The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-09 00:00:00

ENCLOSURE BILLS.

Mr. PRYME moved that on the committal of every
Enclosure Bill it be an instruction to the Committee to
insert a clause providing for the allotment of a certain
portion of laud to be let in small portions to labourers,
and the rents thereof appropriated in aid of the poor-rate.
Mr. HUNIE wished that the motion should be adjourned
until the report on the subject could he printed, which.
he said, might be done by that day week.
An HoN. MEMBER supported the motion of Mr. Pryme.
Mr. WARBURTON thought it would be more advis-
able that the resolution should he brought forward as a
Bill, and that a Committee up stairs should sit to inquire
into the subject.
Mr. AGLIONBY said, the principle of Enclosure Bills
was to take property from one party to give it to another.
Co!onel TORRENS objected to any measure which
tended to the local comfort of a few, while that of the
whole was sacrificed.
Mr. EWART opposed the measure.
Mr. G. F. YOUNG concurred in the observations of
the Hon. Member for Middlesex.
Mr. PRYME felt disposed to agree to the suggestion
of the Hon. Member for Middlesex, which was accord-
ingly agreed to.
COLONIAL JUDGES.
Mr. HUME said, with respect to his notice of motion
about the appointment of a Chief Justice of the Island of
Ceylon, and return of India Judges now receiving retire-
ment allowances, in the absence of the Colonial Secretary,
be would postpone the first part of it; but would move
for a return of all the Judges who had been concerned
with the administration of justice in India, and in the
Islands of Mauritius, Ceylon, and Malta, now enjoying
pensions given them on their retirement ; stating the places
and the income which they formerly held, and the
amount of pensions which bad been granted, and how long
they bad been paid to them.
The return was agreed to.
The House then went into a Committee, for the furtl er
consideration of the Police-office (London) Bill.
Various amendments were moved, and carried without

opposition.
Mr. PEASE moved a clause, to enable the magistrates
to put down, by a summary proceeding, places where rat-
hunting, bear-baiting, and other sports of that kind were
carried on.
Mr. LAMB admitted that the sports alluded to were
cruel ; but be saw no more propriety in interfering with
the sports of the poor than with the sports of the rich.
He opposed the clause.
Mr. LENNARD supported the clause, because the
mode of suppi essing such amusements by indictment was
o circumlocutory and expensive, that it could he seldom
had recourse to.
Mr. HILL thought, till they were ready to put down
all sports, such as shooting and hunting, they ought not
to put down by law the amusements of the poor.
Mr. ROTCH supported the clause. It extended only
to five miles from Temple Bar, and would only put an
end to places where robbery
was frequently concocted, and
the booty divided.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought that, because
the clause was local, it was likely to be mischievous. if
the.things to be suppressed were improper, they ought to
be universally suppressed.
Mr. G. YOUNG supported the clause.
Mr. JOHN ROMILLY thought a more extended
law than the clause would be necessary. He should be
He
to support a law to put an end to all cruelty to a. nimals.
He should oppose the clause, because be thought tbadly
iplaced in a Police Bill.
I:4After a pedtracted conversation, in which Sir Thomas
gianpe, lir/Hardy, Mr. Potter, Sir Charles Burrell,
and two or'three Hon. Members whose names could not

he ascertained took part,