§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD MUIR MACKENZIEMy Lords, I feel sure that at this period of the evening I shall best consult your Lordships' convenience if I do not make any speech upon this Bill. Just as your Lordships have been dealing this evening with the largest questions it is possible for the human mind to comprehend, so now this proposition is, 1165 I should think, the smallest that has ever come before your Lordships' House. It comes from the House of Commons. I understand that the Bill has the approval, so far as it requires approval, both of the Lord Chancellor and the Home Office. I beg to move that the Bill be now read a second time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2ª.—(Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2ª, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.