§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
THE DUKE OF ST. ALBAN'S, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that the Bill, which had come up from the Commons after much discussion, provided for the protection and regulation of the Royal Parks and Gardens, which being placed under the management of the Commissioners of Works and Buildings might be, in some sense, said to be public property, and as the public were freely admitted to these beautiful spaces it was desirable that they should be protected from molestation and annoyance while enjoying them. The Parks and Gardens mentioned in the Schedule were Hyde Park, St. James' Park, the Green Park, Kensington Gardens, Parliament Square Gardens, Regent's Park, Kennington Park, Primrose Hill, Victoria Park, Battersea Park, Greenwich Park, Kew Gardens, Hampton Court, Richmond Park, Bushey Park, Holyrood Park, and Linlithgow Park. The Bill gave the necessary powers to the park-keepers and officials employed in the regulation of the Parks, and provided penalties for the infraction of the authorized rules; and the first Schedule set out a series of regulations of general application which were to be observed by persons using the Parks. The noble Duke concluded by moving the second reading.
Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.
§ House adjourned at halt-past Five o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.