§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ EARL GRANVILLE, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it would affect, in some degree, the conditions of labour of men and women, who worked in occupations where they were liable to lead poisoning, and it also contained some new regulations for effecting improvements in the construction and sanitary arrangements of bake-houses. He begged to move the second reading of the Bill.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Earl Granville.)
§ THE EARL OF WEMYSSsaid, he should not oppose the second reading of the Bill at so late an hour; but he wished to point out that it extended the principle of the Factories Act to full-grown men for the first time. He, therefore, hoped that the Committee stage would be brought on early in the day on which it would be taken, so that time would be given in order that its provisions might be fully discussed.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.