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sure would be to encourage a wholesale system of day
poaching.
Mr. FELLOWES said he hoped the Chantellor of the
Exchequer would not press the committee to adopt so im-
portant a resolution at that hour of the night. It really
ought to be printed and in the hands of members before they
were called upon to decide upon the question. (Hear,hear.)
With that view he would move that the chairman report
progress. (Hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not
offer any opposition to that motion under the circumstances,
and with the view of having the resolution printed. (Hear.)
Lord FERMOY hoped the right hon. gentleman, before
the bill again came under consideration, would remove
rabbits from the list of game. It was absurd to include
them.

Mr. M'CANN also opposed the classification of rabbits as
game. The farmers, in fact, looked upon them as vermin.
Lord GALWAY was glad to find that the right hon.
gentleman had abandoned that part of his original measure
which would have allowed certificates to be issued for a
short period of the season at so low a cost as XI.
Sir J. nto LW PE did not know in what light the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer regarded this measure, whether
with reference to revenue or public morality. lithe former,
he should like to know what amount of income he expected
from it, because that might have some bearing as to the
other point. At present it was well known that frequent
encounters took place between poachers and gamekeepers ;
that country gaols were crowded with the former, and that a
frightful amount of mischief and immorality prevailed.
They ought not to deal with the question in this way. If
it was intended to touch it at all, the whole system of our
game laws should be revised.
The motion was then agreed to, and
The CHAIRMAN reporte 1 progress.
LOCOMOTIVE BILL.
Mr. GARNETT moved the second reading of this
bill, the object of which was to provide r,gulations under
which locomotive machines might be allowed to travel
on common roads, to aid in the development of the
mineral, agricultural, and other resources of the country.
Mr. D. GRIFFITH observed that the promoters of the
bill had come to an understanding with the authorities in
the metropolitan districts not to run the machine vehicles
during the night, the only period at which the project could
be worked. If such a prohibition were good for the metro-
polis, it must be good for large towns in the country, and
therefore, if the bill went into committee, he should move
to extend the prohibition. Without the sanction of the
Secretary of State for the project, he should now move the
adjournment of the debate.

Mr. S. ESTCOURT urged the expediency of proceeding
with the bill, and taking proper securities in committee.
Mr. CLIVE, on the part of the Government, said there
was no objection to the second reading of the bill.
The amendment was then withdrawn, and the bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed en the Bth
of June.

PIERS AND HARBOURS BILL.
This bill was ordered to be referred to a select committee,
consisting of the following members :—Lord C. Paget, Mr.
Milner Gibson, Lord R. Cecil, Col. Wilson Patten, Mr.
Corry, Mr. Headlam, Mr. E. P. Bouverie, Mr. Talbot, Mr.
Gore Langton, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. M'Mahon, Mr. Black..
burn, Mr. Kinglake, Mr. Ridley, and Mr. Paull. Five to
be the quorum.

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL.
On the order of the day for the adjourned debate on the
second reading of this bill, a conversation took place.
Mr. CRAWFORD objected to the principle of the bill.
Mr. LOCKE moved that the bill be read a second time
that day six months.

Mr. TITE defended the principle of the bill, and f.qt-
pressed a hope that if the second reading were sanctioned,
the measure would be considered by a select committee, a
proposition which had the sanction of the Metropolita
Board of Works, whose constitution was not sought to be
changed by the provisions of the bill.
Mr. AYRTON complained that the bill, consisting of
nearly 150 clauses affecting the metropolis, was brought
forward at so late a period ; and he objected to any eaten,
lion of the powers of the Metropolitan Board of Works as
at present constituted. The clauses should be considered
not only by a select committee, but by a committee of the
whole house. He hoped the bill would be curtailed very
much, if the hon. member (Mr. Tite) who brought it for-
ward desired that it should pass this session.
Sir J. SHELLEY said some of the vestries disapproved
of the bill, and wished to appear by counsel before the
select committee to state their objections. He believed
that the Board of Works had done their duty to the best
of their ability.

Mr.- Alderman SALOMONS also objected to several
clauses of the bill.

The amendment was then withdrawn, -and the bill was
read a second time and referred to a select committee.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Sir JAMES DUKE obtained leave to bring in a bill to
establ'sh in Smithfield, in the city of London, a metro-
politan market for meat, poultry, and other provisions, and
for other purposes.
The bill was read a first time.
The house adjourned at ten minutes past one o'clock.