§ SIR WILLIAM TOMLINSON (Preston)said the question he wished to bring 1574 before the House might be summed up in a few words. It was that the practice of granting certificates to aliens, enabling them to act as pilots in British waters, constituted a national danger, was an injustice to duly qualified British subjects, and ought to be discontinued. This subject related to what was really a very anomalous state of things if the law in this country was compared with the pilotage law in all the other countries in the world. In proof of the dissatisfaction and alarm caused by the existing state of the law he would refer to certain circumstances which took place in March last.
§ Notice taken that forty Members were not present; House counted, and forty Members not being present.
§ The House was adjourned at twenty-eight minutes after Eleven of the clock till Tomorrow.