Sir Robert Peelhoped he might be allowed to take this opportunity of putting a question to the noble Lord (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), in reference to the measure contemplated by Government for the establishment of a Police. The House was aware that there was a law in existence, which enabled small towns and parishes, with the consent of a certain number of the inhabitants, to establish a Local Police, for the security of persons and property. What he was desirous to learn was, whether the measure contemplated by Ministers would interfere with the operation of the Act to which he had just alluded?
§ Lord Althorphad no difficulty in stating, in reply, that the measure in contemplation, for the establishment of Municipal Police, would not interfere with the Act to which the right hon. Baronet had referred.