§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read.
§ VISCOUNT MIDLETONsuggested that the measure should be extended to the office of Clerk of the Peace; that words in the Bill which would prevent the appointment of any member of the Bar to the office of Justices' Clerk should be annulled; and that power should be given to Justices to grant retiring pensions to their clerks.
§ EARL BEAUCHAMPsaid, the second of the noble Viscount's suggestions was now made for the first time. It ought to have been put forward earlier. As to the two other suggestions, he could hold out no promise that the Government would accede to them.
§ House in Committee accordingly; Bill reported, without Amendment; Amendments made; Bill re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next; and to be printed, as amended. (No. 39.)