The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-10 00:00:00

_____ ... . - ---- -• . 2 • THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY' EVENING, MARCH 10, . 1847. • • • - - baleen eillowedbythesesseresult In Austaia,too,whene, muster, be wee prepared to • certain extent to admit. He ens an *Moe all thee point Thoreau= would be eslea- gest good sense which attributes awak qualities I Germany may have sovereigns and senatee, who skim the accession of the at sovereign, the punishment agned that those mitigations had had the offset ofdirainishing fated to mislead, end do more harm than good. Es wished t o a wousand other COMES than choice OR nth. put more faith in the free exertions of the people of death had been infli to a much more limited extent crime and he believed that there wu no one in that house his hon. friend would not press his motion. ebe e e ' oenuce and the Times unite, however, in than in " Zollverein," and France may yet than formerly, crime had not increased in consequence. In who viould wish them to retrace their steps or to revive Lrad 0. BENTINCK asked tl i t f th l e right hon. baronet tut . g end reproducing the most Menem and ce'stain both a king and a minister, who would ratter • cue own countre also, it was well known that the argument capital punishment where it had . been . abeliehed. (Hear, wou d of public nementy was the one that was urged agatnat the hear.) Now ss th . g . ere wee notbin in the intlieuon of punish- Mara lo tre vuli na r m tn ber get of dea ui ths ?Is e l:st ra year a ann a trie rad yea ve r hateful feeling's of the English nature, setting alto- hae n a sound system of commercial credit than -s or Port Mahon. Since, then, the laws of in withdrawal of sheerstieling, honeestealing, and forgery, meat of a vinctictive nature, it being inflicted entirely for before. It was admitted that returns front the constabulary gether aside the generous and noble feelings which Algie, from the list of capital crimes • but it had not been found the interests of society, its only legitimate object was the would not be accurate. aways accompany-awl neutralise them in the Eng- dustry r,:tain their power, whatever may be the poli that the number of such crimes ' had increased in consequence prevention of crime and the protection of those interests. Sir G. GREY did not my they were to be relied on, but t NA , mad. of the change of the law in this respect, while, on the other His hon. friend, however, said that the infliction of death they had e th o • p:wer to mill for them, which they had no '"'"' Even the plenent awful picture of Irish tical or soc.'al combinatims of those whom they affect, hand, convictions had become much more certain, as juries in the ease of murder did not answer that object ; and he ia the ese fth clergy. su ff er i ng excite' not their pity, but their bile. The it is clearly n,:t fair to suppose that we can command directed conzetition felt melamine relieved from the responsibility of oondennuo' g founded this opinion not upon the statistiosof capital punish- Mr. AGLIONBY said these returns, instead of being fearful details of that picture ,eannot but be present to markets under judiciously , by their nirdict • follow creature to death. Murder was ment ea applied te CaSt2 of murder, but as applied to other of service, would mislead and alarm the public mind, if they every eye,-the miaerable cablus with their doors which can be part Wily closed by the most • -judged now Mout,' crime to which, practically, the extreme penalty crimes for which the punishment of death had been discon- got them from the constabulary, without the opinion of attached ; and the only greund for maintaining it in that eau tinned. But wby had such reside been attained in thou medical officers. blocked up, that the inmates may die undisturbed,- measures. the chance visitors of the sick, and the searchers If we analyse the list of our exports, we find ' • even appeared to be, that because a men kills another he cues ? Because they were crimes in which public opinion Mr. V. STUART wu understood to eupport the motion. ough ' t to suffer death hineelf. But that was the exploded did not go with the execution of the punishment-nines Mr. J. O'CONNELL thought the public were not aware for the dead, clambering into these cabins together, the diminution principally . in such articles as have law of retaliation-the ks taliosis. The statistical documents net deeply affecting society. Forgery was • remarkable of One half the deaths which liad taken place in Ireland, and unable to distinguish in the dark lair of straw been the subject of great improvement in manufac on the table of the house, and all experience, were in fa- example. There the punishment of death was done away ana therefore thought it advieble that this information the dying from the dead ;-the corpses dragged for turing processes. Cotton goods were, in 1845, declared ~,o , of extending the 'dietitian of capital punishment to with, because it was Almon impossible to indict the Penske should be eulndied se far as it could be obtained front the burial, which those who have the charge of it for 19,156,0961., and in 1846 for 17,726,9801. Who • this crime also. From a return presented on the 2'2nd May, -prosecutors being unwilling to insist upon the criminal constabulery. The clergy of all denominations were too want strength to make effectual, leaving expired here does not recollect the improved processes for 1816, it appeared that in the five years ending 1830-when promedine, lest they should have to charge themselvee with much engaged tn attending to the perishing population to the capital punishment as to certain of the seventeen crimes participatuzg in the shediliag of blood-and juriee bringing be enabled to furnish any information on the subject. a limb, there a head of hair, and ex ~ ng human re- coupling and multiplying the power of the machinery to which ,it ap to that period attached, w 2. abolithed-the In verdicts of acquittal, because they would not be parties Lord J. RUSSELL said, that though the government did mains to the dogs of the region, , .me famished in cotton mills, as well as for the lace and , number of esavietions for 1111 1 80 crimes was 7276, while in to what they coasidered would amount to a judicial murder. not offer any objection to these returns, yet he thought, and homeless, like those of the East. These pictures bobbin manufecture that have been introduced , ' the fallouts( lee years, when three crimes were no longer No act of parliament could answer the object in view, if it when made, they would not be conclusive ; neither could of the wholly starved villages are scarcely more hoe- within a few years ? That much was exported in . segteal, the ember of conviction. wee 7126. Those returns ran counter an that manner to public opinion. But what had their accuracy be relied upon. He therefore thought that rible than the sketches of the half-starved i-the wo- 1 846 at a cheaper rate than ever MIA known before, • etespenedi thet as the infliction of the punishment of death been the remit since the last change in the law in 1841 ? the hon. member would do well if he adopted the suggestion s lessmas hes frequent, the crimes to which it applied became Why, this-that although capital puitishment still atteched made to him not to pees+, for them. nobly less numerous. In France, in Pruesia, and in certain cues, there had not been a single execution in this Mr. S. O'BRIEN had heard as yet nothing to convince c m h e i n ki re w an n ,eler i ng forth with their still living families of without any sacrifice, is not only probablebnt very de bloated and dropaical, and with skins eirable. In the linen trade the improvements are 1 1 pesticularly in Belgium, the same result had followed the country except for murder. What they had now to deal him that these returns would be inaccurate. When 240,000 shining from the mockery of food which has gone into notorious. Ireland haa followed the impulse given by ' seat* slue. la Beleium, the punishment of deeth was with was, whether in those eases they could dispense with tbe of his fellow-countrymen bad been allowed by the govern- So many prostrate corpees are not the spinning mills, most meritoriously seconded by ' totiny abolished in 1834, but in 1835 --at the punishment of death. Since 1641 the only executions were meat and parliament to die like vermin, ke should take ee the frig ir sto btrul hs as . these specimens of the living :-and the society for the improvement of the growth of flax.- Innen., of some wise philosopher who considered for murder. Had there been any increase of that crime every opporeunity of bringing the subject-by moving for ' he Veit of death necessary as an example to in consequence of continuing the punishment ? There bad returns and in every other possible shape-befiiire the whole the upper classes, those peculiar objects of our eon- The report of this society ought to be in everybody's vkamt n from crime-it was revived ; and the hem, on the unteary, a gradual decrease. From 1813 te civilised world. temporary's maledictions, straitened in their own hands, and every one ought to be proud of adding reeds was, that the ie.:Taber of capita! cendemEttlerei in- 1515 .i,t4r., - ,zer.. - !Ualt for murder had been :in (.32,3'X' i frem Hr. HUME said that, es the hon. member had made er. means of subsistence, but hastening with what they his name to the list. The quantity now produced in crewed in the four years between 1835 to 1839, as compared 1823 to TM, lin 157,000 ;in the next ten years, I M 193,000 ; slemg an assertion, he called upon him to state what plan can spare to relieve the extreme cases of famine and Ireland is large, its quality good and the mode of • with the four years from 1830 to 1834, when there were no and in the two years of 1844 and 1846, lin 2e0,61110. lie did either the government or that house could have adopted to destitution, and each time discovering fresh and dressing the plant is well understood. Linen is one of executions, from sixty-four to eighty, or nearly twenty.five not argue that this decrease was attributable solely to the avert the state of things which prevailed in Ireland. If the wo cases; so that whilarranning to the last found, the articles tbat has fallen off in declaredvidue. In 1845 per cent. There were other reasons in oar own country existence of capital punishment, as there had been a large honourable member could state any plan he thought diminishing the nesensity for the continnance of capital increase of population and better police regulations este- ought to have been adopted, then it would be possible to those first succoured are left to expire. we exported for 3,036,370/. ;in 184 6 but for 2,838,3841. i.khments-in the improved prison itimipline, by whet, Wished, by which crime was more easily prevented. But he judge where the fault, if any, lay. He (Mr. Hume) could It is impossible to read these accounts, which But Ireland has been shown by the report of the society am gaols were rendered more safe-in the nit army of maintained that the certainty of the application of capital not allow such an exertion to pass, when the bumanity ex- crowd daily in letters from the most trust- to which we have alluded, to be able to produce pike in the rural district: as well as in the towns--and in punishment to the crime of murder had had the effect not of emised by this country towards Ireland hail been without wor th y , bearing too in themselves the awful 252,000 tom of liaz annually. This quantity is about •••• Ilis great advance the people had made in education. All increasing, bus, on the contrary, of deereasing that crime. bounds. Meer, hear.) As to the returns sought for, be • Ann were reseals why we might trust' with Wet] to a He believed that to the punishment of death the criminal (Mr. Hume) thought they would be delusive, and, therefore circumstantiality of truth, without eomprehending four times as much as we usually import from all more lenient law. But the proof of neceseite rested with looked forward with horror ; and that it was the on- melees. ' that feeling of despair which at last seizes foreign countries, and these would send us grain a , ' those who maintained the law of capital punishment, not certainty of the punishment in other cases, and not any Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN repeated that the returns could upon all people in times of such visitations as these. great deal cheaper. But it would be impossible to work the disproof with those who were mines. to it. But he diangerd to the penalty, which had made the law eerily be supplied by the constabulary. With reference to It is oue of the concomitant symptoms of the general up all this flax at good prices for the raw material, contended, not only that the infliction of death, as • punish- inoperative. He believed, also, that public opinion the observations of the hon. member for Montrose, he (Mr. epidemy. And yet the Tinies @amuses the Irish clergy and paying good wages, unless all our manufacturing ment, was not necessary,. but positively iojurious to the generally was not in favour of discontinuing capital punish- S. O'Brieu) had but too often repeated what ought to have and gentry of heartlessness, because they do not go power were put forth, and economised to the utmost criminal, injurious to the jury who tried the case, and in- meut ie cue of murder, although • large body of the corn- been done by the legislature with respect to his unfortunate jurious to the public for whese sake the la ' punish- =unity entertained a conscientious objection to its infliction country. forth to dig with their own hands graves of two feet A great reduction in prices of linen has taken place, ' ment was supposed to be maintained. In p phical in any ease. His hon. friend stated that life was the Mr. HENLEY concurred in the opinion, that as the re- deep for the bodies of those whose lives they could while wages have remained high. The difference in ' writings of Dwane, it was shown tbat we ought not, even highest of treasures, and that they should not sacrifice it turns would be inaccurate, they ought not to be ordered. not save. This it is to view Irish famine from a coca- the declared value is no proof of diminished sales. for the crime of murder, to puniah with death. For the wantonly. To inflict any punishment wantonly would be The motion as amended was then put, and agreed to. fortable London residence, and be as incapable of But it must be obvious that no very great extension , first object of all punishment should be certainty. But in most cruel and unjust ; but the public looked to the legisla- STOCKING MANUFACTURERS. comprehending the paleied efforts of the upper, as of those sales will be practicable except under still this country, at least, there was no certainty in its infliction. ture for protection to life-(hear, hear)-and he believed it Sir H. HALFORD moved, pursuant to notice, that the • The criminal knew that it was uneertain, and speculating was best afforded by continuing the present extreme penalty house reran itself into committee for the purpose of taking e ower c asses. • hed fth I l more reduced prime. Woollen goods are also de- ' the famis ones o • up,n the many chances of escape between the committal of for wilful and deeiberate murder. Speaking of England, he intoconsideration the 8 and 9 Viet.. cap. 77, entitled "An Mr. &tall O'BRIEN thanked, and no doubt most dared of less value. In 1845 they were, in yarn, the crime and the execution of the sentence, by a species of would ask, was ever any unwillingness shown on tke part or Act to snake flintier regulations respecting the tickets of sincerely, Mr. ROEBUCK for his furtherance of repeal ,066,925/. ;ia 1 846, they were 907,8931. ; goods, moral gambling staked his life sgainst the uncertainty of the witnesses to give evidence, or on the part of juries to con• work to be delivered to persons employed in the Manufae- by hie speech, and the member for Limerick ,693,11 7/. in 184 5 against 6,334,208!. in 1846. law. This uncertainty, therefore, acted as a eon of 'Demi- vict, in an undoubted ease of murder ? No . and it was tore of Hosiery in certain eases." The bon. member stated ragement to crime. Then, so far from the punishment of the certainte of the punishment which rendered it the object was to amend the act which hsd been rendered might ha . ve included the Times. Both treat Ireland Silks, on the other ha , nd, have increased. We ex- , as a foreign coantry ; they vituperate it just as they ported to the value of 766,4051. in 1845, and 837,67 71. death operating as an example to deter others effective. His hon. friend said that no good sprang inoperative in consequence of • construction which had been from crime, the very magnitude of that punish. from the example of taking away life. But ke put upon its provisions-a construction wholly at variance might Russia, forgetting that every argument of the in lee& mut, be a kind of moral sophistry, converted the spoke only of those who were spectators, and who were with the intention of the legislature. kind from an influential quarter in England is In such branchee of mannfacturing industry as , criminal into a hero. This was the case with regard to the generally persons already deeply tainted with crime. It Mr. M. GIBSON said he 'Mould not oppon, the introduc- putting a word into the hands of the country have experienced a demand surpassing all efforta executions for forgery, while the extreme puntshment for wait not an that way that it was to be regarded is an exam- tion of the bill, but would not pledge himself as to the course abused and repudiated, and prompting her to use it made in Great Britain and abroad to meet, there is that crime remained ; IRO the moment it was abolished, and ple. It was a knowledge of the fact that in case of murder Ma on the part of the government, would take in a future . ties puniehneut of transportation substituted, the forur was death would follow, and not the barbarous effect produced stage of the measure. against ua. Ireland is a strong country, a an increase over 184.5. Iron and steel we see de . leaked upon by the public with that abhorrence which he upon an aseembled crowd witnessing the dying nruales of a The house then went into committee on the act, and a 1520112 ill-used country, a disaffected country. lared 3,501,8951. in 1845, and 4,174,558/. in 1846. Awed. But the great objection was, that the punishment fellow-creature, which they were to rely upon as calculated resolution having been agreed to, the house resumed, and In our policy towards Ireland we have n both lead and copper there is a diminution, but au , kat death was inoperative for the greet °eject of all punish- to deter from such a crime. But his hon. friend did not leave was given to brieg rn the bill. much to think of-much, in order to render it nerease in machinery from 904,9611. to 1,161,0461. mat-the reform of the criminal-but sent him to his ac- think that the abolition of the punishment of death was the SPAN ISH BON D H OLD ERS. in peace and a strength in war. Hardwares and cutlery remained stationary. : mead " with atl his imperfections on his bead." Its effect only remedy for that evil, because he had already proposed On the motion of Lord OiroaG2 BIINTINCK, the petition a , su PP ert ep to a very late date we kept Ireland to our side The impression made upon us by the perusal - was also most injurious an enfeebling the decisions of the the removal ef such exhibitions from public view. A fur. from the chairman and deputy-chairman of the Spanish - Manna tribunals. Juries were always anxious to avoid thee mitigation of the criminal law he should be prepared to bondholders, praying the assistance of the house in obtaining by coercion, and much in the way of him, who, riding f this document is not of a depressing nature. The ' ' . z eke remomibility of condemning the priemer to death i this deems ; but to the general proposition of his hon. friend he redress from the Spanish Crown, in the matter of • debt of one horse, drags . another wild one after him by a rope. law of manufacturing industry is for the price to be ' . mei shown by the difficulty which formerlyexisted in obtain- must give a decided opposition. upwards of 71,000,0001. sterling, alleged by them to be due That, however, is no longer possible. We must have reduced with every increase of power. This, as we have ' • Z oi, iemvietions even upon the clearest evidence for capital Mr. HUME maid that the right hon. gentleman had, with from the Spanish government, principally to British sub- other links than the cords of coercion, some other tated, implies necessarily no diminution either of and now in the mcreasing desire, in cases of murder, very little difference, advane• the same reasons as had been jecte, Trammed March 8, was ordered to be printed with the connexion than the mutual abuse of Mr. ROEBUCK wages or of profits, unless, indeed, the exercise of the 1. 10 lad that the crime was committed under the influence of adduced against any mitigation of the criminal code, except votes. =. If the capital punishment were continued, tee that he had admitted that every mitigation that had taken SCOTCH CHURCH. and those who reply to him; and never Wag power which is to compensate, be tampered with. lesetations of the country would be shaken to their place, bad been attended with a corrrsponding diminution On the motion of Mr. BdOTEZETON, in the absence of there a time when such links might be more aptly Now, time is as much an element of power as the , . 1 • juries would by tbeir verdicts rebel against the of crime. It was the duty, he said, of the state to protect life, Mr. Bouverie, the following members were nominated the implied than at present. oree of steam. To limit the time during which me ta. of the country, and they would be unable to and,therefore, he wouldbang over the head of everyineividual select committee on sites fee churches in Scotland i-Mr. leut Mr. ROEBUCK and the Times would destro carry dim into effect. Then, as to the effect of executions committing an offence against life, the punishment of death. Bouverie, Sir James Graham, Sir John Pakington, Me. y hinery is to work, produm a a similar effect to a dimi such, and tear up every sympathy and every nution of the power daring the original time for ' upon the public, as an example, deterring others from crime. Did the taking of the life of any oae person prevent the Secretary at War, Lord Delmeny, Mr. Seine, - Viscount all. If that wee the intention, wby not make a solemn public crime of murder ? He maintained that the decreare of Morpeth, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, mr. Brotherton, sir Be. Nor, indeed, could we show suspicion or blame working. If this be attempted, it will become impos ceremony of tbe punishment, inetead of endeavoltnng to crime since the abolition of capital punishment proved the Edward Colebrooke, Mr. George William Hope, Mr. Deedes, to any Irishman who, judging English feelings to be Bible for the manufacturer to follow the law prescribed keep it from the public gage, by inflicting it early in the very reverse. There were four crimes now punishable by Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Hr. Wilme Patten, and Mr. Henry represented by such rancour and insults as thoee for extending his market, os he reduces his price. lie MOMing, in such a manner as to make it as little as pas- death, and if it could be shown that public opinion was op. Baillie. poured out by influential English journals and must then throw the loss upon his workmen. The sible an example of terror ? B u t who wou ld recommend posed to that punishment being_ applicable to my one of The house adjourned at ten minutes to eight o'clock. the sight of an execution so an example to his relation or them it ought to be removed. He contended that they had - last year has given due warning to us all. The friend ?-what father would take his son, or what pious tutor not the power to take the life of a fellow creature, unkss by - sequence their every effort to separation from a present year may, for many strong reasons, turn would take his pupil, to witness such a scene ? se doing, a greater evil was prevented. There was no proof country, which haa only ceased oppression to con- out much worse. We should be glad to see the To what class then did the infliction of this punishment act of this to his mind, so that he was anxious that they should 71: 11 1 e 04 Prellig• time and exaggerate hatred. operatives ot England reject the insidious yroposal as an example ? The virtuous slimmed executions,-or, it go on in the course they had been pursuing in diminishing One is more indignant at these efforts, made by made to them, to limit the freedom of action in mann present, retired from them with disgust ; and the riciolla capital punishment, and he hoped that his hon. friend might politicians of the stronger and more prosperous coon- factures. A little investigation would show the basis who frequented them were rendered more callous and more be allowed to bring in his bill. MAILS. try because it is quite certain that Irish landlords of their interests to be identical with that on which criminal by the exhibition. It was known that of the Mr. AGLION BY rose only to remark on one obeervation ne mails foe Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ' 'criminals executed the majority had been witnesses of mecu- ef the right hon. baronet, in which he stated that the opinion will be made up on the morning a the 17th March. ' and Irish monied men cannot, if they desired, throw the profits of the employers is founded. There tiona. And the officer o f t h e k w to w h om um entrusted of the eratorrT Sal in opposition to the motion of his hon. The overlairi mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Orme, the lonian Islands., off the burden and the duty now te be imposed on are minds amongst their number that have grappled the execution of the extreme punishment. instead of being f r i en d . He (Mr. Aglionby) was satisfied that the public Vat Aden ' c : D f on i V a r• 1 !" g ; ( 1 117= , vie 6c4um kP wa ' them. Let it be remembered, that the Insh land- with much more difficult subjects. The landlords, invested with dignity and honour, was looked upon with was in favour of hie motion, and for the abolition of the -abhorrence by all. and was ashemed of being seen and The overland claw; m.ule, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, lord is what we have made him. We have im punishment of death. As far as his constituents were con- Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, tre., will be made up on the Posed whose interests as far as the price of the raw material him by our conquests on a population of another re- la concerned, rest upon precisely the same footing, are known. But the many attempts which had been made re- cerned, he would state that if they were not unanimous, yet evening of the lith March. ligion and another race, taking care rather to pee- so bent upon their own destruction, that we are not cently to make executions private were acknowledgments the large majority of them were of opinion that this punish- The mails for New South Wake, Van Dismen's Land, and New that, as far as example went, they had altogether failed in mem ae m aa emee. Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 3let Marr.h. petuate these differences than remove them. We much surprised at fir.ding them leagued to support their object. In a country like this we should have no a nu* lauding those for Mexico, Honduras, and taught him a hatred and contempt of that popn- any measure of a suicidal tendency. Slich the Ten Sir It. INGLIS said that this was a bai for the abolition the n tTe vie reh, Wu ' beeade up on the mann ante 3ln ee. punishment which did not carry with O. the strong power of of punishment of death in all cams. Those, therefore, who The Zile for Briti,h North America, Sege* and the United lation, armed him with power to coerce, and Hours' Bill assuredly is for all the parties concerned. public opinion. Any punishment that wanted that essential sanctioned the introduction of the bill, gave their sanction States, will be made up on the evenins of the 3rd April. rave him' political temptation to multiply, element produced a sort of retroactive power, and insisted to its abolition in cane of murder, as well as any other The malls for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam- .. ~, • . . . .. .. - . rather in promoting than reprening crime. 'I he resistance crime now puniehable by death. If the right honourable bunk liable, Madeira and Buenos Aire', will ho made ap on the witnout the &octal necessity ot wetting thenl. ,of public opinion to the infliction of death was increasing baronet had not cast the shield of his high cha- "mi n g c d ri" o th AP ril • How long is it since England ruled Ireland We beg fp call attention to the report, given in oar every year. He had proved, he thought, that executions ratter over one part of the motion, which in his by Orangeism, with a penal oode in full force ? The columns, of - the important meeting held at Leeds, and were injurious, mid that they were unnecessary ;he now (Sir R. Inglis') opinion was most oun to objection ~,,_ ~, TO CORRESPONDENTS. came to the punishment be would substitute for it. Look- he should not here risen to address the house ' . 'Teeeer irtnin n _ it _EV I OTE c i . s " t f t e " D e A O I , I II, N ETI V IK a gT, E t i o i P e i t t o n . 70", preterit upper class of Ireland were bred by us in that the resolutions tiassed thereat in support of the govern unnatural school ; and now we turn to whip ment plan of Education. In the list of the movers ing at the refinements at which we had arrived in the system The right hon. baronet praised the hon. gentleman for hay- so u eeedr-sreemr, eizer-srmer, contiguous to the Printing . of imprisonment, he would subetituta fur the punishment of • and curse them, became they are, not as the landlor6 and seconders of those resolutions will be found tke avoided all the theological part of the question. If he and publishing Odicvs. death that of imprisonment for life. This bad been tried l ( f gr R. I lis) understood that part of the subject, he W e s . ot uoues. in any Wu. any emarnonlestlem that to sent to es of . this country, caring and cared for, amidst a raoe, moot eminent names, of every shade of /Aides and .veith success in other countries, and he saw no reason why it believed th u it it was not left as a matter of expediency annovalouvly ; bat those tedium to addrus wln osimitenee will joined with them by every link of creed, tradition, creed. We must defer till to-morrow our remarks should not be equally successful here. It might be said that that the punishment ne death should be applied to the 0 a itheircontidenee ree p t 7t e d. NnimEncAN Avg UNDER!' AKE industrial prosperity, and mutual regards. For our upon their speeches. this punishment for crimes like murder was not sufficiently TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WMATEVER. crime of murder. It was said, that the scriptural injunction Dart we only wonder that the Irish landlord is half so severe. He could conceive no punishment so severe as to on this point was removed by the christian dispensation; V ethertisements intended for TA. Repress, London eveniagpaper, • ~ , , lure a guilty man for the whole of his remaining life to his but the punishment of death for murder did not ton the most be at tbe Mae by Two o'clock on the day of pablication. enugatenea, or so liberal, or so charitable as he is. The Paris journals of Monday contain no news of own thoughts and reflections, with the perfect knowledge Levitical law, but was decreed long before from the mouth that he was for ever separated from the society of his of God when it was said, "at the hand of every man shall ~,__. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE. The point, however, is of comparatively small mo ment. Future prospects are all engrossing. Of these, domestic interest. The project of parliamentary re 'fellows. That would be no transient punishment like his brOther's blood be required ,• " and "wh sbeddeth ierue,e„Do.:-Kmorning, 64 666. 9464 6 ; 6146449666; itern0c0, 18 9749. 944 7. t d a better picture than is to be found that of death, and would have far greater tenon in past • A man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." However - --------unnw ' 49 min ' - 7 ' 2B min. past s. we canno raw form of M. Duvergier d'Hauranne waa read in public eeseion in the Chamber of Deputies, and the debate deterring men from crime, while on the other hand proper the abolition of this punishment might be in sheep- in Tn M e r tan . ,S d it l e om rro ,. " AD iti Al o ß n 'tt i. ex n ee ow ile o n t. t une d in h p l l e ed t. difficulty. npon it will be continued, as is expected, for two or it would accomplish the great moral and religious ols- stealing and such crimes, so far as murder was coneenied h zed of all punishment-the reform of the criminal. thought it ought to be continued, and he would never° LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. It is not alone that, in many cases, he has received no rent at three days. The Prince de Joinville has left Paris for Toulon, Their great object should be, by properly educating the peo- shrink front saying that human legislation was not at liberty I N the House at Lords, Testaday, the Earl of 71e, to instil into their minds not only a horror of punish- their d 'lv bread on üblic works, their land has lain tin iest November e that while hie tenants have been earning to embark with the squadron, of which he assumes the to abolish that punishment in Cane of wilful murder. The LUCAS defended himself ageing charges made by tilled, the' manure he p ep uncollected ; that money will not ment, but a still greater horror of crime. Witnessing e.cenes House would sanction this if they consented to the motion, of blood, which capital punishment caused in a spirit of and he should give it his decided opposition. anonymous correspondents as to hie conduct as abe forthcoming to purchase wedzoom; nor seed-corn, t,,,, command. unt Bremen, the French ambassador at Madrid, cruel revenge to be enacted, only tended to brutify and Mr. BROTHERTON in supporting the motion said, that landed proprietor of pollute tbe spectators. Indeed it was easy to prove that Ireland, and called upon Lord probaely to be purchased. This is not all ;if the period CAI be . tweeri 'the lain and the coming November were to be aim haa arrived in Paris. The ostensible object of his where capital punishment was °items% inflicted, there was the only objects of punishment were the reform of the BROUGHAM to state, whether the authority the noble criminal reparation to persons injured, and the prevention uf and learned lord quoted on the previous evening, was r t ly a year dropped from the roll of time, with all its hideous visit is family affairs, but it is said that his real pur to be found the greatest tendency to crime. Through the aim.. ' Now a man who was hanged could not be reformed teat of a respectable person, and one deserving of on., the difficulty to the landlord mig• ht not press so ab rupily-the enigma might not require so prompt a solution. . . . ..,, . 4ose is connected with the approaching arrival of cotemporaueous unnals of the time in which we lived, and nor could he make reparation for injuries, and experience amongst the rest a table written by the King of Sweden, it credit. Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, observed that he But the fact is, that in the year '46-47 a great and irrevo- neen Christina En rails. - had proved tbat the punishment of death did not act am a • win distinctly shown that the greatest amount of crime was prevention of et ime. he maintained that no man had a had, on the occasion refe te by the noble earl, mble emp l oyes teken a stern decree has gone forth against Count Walewski has left to embark on board the teamer Cassini, for Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, to be found in those vointriee in which capital punishment • rig tto e uman e, use eco no owe a . e h tak h lif beim h uld t•'t 11 stated the name of his correspondent as regarded the him, gent e . or simple ' , who shall neglect his eh • a new to co-operate with Lord Howden, in the settlement of was most frequently resorted to. He would ask also if by would maintain that this punishment was wrong in principle charges alleged against particular individuals, but, order of things has begun, and it is for the prudent ' to me re himself manfully to meet the change about to be pro continuing such a punishment they were not opposing the h affair' of La Plata. and he contended ehat whatever punishment was inflicted, ineamuch as the matters referred to by others of his rnuine spirit of christianity. Some persons who were it should be such • one as would reform a criminal or deter ruced by the legislative measures, the tendency of which I neral and not "cular he shall raved to examine. The objects of this pending e The courier from Bordeaux arrived in due course in favour of it, suggested that it ought to be sue from crime by e 1 dth fd • wrree P endente were g e ' P ath ' P ' • h e ed, xamp e, an ere were many ways o mug peodeil for one year, in order to grre the cul- se without taking ...., e use. saw no reason why he should name them, and muat legislation are, in order to reconstruct a y nationZ at Paris on Monday, but brought no Madrid Mail. pnt time for reoentance. That was an adminioa of his The house then divided.-For the motion.... 41 rat Yoe Aorosas. Ibtr. Ewart's) principle. If they suspended it for one year, Against To enable p pe y y ___ decline further explanation. The Marquis of wstem : 1. To To co n mpLl p d ro o pe so rt , y b to s re upr de rt ri z:p it ula m ti o o r. n. pro. 2. ra1u5.k....9. m . i _ 81-40 LONDONDERRY averred that in his own district of why not for three, live, or ten, because it was impossible for STATE OF GREECE. 7$ 40 I is so 78 al 70 a 78 eo Ireland, rents were very satisfactorily paid. Lord ductive. 3. To make the proprietary virtual, not nominal. ''"" oltemns- a4h.. , . Lmrom- umeMei -- - 4 And to give a legitimate and remunerative direction to r e ',..r t y them to say that the culprit might not require ten years es Lord J. MANNERS postponed the motion, of which he B Hs es ile 30 114 10 tie xi 116 30 much 151 one. But in addition to that the greaten reluctance .. . . . •.. ItOrolieM expressed the pleasure he derived from the labour which forms the national capital. N us. • nao given notice, in enema to the condition of Greece. had been shown at all times to infiiet the punishment of e e AG RICULTUR AL STATISTICS that announcement, and trusted, as such was the These are the aims of government. And in them, ao , oss iev.,: iw , 1 1 0 4 i ' - e death. Such a reluctance existed in the palmy daye of e Rome, as appeared by the fourth oration of Cicero against Mr. M. GIBSON, in moving forleeve to . bring . en a bill for case, the Irish landlords would consent to an equali- we trust, a majority of the Irish landlorda . join. no. a. ten. tea l e „ i .. e .. . .. e Catiline. Capital puneihmene was the invention of • bay. the collection of agricultural statistics, said that it wO5 p i p. intim of taxation between the two countries. The There may be difference about details. But in the a . 3. 74•2402 11.541.0 101 21 I e peep e o main t e ris an or s , bue age, and he called upon the house to work out the posed by this meareire to obtain returns from every occupy- Marquis of LONDONDERRY knew th l f •hl•h 1 dl d have we believe, the desire ienew Lem 1 103 , 0 •• . CiVililla2loll of the present see by abolishing it and thereby mg . tenant of land, exceeding three to aye anew, ef the de- Ireland to be a loyal people, who would cheerfully to undertake and accomplish all that is possible, arid Treawy wen trt " e e e Mak Mum MO achieve a greet social, moral, and religious change. The scription of crop 101113 on his land. The bill provided that submit to the payment of any taxes imposed that can be fairly asked of, and put upon, them. The „„ s „„ „ s .„„ ti 2 a . m. „ „ 4. this return should be annual ; and also, in case the Board of boo. gentleman concluded by moving for leave to being in • upon them by the Imperial Parliament, if business of the legislature is to mquire seriously what oe. as. MO Oars). M. bill for the total abolition of the punishment of death. Trade was of opinion that an annual return was milieus. . sen, and that there should be II 10ng22 interval, they should indeed it should be so badly advised as to this is, instead of indulging in theoretic, oind ooarse - Ter 'Yr 1.52.702 t Dr. BOWRING conddered that every discussion in and ..___ a di...a _ a ____ si g power, and be eompetent to give per- yield to the suggestions of the noble and learned vituperation, bandying the idle, political Billingsgate rams, bums s• aessr• 0pr2120. 11120252 Uwe. amiss. I oat of that house tended to prove that a total abolition of n". ion that they should not be made innually. lord, and adopt a new principle of taxation for that of " Out on ye, Celts ! Curses on ye, Asiatics r met, leariesalCiamm .. '3 • 7.; ins se iri ss • is - friir .7",ir eapital punishment was inevitable. Every experiment made miss w ngland and Wales were divided into superintendent re- rem me Roses. .. 170 KO El 11 170 $7l ss in that direction had been successful and had shown that n. coun' - wy. Lord BROUGHAM was rejoiced to find that of course, and very naturally, by ' Down with the 2 ,.... 2 . 2 Him .. „ ... 2 . ao ... is no districts each of which were subdinded into re ie. with a diminution in the number of executions Mere g ntr ,re . , - e . 8 . the Irish people would cheerfully submit to taxation, Saxon." 0200•11/4•2500). .. ~ 573 676 172 66 575 had been a nding diminution in crime. An indiffer- ets. The simenuteneent remstrar waa to appoint Bardesai .. .. .. 63210 631 10 632 JO 620 332 10 trar ia= in each &trice, called an Agricultural Enumerator, or, indeed, anything else ; and to that extent they' North ...... .. 110 1110 23 IN 536 IS MI 75 enoe to death ha always been • sign of barbarism, while a r respect for life skewed the best understanding of chriatianity w a no was to obtain returns from farmers, which he was to would be more loyal than the people of England, THE official account of the foreign trade of the , snd the farthest advance of civilisation and philosophy. send to the superintendent registrar, who, having tabu- who undoubtedly submitted, bat as to whose cheer- country for last year should have come out before the larised them, would forward them to the • - genera in fulness in so doing, that wes proposition which dMeussion on the ten hours bill. It tells a strange Mbr gout. legislature wanted to create a horror of murder, and yej k lit; London, whence they would be tranami to the Board of to him somewhat proble a matical. story, upon which Mr. FIELDER'S and Lord ASHLEY'S their legislation, they became murderen. They wanted to A.,1 Trade and then submitted to parliament. If the system n P The Queen held a court and Privy Council yeste lUrn ' Una tit, with r --- , and V e l e h 2 tamman— eland d bl b'll tild be introduced for Scotland, ee gi in t h ee was 02 ors e, a 1 wo rre d . the House of Commons Mr. EWART brought comments would have been curious, if not instructive. day afternoon, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. The their overthrow and sotruetion. It a while in Ireland it would be left to the executive govern- forward his promised motion for leave to bring in a While our imports have very mach exceeded those of cil was attended by iI.R,H. Prince Albert, the Marquis ot if they welted to inspire the mind of every man In the com. ment ; a plan being under consideration by which the re- bill for the total abolition of the punishment of death. 1845, the exports in 1846 show a startling deflcienc y Lansdowne, Lord President, the Earl of Mint°, Lord Privy =unity with • respeot for life, they would, on no occasion, turns could be obtained, and the whole United Kingdom pared with those of the preceding year. The throw it sway. In corroboration of his hon. friend's state- Dr FlOweiSo seamded the motion which was sup- as com Seal ; the Bishop of London, Viscount Palmerston, Sure .ene, h . would Awe . am. ie E. inn i n, i n t h e hve ye ., would thus . make those returm . . It was most important that por t . e d , Ir as First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Campbell, Chancellor of ~...„. such station' should be obtained. The plan, however, went by Mr. Hume, Mr. AGLIONB 4 Y, and Mr. BHO - declared value of exported goods in 184 5 tary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Earl of Auckland, ~ aiding 1924 i II 0 riatial nmvicted of murder ' 64 " - no further than obtaining from the farmers the amount of and opposed by Sir G. Gime and Sir R. 53,298,0261. In 1 , 846 the value declared was executed ; in the dm years ending 1830, of 60 convicted, THERTON, the Duchy of Lancaster ; and the Earl Spencer, Lord Chem acreage under cultivation in different crops. INGLIS. On a division, the proposition of the hon. 51,279,73,5/. 90 were executed • ana of the whole number of 43 eon. berlain. At the council, Wednesday. the 24th March was appointed for a general fast. The Hon. W. Bathurst waa „, Mr. HUME objected to the appointment of new officers mover WM negatived by a majority of forty. Lord We are not alarmists, nor are we at all prepared to sided within till; fiTe y ears endin g 1834 ' the eneenno- like the enumerators when parish returns might be obtained J. MANNERS postponed his motion with reference to arg-te that falling prices necessarily indicate falling the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave were reduced te 19. In Italy, the number of . . z . _ . _. in toe same manner as was done under the Tithe Connou homicides was to the disregard of life. The h • ded 1 E 1 d d tatlon Act. If t e blll exten on yto ng an an Greece until a future day, The remaining portion of profits. More money is now made by cotton weavers audieuce to the Marquis of Lansdowne. At the Court, Lor H d d h Q die b states of Tessany l* Wr ia levesnible contrast to those of the ow en was prescnte to t e ueen, at an au uce. 7 Wales without including Scotland and Ireland, it would be the business of the evening was merely of a routine on pieoes selling for 55.,. than was made when Velment Palmenton, G.O 11., her Majesty's pnuct north sad Muth. widish wss to be attributed to their Mt- ,__ e_,__ . character. similar pieces solci for a guinea. We conceive it poi- nal Secretary of State for Forei/n Affairs. The martin of lerden, or in ether words, te the philosophy of ot ;4117 .. NLE x thought tbe measure ought to be extended bishop of London, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earls sdnention• • hid ffmnt town in munain g the mollon. to Scotland and Ireland, without a different bill for the sible, alio, for the consumption in foreign marketa to Auckland, and Spencer, Vecount Palmerston, 1 Sir G. GREY regretted meld not assent to the motion. f er d another plan for the latter. There imemed to be • MR. ROEBUCK and the Irish members do certainly remain behind our progress in the nee of machinery. Minto, In 1841 the ban gentleman moved a resolution affirming on° ' in ber of eau Unl 't • ded lead a cat and dog life together in parliament. o N' Even in Germany, which has the best claim on the Lord Cam_pbell, and the p to t n . ..N . V..Batburst, arrived . at that capital pariklment ought to be disosistinned, which Lint da nu i m a - meraton. as i was inten to 'clock to attend the wee objectionable, hearse it would alter the law, while it '' tne return,. the quality of the land and th . e pro- sooner do they show themselves in the house, or at continent to the praise of a cultivation of the intel- Osborne mouse at half Cou . ncil, t h h aving tra_ v w elled from ft lown to Gos h pore by . a special 0 would involwithanwhe were w i t h t h ss a m i • m ay, duce. it was of no use to take the number of acres cultava . the fireside, or ask for a bone oven in the humblest way, lest, hand-loom weaving is systematically kept up, . train on e utn Meru way, ana avnig ceen con ' of tee law in greet 4 tr d embarrammagot. pa he : 11 . should "eery* his °Pinion, sad oppose the bill hereafter, than Mr. ROEBUCK instantly puts np his back, apita and • large amount of human muscle ii cendernaea • veyed from Gosport to the Isle of Wight in the Fairy. A present wow= gobs & ~,,,,,,g *A ss ,. ',kw ins thought fit. fire, and gives symptoms of such feline rage, that to drudge on in competition with steam-engines. - ore dejeitne was served at Oeborne House to the noblemen and in a kW, kid knidag teal 1 midi be ow DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN IRELAND. • rated ha ateden, and ening his o set was the tetel Mr. W. 8. O'BRIEN moved he a return of the number of even those rade mastiffs, the Irish country gentlemen, products thus produced t it , hand must be sold cheaply, gentlemen present at the Court. After the Council, the Bishop of Londo_ i n the Ministers, and . the Clerk of the amnia of lelShel landhsamit, Mt Sir O. my) &MU Ild poem who have died in ash parish in Ireland during each draw back in alarm. One is really amazed to find if' they are to be sold at . The reduction lathe cost Privy Council in waiting re-embark . ed in the . F . airy . , erased , it bit deitt W WWI lad vo as on the hewn, ems. mon* aims he ist deg 0/ November, egeo, i n m f a r m th e such a formidable pack so easily routed by a tiny of their production falls, of course, upon the labourer's to GOODOrt, and returned to town op a special train on tne I Mon- Tho how inolitowee had Magee= ths men sea be seenthesd by ishoseation derived from the tom-cat, and save in an odd snap, or an angry wages. Hence, we fin m d in the present returns matter geu a i sw eeter , R . ilway. theelegkel view et En smarm aad mud it la ashemes baseline et the seardahnery ...m.„.. , sad tram tbsteasiating clergy- growl, offer so disproportionate a resistance to an for serious reflection. ac ry was invented to solve Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent gave a i i i - to wime, t im Vi a l asi smd via ia that tm i t , eir e: ussistl _ ha a d a ri tha thn hawa rwasaisa la asna. st sola wabiw a tr uo mmeal lan diatssarvati dsacearicas. , or disea rifYint so.pi t e te t enemy, which after all doth but scratch, and inflict, the problem of reconciling the consumer's interest, or set the& hire wen sum tam 03 whisk the et death mien laselisiessy ot food, with a summary he the whole of n° mortal mound * ~,,,...i . ,.., which a et tie kabala aheapheaa, with tite prodneer , s interest, or wars end wi dins imann er-party t. at Frogmen Mouse on Saturday evening the Her Royal Highnees the Duchess of Kent had lied parliament more time, were the dreadful cir.. profit. The English manufacturer was the first to dile a dinner-party yestuday evening at her residence,Frogisors Igo glom: bot ha thltTs si nos Ma st Or G. GRIT had ne °IOW= to the retina, so ter ea cumetanees of Ireland leas preasint the condition of cover the working of the secret. The English operative House. C reveled am V I : is ivers:r ea lm= i te inteeesai i ej the ass er be hiseisay 1111111 it iement ; d ol ma, ri t th o =I le the t a b u : empire ir ttn lf less c , gt . i 3 ca m l, suc scenes would be has now obtained some insight into the benefit to be A deputation front the Congregtfional Bo Ird ol paaiihent dank amid lasandish asses. la llu risege h• em hen. aid "llll LL “ L ikalat he gastlema width le nolaband it to be proved that =.7h.,.... wasopisioa sealit upsa ar t.d.swa sgree. 'The him Mr. W. B. O'BRIEN consented to amend the motion, in dela amoral religions itsweadatatkons." WC& " 120a1 the officiating elergyuzen diminished, so aka wa5 ii = 11 . 6111.12.1 117: bl • In witbdra uswer .nng to a the ipasmismeem Mr. F. Seem, berasem modal fee peniameatary washes, seem Sir G. GIST saidi they lad as power le eell se the oftl- gr Est sleets* beadle' mark heroes, whin oat minima- darn* ahl gsite lli reUrinettle le maks auk mean& k ember for Bath is often derived from it The coastuner haa only to ask at t tu , it n i ti oc an at a dryt: i t i ln from= ;roma:* o Depu of collecting, concentrating, and then expee- mild be furn ed ing, those common spites and prejudices, which pare that ade a large maw of the public. The English share ir? „the ve a horror of poverty, idleness, self-abandonment, thus =sin am , m .l l . ...d m we l t give a mak Db. /: I M I T, dig iio t k w , b ow *, omso b otiwy wow dirt, all characteristics of the Irish popelation. No than anY ',. The am* mirk* ham sae- eay hew f teknu eli n 7itous l a bia eloquence, and has certainly a peculiar •what price ou t r a Liess;t ru y pliZ er of manufacturl an l o ped. et his altat waktaatica,„ in Down, wi • th what he now pa common gain. But ed is no more stationary to find out his De la Beebe had also an int nor indestructible, • or of society on this died ot aseemties e t gi ft . 22 , 2 „.., Englishman entertains this horror, without modifying g _lobe. . Bees ther wa pham enie tioei g f inhab:sutr7 Is°, °tat° of thil. have long tied their interview with the Earl of Claren baronet at the Home Ift i r o Boa l id , of . Tad c e B 7 " colour' - ' ll yesterday ir A G.. Grey on Monday. Sir H. T hg-street. Mr. Whitbressi ere Ddo i r eer .B.7 wi ing th tho 7m, R at.p ia th. h , w t . H . 2, deputation consisting of Si W khan, Mr. W . Baillie, Mr. Smolleti Muir, and Mr. A. Oswald, had an intenew wit ifiliwamiledik eitrattialli sale, as meted by the kw qualm =7l= s of food. They woe Ret eteopeerit to it with feelings of sympathy and charity, and with hands, it does not follow that they shall always& so. sir 0, Grey yesterday, at the Bonn (mo o , Colons 7 - " The Queen held a court and Privy Cotmcil yeste day afternoon, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. The 001111 cil was attended by H.A.H. Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President, the Earl of idiot°, Lord Privy Seal ; the Bishop of London, Viscount Palmerston, Seere• Lary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and the Earl Spencer, Lord Cham berlain. At the council, Wednesday. the 24th March was appointed for a general fast. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Lansdowne. At the Court, Lor Bowden was presented to the Queen, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, G.O 8., her Majesty's prines ' pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Bishop of London, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earls Minto, Auckland, and Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, and the lion. W. Bathurst, arrived at Osborne lions, at half past one o'clock to attend the Council, having travelled from town to Gosport by a special train on the South Western Railway, and having been con veyed from Gosport to the Isle of Wight in the Fairy. A dejeitne was *erred at Osborne House to the noblemen and gentlemen present at the Court. After the Council, the Bishop of London, the Ministers, and the Clerk of the Privy Council in Waiting re-embarked in the Fairy, crossed to Gosport, and returned to town by a special train on the South Western Railway. Her Royal Highness the Duchene of Kent gave a dinner-party at Frogmore House on Saturday evening the 6th instant. Her Royal Highneas the Duchess of Kent had a dinner-party yseterday evening at her residence,Prognsore House. A deputation from the Congregational Board of Education end a deputation from the Committee of Depu ties, had an interview with Lord John Russell, esterday, at his official madam Wh itbread bad in Downing-street. Mr. had an interview with Sir Cf. Grey on Monday. Sir H. T. De Is Boobs had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home Office. Dr. Bowing, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon ys tenl ay, at the efflos of the Board of Trade. A deputation consisting of Sir J. Hope, Mr. W. Lockhart, Mr. W Bsillie, Mr. SmoUett, Colonel Muir, and Mr. A. Oswald, had an interview with Sir 0. Grey yesterday, at the Home Office. Colonel ~~~.,~c~ift~l Pennant, M.P., had an interview with Lord J. Rawl yesterday. The tecleehtetical Commissioners for England hid a Committee meet i ng y e mer day at their office is Whit e h i a PAM. (From hat nighe.S (ialena.) POSTPONEMENT OF TIIE ibi.AWING -RO° M. - 1 , 01111 CRAMBERLAIN'II OPPICE, MARCH ti..—Notice is h eft given, that her Majesty's drawing-room, intended to h. held at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 25th ion s , postponed till the fullowiog Saturday, the 27th tAsts, at tee o'clock. WHITEHALL, MARCH B.—Her Majesty has lip. pointed J. T. Gordon, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depot. of the shire or sheriffdom of Aberdeen, in the room of A. Murray, Esq., decaued: OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Mason S. Corps Royal Eagineers.—Nrev. Major F. R. Thorax= to be Ilest„ u;„n„, doe . ; eke. Da r t. W. Voltam! to be coot ; Feet Loot, J. Doren to Ee sae, mpt.; See. Lieut. d. B. Farrell to be Iliat Beat. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public business. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE Two COURTS. —The town. clerk informed the court that be had been directed by the committee of the whole Court of Common Council to apply for a copy of the opinion of counsel on the Qualification Bill, upon the case submitted by the Court of Adermen. Alderman HCEPHEHT : I move that the case and the opinion be at once supplied to the committee, Alderman WILSON wished to be informed with what eb• ject the committee made such an application. (Hear, base. Alderman FAILEBKOTHEE said he should decideiy °ppm the motion. . . _ Sr C. hlsitsitam, deprecated the notion of withholding from the committee what they were most undoubtedly en. titled to as part of the corporation. Alderman F AAAAA orrice was of opinion that the court would exercise sound judgment in keeping back fur a time the case and opinion. Alderman WirLsote thought the application was not made in the friendly spirit calculated to give it efficacy. It was understood that the committee of the whole court meant to go for a decision to the Queen's Bench, and would thus come into collision with the court of aldermen. Under such circumstance, it would be a serious mistake to supply as adverse party with materials to carry on the contest. Alderman Woou thought such suspicions adapted to dissipate all chances of amicable arrangiments, and that the refusal of the modest request of the com mittee of the whole court to be furnished with the case and opinions so essentially aeceoeary to both branches of the corporation would be injurious ia an extreme degree. (Hear, hear.) Alderman COMMAND thought differently. In hisopinioa the question ought to be treated strictly as a matter between individuals. The conduct pursued by the common council manifested a strong tendency to personalities, of a nature not very equivocal, end certainly placed them in the light of ad versaries to whom it would not be at all beneficial to yield any advantage. (Hear, hear.) Sir Pt-rua Lat.ata was sorry to hear Alderman Cope land designste the Common Council as adversaries to the Court of Aldermen. He by no means looked upon the twe courts as opposed to each other. They were mutually de pendent upon and supported by each ether. Ald, rman idusonove thought it would be wise to refer the subject to a committee, with power to consult the Re corder and the other legal authority who had given their opinions upon the case, as to the propriety of delivering a copy to the committee of the whole court. (Hear, hear.) Alderman Musgrove moved an amendment to that effect. Alderman HoMPHEAT, who was called upon to withdraw the original motion, peremptorily refu.ed so to do. He in sisted that the whole of the corporation should be made se quainted with the case and opinions. He could not under stand why the court were alarmed at exhibiting their case. If it were good, thee there could be no ground fur not adopt- ing it; and if it were bad, the sooner it was got rid of the better. . . . Alderman CHALLIS approved of sobmittiag the matter to a committee ; and the amendment wan finally adopted by 10 to 6. ETON HONTEM. An adjourned meeting of " Old Etonians" took place yesterday at the Britioh Coffee-house, Cockspuratreet, to take measures in support of the old custom of the Mon tem. Lord ions MA:smans being called to the chair, said that since the last meeting fur the same object, a memorial to t' c Queen had been drawn up and printed, and that memorial had since been revised and altered. His lordship then proceeded to read a letts r which he had received from the Provost of Eton. His lordship observed that, although this letter was so directly adverse to the object of the meet ing, and to the meeting itself, it being the wish of the Provost, expressed in tne letter, that it should be read to the meeting, he could not in courtesy refuse. The purport of the letter, which was received with much disapprobation and no small amount of laughter, was, that such meetings as the present were likely to be injurious, as forming a had precedent, and that the custom of the Montem was injurious even to the captain himself, and oaly likely to benefit inn keepers and loose characters. Lord JOHN Murano then said, he was convinced that neither the Provost nor th Head Muster of Eton could, in candour, look on their meet ing as anything other than respectful to the Eton autho rises. lie then read letters of apology from the Earl of Cernarvon, Lord Sandwich, and several other gentlemen, who expressed their ardent desire that the object of the meeting might be attained, and requested that their names should be subscrib' d to the memorial. The Earl of FALMOUTH, after observing that the chie modification of the memorial was the omission of the money clause, which omission had been made because it was deemed ie)udielous to urge the tiding oubseription made for the captain as a reason for the continuance of the custom, read the memorial, which was to the effect that the memorinliets could not but think that the abolition of the Moatem would be against the wishes of her /dainty and Prince Albert, and that they, the memorialists, did not think the abuses connected with the observance of the fes tival were a sufficient reason for entirely abolishing the time honoured custom ; more especially as those abuses might be put down, without doing away with the custom altogether. The noble earl moved the adoption of the revised memorial. T. Loyd, Esq., seconded the motion, and gave in a num• ber of muses to be subscribed to the memorial, Lord CASTLIKRAOM greatly amused the meeting, by reading a letter, dated July, 16137, from a boy at Eton to his father, relating to a custom called, " Killing the ram," which custom appean to have preceded the present Montem. The Chairman put the memorial, which was adopted. His lordship then said that he must leave to attend the House of Commons on important business, and that the Earl of Falmouth would take the chair in his absence. The Earl of FALMOUTH put a motion, as suggested by Lord Castlereagh, that the gentlemen present should sign the memorial before they left the room, which was unanimously adopted. It was resolved, on the motion of Lord Clive, that the Earl of Ellenborough,the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoe, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Londonderry, and Lord John Manners should be deputed to present the memorial to her Majesty in such manner as they should think best—A gentleman presented a list of 127 names of Oxford Etonian, who desired to have their names subscribed to the memorial. The Vies-Cstasiezttue of ENGLAND raid he had seat eight sons to Eton, and now had a grandson there. Re gave his hearty assent to the proceedings of the meeting, and pro : posed a vote of thanks to Lord John Manners and the Karl of Falmouth. This motion was unanimously adopted. It was then resolved that the memorial should lie on the table until Monday nest fur signature. On the motiond Sir Walter Riddell, a committee consisting of the Earl of Falmouth, Lord John Manner", Lord Clive, Lord Castle reagh, Sir W. 'Liddell, Sir John Duckworth, Mr. Bullock, and Mr. Pickering, was appointed to take any further pro endings that might he thought necessary. At the close of the 'meting upwards of three hundred signatures were attached to the memorial. DINNER OF THE FRRALR ORPHAN ASYLUM.-- The anniversary festival of this institution took place last evening at the London Timm About 150 gentlemen were present, the chair being occupied by his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge. The subscriptions and donations col lected during the evening amounted to 1,1•13/. 21. CHEESZMONGERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Teßmday, the eleventh annual meeting of this institution task place at the Loodoes Tavern, BishopagaMetreet. The NMI heefeeheleted the meeting and the subscribers that err had boa meabled to invest the sons of 1891. as. 2d., while imereard their present funded propertv to the amount of 7,0101.85. 7d. The receipts for the past year, including subscriptions, donations, and other sources, amounted to 1,0751. Ss. Bd., and the expenditure to 8231. So. 95., leaving a balance in the treasurer's hands of '2511. 9s. 115. BUILDING SOCIETIES. —At a meetin held OR Monday evening, of the St. Luke's Equitable Building So ciety, at the Prince of Wales, Banner-street, St. Luke' s, Mr. Wise in the chair; the chairman brought formwd a question which has for some time peat interested and afore' the conduct of the numerous societies now established trim • the Building Societies' Act, The following ii saw of the querse pat, sad Mr. Tidd Pratt's opinion: awaits I. 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