Lord Rollewished to know whether it was the intention of the noble Viscount opposite to introduce any measure for the alteration of the Licensing Beer Act? He complained of the Act as it now stood; and attributed to the Beer-houses that in them thieves organized themselves into gangs, and then spread about all over the country.
§ Viscount Melbournewas afraid, that there was no system which could be adopted, that would not be subject to abuse in that way. If they were to abolish Beer-houses, the only change would be, that the gangs of thieves would meet as they formerly met, in public-houses.