§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that on the introduction of the measure he stated its object to be to enable the Masters in the Judges' Chambers to transact business which was at present thrown on the Judges to the great inconvenience of the public. When he made his statement a noble and learned Lord (Lord Cranworth) who had had great experience of the Superior Courts, and knew the practical inconvenience which the Bill was intended to remedy, said that he entirely approved the measure; but since then that noble and learned Lord had suggested that it was desirable to have an appeal from the decision of the Masters in certain cases. He entirely agreed with that suggestion, and he had since framed a clause, which he proposed to move in Committee giving effect to the proposition.
§ Motion agreed to: Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.