MR. HARVEY LEWISasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it was proposed to charge the pay and expenses of the one hundred men of the Metropolitan Police Force recently sent to Southampton to preserve order during a strike of Seamen at that Port, to the metropolitan ratepayers; and, if not, out of what fund are such pay and expenses to be discharged?
MR. BRUCE, in reply, said, that no part of the expenses of sending the metropolitan police to Southampton would be borne by the metropolitan ratepayers. Before they were sent, it was ascertained that they might be spared without inconvenience from the metropolis for a short time, and an assurance was obtained that the whole of the expense would be defrayed by the borough of Southampton.