§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURYMy Lords, I need not trouble your Lordships for more than a moment in moving the Second Reading of this Bill, which deals with a technical or rather, a purely local matter. There is a point in the neighbourhood of the city of Bristol at which three dioceses converge, and the arrangements which were made a few years ago for the adjustment of the boundaries in that particular district turned out not to work quite satisfactorily. It is desired to re-adjust them, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are given, by this Bill, power to lay before His Majesty in Council an order to re-arrange the boundaries. The assent of the three Bishops concerned has been obtained, and there is no opposition to the Bill from any quarter.
§ On Question, Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next.