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A S ro great an interest has been excited upon this ..a7).. subject, and as the final Erection of it in some publie spot haust be yet a work of time, Mr. WYATT thinks that the Faltibition of the MONUM E biT A L GROUP will be grati fying to the Public; ht therefore begs to inform them that it ts ...'ZO‘Y OPEN ta•ti.eir view, at No. 19, Ilenrietta-stteets.Gsaren c'ish-sgmare.—Adraitunce One Shilling. PHILANT lITIOPIC SOCI ET Y. St. GEORGE' FIELDS, for the RECEPTION of POOR CHILDREN, the OFF SPRINO. of CONVICTED FELONS, and for the RE FORMATION of CHILDREN who have THEM SELVES been engaged In CRI 3.1 INA L PRACTICES. riIHE FRI&N DS of this INSTITUTION are 1 earnestly reque.ted to attend a GENERAL MEETING, be holden on Wroutasnav, the 17th of May, 18Z), at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-strict, at Three o'clock precisely, for the purpose of tating into consider-Mon the Annually De creasing Funds of this Charity, which, having already obliged the Cemmittee to reduce the number of its Objects from 176 to 100, e.ntders a still further Reduction unavoittable, unless some vigorcms nteatures shall be adopted for .. - .•ccitin3 the public in serest in favour of an Establishment so unexceptiostablc, and at this time peculiarly important. Those who-are unacquainted wills the itature of this Charity, a-c rcptetted to apply to Samuel lios.mquet, tba Trcabur:r, Na 73, Lombard-ctrt..et, for the printed Aceou;tt. %YHA:TAM PACE, Secretary. PARLLIMEN'I'AItV PROcEEDINGS. nousz OF LORDS, MAY 9. The t'eers, 111HATHA7t; ROMsET, MAMMAS, HASEWOOD, and Inns:, took the oaths. Mr. Psoar, *from the Mint, bross; , ht op an Aeeour.t of the M'rket Psice of s..andard Silver.—Ordered to be printed. The Marquis of LA NSDOWS gavu notice, that he would on Friday next move for an Account of the •Allowances to British Ministers at Foreign Courts, durir'g the last ten yea:s.— .Idjcurned. DOUSE OF c6mmoNs. 111. - . GOOCII presented a Pet:ti.'n from the Occupiers of Land In the Couoty of Sufio!is, signed by 5,200 persons, against - . the Importation of Foreign Corn ; and anothjr to the same tiftct, from forty of etc Grand Jurors of the same County; and a third from the l3orough of Ipswich, to the lik effect. Ile stated, that the la:ttr Petitioners, in the year 1318, had threat- • ened personal violence upon him, in consequence of basis,: sup ported the Corn Bill.—They were ordered to lie on the table. Sir WILLIAM LEMON presented a Petition from certain Occupiers et' Lana in the County of Cornwall, complaining of the great distress of the agricultural proprietors thate.—Or- derea to lia on the table. lkfr. COKE presented a similar Petition from• Farmers in the County of Norfulk.—Laid an the table. Mr. MADEI(LEV wave notice, that h: would on Thursday next move for attain Accounts of Exchequer I;►ih, with the interest due thereon. _ _ - ROBERT IVILLTAAIS presented a R.i.tition against the Importation of Foreign Corn, front Land Owners in the County of Carnarvon.—Laid on the table. Sir 11. PARNELL said, that in consequence of a commu nication which he r.ccired that morning horn his Right lion. r `AV ELVIi - CA PITA!, PRIZES ma; b.f. expected _I tube drawn next Dr.lw:ng Illy, 18th cf ti fIS I'.IONT}I (MA Y), amongst which ;ire Two of £lO,OOO r7orso:s, which nut be drawn thet There are ;till Save -ty-eight Capitals in the Wheel. Tickets and Snsres,-eearearited undr.trat, are stAllag at 131811'3 OFFICES, - - - - Friend, the Membcr for Dublin, scaring his inability to at tend his duties in P.,r:lament at present, but that he hoped to be able to le.,ve thiblio in the cputse of the month, he (Sir 11. vo..ald pos . :pone the which he gave for the lt3th hiatant, on the subject of the Catholic Question, to the 2.lth Lista:lr. 4, Cornhiit, anl 9, Chatios-Cross, lAniclen ; by his Ages:► iZ the country. Two Petitions were presented from certain Householders of Exeter, against Exeter IZaaa The present being a 'sock Lottery, T. BTSH begs to :he attention of his Friends to the unparalleled success ':t iu preceding .dock Lotteries, as be shred and sold No. 13,553, First 1:50,000 Consols. 18,041, Last 1:50,000 Consols. 9,955, First A:40,000 Consols. . 3,123, First f:30,000 Consols. 8.137, First £20,030 Co osols. rd in Money Lotteries his success has been equally great; Laving shared and sold Twelve Prizes of 410,000, Ste. &c. arid in the very last Lottery, he sold in Shares, No. 2,807, a i'rize of Twenty Thousaud nisicds Money besides several ■tinor Capitals. The Prices of Stocks are affaxed, hourly, against BIS Erb C.T.ce is Cornhill, by which the Public can see the fluctuations. . _ RICH WHEEL—FOUR of .C 30,000, NEveLILL2. Sir JAS: RS MACiii`:TOSIi brought up ere several Bills, which ke hid a: 1 1 / 2 .'3 1, ..ve to introduce. Mat r.-:acing to Robbe:ies on Navigable Rivers was read a first time, and or demi to be read a second time on the 24th of May. That with regard to Robberies in -Moses teas readU first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the-30th of May. The others were read a first and second tiint. LLECTION PETITIONS. Petitions were presented against the Returns for the follow ing places : St. Ives, ordered to be considered the 6th of June. Pent yn, to be considered the I.4th of June.' Ipswich, to he considered the 15th of June. Berwick on Tweed, to be consider•] the 15th of June. City of Limerick, to be consider. the 15th of June. CfltitatEnClAL PETITION FROM VEITH. Sir GEORGE CLERK preiented a Petition front the Mer chants of to the same effect as that of the Petition from the Merchants of London and Edinburgh, presented to the House yesterday. It would not be necessary for him to take up the valuable time of the House in stating his opinion, as he fully concurred in all that bad fallen yesterday from the Honourable Member.for Taunton (Mr. Baring), and the Right Honourable President of the Board of Trade. The Petition in his hard contained an evposition of similar opinions to those expressed in the Petitions presented to the House by the Mem ber for Taunton. They stated their conviction, that the re strictions upon Trade were the cansu of that jealousy entertained avinst us by foreign nations ; and that. so far from producing the ends for which they ♦were created, they eventually became the greatest obstacles to the prosperity of thecountry. The Pe titioners were anxious to be understood as recommending the utmost caution in whatever alterations Parliament might deem nczessary. They hoped that the su: , ject would receive full and immediate consideration from the House. The Petitiun was brouht up; re.ul, and ordered to lie on the table. AGRICULTURAL DISTREbS. TWO of £lO,OOO, and Seventy-two, other Capitals, yet to draw. OARROLL, the Contractor, respectfully reminds va.7 his Friends and the Public,. that THURSDAY, 18th 1! .I.Y, is the Second Diy of Drawing, when the Two First i rizet will have £lO,OOO Consols each in addition.—Purchasers the chance of the following Grand List of Prizes, viz. of £30,000 Consols s_Cl2O,OOO 2 10,000 Consols 20,000 • 4 --••-• 1,000 Money 4,000 4 --•-• 500 Consols 2,000 10 400 Consols 4,000 _ 10 300 Consols 5,000 14 200 Money 2,800 50 200 Consols • 6,0 00 _ _ 7tlesides the full proportion of A' to°, £5O, and Xi 6 Prizes. WArrauted undrawn Tick , ets and Shams are 3ellinit by CA n- R 07.1., Contractor, No. 19, Cornhill. a:id 26, Oxford-street, London, who Shared and Sold, in the ltist few Blonths, - £30,000 7,003 - £3,000 706 - ,000 2,'223 - C,COO 1,343 - '20,000 CARROLL Shared and were drawn the First Day, 2' , &e. &-. &c. Sold F 01.711 .Capital Prizes that 7th Apra. WORCESTER. LUCIDLY:: FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, AND ELEVEN ACRES OE LAND. TO BE SOLD 131 PRIVATE CONTRACT, - - - - A VALUABLE and very desirable FREEHOLD 11. ESTATE, consisting of a capital Mansior, wits two Caach-houses, Eve-stall it Stable, and Off.ces of ev,ry desc:ip tim t a productive Garden, extensive Grapery, Pleasiare-zrounds, :::rablieries, and Meadow, about Three Acres, exautated from Lind-tax. Also, Eight Acres of Leasehold Land adjoining, Laid for 9.3 years. The premises are beautifally situate within a few minutes walk of tin, City of Worcester, are in complete repair, and contain ten good lied-chambers, four Dre.:aing rooms, elegant Drawing-room, Dining-room, and l'arlour, Water-closet, Housekeeper's-r.mro, Iluticr's-pastry, and Wash-Louse, complete Dairy, Ca4i . .t;e, and cvtry ether sevisite aim for a family of th. lirst revect.tLil,ty, ar.d inamediate possession may be To be viewed, and further particulars had, by applying to Yr. Ednsunds, house Agent, Iligh-street, Worccuor ; or to Winstanley and Snits, Paternoster -row. FROM LAST ruours GAZETTE. i•lr. IL SUMNER said, he held in his hand a Petition from a body of Lunlbliers of the County of Surrey, stating, that such was the pressure of :Igri.•ultural distress upon them, that It w mid ieeritably bring about their rein, if Peehmient did nut interpose some remedy. They earnestly prayed; therefore, for the attention of that !louse to their situation. The fact of Agricultural distress all over the country_was now so notorious, that it became unnecessaty for him to enter into 'any detailed statements to prove its existence. Being aware that there was au infinite number of Petitions in the hands of different Mem bers—all cortaining cempLiints of a similar nature, be should Rot then dwell any further upon this subject. Ile trusted that tLe sante abstinence upon this cielfc •te topic would be eusetved by ruhereMend: • e until an opportunity oLred for a fall, im -partial discussiue, with a view to some practical effect. 'He rshouid now give notice, that on the 25th of June, by which time he believed the greatest number of the Petitions connected with this subject would be presented, he should move that all those Petitions be referred to a select Committee, far the pur pose of giving the Agriculturfsts an opportunity of making out ;heir case, and veUli the cl,ject of gaidiag the House in its coo duct towerds the various cluses concerned—(Jferv, hear). General GASCOYNE would take that opportunity of de precating all partial discussion upon this 6:lb . re:, as tending to the most injurious consequences, and he trusted that the House would pause before they determined to , entertain it. But what ever w ould be the resolutions of Parliament, for his part, he would agree to the appointment of a Committee, solely for the object of considering the propriety of a complete repeal of the Corn 1;i11--(Thae, hear). Mr. H. SU Al 'PILE slid, that in coMplia.nee with the sugges don of one or two Members, he should alter hi; notice of mo tied to Tuesday, the 50th of May. DROITS OF TIIR ADIIIRALTY. Mr. BF.NNErr moved, that there be laid before the House a core of any Act of the Aisembly of Barbadoes since the year 16:;3, or any Act of the British Legislature since the same time, enabling the Crown and Parliament of England to apply any portion of the 41 pee Cent. Duties to any but Colonial purposes. The object of having these Papers produced, was to spew that the 4% per Ceot. Revenues were enjoyed in a quarter where there was no legal or just titie to then; existiug. Mr. GOULEWURNliconsented to the mteior, aced it was agreed to by the Houses CRINISSAL LAWS. Ga7 - ette nntifin that Lis Majesty ha 4 conferred the ho :oar of linizhthood oft ,Major-4eatral liutchinsoo, cr I,:cuLeaaat-Governor of Malta]. BA NKIti;PTCY St; eERSI:DSD. Armittze, imlteepts. ‘::Y.1t1; PTS. ird Baines, Leicester, tailor, to surrender May 23, 24, a:ul June 20, at eleve'ot at the Three 127-Nyos Lekester. At:ornies, Mr. Cooke, Leicester; cr Mr. James, Ely-place, toroorn. dan...i :Milner, late of Cambridge, dealer, May IC, at tent 17, aad Joist so, at twelve, at the ricktwell :n::, C.mbridgz. Anarr.l!.s, reacocke, Cambridge; or Mess:s. Tuosseand Ca. Lincoln's inn-!fields. Da:uteri:cid James Danvers, jun. Co re. 's-row,Tower r:7- el,:nts, May 16, June 6 and W, Gad ;ney, Mr. Hodgson, Castle-street, I:olLewn. 11 - :;" y, Thomas Hardy, Witham I lorton I :arly, and Jt;rd hardy, Birmingham, meteliants, May •;3, 24, anti itale 30, at twelve, at t . oe Royal Hotel, Biriningbaia. .Messrs. Baster and Bbwker, Cray's Inn-idacc; or r.:.-.144. Birmingham. *ityr.:, Price, late of liriborough, Gloucestershire, civil en- Alay 2t, at f.ve. 23, and June O. at eleven, at the :7..):%t. Inn, Stroud. Attornies, Mr. Hawker, Stroud; or Serleasit's Fit,:-:.:reet. - ...hard Barthoomew, lia.:,11:1311, Berks, farmer, May 20, 23, na June to, it eleven, at the Bear Inn, Reading. Attar : i• 5, Fittmaa, Simone* Inn, Chancery-Line; or Mr. 7 , 4linan, Reading. .hard llohnes and Thernas Facer Crane, Northampton, •r; errs, May 16, .31.ne. 3 and 2.0, at twelve, at Gui!dhall, ..or.do.a. Attorney, Mr. Grego.-y, Freeman'-court, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH rose, he said, pur suant to notice, to submit to the. House certain pro 'positions touching the Criminal Laws, grounded on the Report of the Committee which was appointed by that House last Session, to take the se lags into their consideration. The propositions which he meant to submit consisted of two; the first, for the appoint ment of a Committee on the Criminal Laws; and. the second was a motion for leave to bring in six Dias, for the repeal and amendment of various pans of the Cri::iiiial Laws, in pursuance of the, recom mendation of the Committee. As he believed that it was not intended to oppose his propositions, lie should have contented himself with abstaining from addressing the House at any length, but that he felt it necessary to furnish to the new Members some in formation upon die labours of the Committee, toge ther with the nature and object of their duty. The main object of the formation of the Committee was to ascertain, by the best experience, how far the seveiity of punishment denounced by our Criminal Code, counteracted its own purpose, by creating as% CERTI CA T ES--Mav 27. O. Chetlebur:h, jun. Norwich, wine-merchant. S. llould, , toni:tace, butcher. H. Feathentonhangb, Bishop . trn:c,:th,coal-fitter. J. lions, Truro, invu-draper. J. Beiullc, •.:::-.rini.:se,mercer. T. &dial ury, Preston, grocer. J. Holmes, .:clistle-upon.Tyne, linen-draper. A. Shaw, Lower But qhkeld, victualler. W. Bissix, Ito istrd, pipe-maker. G. • Norwo(4l, miller. J. 'Macintosh, Kinston, Surrey, " '!"!er. near, cleet-market, painter. Compton - street, Bruns% ic!:-!..ciu.lre, merchant. LDividends, atc. ac;:. to-murauw. - • . - - impression on the minds of prosecutors, judges, and not be opposedo-for they came berme the House not juries, which tended, in many instances, to secure a as speculators, . but practical - reasoners. Such tieing complete impunity to criminals. Such was the . oh- the result of the Committee's lalsours, they though; ject. The. ldest, the most permanent, and the moat preper to recommend to their Chairman the intro efficacious obstacle to the multiplication of capital duction 6f certain measures founded upon their unarm punishments, was grounded on humanity—on that itimout conclusions. Ile should state, that during the tender regardfor the life of man, which it was the short sitting of the last Parliament after the long re- . duty of every legislature to keep in view, and a due cess, there was no leisure for the introduction of these attention to which was often the great security to measures ; he was tberefine obliged to deferdt to the the union and moral improvement of a people. He present opportunity. The first proposition, then, which did not mean to say, becatrsc this principle was the he had to submit to the House, was the re-appointment oldest, that therefore it was the wisest, or the one of the Committee. At the time when their necessary which ought to attract the greatest degree of regard. dissolution took place they hail v arirms (injects tosittaim , There had been men of • vigorous understandings, —They wanted an expel imental ensues against the ' who, from the extent to which they were. accident- evidence upon which they grounded their opinions.. ally compelled to contemplate crimes, were led to It might be ()Sleeted indeed, that this evidence was the,conclusion that those which could ought to be taken entirely from the capital, and that, the!efore, suppressed, although the principle , of suppression though the theory inieht vet y s. ell a p to the Me would be adopted at a very great price. Therefore tropolis, still that it might h e ver y unsu i ta bl e to t h e -Others, on the opposite hand, who, from f e eli n g s of provincial pry of the country, wi.ere the state of &contrary character, would have so perplexed the crime and public opinion might be very different.-- sistem of capital punishment as to entirely defeat Now, in answer he should pay. that this objection woo thmr own principles; and accordingly saw nn mischief the strongest corroboration which he could look for, 'in the feeling of their country, where the punishment to the principle of the Committee, because the indis of death was denounced on litany, though inflicted on position to punish -was in the ca l -ital, where tee few. Tbelaw of England was in a singular state. Death greatest extent of crime prevailed. This fact, done was denounced against many, and executed only on tore, mint be solved by the advetsat its to his prin a small number, and even on those with great hire- cil.le, that in small towns crime was so confined as gular ity. This state of things was more the result•of not to allow a fair deduction to be taken front the accident than of any wise or provident foredglit in state of it in such places ; whereas we know that so the Legislature. It arose fibril the contest which was the capital the pi incitle acted in a way where every carried on between the disposition to legislate, and one must be alive to its operation and effect.. 100 the humanity of the national temper. In ger.cral, then the Committee wanted experience on this very innovators were charged with a love of singularity point ; namely, the state of feeling in the provinces, and paradox ; yet it happened, not ut a few instances, and alscato make enquiries respecting the passing of that paradox was found oil the side of argument.— sentence. He should now bring the attention of the One. of the most celebrated and useful characters House tattle six Bills, by which it was proposed either whisli this country ever produced, Dr. Riley, en- wholly to repeal, or partially to anneod, several, Cii deavnured.to account for the deviation of' our pole- minal Acts. The first was to repeal the Itch tf lice from the spirit of our legislation upon criminal Arne, which made it a capital effence to steal pii offences, by a set of arguments, which resembled pa- vately in a dwelling-house to the amount of 40a radoxes much more than anything else. This h:tp- The second lois to repeal the Ithh and 11th of Wiln penes! by accident, for' when certain institutions in a Liam 111. which mat'e it capital to steal to theainotint country were abandoned by enlightened men, there of ss. in a shop. And the third teas to repeal the was no longer any honour - to be gainedsin attacking Act of the 2: th of George 11. which made it a capi them. The lovers of paradox gratified their passion tal offence to steal to the amount cf 40s. en a rnd- - for singularity by assailing established opinions and gable river, arid ports of entry and discharge. 'die • settled modes, not for the purpose, indeed, of claim- principles of these three Bills had been at former ing distinction over the vulgar, but over the majo- times adopted by the House, althotitsli they were not pity of the enlightened pert, and hence it was that so fortunate as to meet with the core tin ence of the Dr. Paley was led to apply to a branch of our Insti- other House, and therefore he anticipated the renewal tutions an extent of paradoxical Ingenuity, which, of their sanction so far. As to making it a capital instead of being the quality of a great and elevated felony to steal on a navigable river, he begged to mind, was ordinarily regarded as the inFrrnity of call the attention of the House to the caprice of the secondary talent. Upon the same principle might Legislature in passing such a statute. it was passed the wayward anomalies of that .extraordinary man, in the year 17510 a few years before the Duke cf Mr., Windham, for whose memory he entertained Bridgewater began that splendid course of inland na lire greatest affection and respect, be explained,. vitiation, which had since so vastly contributed to That celebrated person, too, seemed to act, in varia the me:lath and greatness of this tountry. It was well :mu instances, upon the notion that some distinction known that canals were more liable drain any other was to -be obtained by a chivalrous defence of that navigable places to crimes of this nature, yet the pro which all other ;aiightened men had abandoned.— visiou of the statute was never extended to larcenies But one good effect of Dr. Paley's discussion of the on canals. Such was the caprice with which capital subject was, that it seemed to he the immediate punishment hadheen awarded by the Legislature.— cause of impelling tile late Sir Samuel Rornilly to The object of the next Bills was the repealing of take up the matter. Of that great man, his talents Acts, and parts of Acts, which made capital certain and dispositions, he should not say one word. It offences, against some of which remedies could be was not possible that his (Sir J. Mackintosh's) humble had by action, and others were punishable as misde notice of any man's excellencies or imperfections meanours. For instance, the !soot - Philip and Mary, could tend to raise or depress him in the estimate which made in a capital crime for Egyptians to re- of Iris country. But here it was needless for him main in this country more than one year. The 18th of to attempt panegyric, and therefore it would be pre- Chitties 11. which awarded capital punishment to no sumptuous. The character of that great man made torious thieves in Cumberland and Westmorland; the too deep and lasting an impression on the minds of .9th of Geo. 1. insikieg it a capital effeace to appear s his cotemporaries for any one now to apprehend . a in the Mint in disguise ; and the Fah of Geo. 11. diminution iu their reverence and affection for his making it capital to injure Westroinster Bridge.— great posers and greater virtues !—(Hear, hear).— 'l'l,e second Bill of the last alnee related to laws re- When that enlightened man undertook a review of soecting otfeeces of a more senors nature; it would the Criminal Code, with a view to its amendment, he repeal, tor instance, the :ilst of Elizabeth, making it did not examine is upon any newly discovered prin- a capital offence to take away, by force, any maid, ciples, hut he brought to his enterprize from the do- widow, or wife, for the sake of profit. If" any of sets of the philosopher, principles which had not been these offences were to be punished capitally, it was reduced to practice before. Though of all men pos- reasonable, that the same punishment should be ex sessing the most.suseeptible, the most shrinking hu- tended to all cases of forcible abduction of • women.; manity, and retaining it through the business of a and, on the contrary, if the law did noopenish with long and laborious life, yet he silenced the voice of death instances of this offence net included in cite feeling on this subject, and confined his attention to Statute, assuredly the Statute which lo awarded 'it a calm regard to general and permanent industry.— ought unquestionably to be repealed. But in Eag- He didinot appeal to the feelings of those with whom land, where the spirit of gallantry was known to he communicated, but to the calm calculation of prevail, the offence of abduction was not of frequent what was most applicable to the discouragement of occurrence. The Honourable' and Learned Gentle crime, and to the restoration of the moral comforts- man then enumerated the following capital felonies, and good habits of individuals. By a general course which he wished to include in the Bill he. intended. to of argument he demonstrated that the effect of dispre- introduce : cutting down and deoroying young Trees ; portioned pueishment was to rob it of its effects. It the Statutes relative to cases of BankruptCy, which, might be said, that after his labours nothing wasleft of all others, most require revision; the 6th of Genuge to be done. It often happened, that after having the Second, which made five cases of capital felonies effected the greatest good, a man will still have some in the Marriage Act; the sending threatening Letters, lurking theory in his mind which he believed it would and the several offences against the Revenue Aco. In be impossible to bring to the test of practice. He all these cases, - he proposed to substitute tranaporta (Sir James Mackintosh) did not complain of the prin. tion and imprisonment for tatintal punishment, lie ciple which suggested in some minds an hostility to should not, -however, suggest any alteration of tie precipitate change. He was once greatly struck . by law-with regard to the actual forging of notes, which an expression which, by a breach of privilege, he he tho u ght ought still to continue a capital offence ; happened to hear from the mouth of Mr. Fox in that though in the minor cases, .such as uttering, &c. be „House. That great man, in speaking of the appel... wished to see a change effected, and should therefe:e lant jurisdiction amongst Courts of Law, said that it propose transportation-or imprisonment. With re was founded on a great philosophical - principle, and Bard to 'two other cases—stealing, in a '- the of human wisdom, namely—the conscious- hense and, private. forgery, he found it difficult to ness of human infirmity. In like manner. lie would came to any positive determination, though, aftef all, say, that a mistrust of general wasoning was useful, he was convinced that a greater number of pirsots because it was founded on the commonness of hutisan were prevented from following up the law, as it now infirmity. But here, the object which the Committee stood against them, than in any other whatever. If had in view was, to put general reasoning to the test there were any eases where offenders were suffered of experiment; and for this purpose they called be- to escape, from the reluctance to prosecute, it was fore them for examination all those who were in any. when a degree of familiar intercourse and confident" wi-c enabled to communicate opiaioos upon the sub- hadpreviousla existed, such as between the master ject—namely, Poosecutors,Jurics, and Judges; but' and his servant, but even still more between bankers of the latter class, only those who could be regularly rand theirrelerka. He did not now appeal to the ha. called upon. Of all these, the opinion was unanimous.: manity or good feeling a the house in favour ()fa te The result of experience coincided with the theety,' mea sure be was about to introduce, but tO their re. as must alwars bi t the case where the theory was just, ! gard for 'sound policy anti gond sense, Nish and the eiptitiecte sufficiently extensive. The re-, view, he saaldonove ----latioos, thrirefine, of tho Edam:lute could o Thu a (Select Committee be . arpcdused to ewaidorsoalock . • •* 4. • Salk ISP