Star. — London, England, 1826-03-10 00:00:00

• , • ~' __Jglitiolli depended Use settrity of oar chttimeretal existence— lint -iilirkitterthetess, Etrakts rank in the scale of great moral, questions, it is : inixiOiven so closely with the impsevament.of , our *moral altd.political system, that 1, Ittodhlit *hi tegard it al a strtzlect of paramount in-, teiist.'"Wtit ii ii'itOf merely the ustrinsic lasportance of ~.the mhjeck r ...iiitduceatfOOlto b e seech the .undivided .apentiossati ft Haase, bucksaws.' I think stso• House owes a debt to the:eopetrr seffiiii . oughtto have been 1, I° lo lo o: o 44 4 4t,ft i fi* A tifc : . ..luNqco from : villieb;fircalatiCiiKPAaFe.6o{444.,m, With.tkaw the consideration of the Douse, none has been loam tut /self t Ira si tof thao , the rinCiPles of ctittiinallegiiiation.-.. lift* '4i / ili a :ire...hut on this Occasion a pertinent. - - .4 ii:t L - . 11, _ . _,., a ,_ . and amidst th Mltil,f l . Vitt,. i• Pettla, age lege;. .Aganint of partiesand else shoot of.political feeling!, the criminal jurisprudence of the country has been for gotten: but now, when the country enjoys all the bles sings of peacis- when no divisions exist, exceet as to the mode of effecting improvements, I feel it a duty owing to the;'eniustr74o . .piopose, not any alteration in ;hl' a ketierat piit ',.., of the Criminal Law, but the I,q ll rt, ... 1 1PO4 4 Vt i fi n Statutes relative to one ' '' ityir u • 11 1 1FLK CAM*: _ ~.'irinie. that of 'theft, into one 5 ,.. i li , Seassee., Thee- is • the • first object of my • l ioff'llisitettitid lttheanstOdinent of those statute . 2 ° ItilalllNflO.,O Sl''Oihnki is'evideistly consistent with ~49011 1 91140)14, itie it is heceosasy that the law which •nael;individear irk the toontre.lo bound to obey, should tiostrOa4eJscenit, not brittwyeti done, but that it should ,tk i olialteAceinielllgibli to. all. ,lf, in addition to the dictates of 'ChM - lion sense, the authority of persons of celebrity among the ,gre,at,of past aes, were neces ::reary,itisfeliet to deatoostratalhe.pseprietrof the mea could stowspelk _ pew ittposs. In e "prwsir to hichl hove _ _ RFNl ,h WAhiii : )lV4 W e4g* . it, • r - Wiritiolat and, , i stopotagiopcpithorief t it is good to.-consider and, la abia, •oisser.thoss-ishitsctions oc salmis* which may arise, or be made alit nst this work." He then proceeds to state the N't si - iitsjettion that ma* be made—" That it is a this* needless, and tkat, the law. as it now is, is in good: qtate conspir to any Fpreign ; and that, it is: .4tososilmit, thiskib' Motet of the fraik,c , 'lll;ecit. to P0240;4044; tgestincertsinties sad evisioas .minitsthsioastof Ter this he added the, following • tpl'ya ditylatiiott Witt fuytiin laws,- it lc 'in Mu• ittiffestli"tif peiret agi ee About it."' But tsen this point nad been destroyed by time; andl other nations , r psolftiag by = 'advice which Llrd • liactqmpase D to - his( °Ku 4delitil; bad prycirtd - a co it., : sutidatlawer titelir 44,, si- 5 11uPreepwas Willi deed -thus r /I f is Jok ow., li/JelstahAidirr Skins ' atanteiliat ha, ; civilians, 'arktilmitta/ sr;irilf Ste WO !Ninth& dpiition. :Bbi :celriain it is , •"fhttlifilr bliss' int, ti 6 4 ,41014 utv,afiject• Jo ivest , nice, apti s varicty.of upinioti; 41160 Unit t Viatica': ',haw, onuMith, • 3 4 "litoThA.ti,billiitittiiplkitt LA knelt atitiles is grit. ''' ~ 01" ftalatisbilibstsillbliatisliesannos vim* atbd *whitest lob . Off, sealeilvtodgptivNit , •:l4 ..' !P"O" r. " V • 3. " That the Jude,e arsadiallordi..ivik• iv assiitaßosses, .hodtugtstiierarsole.sibitlibeit+. +4, 1 . L. , .4T" 410111100 the :Cliasori.Gsbets.,lsllolibet Ailed, the ream* of: -11e*.ilinisiiiikenaooposibloitta sod _ " S. That the isn't:ant lawyer, albeevoleth his ignorance of late, httbsoreact ikeetee f aud otoirp, "9r male_ AIiPAID4 O Osh f .4l.fal i dit and estate', by Patents, Are QUM inbjev, • auti • and num dcedu 111116 1 11/4solM , tete Olrllt If la; . Atilt „the ~ _ aiuglit _ i tiectnedve , heiii for any, joysormion in -the auipeoteti' : Sof , thome are the • inuovetittos e 4tut apok+' at*inst- i that conctin -the coit,cieseirl f samba., and ti?ifttjfes , df, at vi!sicini; but Plit of rpsiiii . ordinance ptielcetli'liot piti. f guhloat INItt„.006011 si' CPU 41 : . Other . Gbjectiona were . antic:pa ed aud sa luted which it was not now ' i.ecessary to mention'; oblectioh was otie wfltcli it *At not ti+ 7/oain ttin • ogw to Itear . fit ;evuti.ttiitztilte;Jusiges, ociumell .ra.ofAaasynattil at u:ietits o fijW, agaiW; lnlll roalieethimiz• ttrogeb.: w' .44101,14;i4 ik4YiW'Cdt iinftx ti a new chaise upon alllaw to tuns .t tn,p 4.70, saw.sooka issus....l,TwAlth teplinJ Ftir toe ten Meir of these, tobelpettilic new labour, it is titie it would follow, it the • law were ntw-nteulded into 'a text law; fur then men 'guest be new to begins ..isle iiidom- 1, b. • sciences, and nut sciences books." . He then proceeded to lay down Witt-principles of the *iteration which lie yecommended, and the manner in which it should be effec ed, which it is my i n'ention scrupulously to follow • " lit. The first, •to discharge the banks of those statutes, where die ease, by !Iteration et dose, is 'veitisked; as Lombards, Jews, hairsetwo, &c. Those upy nevertheless remain in the Wearies fiir,antiquities, but no reprinting of then. The like of statutes long -like expired and clearly repealed ; fur if the repeal doubtful, it must bed* propounded to the Parliament —2. fhe rifest Is, to Tepeadiftlf statutes which are sleeping and not of use, , boa "rt. 'Waring in some of those it will, perhaps, be riquisite ,to substitute some more reasonable law. instead of them, !et vocable to the sme • in others, a simple repeal may suffice.— 1 1 0 , 1)1 11 that th e grievousness of the penalty in many statutes l iel isltigated, though the ordinance stand.-4. The lan is, the re of ameorreot statutes heaped one upon another, to oue clear awl oviform law." Lord Bacon concludes his proposal to the King, at the er>d of the book, in words which have my full concur fence, in cgmmon with every sentence of that admirable 'treatise:—!' This is the best way, I conceive, to accom plish this excellent work of honour to your Maj sty's times, and of good to all .time." But if a more recent (for there can be no higher) authority is wanted, it will be found in a report made to the House in 1796, by a Committee, of which the present Lord Colebester w4s the Cnairman, for inquiring into the state of the statute law. Among much valuable information on the subject, the report stated as follows :-• " Ageneral revision of the statute law appears to have been often recommended from the Throne—to have been peti:ioned for by both Houses of Paillament—to have engaged the Hbours of suecessive Committees—and to have been undertaken by in. dividuals under the unction of Royal and Parliamentary authority ; but never to have been carried forward to any degree of maturity. After the Restoration, Finch, Soncitor-General, (afterwards Lord Nottingham and Lord Chanceilor) Serjeant Maynard, Mr. Robert, Atkins, Mr. Prynne, and others, were appointed, in i 616, to be a consider of repealing such statute laws as they AA repelled, and of reducing all statute laws of one method and bead as may conduce to the mere and execution of mach laws. This seems to instance of the sort; and thus it le-rthat Par ./ Med to accomplish this general revision, and alt to elan for more than a century, although the annually amputated its necessity:: upon those great authorities, and convinced seconded by the good sense of the House, 1 toconsolidate into one statute all the laws re- If.it be asked, why I have not corn consolidating the statutes relative to the ertioimity P I reply, that the climes of are fatless than those of theft, and that consolidating the statutes which operate far snore obvious than that of making the smaller portiOn. The number of • verities' tribal, in 1825, was 14,437: Aber foe theftwat'l2;s3o, being at least Oftila#llC - OF thei crimes committed during the last Islam Lobs Amint.peT. i - coattoictadyntAPßll6ll; of 1 • . lot torgiry;94rariditaoitestitet, 1 • .reitVortrthe domniitinents foe thee . riltirirlier'df 43,009, /et the enotinout trite* proportionably Small; such as 241 for feritery I murder ; 50 for arson'; and 43 for perjury. which I propose to consolidate; amounted 82. The. Bin. which I propose terintro: stof hat 32 . 0egeg, two of which will be repeal of useless and unneeessary „gril l e:oe Vemai6ing thirty pages, without , s nif,* "ogle ;important point, will contain all that esseptial in this( nanety-two statutes—(Hear, hear) itirivbe asked how the Statute Book has become so overloaded, I shouldanswer, because individuals Wished to legislate in their own particular case. The story Which was told 0 .- Burke sufficiently indicates the indif (creme with which . the House has been accustomed to view)egislation•oo• this very important subject. Oa a dky when the public expectation had been much excised as.to the proceedings of the House, Burke walked into ,the smoking-room, where he observed a Member miuing .very disconsolate. He asked what had hap pened, and the Member replied, •• Oh, the great d.- bate is 'put off, and they -ate doing nothing but ,passing bills about capital punishments."—.(A laugh.) To chew what contradictory enactments sometime pre earl in the same statute, I may instance an Act for pre- Venting frauds in the'city ind liberties of Westminster, which concludes by providing that no person should steal madder-roots. In another Session, prevision was made for the security of thorns, maples, quickies, and brollies, le-a twain Act, the title of which it would lasieirise'the'llouse to leant, was "An Act for the better securing Curom-house goods, removed to the' as,spt ils. for the better regulation of the province of lierregtunbra--(llear, aid a laugh)—and for affotding ipeoteaton,to halves, quicksets, churls, and maples."„— Algai by the 6thOf the late King, chap. 48, a penalty if was s provided for an offense, which, by a ptir ,ig chapter, the 36 h, was made a felony. without ache of clergy, while. in. all probability, these con infirmly enactmentshad gone through the House in friarintekteif6, pathaps oss - the same day. It is of such ineniiri l tities.iindilisA,skantagei as these. that wish to rid Alm, fieriniste. I'hsee or fear clauses of my ilieutrill,turvi /*Ave abisrady observed, • be devoted. llskr ieocar "veil .1 4 :itti r ; ,t fit remainder to the 'irt the law itseif. 7 - The seconds:Lass of oftioCee to which this: bill particu hely-applies is. that of .teceiving stoles'. goods. This Is a se,' inip , rtant class of ofinees. By One Clause r 'supersede the necessity of, - retaining• one Of:which Make's it an Ofeece to receive lead,. iron, copper, or brass, know ing thew) to have been sorlen.- There is antaber. enactment wit` , Veoard tai pewte r ; al s o o t he rs m aki ng it .. penal to et x cease B.in , k-notes &c. under the Above corcunistall*. I a order ti' g et re d of these, I ,propose to enact a clans& that it any person shall receive money, g.posts. arch 'tek, bi.l, bond, or security, or kcal the same, it.sha amount to a felony. 'The pers.sn knowing the preipet to have been stol en to b e d eeme d gui l ty of 'a Wasp, lind.to be indoted as ass accessary after thijact Or as r.il' - restejpaL The next propo ition to which..l beg thb rauctiou of she-House, is A tehiedy.for son ftedefects aid 10111%10i* ie. llk. law. -As is now strand .stiough,icbe t.teAserkit grievous-And highly penal l'Afan!ee le coal* k i, ibbtky' iii ieinl.forbisliest Itidgittgs ;et i r s of an uniurnished i s p ro eNe., by our l.tw. I recoilea:t a case which occurred belare • ti.e lax Chief Danis Macdonald, in v.hitfi -(14,t learned Ifi hassling MP% Nekher could his maim :cos*, a charge against him for Ontsbesaling the note, because the note was never the property of thr. master. All these ifscoaveniences and defects wed be removed by the Bill ; which also mitigates she crime of embetsletnent.— The Bill I proposes will also protect money hr fereigniands against the embeselensent of which the law has not provided. Another ermierian rolatia to the stealing of eitlydeeds, which are me pee. t.cted by-the-taw. Fordds oCince anareumensent will beeleces sary ; but I wish it •to be widener's*, thee lieieneloetome does this BM constitute a new olivine. My phi a istoeloyektkoponislinent der offences which her. het* comeniplated ely •eniainelaw, and net to provide a putthhisieittfor. offences eahnown toe)" , prevent laws. The last descriptions of theft to whichthie Ball will apply, are later. oho in dwelling-houses.. Here '1 woold introduces ekeeyproviding diets* out-house should heemilidered a-part oldie dwelling-house (eel* me the capital pin of the punishment seesst)isolels there was as Internal conwsnifeleatiost fireweed it mad the derelling•hostae.— . Aoidier clause now provides as ameodeneat to an Act of last Seed" hi tie 'cadet) , of which I trust - the Rouse will: coincide. I al. lode to the Act which •Inide robberies in - .Orchards and gardens a !AMT. It appears to roe an euremely severe ding to subject the school-boy, for example, who 01000 t be supposed to be coo, p inions of the nature of the offence, or of the punishment which at taches to it, to an indictment for ieloi!y, and to the inevitable punishment, upon conviction, of •transportatim for omen yea% the Magistrate having no :liseretionary power, and not bring mhpowered to accept of hafL. Now, the asnendetesit which I propose, is to give the Magistrate the poen, of taking bail for the Ant offence, and in instance, such as *bet to which I anode, of mitigating the penalty or discharging the asteneed.,-- With respect to the other season which li is my intooduo introduce, it has for its object the hurirovernest of the admlniden. don of justice, with a view in lessees the frightful anamiteff crisis For the great prevalence of crime in this cooper", ar Y J with the Continent, rations causes may, it is true. be The increased population is one ; and another, whkh metal* tends to render crime mere frequent in this country than upon the next is the nature of our pollee. which differs from theirs, 11 set being of the preventive kind.-. 4 differs:ace derived bow this nature, j of our Constitution. It it to be regretted thee, upon a comparison of the crimes committed in the seven years eliding in 1616, and in the seven years from that period to 1123, the comparison is nee is favour of a recent diminutitto in the quantity of crime. Thesmier , Indian stood thus: In the seven years ending 1814, the committals were 47,522. In the year ending 1823, 93,282. The comparison is the member isf.dweie 'who received sentence-of death, in the seven years coding 1811, and the number on whom sentence of death was passed, d alog.the seven years ending 1943,, was nearly in the same proportion, and equally in favour of the former period— In the eaves years ending I Sit received sasteate of deai15 4 4,126. Do. in seven years 'siding 11123,8,224. Although this visa the peopor . tion, nearly _die, between the two periods to • was hie.Uemsoneselitpro• portion as -- .au teMis"alitie"lllll . " .I lse k 1*- la Lead 1114 eireerttqiliset 1111 S, received natemessfalestiu.-.:_:__;. : .,.:„.. 4 . Ditto, seven yen, . . . 1,184 So that, hile th e ' 'Wain* Nisis tws:ihid iL iketlitmdi aid Wales, taken collectively, the inaessirent esti is tbePeeimmilin of one eleventh, as related' to .Lendiefolibli Having thus alluded generallf to the stated° tide eitekkiy, 'LOU state the nature of the peeekoone I am ashirMsballlneduce. My Mt object le ma. remedy a great defect iscAgjata . , , pi kat re ands. 4, statute was paned In 'the dun *of Of Ilskii Was to extend IPIO Seale eastielsesive tit edinkted, Midst, c= li a l i e ;. b e v!ap ii cinilli i cajttair 010 10 1881 4 esde i r f sheet hsMr-, y by a verdict of • by his own confession, re by-ftinins meat, or by maldbg 80 pitempley rifling's. of by esdaviry. Matte, bowever, as ash felt be 7 atippsead;. was set -of presPective (WNW* k and iSY,S Ii ease* -of Moly bsd 4WD ff.B/ 8 d shin k pawed. therefore propose to extend tin princrele of chi statute at WilUam to all (denies created eiscethat statute had passed ; and j to matt, 'bat the conseflueacesz of faimiabould . suds span taw vicrion in whatever awoke Wedeln Mlopplticep providide it was on the satisfaction of the Court. With reipect to accenoriee after fact, as the law now steeds, an aoteeney• bifenkbe Stet might hie tried either is the county where be became tip ossestory, oe in the arenty Where the offence to which he ,r+sidlefed to be an accessory ' was committed, but this law did not apply tticcestorits after the fact. A remarkable case of the inconvenience of this law 'vainly oc. :coned. I allude to the burglary at Lord tfowpres,' a west aggras voted case. Eight persons proceeded from London to Lord Cowper's, in Hertfordshire, where they stoic near .Cl,OOO, which they divided amongst them. Ten of the party were 'fecund, and ethers convicted ; but the accessory after the fact for some time •escaped punishment, on account of the dialculty which existed in bringing him to trial. That perms was nit to Menton', but it was found impossible to try Min then. lie was next seat to the Old Bailey, but there also he escaped en account of the impeder, ties of the law. • At length it was discovered that he bad received some of the money in Surrey, and in than county be was par. Muted and convicted. _ The expense of bringing this man to, estice amounted to no less a sum than 4861.—(liear, hear.) It is new proposed to remedy this defect, by making the law reach 'the offender, either by indictment in the county where the man became an accenory, or where be was proved to have received part of the plunder. The pleas as tothe competency of jurisdiction, often too amount to a total denial•ofjustice.. In the eases of mis demeanours, the law is defective ' in leaving the expenses to be de frayed, at the charge Of individuals who were often too poor to prosecute in cases of the gravest nature ; I would only instance the cases of assault with intent td atomic a rape, or to commit an emsally heinous offence on a child,when if the parties • pirents arc poor, •the offender nine times in ten escapes through the unwillingness of the to rue the risk of a conviction at an expense so formidable. parties eases of nteladmiarstfrition by an agar, the pro'ecutor must pay the wheai expert**, as has lately been brought under my nsuce 'M the cast if the Rev. Sidney Smyth, an active Magistrate of Taksblee.r....seho, In,comialuenee of prosectiting an °Seer who had very shamefully mbcmolucted himself, bedbug put to an us lendable expense of 801. The subject is one of too much importance la be entered upon fully at chi. moment ; but I believe that the Irate of the law in ibis respect is susceptible of important Tartan. • Lek not pledge myself to introduce any measure on the subject; fat I venture CD suggest that the prosecution of crimes might be transferred front the bands of private individuals to those of a . public prose/ewe with advantage. gush I believe is the practice in Scomaird, There the prosecution of erimei is not dependent • private. feelings of retenge, or unwillingness. Another admirable part of the system of Scotch tail ill, that it allies the pmdshibent of transportation to cert.dn classes of crine. Ido nit 'Steen to recommend this for ininediate adoptien—l only threw it out for future consideration. Another -Mat iMperfectiou in the la* if &gland is . the fieillty with which the se*, itiatipe. Ha person commit 'Murder, and if, in the indictments a 'mistake is made in his o, or if he should have seven or eight surnames, and one is fd, the murderer - escapes. men the sort Of 'vioondinitst be atotarately described, and the instrument with which it is ialicteiL "Chu precision might be accessary in fernier' times. .it Unnecessary now. lam ready to pay proper reaped to forms, but I think that in some cans an. over-screptilmas rtervaace of them is inezpedient, ls it, not most absurd that an indictment should be quashed atter thi judgment, illoelpieesase it may not have contained. such wags as so st armist e ur mays paces' dssani me; or 94 account of the eel& AO IN such classical expressiods as lovissivat or 7•01/111.1111. (HEW, Iced laughter.) Oa this point I am so fortunate as to be sup. putted by the authority of the celebrated , Lord Hale, whose recorded opinion might, in his own beautiful language, be made the preamble of • bill on the "subject, in the folowing terms— " Whereas, from the great strictness whtel, in WOW of life has been always required in indictments, more persons charged with ollfentes'escape by the too easy ear given to exception in iodin ation., thin by their owe linceoee,audinfmtVniqs grass murders, boglaries,rohlteries ant other heinous 1 -noes, escape by such idea's : 4 Ities.'ito j ibi reiresch of the lie., to the shams of the 4isserooteet, a. 40.nciwpagemew,;qi.triiiany, awl to the did. hon•ur of Goo; fix tenni, thereof, sad fur the refornutie• ni ibis overgrown ariOitY 4$ belt enacted, ice— . b do twir, however k despair Ginning it law which dtalt not be ?o perant to the opinions ~f prat:nand men, and which shall lot of escape through tecluicalitie . It should be our Oleo to give facility to the ct.a.vittion of gunk and to the acquitta.. of umocence. • Iroder tbc" titcAut Law, what est:sfactiot can It be an lowest moo to *sore ky tosiosoitaiketesikittoikkor ord impunity to the pithy Theptodplevoterfamseeldegeot:upt, bowever, be abaudosed, and- I Amid be /- the French Courts tatroduced ' cooed is compelled to - Admit takes a part to As to the subject of duals' on accooot of, suds a =anon as s. ragman so prosealtions. crimes for wbieh ear bly penal ; sub Whams ecommkted shield against the recurrence offender. Annie* those arouse faults committed with an intentiou of .peroctireditr..h rope, that iris a class sr crime for the prosecution of whiek :the peer ought surely not to b e o bli ge d lb' i p iitai(llin ,i _ 'i ail.— Another object of the 11 111 I propose, is chtativ tit *And prisite of magistrates respecting admission cobalt. The enintiogneostice as to bail was founded on the statute of !Award !. The thit will anthem all that is desirable to b e r e t a in e d i n t h at a n d 'etia. r manes ; it lostudoces no new law, but will ealicadt 'ettistiWkaetriaints, obi molosiate the practice to that of initer7ushrtn , Perko* there way b. some who think that it Is preetunsidon is me n nut being a professional man, to undertake this nice (nohow); bus having the boacear to be appointed to a poet which gave use the napes intendence of the Criminal law of the kingdom, and being oficially called noon to advise the King on matters cusoected therewith.-being daily, nay boa* ht the habit of watching the• Practical operni•so of this law, I did not Mink it was aay pa oaroaptios in we to assume the seer. If the details of the measure mete manly: the result of my own crude opinions, there mlght be soße gruppd rur Mira citto upon we; bin I have the geed to/7one. ti fwd there. ep krined by those who brought to the seiset great professitnial Skill. "nte prawn Halm been prepared by the same indiViduakt *Who' drawer the Joey b6l of tut year,in which I hue not yet niderstood that any faullites been discovered —( Heat ). 1 .1 4ft I . l r 9€9l6°"' a barrister. highly respected , and Mr: Hublanine, w o - fi'anneted with me in the slice I have the honour to fill. from' whme.• g. l iera ability and experience of the operatiml ache Criminal Law, I have •Iniesived most trainable maistance,. as well Mill& iiktiktdit asubject as es the general duties of hie wation—(Cheurs). The bithklusee bees besides revised by Alr. Justice Holtoyd, Mr.,lustice illjey, and other Gentlemen of legal eminence. T o th e Chiet Justice 1 as sever suMeiently ampule sty gratitude for the caret* . tePtiou With which that Honourable Judge has exainina Aloe, and to the profession in general I Am indebted' ' ' the e with which those Gentlemen, wherdil Pi 'ion ei C l et de s i n d swered my applications for infurmatitid.=-Thitels a vulgar propoulty to impute to that prof.:ssitid'tbe":Pticlice elereothvg obuturities and subtleties, and of taking advantage of them dee their own private interests. I cad contriditt dais &Nation, Mapes naluepresentation, and I do so from etterisies eioflisse. I tamest withhold my acknowledgitient to Mr. Euseell, the Bar. dater, who has devoted his time to this subject, withaiiii the slightest view to renumeration. With respect to myselt, I have no other motive in introducing the preseut measures to the H4V.se than a desire to avail myself of that palter which constitutes the svhele valise al onkel situations—the power el rendering more permanent service to the .country, than the mere .tdinary defies of ABU— (Hear). If there be 'anything of a ppaaseoal motive tuned lit my impniess, it Is that pleasure of an ~....entitition to asimeiate in same with some permanent Smelt ts sty Emmery--(Testr, sad disselleg)." 111 V Right flenintrable Ad** then 'lnored,:* That hew be given to bring'in a Hints sesselideteene Laws raiarkso to , maw& Offences of Stealing, trabexxibit and Irelivlng a Stolen 7, as he coguitable lay the Lan!, id $s a( Sir M.*W. RIDLEY said, he was vet; glistislisi: the Right Hon. - Gentleman had bought tins - abostyim portant subject under the cortsideratiOn'nf ih‘ House. Tnere was no part . of his public Conduit vintCh4ould .tend more.tO hand down his name to le gratitude, of posterity. . Improvements of this kind cld..berrappre.. ciated by the people, for they *ere treffeetly-;:lotOigi ble to the: great mas s . There were . sO944istliki jc nut adverted to by the Right Hon. Gentkernan t tai: . Tcfr be should wish to call his attention. One in pa *tar, thelear which related to the exportation of. ° A law was formerly passed to prohibit: ' 'ON. afterwards partially. repealed. and the e ' . - • . - 1, .. . . . . lowed on payment of - a certain duty. Ask nature of the law us it now stood, that4lisatin-the power of Magistrates: to prevent ' the eiiegiti r trOi or mares, on the tender, by .any person, of the'itriu of 6.. Bd. as her value. Dirring the last seven or right years, however, a groat numbetof mares.had beta exported. Tide was not allowed on the continent ; and ao strict were they, that if & gentleman carried over a mare with him, he' was MK permitted to bring her out of the country. This gave rise to considerable in convenience hut Yorlashire and nth m. of the country, where the breeding of horses formed a evieWera art ble pan of agricadtoral Industry. . Mr. N. CALVERT said he never listened to a speeds with more pleasure than that which they ha i just heard from the Right Hon. Gentleman. The alterations pr., posed would, he had no doubt, be producree of great good. At present, sentence of transportation tor seven years was passed for runny minor offences vihieh . was not carried into effect: confinement in the hulitst• or some penitentiary being substitute. In this manner offenders were often suffered to pass thirty or linty years of their life in a courseof crime; and the evil was not confined to the individuals themselves, they extended it considerably by the 'example they held out, and by instructing . young pet suns in the commission of depre dations. Every ?non bound guilty of a capital felony should be transported fur life. For minor cdrences, youig men, before they buns, hardened in crime, might be. sent out as free settlers. There would then be a better 'chants of re form, and the elect he had no doubt, would be to diminish fehintes one half. Wilt re gard to the expenses apcomeciation, ih the lutes alluded to, they should be borne by the pubis at large, 4id is fall exciusively on the land. . . Sir R. WILSON wished child-etealing had been isschnled s : ' •-• Mt. DICKENSON objected that *thin expenses in tuna of prosecution for injuries to personal propofty .k4l ash shine 'ciethe ~iad. through the medium of the Comity fates. . ••••,•,.; • - • t • ~ Mr. C. WILSON hoped that the Itieht Hon. Genqffncrearld include the power to grant costs in all CAWS of aisaaki, er intent . 80 An. • to commit felony. Mr. LOCK HA K f agreed with the . KlettHOU:Ten •tleman, that all the ptirceedings in casei Of siz4i4iints .. . . .. ought to be simplified, and he hope ) that the wrgge lion of the Right Hun. Gentleman would be ac(* .on in securing us a mote effective preventivepolim., ; - : This might he done by following up the aid rips* , of !Wkly. with inspect to the Alice of constable, who tonnerfy bad 'Opted-U-61e thing of magisterial authority pro teaspore. Mete AAA 4iiii . no etsperathis the slay way of meeting the inutile id tibia *ad by enlarging therevers a this Oakes, as far as refews4*lngierpre realise el crime. .>4l )L.5 .. 9. , Mr. ABERCROM - BY pawl,- consirred ~,l t yle opinions so genet ally given in favour or the! ifivposeti .1. all sons !in this department of the .criatimat la w . It bad been said that in the last seven years not leix than eight thousand persons had been capitally convicted, of which, doubtless, but a small proportion had been 4e . ' crud. A large proportion of offences against the peace ea Aiwa. against private property arose ant of the Game Laws, amd'!s fat 31 respected this branch of crime, he hoped the Right lien: Plittle man would isot.fail to Include a residue of the Oak's 1aw...- Sir JOHN SESRIG HT was perfectly convinced that most criminals in the country might date the tentnthart— meta of dolt criminal modest as kettll ill the int illstsime iftle" la picle s, wlikb latberdore IlbOdebt *se a &line *Mb' biagbr us be most sedulously repressed by the nee et rbetetlitgero stysod tbe Mlssiersoey.• ' nr Mr. IYILEM tbengirt that coats sboOld be iftefrilbleMlWof adadeossennori to poor proseeston, it the able Albei Vellifialiks of Mosby. ... . nt..( 4 ,‘ 'Mr. CHETWY ND agreed to she preprlett of iskt l ii_ 3 bare lo eases at Solodessesnoors. tie beggsdio set shit WOW edillier for &millwork Apt as so the ullitsesedflbild .to ty , .... t punishable shady h the vane wsl wisithie hilts • troy. .1 6 . 4 e b. 4 ..IZ...:•Lz:lit__ P. wee'.' Mr. EtrtX'ilUltr d , anc,,w4 sts • '"'"' zreased calendai d elifnesmins attributable deolskesldt a-- gum of klimoos oggshist the Game 'HA IWO Ithirtreo bar cipoilidoi of * pops protup buss of 44ef*vp ; chirp of pr.occo ling In cap swami oiraket •fthvio II& smug,/ .. , - N - • 1 1 - - _ - -,,,„- ... - ... .. . 'trod that h one of lifietailiaiii (o b liihich.! di:Allow f person, thus addressed a prisonef,arraignud Asti aeh arge to 1 `. ' • . - ~...--. . _S . v . , iC - vNtiI.IDAI7(I , OP Ti 4 aklifilf AL LAN's. that course... Bet Sra 40 Isay•l view propstuneo ,9( t t§it,i ; *du're t , ha„sto, ,a400 . 0' *6:4 /:,aer uorry iin be ' ' Mr. StaltarT t i gEL'l trusei.:Sir. I- sh4ll be , fa- ' eatiro We/ andestuallitxtxf, la, . relnltianfillii isaiaAtrstt Tott: meat' iper.trated.i yass,guilo is to vowed with the attention and` indulgence of the ll oake ojbarstdef idlikaud Imp i caa aFtjul master, reofeetly • clear, baud,. tragbiasdir:rimichas to medj fur- col ' irfdli 1 inlarrirrieffilit CtseridrititiOtt a subject of suib i lllusfrft - 0 b, d es aqd.°lll,),? wtowards the bet , Oiiilled‘lodgings," . *Sr dofeet II . prop : Me tetiltigicir t std .... . . d m , a9 4af ri Oothi..*6o4 hoc e - as a pro j ec h e d ' stll underseruidioegit'and judg verettupori. .1 3 14 . 1 he min t:, :11 regard to destilitpaili I* 16'043..117k teopy.thst.4 Al provement in the administration of,,she CriminalAair Tatt 4 i through an a 6 it la unNisitecte)* Will ' r„'terskbidi'the hew cffitteOr ii 7not worthy ille . n s . a . ' ' ._ll l - s te i i m e firt,"` ta, du in of •this vpinnirry. 4 'lt . k -mini it .ecilito, subject which speaking of in a matter of so high importance; it might 4, taswe ss the lavrs mope= ng cashes y servaats ' iare extremely defeciive, for it si‘ nec tor floastte to *al iiiiii/WeVili4 Veititilteltiffh 'otiAlllPairt commercial - or have been used of the new translation of toe Bible,. and prove the specific nature of the coin embezzled hefting he can con. eri poiitical % ifacii4iCip4ll4 - kittittbAiiscite no ftelings such like works." Anil he conclude:Leith this pregnant vkt bi servant of the fact: If i servant received 10s. to deliver to ti e p hi to s ina o sz's fo d r eb t tr e i t n o cba o ur for s o r t iLini note, b e cgtdd not tie of warraikspiiripifiadaessorbaa,wastagad, w i t h,, t h e _expressiTs . „, yhtre, in , a sin g le lint s Tat aonveted an a m t. air em- mi , snotheatevivirbievta of thaihkaa ionstigativa, i on which fa!f"ril!at P.' iicilki4". l ;4l 4l ° ol— " 1366 " mg f° 11 " nestling ins. would not tie against lion, forise bad not embezzled a .• . • .skiripsi.biish 11, about to ;Hippos., I • could find no dif• ;;;;Tttee,..s,; . c 7 o;7,i, ' geitlttifiCifiettiliii' OA Selection. There is one authority 101 l mentor/ to be n 3:4:%04001* 1 ' .1 i9c54 1 04940, I . ionic with feelings of Lt u r r d :Lil, b , "ll a I ;:tfielikenit.initrillith,st the highest . judicial nein, which b e - - - the • u h --- ;; e• — ;. -- iia l s , i a c so rast al e hire" , of English jorisprudence; to whose &aim has hitherto I "'butill9ft dAtk fthrtit intitahas paid its tribute.need I has now segued it ti goivet am ,Ckii i Selfar`Aacisni Be whom Cowley has dela7 of k bas annual So beautiftlik - described as Relying upon t 0 Bacnn,_e_sr*Wit:ipi;iiele at lint; •• that lam seconds TlOUSMillketpait; - 0 propose to cons& Did ea the very_baciet stand Wive ,abaft. 11 . 0 „Of tile bitot_teMidi '''' • '• o l 'As3i IffitilineaWlWWWlteief al ikoitot; '' sr k, asenoeftwith coal _ 16.0 _ _ law la *meat. !attar * tit t e.... , :.:. ,•- crimes Of greater i :7 4 gi ti n i,Aoiliiiii . .iigsi th - ii igiortowiiis - a, whe n greater maligaitr t inept/tileral to'lting3Siiiei Impreimiench a the utility 4 coot s d itessealidnniets;stftitni",: add-stated , :sir thsedesdujes over numbers. is 1 -.. • ist .,.l i *Wn‘artit# IP*iatOqiithlOhtV l Viltirhe'prig ifibblatiOns Revd n .we.4o4.,464.l.aoteak,iiixicAith.thow,teniaginventfidt, sitssowitte, dommosge doss*/ VtittAsAlßKl:o9t , feaseen of these, cliental .., it eri pi lolerio s tpe. 1 ;, ant seij f eware of fhettliseltlitlgnsis sz-tereishe olds ...,* 'l li tb t e lit iiN24l Ai k 15.4740 glength' i*thig • ltin g" ti a sah sotjecii; twh tappmd,tsushehaesnimenti siod , the "Wier . 1 **4111.1 16 1 OM alkolgilliNillslol4/adde snort 'Nati:id/ries biteneti,'22; fer ,- I 1 those principles which 11**,..* ; .10411144•00 iligleguies DhAtlit' l 4°'W . 1 : 1 1431% . :0;t 1 t.Abl740 11 4 . 1 - 4kliit - 4,.._ 11 074°0,_ c ,UA the 05. ;.. ;. ' 04011 . , 4 , / , eisz useasoovi ~th e argianseak ru sh. -.MT tut firiti 4 . / stilt lismailer-beugdnaocuslnwhbe , stse ..stseisidiriat.hope 111 for m urde r ; tdik o ,islitilillt!#: itite..4 l: sitittititix , 'ttiii;ltkAt ' Sts9nls ~r ea glandes whirl . s2l ll i ffi.lo4.,ghttiogiklifigli.agliliterp.,ol:mit Rot Unltit ri ...I oftk•fs*lisrast l of a ObeldeNs 'midi 1-asight,MW 4.9.ce , wil l sift' , . el aubec xornspelloiVtol press , , tipon4heir consideratinn: aieoted r ' * "Mee ? p .. 14144.a5t Tog, soeU s oossicipiess Ur . 4 0 1, 1 r,"U" ,7 4 411115 Cat 4 W., YY V•ItIGUI: WIngi•ATO offal subject, se ,seertiott,. and hollow ; and nuui .'Ote, , cinconerniruca..,, . .. • ~, . 4114.**Plig i -4)00 duty WO t / nowaial letricatr ir ai tkg celleaSY at lai • dollSisciP %be4Pi.N.l•lO6-AtiaiLy. hod ailwrialiceolitar,4lY, 1 10 4, Xry .As Rossi, ti A wr4bi_ , , of Nrwongkrt.abenldbaru di bee*. of,in kllato.r., , *ills further of tbr *6,4:portraiture • -. - 1,! 1 - Po,. 'OW? ' *awe and out of ate/ a' 'Mat i ~s,,A!, ir tst .l - if eed o tt it and habit . of dbiibetl!enutt oeln a . „__ • till ow Continued 111 , priciielt °cot ...i ll • AV, iS,C . 4/8K: ." A e4tFc thiLtoremni, 0 ( N r i t ip,": , tl if ir P' of kiffr.r/4" 41 .-4 1, d!a.. . • L ,, ~ ', ... , . • " ii n .pacoa mien "prOceeds to"the second . I) , ' 'e ''''' I. 7 . . . ... % , •I. "I#l.o . ,1 4 ,; falai to EpLankat -innovation ; and inatou:nions ins . deirelet ,, figiyundfdiebiglit;" •nnii the sepiy inst. 1 4, I. riOkiblet k isipl medicines either in Ike - civil''t !mime. 6,47, ;ire in, l o4jOlis ; w as i r i 4 4,4lLii!le o lAl, ji . coniltanniplaitt aBainst aIL noble ;elimination. . ilin„o malt is, dm this won k onslti . 4lol , tb be .tertnedor.kel stied, and- rahassid be warty to irb We priedesVi introduced into our vwn,. Slayer tbs. msfy.4l,2c- 'A undergo a painful inquisition ; *re .10T:t- -in the endeavour to risme, guilt Apt!, 5 , litZiat• I defraying* the camases issuer , , - Id- 'public trials, 'lath* they might, , .. s would preying thetwf t rtfe % I 4114 _ 1 444.4 dons. 'nem, 1114641 i Ve 4 • -• • • i v. 'perms might beg l * , Iqrpyit co , a measure wbvtd' hub the 064 o phiseerto agaioit than. NAVAS' gOeiberit-41 ) Wit of eminence u 4 future woostes by iisgeopinnished those .' eggs{ might safely. hut. raolimt as- . , N. . 7;7 6