HOUSE OF LORDS, ON A MOTION FOR ADJOURNING THE CONSIDERATION OF THE ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES TO A DISTANT DAY, THE DIVISION WAS AS FOL LOWS: Thomas Dawson George Dunbar Sir Thomas Fetherson Hon. William Forward Right Hon. Henry Grattan William Handcock Francis Hardy Travers Hartley Samuel Hayes, (Dunbo) Sir Francis Hutchinson Charles Leslie Richard Neville Sir Edward Newenham Right Hon. George Ogele Right Hon. John O'Neill Thomas Richardson William Richardson Right Hon. H. L. Rowley Charles Francis Sheridan Sir Skeffington Smith Sir Annesley Stewart N. Loftus Tottenham John Usher John Warburton Augustus Warren Hon. Major Cuffe J. Leigh Sir James May Thomas Hobson (Tellers Mr. Grattan and Mr. Conolly.) VOL. II. No. LXXXII. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE POLICE BILL. MR. SPEAKER, (P. 248.) YOUR committee appointed to examine the accounts of the commissioners of police, having met according to order, and called for such papers as appeared to them to be necessary, and also examined several witnesses relative to the state of the said accounts, in the most solemn manner, directed me to report as follows: Your committee having examined the accounts laid before them by the commissioners of police, do find, that in the two years and a half, which their institution has subsisted, ending the 25th of March last, they have spent more than 51,000l. of the money of the public. They find further, that the total expence of the first year, including the salaries paid to the commissioners and divisional justices, amounted to 20,1977. 9s. 10d. and of the second year to 19,9817. Os. 23d. of which sums your committee find that the sum of 9,6824 13s. 10d. was the charge for the watch in the first year, and 9,500%. in the second year, and that the remainder (being a sum of 10,514. 16s. in the first year, and 10,4817. 08. 23d. in the second) has been expended in salaries and other charges, which have attended this establish ment. Your committee then proceeded to examine into the particulars of these last sums, and find, that a sum of 4,000l. and upwards has been expended for the police house, and the houses and offices of the divisional magistrates, and of the high and chief constables, and for furniture. Your committee further find among many other unsuitable and objectionable articles composing the last mentioned sum of 4,000%. there is a charge of 138/. 10s. 8d. for looking glasses, and 991. 8s. 34d. for Wilton and other carpets. Your committee proceeded further to examine the expence of the police cavalry, and find that above 4,600/. have been expended for the forty horse of the police establishment in the two first years, although it appears to the committee, that the keeping any horse policemen was, and is unnecessary, and consequently that the last mentioned sum was an expence useless to |