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would receive @Aeries, but of course their compenuation
would in that case cease to be paid.
Mr. HENLEY suggested the addition of a dune to the
bill which would make the re•appoiutment of the officers,
la the event alluded to, not only may but necessary.
The bill woe than ordered for third reading to-morrow.
GUNPOWDER ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

The Lords' ameadtteets to this bill were considered and
adopted, and the bill was ordered for the third nacliag to-
MOTTO,.

BURIAL BOARDS (MORTGAGE OF RATES) BILL.
This bill passed through oommittee.
COUNCIL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION BILL
This bill also passed through committee.
COAL MINES BILL
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The Lords' amendnmits to thii bN were considered
and agreed to.
NIGHT POACHING PREVENTION BILL.
Mr. FORSTER moved that thin bill be recommitted,
" to order to restore the restriction to night of the special
powers givers to the police, which were expunged in com-
mittee ender a mimpprehension."
After ► few words from Mr. P. WYNDHAM in opposition
to the motion,
The amendment wee withdrawn.

Sir J. PAXTON moved the following chase :—" That
every policeman employed in carrying out the purposes of
this act shall keep a register of the orders given to him and
of the time he was employed on each occasion, and that the
person by and for whom he was employed shall be charged
for the time occupied and services rendered."
Mr. HADFIELD seconded the motion.

Sir B. LEIGHTON opposed the motion.
After a few words from Sir H. VEISNZT in opposition to
the bill generally,
Sir G. GREY appealed to the hon. member to withdraw
his clause, which rather implied that constables would do at
the bidding of country gentlemen what the law dad not
permit them to do.
The ameedment was withdrawn.

Sir G. GREY proposed to emend the preamble by omitting
the words which asserted that the increase of murderous
assaults created the necessity for this act, and substituting
the words, " whereas it is expedient that the laws now in
forte for the prevention of poaching be amended."
Mr. B. OSBORNE characterisedithe bill as one of the
greatest mistakes ever brought forward by a private member
of parliament at the termination of a hay IM MO. He was
one of those who thought that if they most tinker the pme
laws it ought to be does by the government, and not by a
private member. Let the question be met fairly, and let
grime be made property, as it really had become. He denied
that gems preserving interfered with good farming, and
instanced Norfolk, where there was the best farming and the
most game.
Mr. W. FORSTER moved that the word " night" be in-
elated before poaching, with a view to confine the operation
of the bill to proceedings et night.
Upon a division the numbers were :
For the amendment 7S
Against it

The amendment of Mr. Forster was oonsequadiy loaf.
Sir G. GREY said he proposed to insert an ainanded dag.
nitro of game in the bill. The definition, as it now ap-
peared, was such as had never existed before, and he wee
surprised it had received the sorent of the committee.
(Hear, bear.) What he proposed was to leave out all the
words defining same, and to insert the words that " game"
shall have the same meaning as in the act passed in tbe 9th
George IV., chap. 69, for the gwentioe of ought poaching,
sod in the second year of WI m IV., chap. 92.
Sir B. LEIGHTON defended the clause as it stood, and
stated that former acts bad included the words game
or rabbits." He admitted that eggs were a new addition.
It was not his ps,inziosition, bet was proposed by another
member, and without a word of opposition.
Mr. CRA ORD said that a division was taken on the
word rabbits. He regretted the result of the decision which
bad been come to, because the objection was to informing
the law against day poaching, sod the opponents of the
bill also objected to woodcocks, snipes, and rabbita being
described as game, they not being game.
Mr. BARROW said be was not sure whether he should
not at owe move that the house do adjourn, and he thought
he should be doing right in taking division after division
until the supporters of the boll oould be induced to listen to
the arguments spinet it. He believed stringent laws would
not put down poaching. (Cries of "Oh," and " Divida..")
It was because he believed, that this bill was an entire Par-
take that he was opposed to it. The petitioners all ob
jetted to the police being employed in the preservation of
game. It was impossible to make game property. There
was no one more desirous to put down poaching than he was.
Lord LOVAINE mu to order. The question they were
discussing was whether copies were to be erased as same
Mr. BARROW said then be would speak about rabbits,
and he did not think that hon. gentlemen were wise in en-
deavouring to make rabbits game. A farmer was quite as
mach justified in destroying a rabbit as he would be in
, destroying • rat.
The house divided, whet there &Petered—

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For the amendment 75
Apiost it
Mr. BUTT moved words to exempt females from being
searched under the provisions of this act.
Mr. NEW DEGATE regretted the clause had bean etre&
out which prevented game dealers from keeping a register.
He thought as the bill was at first framed it was a very bed
one, but it would leave the house in a good shape. He be.
Bared it would be inipoessible to make game property. The
amendment be should oppose, as it would be vary easy to
employ women to drive a cart containing gams, aad if they
did so they ought to be made amenable to the law.
After some further conversation the house divided, when
there appeared

For the amendmeat 53
Against BO-27
The .•eodment yea consequently negatived. ,
On dense 2.

Mr. CRAUFURD objected to the extension of the brill to
Scotland. No case had been shown for such a provision.
There were few or no preserret of pheasants and partridges
in Scotland. Re submitted that the experiment should be
tried in England first, and moved that the words "Great
Britain" be expunged, and the word " England" inserted.
The house divided, and the numbers were :

For the amendment M
Against
The amendment was consequently negatived.

Mr. BRADY mid that Ireland never had been a poaching
eountiy. (Hear, hen.) Moreover, the police in Irsla
had other duties to perform than to protect tuna He
moved that the words "and Ireland" be omitted from the
bill.
Sir B. LEIGHTON said he feared he could n emend to
the amendment. The bill could do no possible harm to
Ireland.
The house divided, and the numbers were :

For the amendment
Against
The amendment was consequently negatived.
Mr. CRAUFURD moved the adjournment of the deb►te.
The house divided, and the numbers were :
For tbe adjournment
Against
Sir B. LEIGHTON moved the insertion, after the word
"game." of the words "or any person aiding or abetting
such poison," or baying in hie possession soy game unlaw-
fully obtained, Ito.
A discussion ensued in which several hon. members took
part, sad ultimately the house divided, and the numbing
were :

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For the amendment
Against
The amendment wee coaesqueaUy earned
Sir F. GOLDSKID pointed out the absurdities in the
language of the clause se it stood, mid mowed the adjotuu-
moot of the debate.

TheCHANOELLOR etas EXCHEQUER said that under
the
.OiFOOMIPIaIIe, which bed arisen he mtist support the

motion far the adjournment, although he had hitherto op.
posed it.
After some further discussion, the house divided at 20
minutes to three, and there appeared :
For the adjournment.
Against
Au LION. MEMBER proposed that the penalty should be
reduced from 51. to 40e.
The house divided, when there appeared :
For the reduction 4B
Against it
Several amendments baring been adopted, the bill was
Axed for a third reading on Wednesday.
The other business having been disposed of, the house ad-
journed at half -past 3 o'clock.

THE CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY AND ST. THOMAS'
HOlSPlTAL.—Yeetarday the committee of the Commons,
with Mr. Buller for chairman, met to consider ',measure to
amble the Lord Mayor and corporation, and governors of
St. Thomas' Hospital? to convoy the site of the present
hospital to the Cbanng-cross Railway Company, and to
acquire a new site for the same. Mr. Ph on, Q.C.,
and Mr. Johnson appeared for the governors, and the ow
was opened by the former gentleman in a long sod elabo-
rate address, in the ooume of which he (termed at the history,
progress, and great public usefulness of the institution,
which wee originally established by charter in the reign of
Edward VI. The Charing-cries ItailwayCompany requiring
the rite at London bridge for their undertaking. it had been
made over to them in consideration of a sum
of 296,000 L, and the company mitered into pos-
session on Saturday last, but as doubts with
regard to the ability of the governors to sell the prop
had been raised, and as it was expedieet that they should
have special powers to purchase a site for a new hospital,
the proposed bill had been brought in. Mr. Baggallay, the
treasurer. Mr. Hunt, government land surveyor, and Mr.
Tits, M.P., were examined. The only opposition was on
the part of the parishes of Bermondsey, St. Thomas, sad
St. torge's, Southwark. and the question was diyettemd oo
to whether the bill should limit the area within whisk the
hospital will be re-established, or whether it should be left
to the Court of Chancery to determine; bat as the eom-
mittee on not limiting the area, bet leaving ft to
the Court of Chancery. the oppceitien was withdrawn sad
the bill passed. The new site, it may be added, for the
hospital re that known as the Surrey Gardens, recently do-
stroyed by are.