CATHERINE STREET, STRAND, AND GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C., PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, AND PROPRIETORS OF "HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT. 1890. The PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY contains all that can be collected of the Legislative History of this country from the Conquest to the close of the XVIIIth Century (1803), 36 vols. The chief sources whence these Debates are derived are the Constitutional History, 24 vols.; Sir Simonds D'Ewes' Journal: Debates of the Commons in 1620 and 1621; Chandler and Timberland's Debates, 22 vols.; Grey's Debates of the Commons, from 1667 to 1694, 10 vols.; Almon's Debates, 24 vols.; Debrett's Debates, 63 vols.; The Hardwicke Papers; Debates in Parliament by Dr. Johnson, &c., &c. The PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES commence with the year 1803, and the contents are set forth in the following Chronological Table: CONQUEST to 34 GEO. II. Vol. 16 1066 to 1760. Vol. 1 to 15, 1 WILL. I. to 34 GEO. II. 1066-1760 REIGN OF GEORGE III. 1760 to 1820. Vol. 15 to 35, 1 GEO. III. to 40 (FIRST PARLIAMENT.) - 35....41 GEO. III... 1801 - 36....42 1802 (SECOND PARLIAMENT.) -36....43 GEO. III.. 1802/3 DEBATES. First Series. (SECOND PARLIAMENT -continued.) 17 7 GEO. IV. 1826 18 to 19.. 9 20,, 21..10 140, 144 139..18 143..19 1853 1854 1855 1856 (a) 1857 1831 1832 Vol. 1 to 2.44 GEO. III. 1803/4 15 to 20..4 1833 ERRATA. April 18. Sir LYON PLAYFAIR, on page 887, line 17, alter man to nation. April 24. Lord ELPHINSTONE, on page 1248, line 28, alter 16,000 to 1,600. HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. IN THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF THE to. HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. THIRD VOLUME OF SESSION 1890. HOUSE OF LORDS, Thursday, 27th March, 1890. LUNACY CONSOLIDATION BILL. (No. 24.) OPEN SPACES BILL.- (No. 41.) SECOND READING, Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read. *THE EARL OF MEATH: My Lords, in asking you to read the Open Spaces Bill a second time, I desire, very briefly, to Returned from the Commons agreed explain its objects. The principal object BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Standing Orders Nos. XXI., XXXIX., and XLV., considered (according to order), and dispensed with for this day's sitting. CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL. ARMY (ANNUAL) BILL.-(No. 48.) Moved, "That the Bills have precedence of the Orders of the Day which stand before them."(The Marquess of Salisbury). Motion agreed to; then Bills read (according to order); and, Standing Orders Nos. XXXIX. and XLV. having been dispensed with, Committees negatived: Bills read 3', and passed. VOL. CCCXLIII. [THIRD SERIES.] is to improve existing legislation on the subject; also to afford greater facilities for the acquisition and maintenance, by Local Authorities, of open spaces, and the extension to Local Authorities generally, of powers which at present are vested only in certain Authorities, and also to afford greater protection against the illegal enclosure of Metropolitan commons with the view of their being regulated as open spaces. It is only very recently, comparatively speaking, that the public have appreciated the necessity of acquiring open spaces in our large towns. It is not to be wondered at if occasionally it is necessary to revise these Statutes; for it would be very extraordinary if, in such a short space of time as 13 years, we had found B |