§ Order of the Day for the Second Beading read.
§ LORD SUDELEY, in moving that the Bill be now a second time, said, that its object was simply to enable the Board of Trade and the Admiralty jointly to mark out a fair way with buoys within half-a-mile from Cowes and Ryde, within which no vessel might anchor. At present there was no authority to regulate shipping in the road, and in consequence there were great delay and considerable danger when steamboats which plied frequently by day and by night from the mainland wanted to approach and land passengers and goods at Cowes and Ryde. Vessels had been run down off Ryde and lives lost from want of some such provision. Railway Companies who owned the steamboats contributed £400 to the expenses. The only outlay would be for laying down the buoys. The Bill would be a great boon to all yachts and 868 steamers frequenting these roadsteads. He begged to move the second reading of the Bill.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Lord Sudeley.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly; and Standing Order No. XXXV. to be considered To-morrow in order to its being dispensed with.