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did not so much relate to landlord and tenant, but the un
lawful and malicious injuries to the person,
Mr. LOCKE supported the clause.
The clause was agreed to.
Clause 14 was agreed to.
Clauses 16 and 17 were agreed to, with some trifling
amendments.
The remaining clauses of the bill were agreed to.
FORGERY BILL.
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The house went into committee on this bill. The whole
of the clauses were agreed to without amendment.
COINAGE OFFENCES BILL.

The house went into committee on thisbrll:
Clauses up to 30 were agreed to.
On clause 31 being proposed,
Mr.III‘MAHON objected to this clause, as it created a
power altogether new. Nothing was so common
as to mistake the genuineness of a piece of money,
and it appeared to him monstrous to give the
power of arresting persons without warrant for passing bad
coin. A lady some time ago was taken up on suspicion of
passing counterfeit coin. The coin turned out to be gold,
and the lady recovered damages from the person who gave
her into custody.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought the clause ab-
solutely necessary.
After a few remarks from Mr. CROSS and Mr. DENMAN,
Mr. HUNT objected to the clause. He thought they
should be careful, while they were setting traps for the
guilty, that they did not catch the innocent. He thought
it highly objectionable that favour should be given to
any trader to call in a police officer and give
into custody any person offering a counterfeit coin. Every
one at some time or other had a counterfeit shilling passed
upon them, which they, not being aware of, might offer in
making a purchase, and it seemed highly cbjectionable
to give power to any individual to order the arrest of that
person.

Mr. LOCKE supported the clause. A person giving
another into custody for passing counterfeit coin was liable
to an action at law if he did so without good and sufficient
reason.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the clause was
framed purposely to enable the utterer of base coin to be
apprehended when the offence was committed, because it
was generally the case that when a man uttered a base
coin with an intent to defraud, he generally had some evi-
dence of importance in his favour.

The committee divided on the clause, when there ap,
peared—

For the clause
Against it 7
Majority —sB
The clause was agreed to, as were the remaining clauses
of the bill.
ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
CRIMINAL STATUTES REPEAL BILL.

This bill also passed through committee.
The sitting of the house was then suspended till six
o'clock.
The house resumed its sittings at six o'clock.
CHURCH-RATES ABOLITION.

In answer to a question put by Mr. S. ESTCOURT,
Sir J. TRELAWNY said that it was his intention to
proceed with the Bill for the Abolition of Church Rates on
Wednesday, but that the time which had been taken up in
negotiation on the question had not been wholly lost.
TROOPS FOR CANADA.
Mr. AD DERLEY asked whether it was true that three
more regiments of infantry and a force of artillery were
under orders for North America, and that the Great Eastern
steamship had been engaged for their transport, and if so,
for what locality they were destined, and whether they
were to be paid for from the Imperial or Colonial Trea-
sury, and if from the firmer, whether such expenses had
been provided for in the Estimates ?
Mr. T. G. BARING replied that two regiments of in-
fantry, in addition to the regiment previously under orders
for Canada, and a field battery of artilleryhad been ordered
to proceed to the colony, and he believed that the two regi-
ments of infantry and the battery were to proceed by the
Great Eastern steamship. (Hear, hear.) The payment of
the passage had been already provided for in the Estimates,
and no additional expense would be incurred. The expense
of the movement of the troops would be borne by the trans-
port service.