§ Order of the Day for Committee read.
§ The EARL of HARROWBYhaving moved that this Bill go into Committee,
The EARL of MALMBSBURYalso objected to some of the provisions introduced into the Bill, and thought that further time should be afforded for considering them.
§ LORD BEAUMONTsaid, that the Bill bad, no doubt, been materially altered. New enactments were introduced into it, and certain new offences and penalties created. As, for example, the Bill said, if any barber or hairdresser within the metropolitan districts or the city of London, or its liberties, shall, after the hour of ten o'clock on a Sunday morning, open his shop for the purposes of his business, or for the 6 exercise of his ordinary calling, every such person, upon being convicted before a justice of the peace, shall for the first offence be subject to a penalty of 5s.; for the second shave, 10s.; and for the third shave, as much more. As this was a totally new enactment, he thought that they ought to be allowed a certain time to consider whether shaving beards on a Sunday ought to be visited with a penalty of 5s. for every shave.
§ The EARL of HARROWBYdefended the Bill.
§ LORD BEAUMONTwas understood to observe, that with the exception of the lean apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, such an unfortunate specimen of humanity as the poor barber would be made by this Bill if it passed, he had never heard of.
§ Report to be received May 16.