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scsetonF Sir J. PA 1". 1 sa4l that, he could not account ~ the li ef ,. u ciiiierna , t' , . (Mr. -Roebuck's) sneering at lio last sixteen years that h e had been }pint, for tiering t chairmtm of ttheAyss.olL . tie .1, never know any act of Lis i f magistrates that drealed th e on the r At most open publicity, and hui el that the Hon. Gentl eman would Itcorne more conyt rsant with facts b e t ote he wooll wak e suc h sweeping allegations again. ll e t h et . rt at an t x t rac t f rom tho Act of larliainent,specifyi ng that t wo or more mag i s trates must meet in the ac customed court. n,.4strate; meeting a t IttlEl3liCK said that two ry ;;. .1 the ublicity of p tte ileen , tor ne d court d i d not qua - J: their decision s t h rough the plus , that - was the uud prii.cipal p o i nt of his objection. Sir GEORGL GREY considered tha t some Hon. Gentlemen Here mistaken as to 'the restiits cf the Act entitle 1 the Juvenile Offenders Act. That Act gave jurisdiction .to inary.istri.tos in i.etty eessiuw; in c! Pies 01 0073 pf 14 years of ag,, send it passed through the House o r Lords y+ith only 1.,46) n rittet.de n e nt, move d by L o rd nian. Tt_e real qticsti,n which they bad now to determine was, as to v.hat vas the prouer juvenile ofi'etiOnrs. Tho argument of the Hon. and Learned 04 - -ntlemanhould oppos nfineite was that 14 was the age to w hi c h they mco their legislation on this question, and, on the other hand, it was deemed advisable to ex trod the jurisdiction from the age of 14 to 16 years, and that was the age in which governor& of prisons classed • venile" efienders from adult offenders. And the thetinction was analagoue to the rew pcor law, which treated the case' of relif given to a child as relief to the parent. Pulx•rty or manh oo d was ta k en to commence a t "seventeen ° years of age. The Bill had now been in 0 w Mien two years aid a h a lf, an d not one complaint . ., 4 ws I jAv i so c ,„ K a q to hint by the juvenile ° tr ea d ers with 14,04-IC'doutt—akhough complaints were frequent to tem frquveidults—not one compl a i n t b a d b een made to i - Miserbyltpluveuile Wenders who Chhle Tfitbin the jerie , • s. 9AJMI,~, rt; • in En eland numbered 2,024, of whom 151 were under diction of the Act. The summary object of the Bill 16 y ears of age, being an eighth of the whole number, was to protect juvenile offenders from the contamination while the number of instances where the value of the which must result from their being imprisoned with p r operty stolen did not exceed Is. was 270 . The a c- adult criminals. He was, therefore, for those reasons, quittals amounting to 434. Now these figures would prepared to support the Bill of the Hon. Member. demonstrate the importance ef the change which it Sir JOHN PAKINGTON thought that the Hon. and was proposed to make by this Bill. The criminal law of Learned Gentleman, before he came down to make those this country was based upon the principle, that every attacks on magistrates, should have taken up his own p ar ty' accused of an offence should be tried by a compe- law on "footpaths." tent judge and a competent jury, and the main object of Mr. LAW (the Recorder of London) thought that this Bill was to destroy that bulwark of liberty, so far as stopping the business of the House in this manner, was the humbler classes were concerned, in order to save more serious than the considerations about footpaths to the pockets of the middle and higher classes of society. which the Hon. Baronet was referring, and he should, He would remind the House that until an A c t p asse d therefore, mov e, o that the Chairman leave the chair in the reign of George 11. no judge of assize was al- and report progress." lowed to try a criminal ease in his own county. But it Sir JOHN PAKINGTON would only say in addi was proposed by this Bill to take away not merely the tion, with respect to the extension of the Act to sixteea security of a judge who would be presumably impartial, years, he considered it a very valuable extension. but to substitute for him two magistrates to try cases in Mr. LAW said the Right Honourable Baronet argued, their own neighbourhood and their own parish, although that the age of 14 years was regarded, in the classifica a judge in former times was not allowed to try a pri- Lion of crime, as the age supposed to be incapable of senor in his own county. By an old statute cf Edward committing rape; but although it might not be deemed 111. it was enacted that, where criminals were tried at capable of eommitting a rape in his own person, he might be chargeable with assisting another in the com quarter-sessions, th e mag i s t ra t es o f th e quorum s hould consist of at least one who was " learned in the law," mission of crime who should act a t a c h ec k on th e i gnorance of the lay Mr. HUME was not disposed to blame any of those part of the bench. B u t th e y p ro p ose d by this Bill not Parties who carried on the institutions of the country, merely to take awa y th e quorum o f th e qua rt er•sessions, because to whoever undertook those duties he would but to substitute two magistrates of the looality give the credit of meaning rightly. But he bad often who should be learned or unlearned. (The Hon. Member regretted the situation in which the magistrates of petty then proceeded to read a letter, addressed to the Chair- sessions were placed with regard to the administration man of the county of Limerick, stating that he was , fjustice. There ought to be no petty sessions without most decidedly opposed to the Bill ; also a letter from a a chairman brought up to the law, and appointed for Judge on the Irish bench, whose name, from delicacy, that purpose. The expense was nothing compared with he forbore to mention, who expressed his opinion that the importance of the considerations and interests to be the Bill was most unnecessary and mischievous, both in determined upon in relation to the due administration of England and Ireland.) It formed:no part of his (Mr. justice. He found that in Worcestershire the petty M'Cullsgh's) duty, on this occasion, that he should enter sessions were often held in places where many of the into any statement of tl.e objections that might be magistrates had objection to attend. ,He considered that popularly urged as to the unfitness of the judges who they ought to be held in places more appropriate than might ho called on to - adjudicate on cases of a serious back pralours, or clerks' offices, or union workhouses. nature; but he thought it his duty to remind the House He was rather surprised to hear* the Right Hon. Baronet that they were submitting the liberty of the subject at the head of the Home Department say that he had to the whim and ignorance of any two gentlemen who not received any complaints from juvenile offenders of might happen to be placed in the proposed commission. the operation of this Bill. Why, who had ever heard of It was true that they had the option given to them, but complaints to a Secretary of State from boys of the age ' how few comparatively could ever avail themselves of of fourteen?—(Hear, hear.) He should, as far as his that right who really were deserving of it, while, on the humble vote would go, object to the extension of the ju contrary, the hardened and astute villain would be the risdiction on this question from fourteen to sixteen only one who would be able to take advantage. It was year'. stated that it was of great importance that, in a country Mr. BECKETT DENISON—The Hon. Baronet like Great Britain, no waste of public money (Sir John Pakington) said that this Bill would bring should be allowed to take place, and this was under the jurisdiction of the magistrates at petty sessions • a proposition which he did not mean to oppose, an increased number of offenders. Now that was the but still that was no argument to legislate for the op- great objection which he (Mr. B. Denison) had to the pression of any class of criminals on the motives of pub- Bill. Every person knew that the class of offenders lie convenience. He should say let legislators experi- from fourteen to sixteen years of age, formed a very mentalise upon themselves, and not first upon the poorer considerable portion of the "rising rogues" of the coun classes. Let them repeal trial by jury for themselves try; and he did not think that such cases ought to be first, before they tried It upon other classes. He carried to pay sessions. He thought it his duty the considered the Bill extremely objectionable, and should other day in quarter sessions, in the West Riding of feel it his duty to take the sense of the House upon Yorkshire, to bring this Bill under consideration of the his amendment. magistrates, without expressing any opinion of his own Sir G. STRICKLAND said he deeply lamented to upon it. He thus gave them the opportunity to express see the attempts which were continually being made their opinions upon it then or since, but he had not heard - to do away with trial by jury, which, from his earliest one word from them on the subject. He had strong rea days, he had been taught to consider as one of the sons for believing that if the Bill were extended to 16 dearest rights of Englishmen. The great objection years it would be attended with Lad effects, and there which he entertained to the present Bill was, that it fore he bad strong objections that the age should be ex gave to magistrates, at petty sessions, unlimited power tended. Out of about 120,000 or 130,000 prisoners tried to torture a person under sixteen years by flogging, in the course of the year, 85,000 were dealt with by sum without the intervention cf a jury. It would be, in his mary jurisdiction; and he found that of those 10,000 opinion, extremely injudici ous t o g i ve thi s unc o ns tit u -• were not included in the 80,000, who were confined from, tionaln'power at a tim e w h en th e p u bli c indigna- 14 days to 3 months, and who would come under the Lion had almost put an end to the prac- jurisdiction of this Bill. He should also- object to the cite of flogging in the army. (Hear, hear.) extension of the Bill, because he did not think it had yet • He believed that the old Mosaic law was humane, it pro- had sufficient trials Mr. LAW, to shorten the discussion, should repeat his vided that the number of stripes should not exceed a certain number, but in this case the number was to motion "that the Chairman do now leave the chair." be It ft unlimited, and he insisted that this Mr. M. MILNES considered this subject of great im part of the Bill wss most unconstitutional. The portance. He would refer the Committee to the wisdom advantage of trial by jury was that it forced the judge of the French code, which considered that boys at 16 y who presided over the court so to expound the law that years of age ought to be dealt with un d er s p ec i a l con it should be understood by the most ordinary minds, but siderations. It was of importance that they should con . One of his main objections to this Bill was that eider the question with regard to the time at which the it p'aced authoiity in the hands of parties boy becomes a mah; and it was also of the utmost im who were incompetent to administer the law. The portance to try to rescue him from the association with magistracy of this country were perfectly i nca p a bl e o f criminals. a ientnistering the law in the cases contemplated by this Mr. ROEBUCK would ask the Committee to address Bill. He, himself, had for 25 years, had the manage- itself to the question. This Bill would enable magis moot of the legal business at the petty sessions of the traces to inflict a most disgracefuland degrading punish- East and West Riding of Yorkshire, and the result of meat on a boy who was already a man. He asked them that ex perjure° induced him to believe that the country if they were prepared to give the magistrates sitting, as magistracy were totally incompetent to exer- the Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire had de cite the .power which this Bill would impose elated, in inappropriate places, without the aid of a upon tl em. lle therefore trusted the House would jury or the benefit of judicial guidance, power to de threw out this Bill, while he hoped to see the day when grade a man in time to c a me by exposing h i m in the the Juveni'e Winders' Act would be repealed. They common market place to be whipped? Ile held that were going to ent rus t unconst i tu ti ona l p owers t o th e no man had a right to strike even his own child, hands of two magi s t ra t es w hi c h th e y w o u ld not confide and if he had a child he should not dare to to the judges of the l an d. They were now under- strike him. If they dared to whip a man at six faking the odious d u ti es o f convicting "trims- teen years of age—[An Hononrable Member—He is pals without th e i nterven tion of a jury. not a man.]---The Honourable Member says he is not If pas:ed such a Bill as the present they would give a man. Ile (Mr. Roebuck) held that they had no a deathblow to the unpaid : magistracy cf the country. right to whip a person at that age, and that in doing Sir J. PAKINGTON objected t, the course that so they would for ever degrade him as a man.—(Hear, had teen adopted of arguing the principle of hear.) He hoped that those who valued the adminis the Bill on the motion for its going into Committee. tration of justice in this country would support the He was prepared to answer all the objections that had proposition of the Honourable Member the Recorder of tern made to the Bill, and would do so when the House London, a judge who had more extensive knowledge was in Committee on it, but he deprecated again argu- of criminals than any other man in this country. He ing its priecnnes. (Mr. Roebuck) appealed, then, to the Committee , and Mr. C. HOWARD would give his steady opposition hoped they would not permit the proposed extension of to the Bill, believing its provisions to t e inconsistent age. with the constitution of England. He objected to the After a few observations from Mr. G. H. VIVIAN, as kurhm : r y powers of tie Bill. The civil law of France to the heavy expense which the prosecution of offenders alloy o 1 the kings of that country to a cend the throne at entailed on the Consolidated Fund—an expense which he, the age of fourteen, while this Bill classed 3ouths of in one case, knew to exceed 1001., sixteen as juveniles. Mr. LAWLESS gave notice that he should, at the . Mr. AGLIONBY said he would state one single proper time, move two amendments—the one, that the ground for supporting 'he Bill. It enabled a criminal to jurisdiction be not extended to 16 years—the other, that be tried and titercarny decided instead of remaining in the Bill be rot extended to Ireland. He should do all in prison three months, as at preseat. He thought it a his power to prevent corporal punishment in cases elapse me caul Bill.—(lfear.) the age of 14 years.—(Hear.) Mr. HENLEY said he wished to know whether the After a few words from Lord BERNARD, stating Bill was to be divided into two Bills. that in some cases accused parties were taken fify :sir G. GREY said that he would support that part of miles to the county gaol, and back to the quarter tie Bill which related to juvenile offecders, and would sessions, aastain from expressing any opinion upon the other Colonel THOMPSON said it appeared to him that portion of it. the " knotty " (knouty) point before the Committee Sir J. PAKINGTON said that when the House went was, as to the age at which posterity:should be whipped. into Committee he wo u ld t a k e th e sense o f t h e H ouse as —(Great laughter, caused by the Honour a bl e an d to whether the Bill should be divided into two parts, and Gallant Member's "punning" propensity.) Now he he should t e guided by th e o pi n i on o f Committee. was not for whipping them. at all, and by that principle Mr. LAW said he did not know whether it was corn- he would endeavour to regulate his vote. netent for the Hon. Baronet to take that course. The The Committee then divided on Mr. Law's motion, House had already substantially affirmed the question that the Chairman leave the chair, when there ap that the Bill should be divided into two s arts. If the peared— cf)urse proposed were persisted in he should vote against For the motion ... ... ... 61 the Pill altogether. Against it ... ... ... ... 70 The Reuse then divided when there appeared— Majority against... ... ... 9 For r going into Committee ... ... 183 Mr. ROEBUCK moved an amendment, the effect of . - Against,it .. .. • -• ••• 76 which would be to restrict the opei ation of the Bill, so • 'Majority for going into Committee —57 far as personal chastisement was concerned, to persons The House then went into Committee on the Bill of 14 instead of 16 years of age. Mr. LAW moved, p ursuan t t o t h e instruction which After a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. had been given to the Committee by the House to divide HUME, it into two parte. He moved that the second part of the Mr. M'CULLOGH again declared his opposition to Bill relatiag to adults he left cut. the Bill, believing it to be a measure which would spread Sir J. PARINGTON said he would be very glad to discontent among the labouring classes. take tse as no , eif the House on that question, to Honourable aniv i. Mr. DRUNIMOND declared his intention of voting Sir G. GREY sent he thought that going thefor the amendment, but he maintained that the Juvenile Baronet was setting 4 bad example inOffenders Act had not been, as Mr. M'Cullogh insinu sien ein this que,stion eter the House'majo r ity by a of cited, unsu ccess f u l. 7Q, had at,e.dy drcidsd that the Bill should be divided. Mr. P. HOWARD would give his determined opposi- Sir J. PAKINGTON said that that result w as o b- tian to th e Bill. He objected altogether to giving in tanied by a motion of which no notice had been g i ven . Hecreased pow er t o the county courts, unless guarded by felt the Bill as it stood of so much importance that he the cheek of a jury. The Commi t t ee t h en d i vided, when there appeared— Mr. LA not assent to the mutilation of the Bill. Mr. LA W said that he was very sorry that the Hon. For the amendment ... .. ... 78 Baronet had alluded egaiu to want of notice. '1 ht Against it • 84 course pursued la 1 been adopted by the highest authe- Sir G. STRlCKl T A aj N er D T ity h o e pposed the . Billbecause it was thy, and his Her. Feiond knew he uad given notice of is ever,most : 1 4 the pogjee r at of ob i t n e fi c!ion to it, how inotion to exe;ud adults altos eneer. He was not, there torture to any two magistrates. The h i fore; taken by surprise in substance. infliction of such a punishment brutalised both those 'lse unlimited ~ire AGLIONBY said he must press upon the Com nlev;eetwreihwft e n r o e w su to bje re c i t y ed o t n o mince the necessity of not d.viding this Bill as proposed. it, and those who ordered it. The. Committee then divide d, when there appeared— amoprraolr,isnoottoplityhesicealalumsee s an th s, at nothing therefore, would Ae move For Mr. Law's motion ... ... 102 punieh t ea s e h n o t u o ld f Against it ... ... ... ... 50 whippingauthorise the upn magistratesnany offender to w i h n o fi s i e e t age thlne shall t exceed 14 Majority „.. ... ... —52 Mr. AGLIONBY said that he considered nothing p wh could be more t enef i cial to the prisoner, whether inno- y ears. cent. or g u il ty, than that he should be summarily tried, Sir J. PAKINGTON defended inflictionwere e whtp e d in our i of p fir if inuocent, he would to i mme di ate l y discharged, in- ping. The children of the rich • stead of being be re et or u a lLin air a d priso n for some months to the public schools, and their after lives did deterioration of not prove th punishment . had such a degrading effect as was e character, and if guilty it were far preferable that he should Is tried as soon as butcd to it. attri possible. Mr. ROEBUCK hoped the House would support the Mr. ROEBUCK sail that he wo u ld w i s h to see a amen d men t. B ecau se a boy was a child: a t 14: at 16 he was clause introduced f ur the purpose of extending summary a ma n. The punishment to a boy was the mere p a i n h e jurisdiction to county court, whole, the Bill appe are d to n und should say that, o n th e suffered; the punishment to a man was the degradation to him useless, as only a pp er - * ln c h h e was su bjected, a grave and serious difference. t iiniug to youths of 14 years ofage. He then ani ma d- Th e H on . M em b er talked of boys being whipp e d at vetted on the system ca rr i e d on at petty session s , w h ere sc h ool, b ut the sc h oo lb o y, they all knew, gloried i n show the press was generally excluded, a c eoliugs wcre carried on without _. In e n 4 . where all pro- ing himself superior to merely physical suffering.— public. knowledge of the (Hear, hear.) Strike a man with a glove on the face; Mr. PACKE objected to the there was no physical pain, but would net the indignity arid Learned Ger tleman (Mr. Roebu c k ,remarks of the Hen. be felt? W ere th e y rea lly reduced so low that they ) a , w e d to the publicity laver' thr oug h the far as re- could not govern their men without the whip? The asapress, for such Hon. Gentleman said whipping was the spirit of the wars carried den as ere ly and us openly t the quarter English law, and that at one time even women were whipped in the market. If they were not to get out of that spirit, God help them. They bad got out of it in the case of Women: he honed to see the day when they would get out of it with bop also. " The boy was the father of the man." Why was the boy, therefore, to be degraded? He should ha ve lik e d t o see the man who would have laid a hand upon him when he was a boy.— (A laugh.) H e k new what he would have done.—(A laugh.) But he would ask if they were to treat the chil dren of th e poor in this way? Why not rather B at endea vour to rai se t h em up, instead of degradingthem? gently ; were there no sons of the ri c h w h o comm i tted ' tpheettypalnairemchenee-natt 16 years of a ge ? He protested aga i nst asa brutal u f the a limitation nd a degrading s a guide one. Mr. LAW approved to the magistrates in the infli • ohm punishment. of an irritating an d pa i n f u l Mr. AGLIONBY protested against the Hon. and Learned Member for She Ifleld saying that the House was legislating for the degradation of the poor. Th were not legislating f or th e pony, but for th ey e cri (Hear.) The law would appl y a lik e to hothr Ti t n al. poor criminals, and, theref ore , on hi s own el and part , and the Part of the House, he protested against the charge made by the Hon. and Learned Member. Mr. R. PALMER agreed with the Hon. Member who had just sat down, arid was convinced t h at the cows: proposed was the most merciful that could be adopted.— (Hear, hear.) They must not act upon sentimentality— (llear)—the true stigma and degradation was not the punishment, but the crime.—(Hear, hear.) The great object they should have in view was, 'to inflict a punish ment which should be feared, which would be cheap to the State, and which, though painful in its immediate effects, would leave no permanent degradation behind it - . The punishment of whipping combined all these ad vantages; whereas, by being sent to herd with older criminals, the worst cf all degradation was thrust upon 4 boy. Five minutes' personal pain, by the proposed 13ill, would do more to deter from crime than they now did by an elaborate criminal discipline. Mr. BRIGHT agreed in all the Hon. and Learned Member for Sheffield had said as to the degrading effect of whipping, but he objected to the Bill on another ground. The Hon. Baronet proposed that the punish ment should be inflicted by two magistrates—(Laughter) —by the sentence, and at the order of two magistrates. Now let them consider what magistrates generally were, and the class from whom they were selected. They were usually selected because they were the most wealthy men in the neighbourhood, and thorough-going political par tisans. They were not selected for their legal attain ments. Let them take a rural neighbourhood, and sup pose a lad of fifteen or sixteen, brought before magis trates having such a power, being told by the police men that he was a bad lad, and known to go after hares —(Hear, hear)—what would be the consequence? They might all guess. For the sake of the magistrates themselves he would refuse them such a power, and he thought their friends were very unwise in asking it. Mr. ROEBUCK said the Hon. and Learned Gentle• man (Mr. R. Palmer) supported the punishment because it was cheap and did not inflict lasting degradation. Well, he would show him a sharper and more powerful punishment—torture.—(oll.) What was whipping but torture.? As to publicity, the Hon. Member said he did not insist on that; but it so, that would take away the only value of the punishment—its deterring influence. Well, but take the thumbscrew, that was far more painful than whipping, and it was as cheap. Cheapness! How easy and cheap it was to inflict pain! But the question of cheapness ought not to enter into the consideration of the matter, the least possible punishment consistent with the prevention of crime was what they should aim at. If he could prevent the commission c f a murder by a fine of Is farthing, that was the utmost extent he was justified in going. Vindictiveness, and the desire of in flicting pain, ought not to weigh with the Legislature; the great object ought to be to inflict the least possible permanent degradation, and ho could conceive of no pu nishment more degrading than this. Colonel THOMPSON said there was no serious in tention of applying this punishment to the children of the rich. Yet Eton boys stole geese.—(Laughter.) He knew it ?—(Renewed laughter)—and be knew them to have boasted of doing so. He believed that the public of this country were opposed to the idea that the whipping was a proper mode of correcting a lad of thirteen and fourteen, which appeared to be the basis of the whole system. He saw another danger, which was this, that the effect made upon society by the appearance of an in dividual lacerated by the cuts of the executioner would be decidedly bad. If they legislated in that spirit, let the responsibility of it rest with those who advocated so re volting a course of policy.—(Hear, hear.) -Sir R. H. INGLIS said that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Member for Sheffield, one of the greatest orators of the House, and its greatest actor— (A laugh)—had told them, with great feeling, that the sufferings of a boy of, fourteen and those of sixteen were hardly to be measured. Why, the punishment of the whip %as familiar to every school-boy —and many a gallant Eton boy had been subjected to it, as, indeed, he might look around this House, and ask who had not?—(Laughter.) The question here was not whether they liked the punishment. No one liked punishment; but punishment being occasionally necessary, and a crime having been committed, the question was, what was best to be done? The arguments of some Hon. Members would appear to suggest the question whether there was to be an end of all punish ment. He was more for prevention than repression; but punishment he thought necessary to promote either alternative. Mr. PACKE observed, that the objection of the Hon. Member for Manchester, that it was wrong to dispense with the intervention of a jury, was not an objection which it was very essential to the purpose of the prest:nt debate to consider. The punishment would take place pursuant to the determination of two magistrates exercising summary jurisdiction, and if they were men of intelligence, as magistrates generally were, the re sult would net be materially different from that which would hare been obtained through the instrumentality cf a jury. Mr. HUME observed, that though the Right Hon. Baronet below him, the Member for the University of Oxford, had represented the Hon. and Learned Member for Sheffield as being an actor, he (Mr. Hume) knew no man in that House who better acted his part than did the Right Hon. Baronet himself.—(Laughter.) The Learned Member for Sheffield might perhaps attain a still greater proficiency in the art if be bad the discre tion to disguise his real feelings.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) His Hon. Friend had made an appeal to the House which he was sorry to find was not attended to. The Hon. Member for Plymouth stated that he was prepared to sanction the system of flogging, as proposed, for the class of society to whom it would be applicable were destitute of proper feeling. That was the argu ment upon which the system of military flogging was maintained, and it was thus that the House had ap proved of 500, 600, and 1,000 lashes. On the ground that they were insensible to punishment, it was settled that flogging was the only mode of governing British subjects. The House had since then brooms better in formed as to the brutality of this punishment, and the degrading influence which it exerted on the men. Were they about now, as the only means of correcting juvenile offenders, to apply this obnoxious system ?—(Hear, hear.) Did it not occur to the House that, instead of degrading men by flogging them, by educational measures they might be turned into better paths? It appeared to him that they were going on a wrong principle. An objection which ought to prove fatal to the plan was this, that within 24 hours of a boy's being flegged, he might turn out to be inno cent. What reparation could be then made to him? He was branded for life.—(Cries of " Question.") Hon. Members cried " Question," and it was very little to their credit that they did se. lie entreated them not to adopt this system too hastily. Mr. PLUMPTRE expressed himself as being opposed to the system of flogging being carried into effect against crimina!s exceeding lout teen years of age. Mr. HEADLAND said he could not agree in either of the arguments which had been urged against this measure—either that the punishment of flogging, if good up to fourteen, was bad up to sixteen, or, as was con tended by the Hon. Member for Manchester, that though the punishment in itself was not objectionable, the tri bunal by which it was to be inflicted was highly so. He thought that if the proposed system was fairly contrasted with that which now existed it would be found to lead greatly towards good behaviour. Mr. MUNTZ said he had a disposition to support the Hon. Baronet's Bill if he could, in order to prevent the contamination of youth which at present frequently at tained, but he was never able to screw up his courage to do it.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He himself had often witnessed that many magistrates had not a great know ledge of law, and some of them not a great knowledge of justice. To such men it might be dangerous to entrust too large a power. He could easily conceive why a pu nishment suited to 14 might be bad at 16. At 14 they were boys, hut at 16 he felt very much like a man— (Loud laughter)—and thought the Right Hon. Baronet near him bad asked which of them had not, in his younger days, been subjected to punishment; he could say that he, at h ast, had escaped, and that it would have be en a clever fellow who would have laid his hand upon him at 16.—(11ear.) The effect of the flogging system was to inflict a degradation which was never forgotten, and once imposed, rightly or wrongly, no reparation could ever be made. Mr. HENLEY said that this Bill intended to decide summarily a class of offences which would otherwise go to another tribunal for adjudication; and that being so he should give his vote against' the extension of the punish ment to the age of 16; because the correction of a boy at 14 might be by the rod only, but at 16 the constable might take it into his head to use the cat. 'The cat would mark the individual, and prevent him from entering the army. Atter a few words from Mr. SLANEY, also against the extension of the punishment to the age of 16, Sir R. PEEL would state in two sentences the ground upon which he Would give his vote. At present he found that the law established a distinction between the boy who had not attained 14 and the boy who bad not ex ceeded 16. In the case of the former the law treated him as a boy, and subjected him to immediate punish ment under the summary jurisdiction of the magistrates. In the case of the boy above 14 he was not certainly , ex empted from the liability of corporal punishment, but it was required that he should be convicted before the or dinary tribunals. It was now proposed to confound these distinctions, and to permit the boy between 14 and 16 to be subject to corporal punishment at the discretion of two magistrates. Before such an alteration was made, which ho apprehended was at variance with the principl e s o f our present code, ho thought that a very strong case of n ecess i ty should be made ,out. He had heard no such case.—(Hear, hear.) As the Bill will sfusrhtohuelrdpbreoposed, inflicted, t b noo u on ly ly stand th e b oy b etween 14 and 16 would still be subject to the s ummary jurisdiction of two magistrates; but it wa they no corporal should consider thtahtat punish ment him no longer as a 'child, and therefore that he shall be exempted from corporal punishment at tho will of two magistrates. Ile thought that that would be a much better state of the law than if they consented to the extension of the punishment without any allegations of absolute necessity. Ile apprehended there was a growing conviction that corporal punish ment should not be infli c t e d, except in very grave easea They found that although an a d u l t might b e subj ect t o . corporal punishment, yet th e pr i nciple upon which the judges acted was to select some other mode of punishing them, rather than this degrading one.—(Hear, hear.) But be would say, if Parliament, without any allegations of necessity, widened the discretion of magistrates in respect to corporal punishment, it would then be holding out encouragement to discoutinue that milder practice which had made such progress in our criminal tribunals, rather than giving discouragement to the substitution of corporal punishment. He held that the practice of public schools was no analogy, for these kind of offences by the present Bill would not; only be visited by pu nishment but by degradatior..—(Hear, hear.) In his opinion this measure would be no improvement in the law. There would be no praceical distinction possibly, but it was important nevertheless to show that the House of Commons was not prepared, without proof of absolute • • a necessity, to recommend departure from that course which has hitherto been pufaued in respect to juvenile offenderr.— (lieu, hear.) Tho Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendmen'i Against it Majority against the original clause —Bl Before our re - aduAssion into the gallery we under stood that Mr. BOUVERIE had moved that the Chair man reprort progress. Mr. ROEBUtjR asked the Hon. Baronet whether he intended to persevere with his Bill after the Committee had thus declared its opinion respecting it ? Sir J. PAKII.IGTON said the main object of the Bill was to swie youth from the contamination of a gaol. He regr etted to say he did not think that the Howie bad °ogle to a merciful decision upon the quee- IDAY EVENING, tion. Reduced, however, as the powers of the Bill were, he would still persevere with it, as juvenile offenders would, if passed into a law, be saved from the conta mination of a gaol before they were declared to be guilty. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the Hon. Baronet did not seem to understand his own Bill, for he could only punish these offenders by first imprisoning them. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped that the Hon. Baronet would persevere with the Bill ; for it would, in a great measure, save these juvenile offenders front the contamination of gaols before their trial. After a few words from Mr. BOUVERIE, Sir R. PEEL remarked that the Hon. and Learned Member for Oxford, and others well acquainied with magisterial duties, were adverse to this part of the Bill. A desultory conversation as to whether another divi sion should be taken ensued. The clause, as amended, was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. The last clause was struck out. Mr. LAWLESS moved that the Bill should not be extended to Ireland. Lord NAAS thought the Bill was particularly appli cable to Ireland. Mr. NAPIER was opposed to the Bill as it was; but if applied to England it ought to be applied to Ireland. Sir J. PAKINGTON objected to the amendment. Mr. LAWLESS said he would bring up his clause on the report. The Bill was then reported to the House. TENANTS AT RACK-RENT RELIEF BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. The clauses were agreed to, and the Bill was reported to the House. MARRIAGES BILL. ____ Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several petitions in fa vour of the Bill. Mr. F. MAULE presented several petitions against the Bill, two of them were signed by 4,800 persons and 1,410 persons. Mr. F. THESIGER appealed to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman not to go on with this Bill, which was a Bill of vast importance. He had been there from an early hour watching it.—(Hear, hear.) He really thought the House would not be justified in going on with the Bill at that late hour. Mr. S. WORTLEY hoped the House would not con sent to a postponement. He considered that all the ob jections to the Bill were already known, and therefore it was not likely anything novel would be brought forward that evening. He hoped, at least, the House would go into Committee. Sir F. THESIGER must move, as an amendment, that the debate be adjourned. Mr. HUME said the Bill had been before the House so long that he really thought no further delay ought to take place. He hoped the House would go into Commit. tee on it. Mr. R. PALMER said that the Hon. Member for Montrose spoke as if no important questions required to be discussed; but the contrary was the case, he himself having one important amendment to propose at the fit ting time. If the House were determined to proceed with the Bill he would remain, though he considered the Bill could not be discussed with advantage at that late hour. Mr. F. MAULE had also an amendment to pro pose—that Scotland be excluded from the operation of the Bill. He regretted the delay which bad occur red in bringing on this Bill that evening owing to the length of the previous debates, but he was satisfied this was a question about which the people of Scotland were quite unanimous, and they would be much dissatisfied it the Bill were brought on at such a late hour. Mr. FORBES hoped the Bill would not be pressed forward at that late hour. He, too, had an amendment, similar to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. F. Maule)— namely, that Ireland be exempted from its operation. Sir B. HALL hoped the Bill would be postponed for the present, as it was most important in its character. It was said the Bill was brought forward for the benefit of the humbler and poorer classes. He denied that this was the fact.—(Hear, hear.) Looking at the expenses of the Bill and the way it was pushed forward, he be lieved the Bill was really intended to put persons in a higher grade in a more respectable position than they at the present time occupied.—(Hear, hear.) He would not mention names, but he could name those who were to pay the expenses.—(Hear.) Mr. COCKBURN considered the House was in a sufficient state of attention and vigilance to enable them to go on with the Bill. It was too much to ask the Hon. Member who brought forward the Bill at that comparatively e irly hour of the evening—(Laughte-) to postpone the Bill. If Hon. Members opposite were in a condition to go to a division the House would hear nothing about delay.—(Hear, bear.) Ile thought the House was justified in going on with the Bill. Sir B. H. INGLIS could consent to no arrangement that would forward the Bill. He entirely concurred in the proposition for a postponement of the Bill. Mr. BOUVERIE could not see that anything would be gained by pressing on the Bill. Mr. S. WORTLEY had been in the House a great many hours, and bad not received any intimation of an opposition to the Sp, aker's leaving the chair. He trust the House would allow the Bill to go into Com mittee; if not, he must really divide the House. Sir G. GREY thought the proposition was reasonable to go on with the MI. Sir F. THESIGER had no wish to oppose the Bill going on a stage, but if there was a disposition to discuss the Bill, then he thought a postponement ought to take place. Mr. GOULBURN had no objection to the House go ing into Committee, but he did object to the Bill being discussed. The House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment $9 For going into Committee .. 152 Majority for going into Committee —63 Captain BOLDER() then moved the adjournment of the House amidst loud cheers. Colonel BAWDON appealed to the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman whether persistence in a course like this was calculated to raise the House in the estimation of the country. Sir F. THESIGER understood his lion, and Lsarned Friend's (Mr. S. Wortley) feeling t 3 be this ; that as there were a great many Members who thought it was too late an hour to enter into a discussion upon the principle of the Bill, he was willing to obey that inch natioa on the part of the House ; but be 'aid, " Grant me this stage, and then, on a future day, we will go into Committee and discuss the various amendments." If that were understood to be the arrangement, there could be no reason whatever for the adjournment of the House. Mr. F. MACKENZIE—Either his Hon. and Learned Friend must gain something or nothing by the course now proposed. If he gained something, he (Mr. Mac kenzie) was not inclined to grant it to him ; and if he would gain nothing, Wily persist further?—(Hear.) Mr. F. MAULE was as strongly opposed to the Bill as any Hon. Member could be; at the same time it was only fair to put the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in the same position in which he would have been had the Bill come on at an earlier period of the evening. He hoped his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Captain Boldero) would withdraw his motion fur an adjournment of the House. Mr. PLUMPTRE—Th e more the Bill was discussed the more Objectionable would it appear, and he was not, threfore, willing to neglect any opportunity for dis cussing it. Mr. %VALPOLE thought it would be better to go into Committee and discuss the detail's, with the understand ing that the House should have a discussion upon the principle on the third reading of the Bill. He hoped Cart sin Boldero would not divide the House upon his motion for adjournment. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER joined Mr. Walpole in calling upon the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman t 3 with draw his motion. Sir It. INGLIS recommended that the proposition for going into Committee should be withdrawn. Already forty minutes of the time of the House had been wasted in this preliminary discussion, and yet not the least ad vance had been made. Captain BOLDER() had come down with the deter mination of opposing the Bill in every possible way that the forms of the House would allow. He considered it to be one of the most obnoxious messurts ever intro duced into Parliament. He declared upon his honour that he bad a stronger feeling against this Bill, and greater pleasure in voting against it, than be had ever entertained with regard to any other measure.—(ob.) The House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment of the House ... 52 Against it ... 147 Majority against the motion ... ... —95 Mr. FORBES then moved the adjournment of the debate. The House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment ... Against it Majority against the adjournment ... —B5 An Hort. MENEM then moved the adjournment of the House. ... 48 ... 133 After a short conversation, Mr. S. WORTLEY announced his determination sot to press, at that moment, the motion fur the Committee on the Bill. The debate was then adjourned to Thursday, the 16th of May. The Parish Constables Bill passed through Com mittee. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Homo adjourned at One o'clock. lIOUSE OF LORDS, April 18. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. The Marquis of WESTMEATH gave notice of a mo tion on the subject of the consolidation of repayments of advances to Irish Union!, for Tuesday next, as he did not consider the information which ho had received from the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) on this subject eati4- factory. The Duke of ARGYLE asked if it was the intention of the Government to lay before the House the papers relating to the case of Mr. Ryland P Earl GREY laid the papers on the table. The Earl of MALMESEIURY gave notice for Mon day of a [notion relative to the importation of foreign CM. PIRATES BEAD-MONEY BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the second reading of this Bill, entered into a short explana tion of its provisions. Lord COLCHESTER considered that the payment of head-money for the. capture of pirates had tended to the security of commerce, and to the preservation of human life, particularly in the West Indies. lie wished to know particularly what we►e the provisions of the present Bill with regard to head-money ? The answer of the Noble Marquis was inaudible in the gallery. The Earl cf ELLENBOROUGH said, that with re gard to the money to be paid fur pirates recently cap tured the money had been already paid. He thought the Ad.miralty ought to have the power of adjudicating on the subject of head-mosey; And he compluir i ed that APRIL 19, 1850. the proposed measure did not give the Admiralty that power. He did not approve of the existing law; he thought the remuneration given was extravagant and un equal. He had seen with the greatest pain accounts of the destruction of ships and boats, without the loss on oar part of a single man. He thought that the measures adopted in China might have been necessary, but he did not consider the recent military executions on the coast of Borneo could be classed in the same category. He did not believe that Parliament had intended to pay head-money in such cases as those which had occurred on the coast of Borneo.—(Hear, hear.) The most dangerous actions with pirates a ere those cases in which the pirates 4 were not in ships and boats, but had entrenched themselves on shore ; yet, under this Bill, no cognizance could be taken of actions against pirates on shore. In most cases of actions against pi rates in the East India seas the ships of the East India Company `ere engaged, and no provision wan made for the remuneration of their crews. He thought they ought to be placed, in this respect, on the same footing with officers and seamen in the navy. He had the greatest respect for the House of Commons, but he thought such a numerous assembly was not the best tribunal to adjudicate upon the sum to be paid for the destruction of pirates, and yet, under the present Bill, they were called upon so t ) adjudicate, because the Admiralty was to recommend to the Crancellor of the Exchequer the sum to be paid, and he was to move a vote for that amount in the House of Commons. He thought that the remuneration to be paid should be left to the decision of the Crown. He should in Committee move certain amendments in the clauses, and he should likewise propose an additional clause placing the officers and crews of ships of the East India Company on the same footing as the officers and crews of the navy. The Earl of ELLESMERE believed that hereafter Sir James Brooke would be ranked among the heroes of civilization—(Hear, hear)—and he regretted that the Noble Earl should have attempted to draw a distinction between his achievements in the suppression of piracy in Borneo, and the achievements of those who had de stroyed the pirates which infested the seas of China. — (Cheers.) Were we to risk the lives of fellow-country men in the seas of Borneo by neglecting to use those means which Providence had placed in our hands for protecting them from pirates? If we were, it would be better at once to give up all attempts at colonization or civilization in com merce. He could not hear anything like an attack upon the character of Sir James Brooke without start ing up in his defence, although he bad no personal ac quaintance with him. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH explained that he considered the attack upon the Dyaks of Borneo was more within the category of national war than of an attack upon pirates. He had endeavoured to prevent when in office the taking possession of Labuan, and he believed that he was right. He believed it would be useless to this country, but not to Sir James Brooke and others, who were speculating in Borneo.—(lronical ch ee r s .) He had read with great alarm the proposition of Sir James Brooke to establish forts in Borneo, and he warned the Government against taking possession of any part of Borneo. We had already colonies enough, and be felt that the occupation of any part of Borneo would lead from war to war and conquest to conquest. Earl GREY held in his haed papers received yester day from Singapore, which proved the piratical character of the expedition which Sir James Brooke destroyed. One of the witnesses whose evidence was contained in these papers had been plundered by these very pirates, and had had his ship burnt. This was one case, but there were teveral cases in which persons had been attacked by these pirates not only for their property, but for their hi ads. They were attacked and plundered by this very fleet which Sir James Brooke had destroyed. The merchants of Singapore had presented to him an address, stating that the operations of these pirates bad been destructive of commerce. Five years ago commerce could not be carries on in unarmed ships, but in consequence of the operations of Sir James Brooke unarmed ships could carry on their commerce uninterrupted.—(Hear, hear.) To this pi ratical tribe every warning had been given, and it was not until they had refused all their warnings that they had been attacked. The Noble Earl had said we had not lost a man. Would he have been better pleased if we had lost several of our brave sailors and soldiers?— (Hear, hear.) Did he mean to contend ,hat because their men were armed with bows and arrows we were not to use 32-pounders. With regard to Labuan, it could not be considered 54 an ordinary colony ; it was occupied for the same purposes, and in the same manner as Singapore. So -far from the colony b ing a com plete failure, as the Noble Earl had said, the marshes had been detained; within the last year there had been no fever at all, and, according to the reports of the surgeons, the colony was as healthy as Singapore, and, within the last few months, there had been no death in Labuan, and only two persons on the sick list. It was only occupied for commercial purposes, in the same way as Singapore. At the period when we had first occupied Singapore, an ob jection of precisely the same character as that advanced by the Noble Earl in the present instance bad been made to the policy of that measure, and precisely the same prophecy had been put forward as to the inevitable failure of the settlement. But could any one deny at present that the formation of that settlement had been of great advantage to British commerce in the East, and had contributed very much to the spry al of the seeds of civilization in that quarter of the world? Labuan was a settlement of the same description. It was intended that it should afford a depot for our commerce, and yield a valuable supply of coals for our steam-vessels. The Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Aberdeen as we under stood) had expressed a strong opinion in favour of the policy of occupying that settlement, and he (Earl Grey) had entirely agreed with him upon the subject. The Nob!e Earl, however, said that the settlement had proved to be a complete failure. Now it so happened that he (Earl Grey) had on the preceding day received a report from Sir J. Brooke as to the progress of the settlement. It was undoubtedly true that the settlers had in the first instance great difficulties to contend with. He believed that in almost every case in which a settlement had been made on land which had been in a state of na ture, disease bad broken out among the settlers. Labuan had been no exception to that rule. There had been a marsh in the immediate vicinity of the town, and in con sequence of that circumstance a good deal of sickness had prevailed among the settlers in the autumn of 1848. But that marsh bad since been drained, and last year there had been no fever at all in the settlement. He had received a report from a medical gentleman in the island, stating that it was at present as healthy as Singapore, or any other of our possessions. Then, again, he found that in the year 1848 there bad been a great deal of sickness among the garrison at Labuan, which had con sisted of a detachment of only 48 men from a Madras regiment ;. but that the detachment having been lately relieved after having been several months in the island, it appeared that there had not been a single death among them, and that there had been only two men on the sick list. The Noble Earl had said that the settlement was making no progress. Now, in reply to that statement, he (Earl Grey) should observe that it had never been expt cted that any great num- ber of Europeans Would establish trlniselves in such a place, although it had been expected that merchants from China and other parts of the East would settle down there. Let it be remembered that in those barbarous countries it was impossible that trade could be carried on unless there was some place where large quantities of goods could be deposited. In consequence of the amount of disease which had pre vailed in Labuan in the year 1848, traders had at first been unwilling to settle down there; but as there had been no such amount of disease last year, that unwilling ness had been removed; and he had just received a com munication front Sir J. Brooke, dated the 2d of February last, stating that many traders bad fled to the island on account of the security which it offered, and that they were busily engaged there in building houses for them selves. Then, the Noble Earl had stated that no coal company had yet been established in Labuan; but he (Earl Grey) believed that that was owing to the general disturbance in all commerce which had taken place in the year 1848. A beginning had, however, already been made towards the establishment of a coal company in the island. He found that there had been actually furnished there to her Majesty's navy ♦ery nearly 2,000 tons of coals, which the engineers in her Majesty's service had reported to be of a very excellent description. And what had been the price of these coals? It had at first been arranged that they were to be sold at the rate of 1 is. per ton at the pit's mouth. But as there would have been considerable expense and inconvenience in re moving them from that to the coast, the contract had been altered, and it had been arranged that they were to be brought to the ships at the rate of 20s. per ton, while the parties selling them would be liable to a pay ment, in the shape of duty, of 2s. 6d. per ton; so that the real cost of each ton to the public would only be 17s. 6d. Now the contract price of coals at Singapore was 335. 6d. per ton, and there would therefore be a considerable saving effected by the very first purchase of coals at Labuan. He saw it stated in the newspapers that an additional coal field had recently been discovered in the island in a much more favourable position for shipment on bard our vessels than any that bad yet been known, and that would no doubt tend further to diminish the price of the article. Before he sat -ci-ol;i:---1-;;;;(11 not help referring—and referring with great regret — to one observation which had been made by the Noble Earl. The Noble Earl had said that that settlement could not be of any advantage to the country, whatever it might be to Sir J. Brooke and other speculators. Now he (Earl Grey) confessed that he had not expected a re mark of that kind in that House.—(Hear, hear.) He agreed with his Noble Friend, the Noble Earl on the cross benches (the Earl of Ellesmere) upon that point, and he admir al the character of Sir J. Brooke more than that of almost any man he couhimiltion7 His self-de votion, his entire disinterestedness, his refusal to accept of any advantage whatever for himself—(Hear, bear) — the fact that he had been governed only by the highest motives of charity and of Christianity, were, in his opi nion, matters beyond all doubt. Ile had himself, that very day, seen a letter written by Sir J. Brooke so long ago as the year 1846, in reply to a request of certain persons that he should join them in a speculation by which he might become one of the richest commoners in En — gland; and in that reply Sir J. Brooke stated that he haw no objections to other parties entering upon such speculations, but that fur his part he was fully determined in keeping himself aloof from them, lest he might endanger the success of the higher objects ho had in view. That was the answer of Sir J. Brooke to that application, and he (Earl Grey) thought it was also an answer to the charge that had just beeu advanced by the Noble Earl.—(Hear, bear.) He believed he was justified in stating that so fir from having made a profit by what he had done, Sir J. Brooke had very largely sacrificed his fortune as well as his time in endeavouring to carry out his benevolent objects. And more than that—he grieved to say that from the accounts he had received on the preceding day he greatly feared that Sir J. Broke bad, by his labours, very seriously endangered his most valuable lire. It was difficult for him to describe the grief with which he had received information to the effect that the state of Sir J. Brooke's health was such that his medical advisers had enjoined on him, and as a matter of absolute necessity for the salvation of his life, that he should immediately retire to Penang, while they had added that if that did not produce an immediate improvement in his condition he should re turn to England. The fact was that Sir J. Brooke had never quite recovered from the fever he had taken at Labuan in the year 1848; and his recent exertions against the band of pirates had further impaired his health in a manner which seriously endangered bis life. In con clusion, he (Earl Grey) should observe that he could not but feel great pain at finding that at the very time when that most generous and public-spirited man was risking his life and fortune fur objects of the greatest benefit to humanity, ho was accused in that House of being a mere selfish sp:culator, who only sought to pro mote his own interest, at a very heavy expense to the country at large.—(liter, hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that all that he had stated with regard to Lsbuao, be had stated on the authority if a blue book which had been presented to the House a Jew wet ks ago by the Noble Earl himself. With respect to the coal of that island, he should remind the Noble Earl that there was a great difference in the prices of different qualities of coals, and that coals which cost 335. a ton might be cheaper then coals which cost only 20s, It was his impression, after having found it neee,sary to inquire into the subject, that fur the pur pose of steam navigation the coal of the East, as far as it had hitherto been discovered, was so inferior in strength to the coal of England, that it was, in fact, practically dearer, although sold at a much lower price. Ile had, further, been led to the conclusion that there was very great danger in supplying the coal of the East for steam navigation, tecause it was peculiarly subject to spontaneous combustion. He remembered having once asked a commander on board a steamer what coal he used, and on being told that it was the coal of Calcutta, he had telt him to take care, for he would be on fire before he came back, and that commander had told him on his re turn that those words had been realised, for the vessel had actually taken fire by the spontaneous ignition of the coals. It was well known that during the war in China 500 tons of coals had been lust by spontaneous combustion at Hong-Kong. He was convinced that it would be cheaper to export, on account of the Govern ment, coals from Wales to the East, than to purchase the coal of the country. The Noble Earl had compared Labuan to Singapore; but it should be remembered that Singapore was on the high road to China, while Labuan did not possess a similar advantage, and could not pos sibly be expected under any circumstances at present in existence to enjoy an equal amount of prosperity. He had not intended to eater into any matter connected with Sir J. Brooke beyond what he should find absolutely neces • sary in treating of the particular measure before the House. He could candidly say of that gentleman that he thought him a gallant romantic Englishman; but he be lieved that in his romance there was danger. Sir J. Brooke appeared to entertain the idea that by using his own influence, and the influence of this country, in the East, he would perform great services to humanity. But his (the Earl of Ellenborough's) opinion was, that in that attempt he would fail, and would do great injury to humanity. He was convinced, that however benevo lent might be the motives c•f Sir J. Brooke, that gentle man was so blindly devoted to his own ideas that it was to be feared his efforts would be productive of much mis chief. He should say more, and express his belief, that when the naval force of this country was brought to Labuan, it would be used by Sir J. Brooke for carrying out his own purposes, whether those purposes were good or not. Notwithstanding that gentleman's most perfect purity of intention, he (the Earl of Ellenborough) could not help thinking that his efforts would be productive, not of good, but of great injury to humauity, and to the interests of this country. Earl GREY said that her Majesty's engineers had, after actual trial, reported the coal of Labuart to be of a very good description. After a few words from Earl WALDEGRAVE, The Bill was read a second time. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in fixing Thursday next for the Committee on this Bill, observed that there had only been 500 of those pirates killed in the attack, and not 1,000, as stated by the Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Ellenborough.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—But there had been 500 more killed in the jungle. Ho wished to take that opportunity of asking whether the Admiralty had ex pressed any opinion with respect to that attack? The Earl of MINTO said, that the Admiralty had merely expressed their sense of the services of the men engaged in the attack. It was not their practice to ex press any opinion with respect to the policy of such pro ceedings. The Bill was then ordered to be committed on Thurs day next; and the House adjourned. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. BETTING ON WEDNESDAY NIG lIT. The betting on the Chester Cup and Derby on the course was marked by two or three important fluctuations. For the Cup Essedarius was in great force throughout the day, the last odds taken being 14 to 1. 14 to 1 was offered agst Miss Ann, 1,000 to 60 agst Cossack, and 20 to 1 agst Chantrey. GP illie Callum went back to 9to 1 in the morning, but came again at night, and was backed at 7 to 1, the takers offering to go on; 6 to 1 was laid against Bolingbroke, and 8 to 1 (taken freely) against Mayors; offers to take 8 to 1 about Clincher, and 1,000 to 60 about Voltigeur. The general prices at the close stcod as folloas: TWO THOUSAND 7 to 4 agst Pasford UINEAS STAKES. 3 to 1 agst 'larding° 5 to 2 spat Beehunter DE 6 to 1 agst Bolingbroke 6 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 7 to 1 ag,t Clinch(r 8 to 1 agst Mayors (t) [5 to 1 agst The Nigger 5 t) 1 agst Voltigeur 8 to 1 agst The Italian 3 BY. •20 to 1 agst Mildew 20 to 1 agst Pitsford 25 to 1 agst Kut. of Avere 30 to 1 agst Penang 33 to 1 agst Nutshell 50 to 1 agst Deicoon 1,000 to 10 agst Cariboo THURSDAY'S RACES. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sore. each, and only 5 ft if declared, to go to the second horse; for four years old and upwards. A.F. (7 Subs., four of whom pay 5 ft.) Mr. W. Stebbing's CVestow, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Rogers) 1 Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 5 yra, B,t 51b ...(W. Boyce) 2 Betting-2 to 1 on Westow, who won in a canter by four lengths. _ sweepsttles of 50 BOYS. each, for three yrs old colts Bst 71b, fillies Est 21b. Horses which have started twice before the time of closing this stake allowed 41b, thrice or more 61b. D.M. (3 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Harm Scarum, 7st 101h(Flatman) 1 Lord Clifden's Warner, Bst 71b (Pearl) 2 Betting—ll to lon Hamm Scarum, who made the greater part of the running, and won by a length. Match, 100, h ft. First half of Ab. M. Lord Clifden's Beaufort, 2 yrs, 6st 131b...(G. Brown) 1 Duke of Bedford's Mahratta, 4 yrs, 9st 6lb (F. Butler) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Beaufort. Won easy by a length . Run in 51 sec. Subscription Plate of 40t, for three yrs old 6st 1216, four Bst 71b, five 9st, six and aged 9st 31b. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs. if demanded, &c. D.M. Mr. Batton's Beauclerc, 5 yrs Duke of Bedford's Sobraon, 4 yr 5........ (F Butler) 2 Mr. Freeman's Impression, 3 yrs Lord Clifden'a Le Beau, 3 yrs (G. Brown) 0 Baron de Veauce's Philosopher, 6 yrs (P. Price) 0 Mr. Barne's Tufthunter, 6 yrs (Pearl) 0 Mr. Daley's Cayenne, 4 yrs (Rogers) 0 Mr. Greville's Clarissa, 4 yrs Lord J. Scott's Defaulter, b yrs (A. Day) 0 Lord Exeter's Ghio, 3 yrs (J. Mann) 0 Captain Lowther's Bastinado, 3 yrs (Dockeray) 0 Betting-5 to I agst Sobraon-5 to 1 agst Beauclerc —5 to 1 agast Philosopher-6 to 1 agst Ghio-7 to 1 agst Le Beau, Tutthunter, and Defaulter, and 8 to 1 agst Bastinado. Impression taking the lead at starting, fol lowed by Ghio, Philosopher, and Beauclerc, made play, at a good pace to the cords,where she ran out, and Bt au clerc taking up the running, won by a length, Sobrson beating Impression by a neck. The winner was claimed. Run in 1 min. 47 sec. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old; cults, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. P.M. (8 Subs.) Lord Exeter's Nutshell, B,t 41b Colonel Peel's Longinus, Bst 7lb ... (Hata:tan) 2 Colonel Anson's Chieftain, Bst 41b........ (J. Sharp) 3 Betting—Even between Nutshell and Longinus. Nut shell made strong running all the way at a good pace, and won by half a length; Chieftain beaten off. Run in 1 min. 48 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards, 9st 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 200 soya. if demanded, &c. ; if entered to be sold for 150 sovs., allowed 71b; if for 100 sovs., 121 b; if for 70 soya., 161 b; and if for 40 sovs., 211 b. D.M. (3 Subs.) Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, aged, Tat 121 b Mr. Ford's Telegraph, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (Bartholomew) 2 Mr. Greville's Bullfinch, 3 yrs, 6st (G. Mann) 3 Betting—Even on Dulcet, and 6 to 4 agat Bullfinch. Won by a neck. Run in 1 min. 54 secs. Sweepstakes of 50 Boys. each, h ft; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; winners extra. Crite- rion Course. (6 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Officious, Bst 61b (Flatman) Mr. Newton's Falcor, Bst 71b ... (Rogers) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Officious, who took the lead, kept it, and won easily by a couple of lengths. Run in 1 min. 17 sec. Match, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie, Bst 31b received. Mr. Payne's Farthingale, Bst 71b paid. The weather was delightful, and the company nume rous and fashionable. LA.TEST BETTING. DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Bolingbroke 20 to 1 agst Pitt,f,rd. 13 to Wept Ghillie Callum 22 to 1 agst Nutshell 9 to 1 tight Clincher 22 to 1 agst Kt. of Avenel 9 to 1 ugst Manors 28 to 1 agst Penang 20 to 1 agst Mildew—t. No change in the 2 , 00 0-Guineas Stakes or Chester Cup. ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. I Handicap, T. Y. St. Ann, 5 yrs, Bst 1216—Westow, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b Grasshopper, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Farthingale, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—The New Era, 4 yrs, 7st llb—br a by Mus out of Virago, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Telegraph, 5 yrs, 7,1 131 b Irish Jib, 4 yrs, Est 131 b. LATEST BETTING. THE PORT STAKES. Even on Lady iverytiTrfirt;:eand Glauca have been scratched. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 6to 4 agst Pitsford (t), I sto 2 agst Bcehunter 5 to 2 ogst Hardint e. 6ONERSETSIIIRE BTAKES. 3 to 1 agst Halo. CUP. °6iti f 25 to 1 sgs.t Jo hn C lel,' 11 t o 2 agst 00 2 a: ; 0 5 s t i t t sgg p T Bst i c ° : s o lete r t i t i ii ill( ij i 13 to 2 agst Ghillie Callum I '22 to 1 a st Nuts be " 9 to 1 agst Msvors (0 v ight 9 to 1 apt Clincher I 22 to 1 sgst ..-°-. 14 to 1 agst Voltigeur Avenel 16 to 1 agtt The Nigger 28 to 1 agst Pensil, 18 t 3 1 agst Mild ew 50 to 1 agst Deicoo- CIIESTE 12 to 1 agst Essedarius 13 to 1 agst Peep-o'• day Buy PARLIAMEN TARY DIV ISI°I4-,, f (From the Vote r a n d Proceedings of the House ' , C006'1: THURSDAY, APRIL 18. LARCENY .SUMMARY JURISDICTION -ILE mo tif Order for Committee read; Motion made, en ci c ;io proposed, " That M r . Speaker do now leave th e ollt. Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word elo 4.0 to the end of the Question, iu order to add thew i r f i n to .} , l ° House will, upon thi s d ay s i x months, resolve itoLvistPC said Committee," instead thereof: - Question put, words proposed to b e left out stand part of the Qu The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 113. s ot IrisC tl Adair, Hugh E. F o l ey , J o h n 11. Newry, Lord Aglionby, 11. A. Freestun Colonel Norreys , jr, Alcock, Thomas Frewen, ' C. li. Baines, M. T. Baldwin, C. B. Greene,Gr cei :a 11 1 , ,1i0 Gilbert ma 1 1 4 . ' ° B i r n r i. , i e c ii:, ' , 0 11 L . : ,, T 1. : wit, Barnard, E. G. Grenfell, Charles W. Palmer , ~,.. Barrington, Viscount Grey, Sir George Patten, J.:o,bert Bellew, It. M. Grey, Ralph W. Peel, Sir I ,! u po Blackall, S. W. Guest, Sir J. Pinney, "' 11. Booth, Sir It. G. Gwyn, Bowel Bramston, T• W. Hale, R. B. Broadley, 11. Hamilton, Lord C. power, Bromley, Robert Ilawes, B. ' Pugh , Do n phi P SI Brooke, Lord Hayes, Sir E. Fusel, yo Brotherton, J. Ilayter, W. G. Rendleshat& B. 11. ed Brown, W. Ileadlam, Thomas Rice, —. Bielt.- Busfeild, W. • Heald, James Richards - sel COl O _,, Carter, John B. Ileneage, G. H. W. RomlUY , c A pts ,- ,.. Carew, W. P. Hervey, Lord A. Rushouir ~ijos, L Caulfeild, J. M. 11111, Lord Marcia Russell , °'" Cavendish, G. 11. Hothatn, Lord Russell, S. c. Chatterton, Colonel Jervis, Sir John Russell, r* fil oeo get Childers, J. W. Jocelyn, Viscount Sandars,,,. n ri Christosher, R. A. Keogh, William Seyrner...:m.d Clive, Henry B. Lacy, H. C. Seymour, Is, A, Coke, E. K. Langston, J. H. Slaney, low A. Compton, H. C. Legh, G. C. Smith, J . 0 Corbally, M. E. Cowan, Charles Lewis, George C: Somers, J•A;pO Littleton, E. It. Somerset, 'or If. Crowder, R. B. D e d p r , e t r n i r , 1 . 1 14 . . r• Lushington, Charles somervllle;,,. Dalrymple, Captain Ly g o n , G enera l Sot h e ron, ." Davie, Sir H. Mackie, John Stafford , A..11. 1 2:g Dawson, T. V. M•r aggar t, Si r J . stans fleld r 'jj,jef Denison, J. E. Meagher, Thomas ThomPs°ll' g. J, Divett, Edward Mangles, It. D. Tollemachs4j. I)rumlanrig, Vis. M arc h, E ar l o f Verne'''. S i 'alli ) Drumm/lona, Henry ' Marsh, 11, J. G. Villi e rs, Vi! . Duckworth, Sir J. Maule, Fox Vivian, J. el Duncombe, 0. Milnes, It. M. Duncuft, John Melgund, Viscount W W i a l t st i iN Cs l ° :: Dunne, Colonel Morgan, 0. Young, S ir - Egerton, W. T. Mullings, J. R. Elliot, J. E. M un d y , Willi am TELL I T I P. Farnham, E. Naas, Lord Pakingto%;,,g Fitzpatrick, .T W. Napier, Joseph Miles, ig Floyer, John Ne e ld, J osep h um— MINORITY—NOES. 76. Armstrong, Sir A. Gibson, T. M. Muntz, a• 1. : 4 0 411 r Bass, Thomas Grace, 0. D. O'Connor,vi,. Beresford, William Graham, Sir James Packe, C . .., 0. , Bernal, Ralph Granby, Marquis of Pechell, Si' ,q, J• Blackstone, W. Greene, John 131ewitt, Reginald Halford, Sir Henry Be ßo P brr n t: i.". o : i ftl . Bremridge, Richard Hall, Sir Benjamin &dive)", Col o w Bright, John Harris, Richard Scholelleld, is 13roadwod, If. Henley, J. W. Scully, F r l Buikeley, o Sir R. Henry, Alexander Shai to, it.• (,' Clifford, 11. M. Hildy ar d, T. B . Smy th, .),,.. - ji, Cole, H. A. Hod gson , W . N . Stanley', .r: j c. Crawford, W. S. Houldsworth, T. Teason, 14 ' it , k, Cubitt, William Ho war d, P. H. Ihickness e, c• - 0 101 1P Denison, Edmund Hudson, G. Thompso n ' j Disraeli, B. H ug h es , W. B. Edwards, Henry Hu me , J osep h Estcourt, J. B. 13. Jolllffe, Sir W. G. WVaaisrleli i li s ' i j. e S y, •: tii : r i e . Evans, William K ea ti ng , R o b er t w TYY Evelyn, W. J. Fagan, William Law, Hon. E. C. Willcox, 131 710 Lawless, Cecil Williams,.' Ferrer, James Lockh ar t, A . E. W or tler, •)• Fergus, John Lockhart, W. O °. Forbes, William Lo w th er , C o l one l TW I, Fordyce, A. D. Masterman, John M'Cullag l4 gir 6. Fox, W. J. Mil ner , W. M . Str i c kland, " Galway, Viscount Mostyn, E. M. MARRIAGES BILL. go t°, Order for Committee read ; Motion made, en ci pbsit: '' o proposed, " That Mr. Sp ea k er d o now l eave the ',rbst Debate arising; Motio n m a fl e , an d Q uest i on put, ' Debate be now adjourned." The House divided:" MINORITY—AI ES, 89. Anson, Viscount Farnh am , E. B . Monsen Willi° . - Arkwright, George Farrer, James Bagot, William Fellowes, E. Beresford, William Fergus, John Bernard, Viscount Forbes, Wm. r ic : l ;: : w i ePa m li a ide' e l' r d:: ;j : l: o l 74" I I : Best, John Fordyce, A. D. Blackstone, W. S. Grace, O. D. Palmer, R o p y Boldero, H. G. Greenall, G. Peel, Fredsl. Bramston, T. W. Greene Thomas Plowden, 11•,7. Bruce, C. L. C. Grogan, Edward Buller, Sir J. Y. Gwyn, Howel Burrell, Sir C. Hale, It. B. , . Carew, W. P. Hall. Sir B. 'Bichards,,w to Chatterton, Colonel Plalsey, T. P. Rushout, Ca . Christopher, R. Hastie, Archibald Seymer, 11.-,00 Clerk Sir G. Reyes, Sir E. Clive, 11. B. Heneage, G. 11. Cocks, Thomas S. Henley, J. W. R lP'ol e ur n tni t al o P L tr , 3l : :co ..c l:'ll ,:l, :6 :? Colvile, C. R. Hildyard, It. C. Cowan, Charles Davie, Sir Henry Hodges, T. L. Tyrell, Sir , 0 ,.. Deedes, W. Hodgson, W. N. Verner, Sir o urit Divert, Edward Douglas, Sir C. Hope, Alexander Villiers, N i l t u cer Hornby, John Walpole, SP e ' rt 1. Duckworth, Sir I. Jones, Captain w egg -Pres° Duff, George S. Lockhart, A. E. Duncan, George Lockhart, W. Willoughby'' Dunctift, John Ilildyard, T. B. T. TsBB Mackenzie, W. F. Dunne, Colonel M'Neill, Duncan Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord J. Edwards, Henry March, Earl of West, F. It dr 11. Stanle y,itb it i i ei istooonrn). • TELyffs' Inglis, Sir rl.. Thesiger, SO MAJORITY—NOES, 152. Res Adair, Hugh E. Fr ees t un , C o l one l Mu!grave , Adair, R. A. FreWer4 C. H. Muntx, 0 ,:,,',. v,. V. Aglion by, it. A. Galw a y, Vi scoun t Norreys, D''' Archdall, Captain Gibson, Thomas M. Ogle, S. C., Armstrong, It. B. Glyn, G. C. P ar k er , Ja r• NC It r, Arundel, Earl of Goddard, A. L. Fatten, •• • j ot Bagshaw, John Goulbarn, He nr y P ee l, Sir Ito .. Raines, H. T. Greene, Joh n Pelham, l Baring, Sir F. T. Greiffell, Charles W. Pr rower, Nilelikingtoii);;l:cho Baring, Thomas Grey, Sir G. It Barnard, E. 0. Hamilton, Lord C. P r i c e, Sir C°l' , 0 1,1 Barrington, Viscount Manmer, Sir J. Kewdon , f ., J. liass,l3l. T. Harris, Rich ar d Ri car do, 'lso Bellew, It. M. Ilatchell, John Ricardo, 0 ° Berkeley, H. F. Ilayter, W. G. Rice, E• Ig'„. .f. Berkeley, C. L. G. Ileadlam, T. E. R o b a rteS, 'l O Ol Blacken, S. W. Heald, James R om illf, C° jOlO Blake, Martin J. Montage,. E. Romilly, Si r s'4 d. s• Blewitt, Reginald H enry; Al etan d er Rum b o ld, C• ,r Booth, Sir R. G. Ilemert, H. A.' • Russell, ES. .-• G• Boyle, Colonel H e y woo d , J ames Russell, . • vi ol , Bright, John lleyworth, Lawrence Salwey,.C°Wilgv Kroadwood, H. Ilobh ouse, T . B . S c h o l e tield, , Brocklehurst, John Hollond, Robert Sianey, R. !• Brockman, E. 1). Howard, C. W. S m ith, J• fil exec Bromley, Robert Howard, Sir It. Smith, M• 1 1l g , Brotherton, Joseph Hudson, George Smith, MT . - 0.., Carter, J. B. Hughes, W. B. Smyth, Jou; IT , Chaplin, W. J. Hume, J. Somerville•,,. J. Caulfeild, J. M. Jervis, Sir John Spearman, ;1,. Christy, Samuel Johnstone, Sir:J. Stuart, Lord J. Clay, James &dill:re, Sir W. G. Stuart, Loi„ ~ Clifford, H. M. King, I'. J. Talbot, C. it Cobden, R. "; Lawless, Cecil - Thickneso e 'c o lOm" Cockburn, A. J. Lewis, G. C. Thompson , aid. Coke,:Edward',K. Lindsay, Colonel Thompson. Copeland, Ald. Locke,'Joseph Th orn elY, i• t r, J, , ,d Crowder, R. B. M'Naghten, Sir E. Tollemach e, cow Denison, Edmund Mahon, Lord Townshend , , J. Duff, James , Mangles, R. D. WalmsleY , S i o ~,el Duke, Sir James Marshall, William W a tkins, C ° ` Dundas, Admiral Martin, Samuel W aw n, J• '' r. Dundas, Sir David Masterman, Jonn Westhead , •I r od i* 6 Ellis, John Matheson, Colonel Willcox, 13 1 h g Elliot, John Maule, Fox Williams, do , Evans, William Melgund, Viscount Wilson, J o '4o Fagan, W. Milner, W. M. Wilson, 0 1 " Ferguson, Sir R. Willies, R. M. Wyld, Jilin ° Filmer, Sir E. Moffatt, George Foley, J. H. Morgan, H. K. Forster, Mathew Morris, David Fox, W. J. Mostyn, E. TILL 1111 , 0 :cdO Hill, Lord J.- it Wortley, J• t , • 'pet 1; IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE TO DESPISE.+•' - ', 1) 000 Ae —I know of no principle which it is of more inilie" o bt '; l9 fix in the minds of young people than that of them 0 1 4 termined resistance to the encroachments of ridicul e ' up to the world, and to the ridicule with which th e i r 01 0 enforces its dominion, every trifling ques ti on o f Crleff - i fitr ii ; appearance : it is to toss courage an d fi rmness to rst to combat with the mass upon s uc h su bj ec t s a s thesea,„ learn from the earliest days to insure your principl ° re s , the perils of ridicule: you can no mo re exerc i s e yeu r . n o 1( if you live in the constant dre a d o f l aug h ter , than $ enjoy your life, if you are in the constant terror of d eg ske in you think it right t o diff er f rom t h e t i mes, an d to l e ro ol i l stand fer any valuable point of morals, do it, howev er , r e ho however antiquated, however pedantic it may ePP, e- ei,, 1 7 1 1 it, not for insolence, but seriously and grandly,—as "it, PP d. wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not Let Oleo was breathed into him by the breath of fashion. I ill °. call you mean, if you know you are jest ; hypocrities:,oolro are honestly religious; pusillanimous, if you feel that ii ti ce„, firm : resistance soon converts unprincipled wit int ° fee 'liv respect; and no after. time can tear from you those ! Al/ which every man carries within him who has ine'.e__, ll ,so l r, and successful exertion in a virtuous cause.— Syclo c Y n tC7 kror tO Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, at the 13 110- ,: t ioc,S o l Court, yesterday. suspended for three months the c h e d 'ofil of S. H. Kemp, a bill-broker, of Abchurch-lane, bu t ' I ' protection. ill [ADVERTISEMENT.]—DreadfuI Bad Legs Cj i Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a letter lel John Ea s tman, E sq ., o f B uenos A yres, dated April Id! "To Professor H o ll owa y. M y d ear Si r, —Y ou r Ointment are in very great repute here, and many 11 ,1,01Sf ie cures have been performed by their use ; one in Ps e „'ooo., will relate. 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