§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (The Earl of PORTSMOUTH)My Lords, I do not propose to make any speech in moving the Second Reading of this Bill. There is nothing novel in its character. Certain Amendments have been rendered necessary by the Act of last year, and I have caused a Memorandum to be issued which is now on the Table of your Lordships' House explaining these Amendments. They are all of a drafting, and in some cases of a technical, character, and I do not think I need detain your Lordships further in moving the Second Reading.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Earl of Portsmouth.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
§ House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.