SECOND READING—QUESTION OF FORM.

HL Deb 15 April 1859 vol 153 c1773

THE EARL OF CARNARVON

moved the second reading of the Bill.

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET

objected to the Bill being read a second time, on the ground that it was not among the Orders of the Day.

LORD REDESDALE

explained that the object of the Bill was only to confirm certain provisional Orders.

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET

objected to confirming these Orders without knowing what they were.

EARL STANHOPE

agreed with the noble Duke, and suggested that the Orders might wait for confirmation until the assembling of the new Parliament.

THE EARL OF DERBY

said, that the Orders were set out in a schedule of the Bill, and therefore if there was any objection to any of them it might be raised in Committee. There could be no reason why the Bill should not be read a second time.

Bill read 2^a (on Motion) committed to a Committee of the whole House on Monday next; and Standing Orders Nos. 37, and 38, to be considered, in order to their being dispensed with.