§ THE EARL OE SHAFTESBURY moved that the House go into Committe on this Bill.
THE EARL OF CARNARVONsuggested that the Committee on the Bill should be postponed until after Whitsuntide. No statement had been made as to what the object of the Bill was, and he thought that a subject of so much importance ought not to be so hastily disposed of.
THE BISHOP OF LONDONsuggested that the Bill should be postponed. It was impossible that he or any of his brethren could consent to the Bill as it then stood. He considered that it would have the effect of breaking up the parochial system, and he objected to the adoption of the measure without the introduction of some safeguard which would obviate the evils it was calculated to produce.
§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYobserved that he merely intended to put the Bill through Committee pro formâ.
§ LORD REDESDALEsaid, that the Bill had been read a second time without any explanation of its objects having been given by the noble Earl, and he now proposed to put it through another stage, without explaining what the Bill was to do. He (Lord Redesdale) must now state that the noble Earl was bound to give an explanation of its provisions before he proceeded further with it.
§ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYexplained that he was not answerable for the Bill, which had been sent up from the other House, and he now merely asked to be allowed to put the Bill through Committee pro formâ, for the purpose of introducing Amendments, and he would be prepared, on its recommittal, to make a statement to their Lordships.
§ House in Committee.
§ Amendments made.
§ The Report thereof to be received on Thursday next.
§ House adjourned to Thursday next.