§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Clinton.)
§ LORD CLINTON, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that it had been introduced for the purpose of remedying a defect in an Act which was passed last Session by altering its 6th clause, so that it should no longer apply to costermongers or other itinerant tradesmen, and by this means to place the costermongers in the same position they occupied before the passing of that Act, with the exception that they were to be under the control of the Commissioners of Police. If this Bill were not passed, not only would serious injury be inflicted upon these persons, but considerable loss and great inconvenience would be caused to numbers of poor persons throughout the metropolis who were enabled through the means of itinerant vendors of provisions to obtain articles of food and small luxuries more cheaply and more readily than they could do in any other way. He trusted that their Lordships would consent to read the Bill a second time.
§ Motion ageeed to: Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.