§ Mr. Barnebybegged to call the attention of his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to a recent decision by a learned Judge on orders of affiliation made by magistrates, which decision declared those orders to be invalid. He had reason to believe that that decision took a correct view of the law; and therefore it was his intention on an early day to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of declaring and settling the law in bastardy cases.
§ Sir James Grahamreplied, that by the construction put upon the Act of last Session, in reference to orders of bastardy, its provisions had been rendered nugatory, and could not be enforced. It would be his duty to bring under the consideration of the House a Bill to rectify this defect.