§ The Order of the Day for the House going into Committee was read. On the Motion that the Speaker leave the Chair,
Mr. Pagetcalled the attention of the noble Lord opposite to the manner in which the Bill was now printed. Some clauses were inserted which ought not to have been there He referred more particularly to the 18th Clause.
§ Lord Althorpunderstood it was the general wish that the whole Bill should be reprinted, with the proposed alterations; the only material clauses to be altered were the 18th and 21st.
Mr. Pagetsaid, he particularly remarked the 24th and 25th, and that the latter clause in the Bill, as well as the 18th, gave the Commissioners a discretion as to the incorporation of parts of parishes, which would, in some cases, operate very disadvantageously. There was the borough of Leicester for instance, in which parts only of certain parishes were within the present limits of the borough, but the whole of these parishes had long been comprised within the town. The borough contained only 16,000 souls, while the town contained 40,000. There were six parishes, a part only of each was in the borough. Now he wished to know from the noble Lord, whether it was the intention of Government to confine the precincts of the new borough to the limits within which the borough now existed, or whether they intended to include other parts of the town?
§ Lord Althorphad answered several times, that where a part of the parish came into the centre of the town, the whole of the parish was to be taken into its limits.
Mr. Warburtonfeared, that the 24th clause would not give the Commissioners the power to carry the noble Lord's intentions into effect.