§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
*THE LORD BISHOP OF BRISTOLMy Lords, the object of this Bill is to enable the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to lay before His Majesty in Council, for confirmation, a, scheme (a) for re-arranging the boundaries between the dioceses of the bishoprics of Bristol and Gloucester by transferring to the diocese of Bristol the ecclesiastical parishes contained in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury, and also the ecclesiastical parishes of Thornbury and Oldbury-upon-Severn, both in the rural deanery of Dursley, and for including the parishes aforesaid in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury; and (b) tor rearranging the boundaries between the dioceses of the bishoprics of Bristol and Bath and Wells by transferring to the diocese of Bristol the ecclesiastical parish of Brislington in the rural deanery of Bath (Keynsham District), and including it in the rural deanery of Bedminster. The Bill as I now move it is the same as the one which was passed through your Lordships' House last year by the most rev. Primate; but in the course of the winter representations were made to me which will induce me to move two Amendments when the Bill gets into Committee.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a,"—(The Lord Bishop of Bristol.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.