§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
§ EARL GREYsuggested, that as the Bill would probably cause considerable discussion, it would be convenient that the debate on it should commence upon some evening when the Bill should stand the first thing on the business paper. If an understanding to that effect could be come to with the Government, their Lordships would, perhaps, be disposed to allow the second reading to pass that evening without discussion.
§ EARL GRANVILLEsaid, that Her Majesty's Government did not wish to shrink from the fullest discussion; but, in conformity with the suggestion of the noble Earl, he would simply move the second reading now, and take another opportunity of fixing when the Bill might next come on as the first Order of the Day.
§ THE EARL OF DERBYsaid, he thought it would be better to read the Bill a second time to-night, and fix the committal for Friday next, when it could be made the first Order of the Day. The state of the finances of the country were now so serious as to require the earnest consideration of the House, and no doubt considerable discussion would take place on the Bill.
§ EARL GRANVILLEproposed that the Bill should be committed to-morrow, and that the discussion should be had on the third reading, which he proposed to fix for Friday.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ House adjourned at half-past Six o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.