§ Sir H. Hardingesaid that, in asking permission to introduce a bill "to render more effective the service of such out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital as may be called upon to assist in preserving the public peace," he would remind the House that last session a measure was passed authorizing certain half-pay officers living 360 in the manufacturing districts to pay the out-pensioners resident in the same parts of the country: That bill had been perfectly successful. The bill which he purposed to introduce had for its object placing these out-pensioners so situated under the management of these half-pay officers, in order to render them an efficient corps, and useful, whenever it would be necessary to employ them, in the preservation of the public peace. It was considered that it would be advantageous to retain the services of the half-pay officers to whom he had referred. The Government had no intention to place these out-pensioners in garrison.
§ Leave given; bill brought in and read a first time.
§ House adjourned at a quarter-psst one o'clock.