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IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS. Published for H. COLBURN by R. BENTLEY, New Burlington-street, I. THREE YEARS IN CANADA. An Account of the Actual State of that Country in 1826, 1827, and 1828. By JOHN MACTAGGART, Civil Engineer in the Service of the Briti h Government. In 2 Vols. post Svo . IBs. " This is the most valuable work that we have hitherto seen upon one of the most important colonies of the British empire. It embraces every topic—navigation, agriculture, discovery, travel, land-purchase, settling, the means of subsistence, wood clearing, the civil and political relation of Canada to Europe and the United States, climate, temperature, diseases, traffic, canals, &c. The book is interesting to every man who desires to have a statement of Canada, free from fiction or exaggeration of any kind. To the emigrant it seems indispensable, and is the best vade-mecum that could prepare him for his enterprise, or guide him in its prosecution."—Court Journal. TWO YEARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. By P CUNNINGHAM, Esq., R.N. Third Edition, revised, with a neap, in 2 vols., post Syn., 18s. It is no exaggeration to say, that there is more practical and valuable information concerning the settled districts of New South Wales contained in this work, than in all the volumes put together which have been hitherto published on the condition of that promising colony."—Monthly Review. OLD BAILEY. ABSTRACT OF THE RESULT OF THE COMMIT MENTS TO THE LAST SESSIONS. Convicted. Acquitted, &c. Worship-street Office 3l 15 Marvlebone 3l 12 Hatton-garden Marlborough-street Thanes 22 Whitechapel lO 3 Bow-street Queen-square 8 1 County Magistrates l5 8 176 59 Lord Mayor and Aldermen Of the above cases— Mr. Baron Bayley tried Mr. Justice Patteson The Recorder 3O The Common Sergeant Mr. Sergeant Arahin N. 13. At these Sessions the Judges tried only one City prisoner, the Deputy Recorder of the City tried none, and the Recorder did not try a single county prisoner. GENERAL PENITENTIARY, MILBANK. REPORT Of the SUPERINTENDING COMMITTEE of the GENERAL PENITENTIARY at AIILBANK, for the reception of Convicts ; made in pursuance of the 56th G,o. 111. c. 63, s. 39, and the 7th and Bth Geo. IV. c. 33, s. 6 ; specifying, the State of the Building ; the Conduct of the Officeis ; the Treatment and Con dition of the Prisoners ; the Amount of their Earnings, and the Expenses of the Establishment, during the year 1832. The Building is in a sound and substantial state, and has required no extraordinary repair, with the exception of what has necessarily arisen from the alteration of the second-class wards, to make them fit for the permanent reception of second-class prisoners, who are now kept in separate cells, and also from the heating of the four sleeping-galleries in Pentagons Nos. 1 and 2, which are now fit for the reception of male prisoners. The number of Convicts in the P.ison on the 31st of December 1831 amounted to 539, v . z., 394 males and 144 females; and on the 31st of Decem ber last the number was 519, being 383 males and 136 females; having been augmented during the year by the rec,ption of 178 males and 42 females; arid diminished by the deaths of 16 males and 7 females, the discharge of 169 males and 43 females •(of whom 132 mates and 29 females were by free pardon, 26 males and 14 females by pardon on me dical grounds, and II males upon the expiration of their sentence of imprisonment); 1 male was sent to the Hulks for recovery of Itedlth, 1 was remitted to the Secretary of State as being incorrigible by the discipline of the Penitentiary, 1 was sent to the Bethlehem Hospital, being insane, and one com mitted suicide. Of those who died in the Prson last year,2 males were received in very delicate health, and 14 males and 5 females fell victims to cholera mot bus. Of those submitted to the S,ereiary of State for the Home Department, for pardon on medical grounds, 7 males and 2 females came into the prison in a diseased state. The number at present withri the walls, is 531, being 393 males and 138 females. With the exception of the visitation of the late prevailing epidemic, which on two different occa sions made its appearance in the Penitentiary, the health of the prisoners throughout the year has been remarkably good, and continues to be so. The last Report of the Medical Officers, upon their monthly inspection of all the prisoners both in the Pentagons and Infirmaries, states, " That on no former occa sion his the Institution been so free from disease. The Infirmary Reports exhib t that the ailments generally during the month of January have been of a very trdLng description, and with the exception of two cases of consumption in the Infirmaries" (one of which has since proved fatal) " no other of any moment are to be found." In their last Report the Committee stated, that they had ordered every precautionary measure to he adopted and carried into execution with a view to guard against the approach of cholera; and they have the satisfaction of observing, that by those measures, and the prompt attention which was be stowed upon every case that occurred by the Resi dent Surgeon and an assistant (which the Com mittee found it was indispensably necessary to aid him with in the very arduous duty which had to be performed), the number of deaths which took pace from that direful malady have been few, in comparison of the number who were attacked. Mr. Wade (the R ident Surgeon) concludes his Journal for the year with the following statement upon the subject :—" On the Gth of March last cholera morbus made its appearance in this Institit tion, and by the end of April it ceased, having in that time attacked 40 prisoners, viz., 18 males and 22 females: 8 cases among the males and 4 in females were extreme; of these there died 3 males and 2 females; the others recovered. On the Ist of July the disease re-appeared, and prevailed with great severity until the 31st of August ; in th a t time 25 cases of collapse occurred, 19 of which were males and 6 females, and of these there died 10 males and 3 females. Exclusive of these extreme cases, there prevailed a diaracea of a character dif ferent from anything which had heretofore been ob- served, having, in a greater or less degree, choleratic symptoms. During the months of March and April 47 males and 37 females were removed to the In firmaries, having this p:culiar diarrhoea ; and from the beginning of July until the end of October 127 males and 54 females were removed to the Infir maries, having the same complaint. All the above cases of diarrhoea recovered. Between the 31st of August and the 31st of December, no cases of cholera appeared, but on the last-named day a fatal one occurred." Small-pox made its appearance in one of the Pen tagons appropriated to male prisoners ,in , n the be giuning of December, where four cases occurred two of them, which had been vaccinated, had the disease mildly ; of two, which had not been vacci nated, one was very severe; but all recovered, and the contagion spread no farther, Mr. Wade hav ing immediately vaccinated all who had not pre viously undergone that operation, or had not expe rienced the disease. In addition to the number of prisoners discharged in 1830, who had received gratuities for good con' LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1833. duct as men ioned in last Report, being 68 males and 14 females, 6 males and 3 females have sine applied, to whom the Committee granted the usual reward, their conduct having been found, upon due inquiry, to be deserving. Of the prisoners discharged in 1831, being 152 males and 50 females, 59 males and 20 females have received graatities for good conduct since their li beration; 3 males and 1 female are known to have since died; 3 males and 4 females hive been re fused ; the claims of 3 males and 3 females are at present under consideration; 10 males and 6 fe males have been again convicted ; 1 female is going on ill; and of the 74 males and 15 females remain ing of the number discharged in that year, several are known to be conducting themselves well who have not applied for the gratuity, and others are doubtful, inasmuch as they have not made any ap plication, or have not been heard of. The Superintending Committee having in th e month of November, 1831, appointed a Sub-Com mittee, for inquiring into the state of the Prison, a considerable body of information was obtained as to various evils and irregularities which were found to exist in it. A Report was made by the Sub ► Committee, which was afterwards approve I by the Superintending Committee, and which has beea:' 1 id before his Majes•y's Secretary of State for the Home Department. The principal evil which was found to exist in the system arose from too great a degree of inter course which the prisoners of the second class were enabled to bold with one another; the more aban doned and depraved characters thus corrupting those who were comparatively uninstructed and well con ducted. The Sub-Committee accordingly stated it as their opinion, that the well-being and pros perity of the Establishment depended upon effecting a more strict seclusion of the prisoners one from another ; at the same time, being sensible that this could not be effected without materially increasing the hardships of imprisonment, they recommended a considerable reduction to be made in the period of confinement of such prisoners as may have con ducted themselves properly. The Committee thereupon recommended several alterations, in point of discipline and local arrange ments, calculated to carry their recommendations into effect, and a series of rules, founded upon this recommendation(which is inserted in an Appendix), has since received the sanction of the Judges ► f the Court of King's Bench, and has been a-lopted to carry the details of those tneaau es into execution. The Superintending Committee are enabled to report, that these new arrangements, which have now been in operation above nine months, have given the highest satisfaction, by the inzreased order, regularity, discipline, and good conduct which is per ceptible in the Establishment. The Chaplain concludes his journal on the 31st December last as follows:—" In closing my report for this year, I cannot help expressing my satisfac tion at the great and satisfactory changes which have been effected during the course of it. It may now be said that the Institution approaches in some measure near to what a Penitentiary ought to be ; and that under the blessing of God we may hope to see much good effected, not only upon the in mates of its wards, but the country generally. The new Regulations have now been in force long enough to judge of the effect produced by them ; and any one who consults the Misconduct Book for the last eight months, and compares it with any other eight months from the very first opening of the Institution,--any one who goes among the pri. : soners, and inquires into their state of mind,—any one who consults the oldest arid most experienced' officers, especially those who are immediately over the prisoners, and have hourly opportunities of ob serving them,—will find that a most salutary effect has been produced, so as fully to justify both those who recommended the changes and those who effected them; and to encourage, nay, call upon them to go on with the wolk, and carry it into every part of the Pi ison." The Superintending Committee have great plea sure in bearing testimony to the continued zeal, ac tivity, and capacity of the Governor, Captain Chap man; and they cannot with justice omit to express their sense of the ex•raordin:rry exertions fur the religious instruction of the prisoners which have been made by the Rev. Whitworth Russell, the Chaplain, who is alone charged with the arduous duty of the religious and moral instruction of the Prison. In addition to the usual public and private ditties incident to his office, he has adopted the practice of assembling large classes of prisoners four days in the week, besides Sunday, in the chapel, for lectures on moral and religious subjects. 1 - k has stated to the Committee, that in the course of very extensive inquiries which he has made, " he has found that riot even the shortening of the period of confinement has reconciled the prisoner s so much to the increased severity of their imprisonment, as the opportunities they now have of acquiring useful and religious knowledge; and that the respectful and fixed attention which the male prisoners pay to somewhat long scripture lectures, entitle them to • his approbation and gratitude." The Committee think it, however, their duty, while upon this subject, to observe, that notwith standing the increased exertions of the Chaplain, there is still much want of further means for the communication of moral and religious knowledge to the prisoners; and this is more especially felt in the female wards, in consequence of the extra exertions of the Chaplain not having been extended to them as yet ; and from the appointment of a Matron not having► been filled up, from motives of economy, since it became vacant in the month of Dec., 1829. A Statement of the Earnings of the Prisoners, and an Account of the Expense of the Establish merit, during the year 1832, are subjoined to this report. The Committee regret that the expenses of the last year should have exceeded those of the preced ing; but they have been occasioned by the required altrra , ions in the building, for the adoption of those measures above referred to; and by the necessary precautions adopted, and expenses consequently in curred, by additional medical aQsistants, nurses, and officers, during the prevalence of cholera; as also by the diminution in the amount of prisoners' earn ings, compared with the former year, amounting to no less a sum than 7871. 4s. 4d., arising Irmo the very low prices obtained for work, and the dept elated terms which the master manufacturer is obliged to have recourse to, from competition for the supply of clothing to the Board of Ordnance; together with the comparatively few prisoners, and the adoption of the new regulations of their almost daily attendance in the chapel, thereby sheitening their hours of labour. lIEXLEN, Chairman. General Penitentiary, 13th March, P 333. REGULATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING REPORT. That the prisoners of both classes shall in future walk in single files, and in silence. That no second-class pri oner shall ever be placed back in the first cla-s. Any second-class prisoner entity of a❑ offence by which be incurs the privity of degradation, shall be placed in some vacant part of the prison apart from other prisoners. That each prisoner of the second class shall be placed in a separate cell, in which he shall both work and sleep : B. ward shall be equally divided between A. and C. wards, which shall then form the second-class wards under the new arrangements, That G. gallery, pentagon No. 2, be immediately warmed, and attached respectively to the present infirma ries, for the reception of patients under medical treatment helouging to pentagons 1,2, 5, and 6. And the medical officers are particularly directed apt to admit any patients into the general infirmary, whose cases shall not absolutely require it. That no prisoner shall be ever placed in the kitchen, or appointed to any place of trust, on any reason whatever except good conduct. That the open part of the chapel be provided with benches, to enable the chaplain to assemble large classes of the prisoners for religious instruction, in such manner as shall be agreed upon between the governor and chaplain. That the time of the schoolmaster be entirely at th, disposal of the chaplain, for the purpose of giving more eff,ctive instruction to the prisoners : for which purpose he shall, under the direction of the chaplain, be permitted to visit prisoners in their cells ; but whenever the school master shall visit any wards in that part of the prison which is appropriated to female prisoners, he shall be accompanied by the task-mistress, or some other fern ale officer. . . Teat such parts of the prison as shall remain vacant, be appropriated in part to form first-class wards for new prisoners, should a greater number be admitted into the Ins , ir.ution than the present first-c!ass wards can accom mi,date ; and in part for the confinement of such con v:cts as it shall be deemed expedient to place apart from other prisoners : such parts of the prison being previously warmed. A BILL TO ALTER AND A MEND THE LAWS RESPECTING LIBELS. Whereas it is expedieht, as well for the protec tion of the freedom of the press, which bath been a chief safeguard and promoter of the liberties of the people, as to protect personal reputation from un warrantable aggression, that the laws relating to libel should be amended : And whereas some distinctions have obtained in the practice of the law between civil and criminal proceedings in cases of libel, and it is expedient that such proceedings should be assimilated : And whereas by an Act passed in the 324 year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 111., en titled, " An Act to remove doubts respecting the functions of juries in cases of libel," it was, amongst other things, provided, that in all criminal proceed ings it should be competent for the jt.ry to give a verdict upon the whole matter in issue: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be repealed, and that the provisions thereof shooed be consolidated in this Act as hereinafter contained; be it teerefore enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the au thority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act, the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. And whereas by a certain other Act passed in the 60th year of his late Majesty King George 111. entitled, " An A , t to subj•ct certain publications to the duties of stamps upon newspapers, and to make other regulations for restraining the abuses arising from the publication of blasphemous and seditious libels," certain provisions were made for preventing any person from publishing any newspaper or pamphlet, or other paper of the description therein mentioned, without first entering into a recognizance, or giving a bond with sureties in the mariner and to the amount therein specified, for securing the pay ment of fines on convictions for libels : And whereas by a certain other Act passed in the first year of his present Majesty, entitled, " An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the 60th year of his late Majesty, King George 111., for the more effec tual P.eventien and Punishment of Blasphemous and Seditious Libels, as relates to the sentence of banishment for the second offence, and to provide some further remedy against the abuse of publishing Libels," it was, amongst other things, provided, that such recoginzvices and bonds in ail future cases should be increased in amount as therein specified, and that the conditions of such recognizinces and bonds respectively should extend to secure the pay., relent of damages and costs, to be recovered in ac tions for libels : And whereas, such provisions of the last-mentioned Acts res.rict the commercial free dom of the press, and it is expedient to remove such restriction : Be it therefore enacted, that all such parts of the said last-mentioned acts, respectively, as prohibit any person from publishing any news paper or pamphlet, or other paper of the description therein mentioned, without first entering into a re cognizance or bond with sureties, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. And be it enacted, that throughout this Act, wherever the following words or expressions occur they shall have the following constructions, except there be something in the subject or context math festly repugnant to such constructions (that is to say) the word " libel" shall be construed to include any matter written or printed, any painting, picture, print or engraving, image or effigy, or any other visible substance, containing or conveying any inju rious imputation, whether such imputation be true or false, affecting the character, property, profession, trade, or calling, or the position in society, or feel iegs of any person, either in his public or private capacity, as an individual or member of any body corporate, or, as the case may be, any seditious pub lication, designed ro obstruct, or to excite others to obstruct, the deliberations or proceedings of the Houses of Legislature, or either of them, or to ob struct, or to excite others to obstruct, the perform ance of the duties of any one or more of the func tionaries of the Executive Government, or any blasphemous or obscene publication; that the word publication" shall be construed to include every form and mode of publication of any libel; that the word " judge" shall be construed to include any court before which any proceeding may be had, where more persons than one preside in suet court ; that the words " plaintiff or prosecutor" shall be construed to include complaining par ties under either denomination ; and either of the words " action" or " indictment" shall be construed to include the other of them ; and that where neither of those proceedings are speci fied both of them shall be construed to be included; that the word " person shall be construed to in clude any number of individuals, or a body corpo rate, and such legal rights and incidents of any such body corporate as may in the case be applicable; and that words in the singular number shall be con strued to include the plural number, and that words in the plural number shall be construed to include the singular number; arid that words in the mascu line gender shall be construed to include the feint. nine gender, and that words in the feminine gender shall be construed to include the masculine gender. Arid be it enacted, that this Act shall extend to all cases of libel, and to cases of libel only. And be it enacted, that any person who shall at any time after the passing of this Act publish, or procure to be published, any libel, or who shall have contrived such published libel, may be prosecuted by action in any of his Majesty's superior courts of law at Westminster, or by indictment at the suit or on the prosecution of the person libelled. And be it further enacted, that no ex-officio or other: information, at time suit of his Majesty's Attorney-General, or of his Majesty's Coroner and Attorney of the Court of Ki. g's Bench, whether with or wit'iout the leave of the Court of King's Bench, shall be filed on account of any libel after the passing of this Act. And be it further enacted, that any proceedings instituted by or on behalf of his Majesty's Govern tnent for ally libel upon his Majesty or upon his Msjesty's Ministers, or upon either or both of the Houses of Legislature, shall be by indictment only. And whereas doubts have been entertained as to the liability to criminal prosecution of proprietors, printers, and publishers of newspapers, books, and other publications in certain cases. Be it further enacted, that in any criminal prosecution for libel PRICE 7D.) against any proprietor, printer, or publisher of any newspaper, book, or other publication containing Any libel, it shall be competent to such proprietor, printer, or publisher, to give in evidence on the trial of the indictriient, that at the time of the pub lication of such libel, and previous thereto, he was incapable of participating in or controlling, or was not cognizant of the writing, printing, or publishing thereof; and if it shall appear upon such evidence, to the satisfaction of the jury, that such proprietor, printer, or publisher was, at the time of publication of such libel, and previous thereto, incapable of participating in or controlling, or was not cognizant of the writing, printing, or publishing of such libel, the jury may return a verdict of " Not Guilty" as against such proprietor, printer, or publisher. Provided always, that such proprietor, printer, or publisher, having been thereto required before the institution of proceedings shall have disclosed the name of the author or contriver of such libel, or the editor, or other persons responsible for the conduct of any such publication within - next aher such requisition, and provided such proprietor, printer, or publisher, shall, at the time of suck disclosure, fur nish the person libelled with a written avowal, signed by the author or contriver of such libel, or the editor or other person responsible for the conduct of any such publication in the presence of a credible witness, that he is the author or contriver of the alleged libel, or editor or other person responsible for the conduct of any such publication : be it enacted, that every written avowal, so signed by the author or contriver of any such alleged libel, or by the editor or other person responsible for the conduct of the publication con aining any such alleged libel, with proof by the at testing witness thereto of the signature thereof by such author or contriver, or editor or other person responsible, shall be sufficient evidence that the per son so signing such avowal is such author or con triver of such alleged libel, or the editor or other person responsible for the conduct of the publication containing any such alleged libel, as the case may he : provided always, that nothing in this Act con tained shall deprive any person affected by any such libel of the right to proceed against any such proprietor, printer, or publisher by action for damages on account thereof. And be it enacted, that in any ease where the author or contriver of any libel, or the editor or other person responsible for the conduct of the publication con taining any such libel, shall have refused or neglected to avow himself to be such author or contriver, or such editor or other person responsible for the con duct of such publication, and in consequence the proprietor, or printer, or publisher of any newspaper, book, or other publication, shall have been found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine on account of any libel, then such proprietor, or printer, or publisher shall be entitled to recover by action from such author or contriver of the libel, or editor or, other person having the responsible conduct of • such newspaper, book, or other publication, the amount of any such fine, and all such costs, damages, and expenses which he may have sustained in conse quence of such prosecution, and also the costs of such action. And be it enacted, that no newsvender or book seller, not being the proprietor or printer, or the original publisher of the newspaper, book, or publi cation containing any such libel, who may at any time in the ordinary course of his trade or calling sell any such newspaper, book, or other publication, shall be liable to prosecution by action or indict ment on account of such sale, unless such news vender or bookseller shall be shown •to have been cogn‘zult of, or to have had sufficient grounds to believe at the time of such sale that the newspaper, book, or other publication, contained libellous matter. And, for the pi evention of vexatious litigation, be it further enacted, that no action or indictment shall be prosecuted against any person for the publication of separate copies of the same libel, unless it can be shown that the defendant, in the interval between the sale of different copies of the same libel, had had notice of the institution of proceedings on account of a former sale by him of a ctipy thereof, arid in every such case the sale of every copy after such no tice shall be construed to be a distinct substantive offence. And be it enacted, that the general issue of Not Guilty may in all cases, whether the proceedings be by action or by indictment, be pleaded with or with out a justification : provided always, that the de fendant shall not be at liberty in any acton or in dictment to give in evidence any matter of justifica• tion, unless the same shall have been pleaded, or notice of an intention to give such matter of justtfi cation had been previously served on the plaintiff or prosecutor, his attorney, or agent, at the time of pleading to any such action or indictment. And, for the purpose of establishing equality of advantage between the plaintiff or prosecutor and the defendant in cases of libel, be it further enacted, that, on the trial of any action or indictment, the course of proceeding shall be as follows : —(that is to say) first, the pleadings shall be read by the proper officer of the court ; secondly, the counsel for the plaintiff or prosecutor shall state the case on behalf of the plaintiff or prosecutor ; thirdly, the evidence on behalf of the plaintiff or prosecutor shall be given; fourthly, the cino,sel for the defendant shall state the case on behalf of the defendant; fifthly, the evidence on behalf of the defendant shall be given ; sixthly, the plaintiff's or piosectvor's counsel shall address the jury on the whole case ; arid, seventhly, the counsel for the defendant shall address the jury on the whole case; and, filially, the judge shall sum up the evidence, and expound the law on the matter in issue : provided always, that in all cases in which there are several defendants, having separate de fences, the counsel for each of the defendants shall have the same privilege as the counsel for the de fendant where there is only one defendant. And be it further enacted, that in every proceed ing for a libel, whether the same be by action or in dictment, it shall be lawful for the defendant to give in evidence the truth of the matter or imputation contained in or conveyed by the publie,tion charged as a libel. And be it further enacted, that in cases of libel alleged to be contained in the reports of the pro ceedings of Parliament, or of any superior or infer• rior courts of law or equity, or before justices of the peace, police magistrates, commissioners of bankrupt or other public commissioners or officers, or at any public meeting, it shall he lawful for the defendant, riot being the author or contriver of the matter al leged to be libellous, to give in evidence that such report was substantially true and correct, or was a fair account of the speeches or proceedings of which it purported to he a report : provided always, that such evidence of the truth of such matter or impu tation, ter of the correctness or fairness of such re port, shall not be a justification of such libel, or a bar to any action or indictment, unless . upon the trial thereof it shall be made to appear s atisfactorily to the jury that the matter charged as libellous was publis n h s e u d fli ‘li c ti i e t 1: 1 t good occasion n i vperso provided d justifiable a that no ends, and thing herein contained shall protect any person hay bag parliamentary or other privilege from any liability on account of any unprivileged pub!ication of any privileged speech or other privileged matter. And provided also, and be it further enacted, hat on the trial of any indictment on the prosecu tion of his Majesty's Government, where the state ment of facts in the alleged libel is untrue or inac curate, the defendant may give in evidence that such statement of facts was bmta fide and honestly made, and that every reasonable exertion to obtain accuracy had been preiiously employed : provided ceedings of the Houses of_Legislatur e , or either of them, or to obstruct, or excite others to obstruct, the performance of the duties of any one or more of the functionaries of the Executive Government, the jury may return a verdict against the defendant in such prosecution. And be it further enacted, that the jury may in all cases give a general verdict on the whole matter in issue; provided always, that on every such trial the judge shall, according to his discreti o n, give his opinion on the matter in issue; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to pre vent the jury from finding a special verdict in their discretion. Provided also, and be it enacted, that it shall 1) lawful for the plaintiff or defendant in any ac ion or indictment, to move for a new trial or in arrest of judgment, on such grounds and in such manner as by law a plaintiff or defendant might have dune in such cases before the passing of this save and except that nothing herein contained shall be con strued to deprive the jury of the right to determine whether the words or other matter alleged to be li bellous have the meaning, tendency, and ( frec: ascribed in the declaration or indictment, to such words or other matter; and such meaning, tendency, and effect of the alleged libel, as well as the motive, end, and occasion of the publication thereof, shall be matter of fact to be tried by the jury, and not matter of law. And whereas in all ewes in which the plaintiff shall establish the case of wrong done to his repu tation, it is expedient that he should be placed as near as may be in the moral and peculiar position in which he was before the wrong was done; be it therefore enacted, that when a verdict shall be given against the defendant, he shall be bound by the fact of such verdict to publish the same, by inserting a notice thereof, or a copy of the certificate herein:al er mentioned, as the plaintiff or prcsecutor may require, in the newspaper or other publication, if published periodically, in which the libel originally appeared, and also in case such libel was published in the city of London or county of Middlesex, once in each of six of the daily or weekly newspapers published in such city or county, such papers to be selected by the plaintiff; and in case such libel was publt-hed in any other county, then once in every newspaper published in any such other county; and such notice and certificate shall be published within one month after final judgment, and such requisition made, or in the next forthcoming number or edition of any such publication in which the libel originally ap peared, where the same is published at longer inter vals than one month, or not periodica!ly. And be it further enacted, that all proprietors and publishers of newspapers and other publications in which such libel shall have been copied, shall, on the requisition of the plaintiff or prosecutor, and on the production of the certificate hereinafter mentioned, publish the fact of such verdict in the newspaper or other publication in which the libel was copied, by inserting a notice of the verdict, or a copy of the certificate, as the plaintiff or prosecutor may re quire, within one month after filial judgment, and such requisition made, or in the next forthcoming number or edition of such publication in which the libel was copied, where the same is published at longer intervals than one month, or not periodically. And he it farther enacted, that the plaintiff or prosecutor may recover by action in any of his Ma jesty's superior courts of lave at Westminster from e veryvesrudeihet or pe certificatersonrerusin the penalty refusing or neglectingeaity of to publish such with full costs of suit. And be it further enacted, that the transfer to other proprietors of the newspaper or other publica tion in which the libel originally appeared or was copied, shall not exempt the proprietor or publisher for the time being of any such newspaper or other publication from the obligation to publiih such ver dict or certificate, or from the liability to an ction for the penalty hereinbefore named, for refusing or neg. lecting the publication of any such verdict. And be it further enacted, that the associwe or other proper officer of the court in which any Sliel action or indictment for libel shall have been tried, stiall, at the request of the plaintiff or prosecutor in such action or indictment, furnish him with a ceitifi cate signed by the said associate or other proper officer, containing the names of the plaintiff or prose cutor, and defendant or defendants, in such action or indictment, together with the marerial pars of the pleadings, and the verdict by the jury in such action or indictment, and that such officer shall receive for such certificate - and no more. And be it further enacted, that in all prosecutiolis fur libel by indictment, the costs shall abide the event of the trial, and be paid by the unsuccessful patty to the other, except in cases of indictment for libel on the part of the Crown. And be it further enacted, that no action or in dictment for any libel shall be commenced after six months from the time of the publication, unless the plaintiff or prosecutor shall at the time of the pub lication be absent from England, and in such case he shall be at liberty to commence proceedings on ac c unit thereof at any time within six months after his return to England, and except in cases where: special damage shall have accrued to the persun 1 belled; provided that in such last mentioned case the proceedings be taken within six months next a'ter the discovery of such special damage by the party And be it enacted, that this Act shall extend to those parts only of the United Kingdom of Great; Britain and Ireland called England, Wales, Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. THE CLERICENWELL FORTY THIEVES.--. WILLIAM DENHAM, aged only 11 years, and one of a ga'lg of " young thieves by profession," was found guilty oa Tuesday, at the Middlesex Quarter S,ssions, Ciedi , A= well, of stealing 10:b. of beef, the property of SAmuLt BA RNLS. The prosecutor resides in Itay•street, Clerken, well, and the prisoner last Thursday was seen to take the heel off a hook in front of the shop and run away with it. He was pursued, and overtaken with the meat in his pos. session. The prisoner, with much effrontery, said he fund the beef. The Court sentenced hint to be confined 0 ., e m onth—half the term in a solitary cell, and to Ila s,eerely whipped. WILLIAM COLLINS. aged 10 one o the same gang, was convicted of stealing a piece of mutton from the shop of a butcher in St. Jahn -street, and received t same sentence. CHA IMES LUNN and JOSEPH LILL, t.vo of the same gang, were vinvictedot a sinular offence. 'the Chairman s ,id that, with regard to LILL, be bad Ire yo,nt,y been in prison, and was once parooned on account of bodily infirmity. It, however, appeared that he wool Incarrigible, and the Court, therefore, sentenced him to transpovation for seven years, and Lului to hard labour f r six months. GLOUCESTER ELECTION.—The intelligence of the resignation of Captain BERKELEY was brought by express to the residence of Mr. Hors: in Dilebess•street, ort Tuesday evening, at six o'clock. Cop ant BERKELEY re signed the contest in the early part of the day in conse quence of the majority in favour of Mr. HOPE, who town yesterday morning for Gloucester, where he was to be Wh inward were nherriec,eairl returned rin e oe3n d puitelul h‘iiit t Lea l za i L:C e oirottoeon e n:c u siwa c ens c ravvv e i (ta s eale s s:dr f ysi u ovno l teshni c irev a nreta n trhet d peeor i pe t c l eHsto a ath t nore e trne,pß., sre i t n iGr.sGshoil t nno l pl i tau e tl ieymfs a :L f tare t hne e xrop r Etw n ao, rtr n eEt o ietin n hed vite him to become a candidate in opposition to the new ) Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, he informed them ttia r highly he mizlit esteem the honour of representing the city ; nor would he incur any expense. Mr. HorE ' came general eltcCon in Derenaber, when Captain BERKELEY and we know not how truly, that Captain BERKELEY gave offence to his constituents by accepting office, and also that they objected to some of his votes. Tie irifl.tence of his brother, Lord SEGRAVE, in the city is considerable; and the present House of Commons is the second in w hich; he sat for Gloucester. The circumstance of the gallant ‘ , 1 , 11 1 ra srlTa ß m o e a n r t d : offi,•er losing his seat for Gloucester does rot disqualify o h f im vh fr ic o l n: t p h e r r e t e - or o m f in t g he hi L s o f r u d n s c a ti r o:s m a: n t , l 47, A , S r JAMES GRAHAM , LiztoUcHIME, and S.r JOHN PECHELT. Mr. Horn's tattier puret.WSed an estat : i n the neighbour hoo d of Gloice.:ter.