§ Order of the Day read for the consideration of Commons Amendments.
§ LORD TEMPLEMOREMy Lords, at this late hour your Lordships will not desire me to go into a very long dissertation on these Amendments, and in moving that the Commons Amendments be considered I would say that although on paper they have a formidable appearance they are almost entirely of a drafting character. I made a calculation this morning and I discovered that out of seventy-nine Amendments no fewer than fifty-six might be described as of a drafting nature. I see my noble friend Lord Marks in his place, and I think I have. his word for it that the Bill as it came back from the House of Commons is a better Bill than it was when it left this House. I beg to move that the Commons Amendments be now considered.
§ Moved, That the Commons Amendments be now considered.—(Lord Templemore.)
§ LORD TEMPLEMOREMy Lords, you have had the Commons Amendments, and if you desire information I have information on all of them, which I should be happy to give; otherwise I will take the Amendments en bloc, and I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Templemore.)