§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
LORD DENMAN, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that the Local Government Act of this Session was passed in a great hurry; was a dangerous measure; that the counties did not desire it; nor was there any desire to supersede the magistrates in the management of county business. It was a very unsatisfactory Act as regarded woman. In short, the Act 623 should not have been passed until after a General Election, when it could have been seen whether it received the approbation of the country. He begged to move the second reading of this Bill.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Denman.)
§ On Question, resolved in the negative.