§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Lord Denman.)
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (The Marquess of SALISBURY), in moving the rejection of the Bill, said, their Lordships could hardly consent to the repeal of an Act passed in the present year.
§ On Question, resolved in the negative.