment he had taken care to retain, so that the measures were precisely in the same state now, as when, a few months ago, they passed the House of Lords.
The Earl of Wicklowasked, whether it had been ascertained, that the bills, or any of them, would not be resisted in another place?
The Marquess of Normanbyadded, that objection had been taken there to only one of the three bills, and that objection, he thought might be obviated.
§ Bills read a second time.