§ Lord Beaumont moved the second reading of the Pound Breach and Rescue Bill, which the noble Lord said, was to extend the same protection to cattle impounded for trespass on enclosed lands as by the existing law, was given to cattle found straying on highways.
Lord Campbellsaid, if his noble and learned Friend on the Woolsack had read the bill, and approved of it, he (Lord Campbell) should not offer any opposition to the present motion. The bill proposed to make that a crime which, as the law stood at present, was only a misdemeanour; and he must own that he looked with great jealousy to such an extension of jurisdiction.
The Lord Chancellorwas not acquainted with the provisions of the bill, but he would suggest that the bill might be read a second time now, and might be fully considered on the motion for going into committee.
§ Bill read a second time.