§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ THE MARQUESS OF RIPON, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, explained that, with the exception of one provision, it was the same which was rejected by their Lordships on a former evening. It was confined to the continuance of the powers to regulate school board elections, conferred upon the Education Department by the Act of 1870; and it did not contain the clause directing those elections to be taken by ballot. The noble Lord concluded by moving that the Bill be now read a second time.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.