HL Deb 21 May 1855 vol 138 cc826-7

Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.

THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY moved, "that this Bill be read a second time, with the view of its being hereafter referred to a Select Committee."

LORD REDESDALE

would not oppose the Motion, but wished to guard against its being understood that he concurred in the principle of the Bill, which was one requiring, he considered, a great deal of consideration. The Bill might, he thought, afford facility for persons being induced, by those who were discontented with the clergyman of a parish, to attend a species of worship which would be neither strictly private nor strictly public, and might in that way create disunion and give rise to most objectionable consequences.

Motion agreed to.

Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the whole House To-morrow.

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