§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
THE PAYMASTER GENERAL (Lord THURLOW),in moving that the Bill be read a second time, explained that it was to enable a sum of £200,000 to be raised upon the security of the rates of the Metropolis for the purpose of erecting new central police offices, new police stations where required, and also for enabling the authorities to improve the existing stations.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Lord Thurlow.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.