§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE EARL OF NORTHBROOK, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, the object of the Bill was to provide the widows of seamen in the Royal Navy who lost their lives in the Service with pensions; and also to provide for sending their young boys to 1299 charitable institutions instead of to Greenwich Hospital School. In such cases as the loss of the Atalanta and Eurydice, the widows and children had received allowances from subscriptions raised by the country. This, however, was but a precarious provision, and failed to meet isolated cases. The proposals of this Bill were in accordance with the original objects of the foundation of Greenwich Hospital, and it was singular that so many years had elapsed without some such provision being made. Power was to be vested in the Admiralty of selecting the boys who were to be sent to the institutions referred to. He begged to move that the Bill be now read a second time.
Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Earl of Northbrook.)
Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.