The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-11 00:00:00

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
CONSOLIDATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved that the house
do go into committee on the bills on the paper relative to
the proposed consolidation, the whole being reported at the
resumption of the house at 6 o'clock.
Mr. AYRTON said that the first of these bills contained
a proposition of such magnitude that it had the effect on a
former occasion of changing the Government of the day.
He concurred in such a sitting as the present, but he hoped
the substantive questions the bills involved would be re-
served for a subsequent decision of the house.
OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON BILL.
This bill passed through :committee, with some slight
verbal amendments.

LARCENY BILL.
This bill, consisting of upwards of 120 clauses, passed
through committee.
MALICIOUS INJURIES TO PROPERTY BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill.
Clauses up to 12 wero agreed to.
On clause 13 being proposed,
Mr. M'MAIION said in the select committee he pro-
posed that this clause should be omitted, but without suc-
cess, as his objection still held, and the result of the
clause would bo to remove to a criminal court disputes
between landlord and tenant which had hitherto been con-
sidered in a civil court, he hoped the committee would
strike out the clause.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL defended the clause. It
did not so much relate to landlord and tenant, but the un-
lawful and malicious injuries to thee erson.
Mr. LOCKE supported the clau
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.

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 this bill.
Clauses up to 30 were agreed to.
On clause 31 being proposed,
Mr. M'MAIION objected to this clause, ac 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 wore 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 basecoin 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 5B
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.

PAIRS ON LORD CHELMSFORD'S CLAUSE IN
THE BANKRUPTCY BILL.
FOR. AGAINST.
Earl of Rosslyn
Earl of Ellenborough — Earl of Sefton
Earl of Harewood
Duke of Marlborough — Earl Stratford
Lord Ravensworth .. Duke of Itoxburghe
Earl of Hardwick° — Earl of Elgin
Earl of Morton .. Duke of Portland
Earl Desart — Earl of Kenmare
Viscount Hill — Duke of Sutherland
Earl Howe
Bishop of Lichfield — Earl of Rosebery
Earl of Westmoreland
Earl of Wilton — Earl of Abingdon
Earl of Warwick 2:- Earl of Somers
Earl of Clancarty
Viscount Exmouth — Archbishop of York
Duke of Montrose
Earl of Lucan — Earl Clanwilliam
Lord Heytesbury
Bishop of Winchester • • Bishop of London
Earl of Sheffield
Earl of Chesterfield — Viscount Lismore
Lord Digby ......
Ld. Willoughby de Eresby Earl Fitzwilliara
Viscount Combermere • . Earl of Zetland read
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Earl of Iladdington
Earl of Macclesfield
Earl of Beln3ore
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Lord Congleton
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