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MAY 24, 1856.

Admiralty when the medals Promised to the officers and
men engaged in the Arctic search for Sir J. Frank is
and hie companions were to be dieteibuted ?
Sir C. WOOD sa=d be could not give an answer to
the cfrestion. Delay had occurred inieciding the de-
sign for the medal. e • tiL.
GUANO. 1111
Mr. HORSFALL asked the 'Fiist Lord of the
Treasury if be could give any information as to thee
quantity.of guano On'the islands in the Kooria Moorie
Bay, do the south-east coast of Arabia, uudtrstood to
be ceded to the British Crown, And what restric-
tions had been placed on the removal of it ; and,
whether any exclueive right to the guano had been
granted to any person or persons; and, if so, the names
of such persons, and the terms of such grant ?
Lord PALMERSTON said there was only a limited
quantity of guano, on those islands; The right to take
guano from them for three years had been granted to a
certain company fora certain amount of money.
CRIMEAN MEDALS.
Colonel DUNNE asked the Under'Secretary for War
whether certain officers and men who arrived in the
Crimea subsequently to the 18th of September had re-
ceived decorations which they were subsequently directed
to give up, and the reason for this proceeding ?
Mr. F. PEEL said that 30 of the;plen of the artillery
that bad returned to this couartry,'lend who were not
t
in the Crimea the day after the 1h September, had
been called upon to return the med s he had given to
them in mistake.
PARTNERSHIP AMENDMENT BILL.
In answer to a question from jr. SrooNFa,
Mr. LOWE said he should proceed with the Partner-
ship Amendment Bill ontlionday;
SANDH URST coLmgq4.'
Oa the motion for the adjournmerat **tee house, •
Colonel NORTH asked the Under Sedetary for War, •
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government
to carry iota effect the recommendation of the Sand-
hurst Committee with respect to the establishment of
the orphan class of cadets at that College?
Colonel DUNNE asked what steps had been taken in
reference to the committee's report relative to the
educati)n of staff officers?

Mr. PEEL said the Government intended to carry
out the report of the committee with reference to these
cadets, but provision for the purpose must be made by
the Government, as there were no funds for it belonging
to the College. With regard to the other question, the
subject was under consideration.
SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD asked the First Lord
of the Treasury, whether, in consequence of the state of
health of several of the prelates of the Church, who are
unhappily disabled from attending to their dioceses, it
was the intention of the Government to take any steps
to put in force the powers of the Act 26 Henry VIII.,
c. 14, "for the nomination and consecration of Suffragans
within this Realm ;" or, if not, whether the subject was
still one which had occupied the attention of her Majesty's
Government, with a view to providing a suitable re-
medy

Air. HADFIELD proposed an addition to the ques-
tion., aiAl he felt satisfied the house would believe him
when he stated he sympathised with the noble marquis
and the sufferings of the bishops. (Laughter.) He
was in earnest iu what he said, and he was sure the
country would re-echo it if the bishops were removed
from the House of Lords. (Laughter.) It was the
most painful thing to him—(laughter)—to find that the
reverend gentlemen interfered so much with tem-
poral matters, and he said they had always ob-
structed the passing of every popular and necessary
measure. (Laughter.) He felt satisfied Churchmen
would be pleased to see them out of that house, and the
Church established would be benefitted by it. He wished
to now if the subject had engaged the attention of Go-
vernment,and if the noble lord intended to make any alte-
ration in the way he (qr. Hadfield) suggested? (Laughter.)
Sir .1. PAKINGTON said it was necessary to the
interests of the Church that something should be done
with reference to the inability of right rev. prelates to
attend to their duties. He thought the precedent of the
Indian and Colonial bishops might be beneficially ap-
plied to the English bishops.
Mr. 0. STANLEY said that the Act 26 Henry
VIII. could only be put in force at the request of
the Bishop himself. He alluded to the correspondence
that had lately been published with reference to him-
self and the Bishop of Bangor, which it was to be re-
gretted had been made public for the sake of the
Church. That correspondence was published at the
request of the Bishop, and therefore he felt no
delicacy in alluding to it, and to ask the noble lord to
give some assurance that means would be taken to pre-
vent such a repetition of conduct on the part of the right
reverend gentleman alluded to. The right reverend gen-
tleman he believed had been led to act as he had from
the infirmities of age, &c,, under which he was labouring,
and it was to be regretted that a gentleman, whose
mind was at one time of the Ixfgheetiklap,sa4`l4rtywal
..saaimeminent for his charity' and viziassc litfrorop*
lost all control over his temper as to have scandalised
the country with such a correspondence as that he bad
published. (Bear, hear.)
Lord PAL NIERSTON—The matter, as mentioned by
the Marquis-of Blaudford, bad been for seine time, and
was, under the consideration of the Government, but it
was a question besot with difficulties. With regard to
the supplemental question of tho hon. member for Shef-
field, he could only say that he did not at all concur with
him in the opinion he expressed, that the bishops were
out of place in the other house of Parliament. It did
not form part of their intention to make any change in
that respect. B lore ho sat down, he wished to express
a hope that no other hon. gentleman would put a ques-
tion to him on that motion, as he would have no oppor-
tunity of replying.

CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) ACT.

In reply to a question from Mr. BUTT,
Mr. HORSMAN said the now law should be recom-
mended by the Lord-Lieutenant, and sanctioned by the
Treasury. He was in communication with the Trea-
sury, but nothing was yet finally settled. It was not in-
tended to renew the Critne and Oatrage Act of last ses-
sion, but a new measure had been prepared re-enacting
what was necessary, and omitting the objectionable pro-
visions, which he hoped to be able to lay on the table in
the course of the evening.
THE ILLUMINATIONS.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to ask a question in re-
ference to the approaching celebration of her Majesty's
birthday. An impression had gone abroad that her Ma-

jesty's Government had given orders fora general Mu-
minAtion. He believed the Government had no such
power. It was believed that if people did not illuminate
interested parties would go about breaking windows.
He wished to know whether, if private persons did not
illuminate, they would receive that protection for their
property from the police to which they were entitled? A
great number would go out to see the fireworks, and the
servants would go too, and it would be very unpleasant
when they returned home to find their houses broken
jut-) and illuminated in a way they did not expect.
("Hear," and laughter.)
Sir G. GREY said there could not be the slightest
doubt that the Government had no power to order a
general illumination, and lee had so stated in answer to
several applications made to him. He believed it was
now well known that it was neither wished nor expected
that there should be a general illumination—that is, ge-

ueral in the sense that every private house shall be illu-
minated. The police would have orders to give all the
protection in their power to private property ; people
would be so much engaged on that night admiring the
fireworks that they would not have time for mischief.

DR. :30UTRWOOD SMITH.

Mr. ROEBUCK said that some time last year, after a
negotiation between Dr. Southwood Smith and the Trea-
sury, it was agred that the Dr. should receive a pension
of 000/. a year. On the veto for civil contingencies for the
year, there appeared a vote of 3001. compensation to Dr.
Smith. He wished to know whether that was on account
of the pension?
Mr. WILSON said that the vote in question was to
discharge a sum of 3001. which bad been paid to Dr.
Smith last year, in anticipation of his pension, as it was
not thought fair to make him wait for 12 months.
COSTA RICA. AND NICARAGUA.
Lord J. RUSSEL L had intended to ask a question of
his noble friend the First Lord of the Treasury, but after
the intimation given he would postpone it to Monday.
It was as to the authority of a letter signed E. Ham-
mond, which had appeared in the papers, with regard to
the furnishing arms to the Government of Costa Rica,
and whether that furnishing of arms implied any inten-
tion on the part of her Majesty's Government to take
part in the hostilities between Casta,Rica and Nicaragua.
The motion for the adjournment was then agreed to.
OATH OF ABJURATION BILL.
On the motion of 2.1 r. 141. GiBsON, the house went
into committee on this bill.
Clause 1.
Mr. F. THESIGER moved to leave out the words
" and the assurance." This amendment was merely
introductory to a number of which he had given
notice, and ho thought it would be convenient to
the committee if he took that opportunity of stating
the object of them. When the right hon. member for
Manchester introduced the bill, he stated that ho did so
in consequence of several of the provisions of the oath of
abjuration having become obsolete, and urged with great
force the absurdity, not to say irreverence, of denying
claims that no longer had any existence. If the right, hon.
gentleman had intended to confine himself to the simple
object of altering the oath in these particulars, it might
have been attained by the simple erasion of these words
from the oath, and he would have supported such a pro-
posal, but the right hon. gentleman had another and a
further object ; he wished to introduce Jews into Parlia
meat, and for that purpose it was necessary to get rid of
a second part which stood in their way, and to accom-
plish that the right hon. gentleman proposed to give
a death-blow to the oath. This oath was the only
one which recognised the Protestant succession as
established by the Act of Settlement, yet the right
hon. gentleman proceeded to sweep it away from
the statute-book. Many hon. gentlemen had voted
'for the second reading of the bilk An the expectatip

of being able to modify it to meet their views in 90=14-
tee ; such a mode of legislation appeared to him (Sir F.
Tetesiger) very inconvenient. His right hon. friend 'the
member for Buckinghamshire, who on this Ittbject'dif-
fered frltn the majority of his party, had given notice of
elk arnetrdment, vsibieshk would have the effect of &A:tin-
ge:ailing the two que lone, as to the propriety of &bro.
eating one of them, and as to the inceeeli ortant one,
the admission of the Jews. That was itr opfkay to
1p
treat the queseion; and if his (Sir F. The ger': . nlend-
m were adopted they would firse decide the propriety
of
ka
ling the obsolete part of the 'oatre- and then conic
to the ore impoi tent consideration, whether they would
strike out thew ds, "on the true faith of a Christian."
The noble lor e member for the City of London,
ci,
who on this ace n wasasigissg the under 'work of. the
hon. member for Manchester, had proposed a form of
words ,which would imit e recognition of the Protes-
tant succession. .rgireen, lord formerly nuide.his at-
tempts tcr introducg t!, Jews openly and directly,
but she now sought Ito d it indirectly and by a side
wind. The questiod for t committee was whether they
would take that ceivaLor dept his amendments, -which
it
would accomplish til.tße
eght hon. gentleman had origi-
nally proposed, esaleeviselhe other question for distinct
decision. The oat of afejfration had been in existence
for le-0 years. It was eatabliged in 1701 by the 13th
William 111., and ever since maintained. There was
now no reason why it should be altered, except fir the
parts that had become obsolete.
Mr. M. GIBSON said that as ftr as he understood
the hon. and learned gentleman, the effect of his amend-
ments was to strike all the abjuration out of the oath of
abj :ration ; he must find some other name for it, as
he would leave nothing to abjure. Tne course he
had taken was strictly in accordance with {lre dents
in all former acts. The cetstoin was to repeal the
existing oath and enact a new one, involving thii- re-
quired changes. . It was necessary to do so, as it
would be impossible to patch up an oath as pr )posed by
the hon. and learned gentleman. He believed that the
Protestant succession would be perfectly secure without
any oath of abjuration, and he was confirmed in that
belief by the fact that there were thousands of cases in
which the law was not enforced, and the parties were
indemnified by an act which was passed at the end of
every session. Iu fact, except in the case of members
of Parliament and the holders of a very few offices, the
oath was not taken at all ; and au oath which was ro
extensively neglected could not be a very important in-
gredient in the security of the Crown: He did not see
how the words "and the assurance" °mild be omitted,
and for this reason—that the assurance, which was de-
signed especially for the Scotch, contained all the words
in the oath of abjuration with respect to the descendants
of James. The same amount of swearing that sufficed
for Englishmen would suffice for Scotciimen. ( Laughter.)
With regard to the admission of Jews to Parliament
and to various offices, he contended that question did
not arise under the bill. If there were no Jewish
question it would still be desirable that a super-
floyous and absurd oath should be abolished ;
and, though the removal of Jewish liabilities might be
effected incidentally, that question rested on other
grounds.
The amendment was then negatived without a division.
Sir F. THESIGER said he would not propose any
more of his amendments then, but after he had seen what
shape the bill assumed in committee, he would state what
cpurse he would pursue on the third reading.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would now propose the
oath of which he had given notice. He thought the hon.
and learned gentleman bad exercised a wise discretion in
not proposing to maintain the oath of abjuration. What
he (Lord J. Russell) proposed, was to abrogate an oath
which was absurd and useless, and to substitute for it one ANNUITIES BILL (No. 2).
by which they would simply bind themselves to main- This bill was read a second time.
taro the Protestant succession to the crown, as by law es- POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
tablished. In favour of retaining that part of the present Sir G. PECHELL presented a number of petitidns
oath, there was the fact that it was inserted in the Ro- from 41 parishes in different parts of the country which
man Catholic oath. As he had before said, he considered are under Gilbert's Act, against the bill.
that the laws which at present existed afforded sufficient Mr. BOUVERIE said that a considerable portion of
security ; but ho did not think Parliament ought the bill was to be amended, and he thought it best not to
even to appear to have weakened the present securities. proceed with the second reading, but to discharge the
It was with the view of diminishing the objections to order, and introduce a new bill with the proposed amend-
the bill that he now proposed this clause. The noble m„te_
lord then moved the following clause :—"ln lieu of the
Oath of Abjuration and of the assurance set forth and Mr. HENLEY, while thinking that course the best
under the circumstances, complained of want of courtesy
prescribed by the said recited act or any other act, 00 on the part of the right hon. gentleman in having given
following oath shall be substituted, which shall be intl.', no notice of big intention.
tuted `Au Oath for securing the Protestant Succession After souse conversation on this latter point, all the
to the Crown as by Law established,' and shall be in hon. members who spoke agreeing that the withdrawal
the words following, that is to say :---al, A. B. do faith of the bill in its present shape was the most advisable
fully promise to maintain, support, and defend to the course,
_the order was discharged ; a new bill was brought
utmost of my power, the succession to the Crown, which in by Mr. Bouverie, read a first time, and ordered to be
succession, by an act intituled "An Act for the further read a second time on that day fortnight.
limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights GRAND JURY ASSESSMENT (IRELAND)
and liberties of the subject,' is and stands limited to the BILL.
Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of The house went into committee on this bill.
Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants. Clause 1 was agreed to.
So help me God.' And every statutory enactment now On clause 2,
in force with respect to the Oath of Abjuration or the Sir R. FERGUSON moved to leave out the words
astute-pm abeerekY., stbopthwde felealV haleoeforthe appfr "1011 a. roads, bridges, railways, canals, iii, and water
181 p he oatiihereby substituted, in the same manner as if works."
such last-mentioned oath had been expressly mentioned The amendment was opposed by Mr. HOESOSAN and
or referred to in and by such statutory enactments, in- Mr.
FITZGERALD, and, after a short discussion, ne-
stead of the Oath of Abjuration and the assurance gatived.
hereby abolished." The clause was then agreed to.
Mr. NA PIER could not assent to this clause, and On clause 2,
thought the noble lord had embareassed the question by Mr. H. HAMILTON moved in=. line 21, after
proposing it. He was quite willing to vote for an alters- " pound," to insert " one," and wherever it should occur
tion of the abjuration oath which would make it more that the poundage rate was to be assessed on a less
consistent with modern ideas, bat he could not consent amount of value than one, it shall not be' necessary to
to the omission of the words "on the true faith of a take into account any smaller amount of value than one-
Christian." By the course which he was pursuing the eighth of a pound."
noble lord compelled persons who thought those words The amendment was agreed to and the clause passed.
indispensable to vote for retaining the abjuration oath Oa clause 4,
rather than sacrifice them. The Jewish question ought Sir R. FERGUSON moved, in line 36, after " thereof"
to be dealt with separately : he strongly objected to its to insert " and shall lodge the amount collected from
being mixed up with the question relating to the de- time to time in the County Bank, to the credit of the
scendants of James. treasurer of the county, and shall not at any time retain
Mr. ROEBUCK believed that the opposition was, from in his hands more than one hundred pounds, but shall
beginning to end, a sham. Much had been said about the lodge the same in the County Bank with all convenient
necessity of excluding infidels. \Vora Bolingbroke anti speed:, •
Gibbon excluded by the words "on the true faith of a Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD did not see any objection
Christian ?" (Mar, hear.) Hon, members opposite, to the amendment, if it were thought necessary.
while pretending to be actuated by Christian feeling, The words proposed were then added, and the clause
were manifesting an unchristian desire to exclude their was agreed to.
fellow-subjects. The next clause, with a slight amendment, was like-
Mr. NEWDEGATE said, instead of the opposition wise agreed to.
to the noble lord's clause being a sham, the very object An amendment proposed by Mr. H. HAMILTON, to
aimed at was to prevent imposition. They had come give to the secretary to the grand jury of the county of
there t 3 clear the ground, and their reason for wishing to Dublin, a special remuneration for making out the as-
exclude those who were not Christians was that such eessmeut, was negatived after a brief conversation.
persons were not actuated by the principle which formed On clause 6, to verbal alteration proposed by Sir R.
the foundation of the laws. FERGIISSON was agreed to ; after which
Mr. ROEBUCK said the words "on the true faith of a Sir F. THESIGER proposed to insert a proviso, that
Christian" were not in the oath of allegiance, which was a list or account of all sums to be represented, with the
certainly as important as the oath of abjuration. The real dates and :names, should be left with the county tree-
object of hon. gentlemen opposite being to exclude Jews, surer three weeks previous to the assizes, open to public
why did they not say so ? (Ironical opposition cheers.) If inspection without fee ; and that it should be competent
he were a Jew he would take the oath atonce. (Laughter.) for any person interested to object to the re-presentment,
He would repeat the words "on the true faith of a and that the grand jury should hear his objections.
Christian," and would add " those words have no binding Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD suggested that the proviso
force upon me." After he repeated the words imposed should be withdrawn, and a clause to carry out the ob-
by the Act of Parliament he could not be excluded. jects of the hon. and learned gentleman added on the
Mr. H. DRUMMOND agreed with the hon. and third reading.
learned gentleman that the opposition wn 9 a sham. A After some further consideration,
reference to former debates would show that at one pe- Sir F. THESIGER adopted thei suggestion, and
riod the words "on the true faith of a Christian " were withdrew the proviso.
considered of far greater importance in the oath of The clause was then agreed to.
allee,iance than in the oath of abjuration. He wished the On clause 7,
noble lord (Lord J. Russell) would direct his attention Sir R. FERGUSON moved to leave out the latter
to the getting rid of the Royal Marriage Act, which was
well portion of the clause, which introduced a new principle
known to have originated in personal spite on the
into grand jury assessment.
part of George the Third to some of his sons, which Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD said that, under the ex-
ought long ago to have been repealed. ;sting acts, charitable institutions were exempt, but the
Sir F. THESIGER said one reason why he and others rents derived from them were charged with half the
objected to the proposal of the noble lord was that it e.id rate. The object of the clause was to enable a mesne
not distinctly raise the Jewish question. As regarded landlord so charged to make a deduction from the head
the expression " sham," he must remind the hon. and
landlord,
learned gentleman that they (the opposition) had always After a conversation, '.in; which Mr. I. BUTT urged
declared that they objected to the admission of Jews to that the !clause should be withdrawn altogether, the
Parliament ; and had the Jewish question been distinctly amendment was withdrawn, and
brought before the house on that occasion, they would Mr. BUT r moved that the clause should be omitted.
have repeate I that declaration. With respect to infidels, Mr. FITZGERALD consented to the omission of
lie would remark that if one came there, and used the
the clause.
words " on the true faith of a Christian," no blame
Colonel DUNNE moved the omission of the Bth
would attach to the house. They could not raise barriers clause.
against immoral men. (Hear.) He pledged himself, at The committee divided—
some future stage of the bill, he would raise the Jewish For the clause . 87
question distinctly. (Hear.) Against it
Mr. ROEBUCK begged the committee to observe the Majority l6
confession of the hon. and learned gentleman, that " they The clause was then agreed to, as were also clauses 9
could not raise barriers against immoral men." The bar- to 17, inclusive.
rier in question was, he supposed, maintained for the Sir F. THESIGER moved the following clause :
purpose of excluding moral and conscientious men. With reference to any sums of grand jury cess to be pre-
Mr. C. FORTESOUE preferred the proposal made by sensed or re-presented after the passing of the act, it
recovery
the noble lord in 1849 to his present one, as the effect of not be lawful to commence any proceeding for the rneoct
pri.
its adoption would have been to impose one oath upon all, of any sum in arrear or unpaid against any person
Lord PALMERSTON said ho should give his' sap- manly liable to pay the same tinder orfte rbyievertxp
iration of two
port to the motion of his noble friend (Lord J. Russell), sentiment
fre
inatuhde ay rtleo tomf
seuneth thereof,ei.i,, original
t l
i presentiment, anythiug
not that he thought the intention of the act of 1701 of the pre-
would have the slightest effect in adding to the force of " throe" be substi
the law, for the settlement- of the crown rested on a Mr. h
BUTT moved that the word
ineatrhsis or any for'mer act' to the contrary notwithstanding.
much stronger foundation than the taking of any oath of tuted for " two.
that house. Nevertheless he could not but think that as The committee divided--42
the reference to the act had heretofore been inserted in For the amendment
95
the oath it ought to be part of the engagement taken. ' Against it
With regard to the objections urged that this was iedi- Majority
rectly removing an obstacle to the introduction of Jews The clause was agreed to.
from the extent or other ci i•
thee u
to Parliament, he replied that the obstacle which pre- Mr. HAMILTON moved to add the following clause
m sames t a n cf
for
s. e
vented them from taking their seats in that house had In any casol itamayappear expedient to divide which,
been no less incidentally introduced. He quite concur-
ofea bpharpoonse'of collection, it shall and may be lawful for the
red in the argument which had been put forward, that
tglirand jury to make a presentment for the purpose of effect-
if these words, "on the true faith of a Christian,"
wore ing such a division setting forth in such presentment the
necessary, they ought to be added to the other oaths as
parishes or townlands constituting such divisions or portions
well as to the one now under consideration. The oath ol of the barony; and when such presentment shall be fiated by
allegiance was a much more important oath than was the the court the parishes or townlands set forth therein shall,
one under consideration, and yet to that these words for all purposes belonging to the duties or functions of the
were not added. So far from thinking that it was an ob- collector, be taken to be separate portions of the barony; and
jection to this amendment that it would allow Jews to it shall be lawful for the grand jury, if they shall think fit,
take their seats there, be considered it a reason in its to appoint one collector for every such portion of a barony,
shall
favour. The hon. and learned gentleman said that. and the collector so appointed for a portion of a barony .
That might b V powers in
e su ject to all the provisions and have all the owe
very if he wished to add to the
the question ought to be distinctly raised. Th
very well be done by him
~ force by law with regard to the collector of any barony.
-
words of this clause the disputed words, on the true Mr. F. HUME moved that the chairman report pro
faith of a Christian." He very cordially assented to the gross, in order to get rid of this bill.
motion of his noble friend. This motion was negatived, and the clause agreed to.
Mr. NAPIER thought it wool be more convenient The bill was then ordered to be reported, and the house
to take the discussion upon this question en th e third resumed.
reading. He therefore suggested that the clause should WEST INDIAN LOANS BILL.
be allowed to pass.
The house went into committee on this bill, and seve-
The clause was then agreed to,
ral amendments were inserted, when the house resumed.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved to insert the following LUNATIC ASYLUMS (IRELAND) BILL.
clause : The order for the second reading of this bill was die.
Aug person pep:1%011 the PAW act 0 414 late witstz oharged, and .
. ...

POLICE (CO-UNTIES AND BOROUGHS) BILL.
Upon the order of the day for the further considera-
tion of this bi 11,.: _ _ _

The following clauses (moved by Sir G. GREY) were
agreed to :
(Provisions relating to borough police to be applicable to
the police in the places referred to in the act 3 and 4 Vic, c.
88, s. 20, until discontinued.) Until the constables or watch-
men appointed in and for any parish, town, or place under the
act passed in the session holden the third and fourth years of
King William the Fourth, chap. 90, or under any local act
authorising the appoittment of Constables or watchmen, and
authorising rateo to be made and levied for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of such constables or 'watchmen, are
discontinued as, a separate force in manner provided by
section twenty of the said act of the third and fourth years
of her Majesty and by this act, all the provisions of this act ap-
piicable to the constables of any borough acting under the said
act of the fifth aial sixth years of King Willirnn IV. shall be
applicable to the constables or watchmen. appointed nuderthe
said act of the third and fourth years of King. William IV.,
or under such local acts as aforesaid in and for Such parish,
town, or place,
.and until such discontinnauce all the provi-
sions of this act anpliCable to the Watch Cominittee of a bo-
rough shall be applicable to the inspectors, colttaitainners, or
other persons having the•appointUient or-const'abits or watch-
men in and for such parish, town, or place, and We police of
sue!) parish, town, or place, shall be visited and itivired into
by the inspectors under this act ; and the provisions in this
act enabling the Commissioners of her Alajesty's Treasury to
make payment towards the expenses of the police of a borough
having a population exceeding five thousand, shall, until such
discontinuance, extend to the police of such parish, town, or
place as aforesaid, haring the like population.
(The separate police in such places (having a population of
1.1,009) not to be superseded without the authority of the
Secretary of. State). Provided, that where any such parish,
town, or place, having such constables or watchmen as aforesaid
contains, according to the last Parliamentary enumeration, a
population of fifteen thousand persons or upwards, the chief
constable of the county in which such parish, town, or place
is situate, shall not give notice under the said section twenty
of the said act of the third and fourth years of her Majesty,
that he is ready to undertake the charge of such parish, town,
or place, without the previous authority of one of her Ma-
jesty's principal secretaries of state ; and notice of the in-
tention of the chief constable to apply to the Secretary of
State for such authority shall be published by such chief
constable iu such parish, town, or place, in manner directed
by the said section 20, respecting the publication of the no-
tice therein mentioned, fourteen days at least before such
application is made.
(Warrants issued in one jurisdiction may be executed in
another without being backed.) Any warrant for the appre-
hension of any person, issued by any justice or justices of the
peace in England or Wales, may be executed in any part of
England or Wales out of the jurisdiction of such justice or
justices, without the same being backed or indorsed by any
justice of the peace having jurisdiction in and for the place
where the same is required to be executed, in the same man-
ner, and with the same force and effect, as now by I,tw pro-
vided in cases where such warrant is actually so backed and
indorsed.

Some verbal amendments were then introduced, and
the bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday
next.

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