§ Bill to amend section fifty-four of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, for the purpose of increasing the maximum penalty for threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in any thoroughfare or public place, presented by Mr. Geoffrey Stevens; supported by Brigadier 395 Terence Clarke, Major W. W. Hicks-Beach, Sir John Barlow, Mr. Philip Bell, Mr. Robert Jenkins, and Mr. Green; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Friday, 7th March, and to be printed. [Bill 20.]