This is a Bill which was introduced in the House of Lords. It is a Bill of 135 Clauses, a very heavy Bill indeed. I understand it was referred to the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills. They introduced some hundred or more Amendments, and the Bill was ordered to be reprinted. So far as I am aware, it has never been before this House at all. The Bill has not been reprinted, there is no copy obtainable in the Vote Office; not a single soul has seen this Bill at the present time. It was strongly impressed on me a short time ago by two members, one on the opposite benches and one on this side, that the Bill ought to be allowed to go through all its stages to-day. That is absolutely impossible. It is grotesque enough to allow a Second Reading of a Bill which not a single Member of the Government has ever seen in print, especially when it is a Bill of 135 Clauses. True, it is a Consolidating Bill, and I have not a word to say about it—as far as I am aware it is a perfectly good and highly desirable Bill—but I do protest against Bills being brought before us without a print being obtainable. It would get this House a very bad name if it went out that this House passed a particular Bill without a single person having seen it. That is not a thing which would add to the dignity of the House, nor to its respect, at all events, among the legal profession. I understand there are very special reasons for saying the Bill should go, through—I am not saying a word against the Bill, I know nothing about it—but I understand the Government are not now going to ask for more than this stage to-day, and I hope that before it goes through the other stages the Bill will be printed, and that we shall have an opportunity of seeing it. I appeal to the Government in future not to come down to the House to ask us to pass Bills which have not been printed, because it is merely luck whether anybody comes here to raise any objection, and it is an invidious thing to do.