§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it proposed to withdraw from the operation of the Coal Mines Regulation Act certain metalliferous mines, and to empower the Secretary of State to allow the use of loose gunpowder in those mines.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Earl of Dalhousie.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.