HC Deb 20 June 1865 vol 180 cc594-5

Order for Committee read.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."

MR. SCULLY

thought that the measure had been pressed on with undue, if not indecent, haste, and hoped that some assurance would, at all events, be given that it would not in future years be treated in so hurried a manner.

Motion agreed to.

Bill considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

Clause 1 (Printed Copies of every Proclamation, &c, to he issued under last-mentioned Act).

MR. SCULLY

was of opinion that the original Act was sufficiently stringent in its provisions without the Amendments proposed in the present Bill.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

said, that a few technical alterations only had been made in the wording of the clauses.

Clause agreed to.

Clauses 2 and 3 agreed to.

Clause 4 (The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1856, as amended by this Act, continued).

MR. ESMONDE moved, as an Amendment, to leave out all the words alter "sixty-six" to the end of the clause, in order to limit the duration of the Act to July, 1866.

Amendment proposed, in line 33, to leave out the words "and until the end of the then next Session of Parliament."— (Mr. Esmonde.)

MR. SCULLY

thought, it would be better to substitute May for July, the former being the period when the Mutiny Act expired. The discussion upon the Bill must then come on at an earlier period of the Session.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

said, that the Bill was only for two years. He denied that it had been passed through in any unusual manner.

SIR GEORGE GREY

said, that this Bill by no means stood upon the same footing as the Mutiny Bill. That was virtually a permanent Act, which, he trusted, the present measure was not.

Question put, "That those words stand part of the Clause."

The Committee divided:—Ayes 32; Noes 17: Majority 15.

Clause ordered to stand part of the Bill.

House resumed.

Bill reported, without Amendment, to be read 3° To-morrow.