Lord Broughamsaid, that last year he had given notice of introducing a Bill to repeal certain provisions of the Beer Acts of 1830, 1831, and 1835, which allowed beer to be sold and drank on the premises. He would now place that Bill on their Lordships' table; and, in doing so, he wished to state that a great mistake had gone abroad of his having changed his opinion on this subject. He brought in a Bill in the House of Commons to enable beer to be sold, not to be drank on the premises; there was a prohibition against its being on the premises. Mr. Calcraft's Committee recommended that it should be drunk on the premises. He protested against that; but the House of Commons decided in favour of that recommendation of the Committee. Therefore, he had never altered his opinion, and every day's experience convinced him more and more that that opinion was originally well-founded. There was one clause which he had thought necessary to add to the bill which he had introduced last year, and that was a clause to prevent evasions, by consuming beer in the neighbourhood of the premises. The noble 192 Duke opposite, last year suggested, that this measure had better originate elsewhere. He had taken that suggestion into consideration, and given it all the weight which a suggestion coming from so high a quarter deserved—and, upon the whole, he was of opinion there were reasons why the bill should be brought into the other House. A noble Friend of his there, was likely to bring it in; but that noble Lord being ill, he laid the bill on their Lordships' table, intending to go on with it if that other bill should not be brought in, or if it should be dropped or fail.