§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the day for the Second Reading read.
LORD DENMANMy Lords, a similar Bill was brought in last year for Scotland, and it was found also to be desirable that a Bill of this character should be brought in for Ireland. Two applications have lately been made for the erection of whaling stations off the Irish coast, and these applications have caused some alarm among the fishing populations in these districts. It is certainly necessary that the industry should be carried on under 729 certain regulations. In this instance the regulations will be undertaken on behalf of Ireland by the Board of Agriculture. I beg to move.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(Lord Denman.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.