§ LORD REDESDALErecommended that the Bill should be recommitted, as it was impossible to deal with it in a satisfactory manner, unless by discussing it clause by clause.
§ LORD REDESDALEsaid, that under these circumstances he should move that the Bill be read a third time this day three months.
§ After a short conversation, in which Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, the Duke of RICHMOND, Earl GREY, and other Peers took part,
§ On question that the word "now" stand part of the Motion, House divided:—Contents 26; Not-Contents 20: Majority 6.
509| List of the CONTENTS. | |
| DUKE | VISCOUNT. |
| Norfolk | Falkland |
| MARQUESSES. | BISHOP. |
| Clanricarde | St. Asaph |
| Lansdowne | LORDS. |
| EARLS. | De Mauley |
| Auckland | Camoys |
| Grey | Cottenham |
| Fingall | Wrottesley |
| Radnor | Montford |
| Devon | Stafford |
| Granville | Strafford |
| Bruce | Dunalley |
| Minto | Lilford |
| Bessborough | Sudely |
| Fitzhardinge | Campbell |
| List of the NOT-CONTENTS. | |
| DUKES. | Montrose |
| Richmond | Buccleuch |
| MARQUESSES. | VISCOUNTS. |
| Ayslesbury | Combermere |
| Huntley | Sydney |
| EARLS. | |
| Harewood | LORDS. |
| Nelson | Sondes |
| Enniskillen | Colville |
| Rosse | Walsingham |
| St. Germans | Redesdale |
| Stradbroke | Gray |
| Cardigan | Colchester |
§ Resolved in the Affirmative: Bill read 3a accordingly.
§ The further Proceedings on this Bill were as follows: Amendments made. Then it was moved, in Clause I, to leave out ("Forty-seven") and insert ("Fifty-two"): on Question, That the Words proposed to be left out stand Part of the Bill, House divided;—Contents 21; Non-Contents Hi: Majority 5. Resolved in the Affirmative. Then it was moved, to leave out Clause II; objected to; and Motion (by Leave of the House) withdrawn. Then it was moved, in Clause III., to insert, after the Word ("them") the following Words ("up to the Term of Whitsunday one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two"); objected to; and, on Question, Resolved, in the Negative, Then it was moved, after Clause III., to insert the following Clause: ("And be it enacted, That all Powers of borrowing or raising Money under an Act passed in the Second Year of Her present Majesty, intituled 'An Act to regulate and secure the Debt due by the City of Edinburgh to the Public; to confirm an Agreement between the said City and its Creditors; and to affect a Settlement of the Affairs of the said City and the Town of Leith' shall cease and determine, and the same are hereby repealed"); objected to; and, on Question, Resolved in the Negative. Then it was moved, to leave out Clauses ("IV.") and ("VI."): on Question, Resolved in the Affirmative. Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.