The Sun. — London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

TH SUN, - - State of things. He knew the obiectione which might be brought against him with regard to the subject, and one that seemed to have some weight, was, that if they endeavoured to improve the condition of the criminal, they would make his condition better than that of those who had c tmmi ted no crime, and would, in consequence, be holding out a premium upon the commission of crime. This argument, h o e ever, wes unsound ; but even if it had the smallest particle of truth, he thought they should treat those unfortunate creatures as repentant sinners were treated in the other world, wheie there was more foy for one who had chanced from his evil courses than or the ninety and n:ue, who Irel never gone astray. — (Hear, hear.) He wouhl support the Government in this measure, and he hoped to see the day when some further reforms of a more extensive nature would be in troduced on the subject of criminal punishment. Mr. P. MILES said that it was not a question of the abolition of transportation, but of the amelioration of that punishment, szlich was involved in the present question. He considered that the change, at present proposed, was a hazardous experiment. It became ne cessary, therefore, for them to consider how the system of transportation had worked in the penal colonies. They had one system carried out there in 1840. Cap tain Macconochie had changed that system for one of kindness and mercy, and that again had been changed from another superintendence by Major Child, so that these continual changes prevented any plan from having had a fair trial. In some of these plans the effect was rather to exclude hope from the criminal, than to hold out a prospect of his bettering his condithere by improved conduct. The lion. Member for Warwick said that the judges were against the abolition of trenvporta tion, but he was of a different opinion, and he thought he could show from the evidence which Hon. he held in his hands that this was not the case. The Member then read the opinions of Baron Alderson, Baron Rolre, Baron Parke, and Mr. Justice Patterson, all of whom were of opinion that the punishment should still be carried into effect for aggravated offences and crimes of a more serious nature. He wished the question had been more carefully considered, and that if it was intended to abolish the punishment of transportation, a Bill had been introduced for that purpose. He thought the proposed plan was adding the premium of cruelty to the common offences, and from his own experi ence of the salutary effects of the punishment in repressing crime he could not vote for its abo lition. He prayed the Government to consider what they were &dna, and as long as they had free in dependent labourers, not to employ on the public works convicted criminals. The Hon. Gentleman then quoted the opinions of the governors of several prisons, to show the effect of transportation as a secondary punishment in deterring crime. He did not, however, approve of the entire mode at present adopted, of carrying out the punishment of transportation in the penal colonies ; hut notwithstanding the evils of the system, he thought the punishment should not be abolished altogether. Sir R. INGLIS gave the Government credit for the hest intentions in the propesed plan, but he regretted that this step should be taken without more careful consideration anti somewhat stronger authority to sup port it than had been brought forward. There were e thirteen of the judges voting against the abolition of the punishment. and he believed Mr. Justice Perrin was the only judge who had expressed an opinion in favour of the abolition of the punishment. The Hon. had Gentle. man, the Under Secretary for the Coloniesquoted the opinion of Baron Alderson in favour of th e abolition of the punishment, but he thought that he (Sir R. 11, Inglis) could show from his evidence that this was not the ease. Mr. B. HAWES said that he had not quoted Baron Alderson to that effect. Sir H. INGLIS understood that he had quoted him as an authority, in favour of the abolition of the punish ment. At any rate they had the opinions of all the judges of England and Scotland against the abolition, with the exception of Mr. Justice Perrin, arid even he thought there were some crimes of an aggravated na ture, in regird to whic 7 l it should not be abolished. He fully aereed with the Hon. Member for Somerset shire, that they should not, in consequence of the evils which at present accompenied the system of transporta tion abolish it altogather. The Hon. Member for Man chester had stated that his quotation from Scripture had been treated with ridicule, but he (Sir R. Inglis) thought that he could undertake to say, that it was not at the quotation the ridicule was directed, but at the subse quent applicetion of it.—(Hear, hear.) He would now revert . again to the opinions and the practices of the judges, and he would ask could the judges legally pronounce a sentence of imprisonment for the same terms of years as they did for transportation ? This he thought was the great practical difficulty. It would have been far better had this subject been introduced through the medium of a Bill. He would not impugn the prerogative of the Crown, but it would have been more satisfantory to this country had these changes cow proposed been embodied in a Bill. As it was they were now discussing the subject inferentially without having any opportunity or power of altering the details of the proposal. There could be no doubt that Captain Macconochie had rendered great ser vice to the country, in his efforts to render the punishment of transportation effective, and the failure of the existing system could not be laid at his door. The free inhabitants of Van Die men's Land had, long foes, and again and again, pro tested against that island' being made the depository of the criminals of this country, and the consequence was, the administrators of the law had experienced consider able difficulty in carrying out the prevailing system of transportation. He was hardly aware how there could be a division upon this questien, but should it be decid,l that there could be a division, he should certainly vote against the measure. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had been anxious before to address the House upon this important subject, anti he was only prevented from doing so by an acci dent. He had, from his former official position, been able to collect some information upon this subject, aid he was, therefore, particularly anxious to tike part in this debate. In the very outset he mu,t express his regret, that her Ma jesty's Government had not brought forward this measure in such a form as to give the House an oppor tunity of expressing a direct opinion upon it. Now, with regard to the first clause of this Bill, which gave power to the Crown to transfer the convicts of Ireland to this country, he most decidedly objected to it. The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland had expressed himself against it, and there could be no doubt that the clause would prove highly injurious. What effect would im prisonment hare upon an Irish convict; but, above all, what effect would it produce, by letting the convict loose upon society in Ireland after the expiration of his time of imprisonment.—(Hear, hear.) He entertained no less objection to the other clauses of the measure, and particularly to that clause which transferred the pa tronage and control of the prisons of this country from the Secretary of State to the Prison Commissioners. It would transter the responsibility from a Member of the Government, holding a seat in that House,' to these Commissioners, who could not be present in that House to give any explanations that might be required of them. But these matters of detail could be disposed of in Com mittee. The real matter for the was to consider the question of transportation (Hear. hear)—and here 14 could not but join in the regret expressed ty his Honourable Friend the Member for the University, that her Majesty's Govern ment had not brought this question forward in a more formal shape. Now with regard to this question of transportation he must admit that at the time he left office he felt that the period had arrived when it Was necessary to suipend transportation, at least he felt that the extent to which transportation had been carried for the previous five years, must necessarily be sus pended. lie should, therefore, have been prepared now to support a plan for suspending that mode of secondary punishment, but the House was not called upon to consider the question of suspension. They were called upon to consider its abolition rather than its suspension, and he certainly was not prepared to support such I. proposal.—(Hear, hear.) Before proceeding further he could not help adverting to a most important topic, to which his Hon. Friend the Member for the University had also addressed himself. What, asked his Hon. Friend, was the state of the administration of the penal laws at this moment, upon the due administration of which depended the ssfety of life and property in this country . : (Hear, hear.) It hal been the policy of modern times— as which he approved of—to temper the rigour ce the criminal law—to administer justice with greater mercy than formerly, and to mitigate the sanguinary spirit which once characterised the criminal code of this country. Ile might say, speaking generally, that -except io the case of the crime of murder, capital punishment had latterly been inflicted on no criminal, but ha could not conceal from the House the fact, that in proportion to the miti g ation of the punishment th ere hal been a corresponding increase in crime. The entries which had been prepared by the Home-office, proved this. In 1829, capital punishment was remitted with regard to the crime of forgery. In that year the number of commitments for forgery was 321. In the y.-ar 1841, the commitments were 514, and in the year 18,16 they were 706, showing an increase of nearly double. The crime of arson ceased to be capital in the year 1827. In that year the number of commitments "ere 31. In 1836 they were 366, and in 1846 they rose to 581, being an increase of somewhere about 60 per cent. Again, with regard to that remarkably at trocious crime of rape, which ceased to be capital in 1841. In year the commitments were 319, but in 1846 . they amount e d to 59 ' , an increase of 90 per cen t. Now did not th ese figures convince o vinc e th em t h at they ought to be cautious in their dealingsclo secondary this question 0 . , transportation ? Th e only s unishment that' could be substituted for capital punishment was transportation for life, a nd h tn a t e h t n e t could li th u e7 was called upon to abolish even thatp.yriesteipon a s nd r substitute for it ? Nettling but ina soli tary c onfinement. Bat in the application of esufinemeut there was required great caution ancilt4r' in spection ; and even then it must be viewed with some hear.) lie had, therefore, arrived at the conelusioq that lire and property would be ren dered more unsitth than they were at present, if the punishment of transportzttion were altogeatheir the Huabolished,ose and lei seriously prayed t h e Government m to exercise extr em e c aution in dealing with this matter. He would wish, then, to ask, should a change like . this be made unles s by A ct o f P ar li a ment ?—(Hear, hear.) The Act of the sth of George the Fourth did not place any prerogative in the Crown to change the punishment, but rather left it in its power to superadd imprisonment. What was the punishment that they intended to adopt if they abolished transportation ? Lord Denman, whose opinion had been read to the House, and who also spoke the opinions of his brethren, deprecated the abolition o' transportation. The Justice Clerk, the Chief Commo• Judge is Scotland, said, that he regarded the punish ment as most valuable; that nothing could compensate for its Joss; and that it would be most prejudicial ti contract the class of off -aces to which it was at present canumscribed. He would not weary the House by r,'sding the opinion of the Chief Justice of Ireland. 'The iNght Hon. Baronet then read the opinion, which sated that he had no objection to employing the criminal upon public works as a temporary expedient. Ile considered that convicts of the better class, and those engaged in unlawful associations, appeared most to dread it. The plan, since its first introduction, had undergone a considerable change, for it was contemplated at the end of the imprisonment, the criminal shou l d be exiled under Act of Parliament, but since that part of the sys tem had been abandoned, it was useless to argue itftr then But very severe observations had been passed upon Lord Brougham fur his speech_ upon the measure, but he agreed with Lord Brougham end he considered that originally the plan was open to ail the objections which he had urged. Such a system would have shocked all civilised Europe. Now, what was the change proposed? "Deportation," why that would involve all the expenses of a penal colony. T a n d e y e o should s u h p a e v r e i n c t o e n n v d i e c a t t e s s . t a b i l f i sh theym e n a t d s , 0 c p on t ad v i the c t ships, sepa rate system, they would not have separate cells to confine the criminals, for the convictions of even one twelve months four thousand five hundred separate cells would hardly be sufficient. But he would go on to prove that this plan was not new, it had been tried, had been found to have failed, and did not prevent crime by inspiring dread.—(Hear, hear.) and had also been condemned by that House, he would read to them the opinion of the Justice Clerk, who reported upon its experiment as made in Perth. The Right lion. Baronet then read the words of the Learned Judge to whom he referred:—" The separate system which was at first looked upon with alarm, has now utterly_ failed to prever t o ff en d ers f rom aga i n comm i tt i ng crime." He had stated that the plan was not new, that it had failed, and that it was condemned by that House. He would, therefore, read the able report of the Com mittee appointed in 1832, to report upon secondary punishment, which condemned the system in very strong language. What was the great evil of society in France ? Why, this very system of secondary punish ment, which threw back the criminals upon society after the short term of their punishment. This was admitted by all her statesmen and politicians, and they should take care how they adopted a plan which had been found in other countries so prejudicial. He would also show the House the danger of precipitate legislation. It was supposed that the great difficulty was the want of labour in Van Diemen's Land. He had received a letter from a person of the highest authority, who assured him that the want of labour was not at pre sent felt, and that in a short time the colony would be clamouring for more convicts. They might mitigate the sentence on those who had behaved themselves well; but what was to be done with those who had riot? Would they imprison them, or transport them for life? It was a question fraught with the greatest diffi culties. He had thought it his duty frankly to point out the difficulties; and he was perfectly ready to go iuto Committee with the Bill, and to suggest amendments whilst it was in that state, if the Government would state that during the recess they would take the whole subject of secondary punishment into consideration, and bring tormed a measure next session, with the view of perma nently settling the nature of that punishment. He was desirCius that the Crown should retain the prerogative it had hitherto exercised ; but, a t t h e same time, h was most unwilling that the law should remain in an uncer tain and undefined state ; and, therefore, on this understanding he should support the Bill, though he considered it of minor importance compared with the great question involved in this dis cussion. In bringing forward such a measure he would gladly give them every facility and aid in his power to meet the difficulties of the present moment. Mr. C. BULLER felt at any time and on every sub ject great difficulty in arresting the attention of the House in rising after the Right Honourable Gen tleman, who, on this occasion, had brought for ward his great experience to bear upon the question before the House. The measure had been fully criti cised, but no lion. Member had suggested a better plan. But surely no one was so able to deal with the sub ject so well as the Hon. Gentleman who was connected with the Government during the administration of which, ail the difficulties with which they were now deal ing arose.—(Hear, hear.) The late Government sus pended transportation altogether, as it was expressly stipulated that it should be discontinued to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, South Australia— Lard MAHON—Norfolk Island ? Mr. C. BULLER—Yes, it was also suspended to Nor folk Island. lie gave the Noble Lord the full benefit of that, as he believed no one, after the accounts which had been received from the island, would wish to see trans portation to that quarter continued.—(Hear, hear.) It was also discontinued to New Zealand, as an express stipulation was made by the English settlers that no convicts should be sent there. Well, transportation being suspended to those places, he was at a loss to know to what place they could continue to send transports. The Right Honourable Baronet asked where they would. find cells ? but, in reply, he would also ask where the Right Honourable Baronet expected to find cells fur criminals during the suspension of transportation for two years,as proposed by the late Go vernment ? lie (Mr. Buller) did not blame the late Go vernment for the course they had adopted, but he asked the House to extend the same indulgence to the present Government as they did to the Government which pre ceded them. When the present Government came into office, they were compelled, without delay, to decide on the course which they would adopt, and he thought they acted wisely in acting as they had done. The Right Hon. Baronet said that secondary punishment should be brought to an intelligible point. The present discipline divided itself into two branches—imprisonment in this country, and coercive punishment in the country to which the prisoner was taken ; and the Government must prove that the coercive punishment must be inflicted in this country, and that exile must take place afterwards. The difference between the Right Hon. Baronet and the Go vernment was this, that the coercive punishment should be secondary ; but he (Mr. Buller) appealed to au thorities, to show that the mode of punishment inflicted in the colonies had utterly and completely failed. It was true the old assignment system in New South Wales possessed much of the reformatory principle inas much as it induced habits of industry and self reliance. The assignment system broke down because it was found impossible to inflict any punishment on the labourer so assigned, the employers being naturally anxious to meet their will in order to obtain as much work as possible from them, and in consequence of this the convict became much better off, and more comfort able than the labourer in this country, Persons were induced to commit crime in order to get themselves transported, fully aware that in that colony their wants would be much better provided for than in this country. He would be a bold man who would now say that the assignment system should be revived. After the failure of that mode of punish ment, a system of coersive punishment was introduced— Port Arthur, Norfolk Island, the road-gangs, and other modes. Then, again, there came a universal cry from this country, and from the colony, praying the House to put an end to this system of things, and describing the horrible state of things which existed there. The revelations from Norfolk Island were horrible and disgraceful to the British name. Some of the Honourable Members who had addressed the House had stated in what mode this system of punishment could be carried out, sa as to avoid these evils. The Right lion. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) had said that the system could be better carried out und, r more efficient control and management. Now he (Mr. Buller) contended that no better class of governors could be found to perform those duties than had had the management of this concern. The really great difficulty of the case was the enormous distance at which the colony was situated from thi s country. It could not be denied that it was an impossibility to carry out a system of reformatory punishment in a co lony li,ooo miles distant from the mother country. lie said that until the remedy Is as vouchsafed to them, the convicts would be better attended at home, under the eye of the Ministry. They were to remember that this question affected only a very few individuals at home, while the arrangement of society was such, that the colonies of New South Wales, and their other penal colonies would suffer dreadfully from the infliction of so great an evil. This was the main ground on which he rested his objections to the old system; that it filled the colony with a degraded system of slave labour, and that at a disproportioned rate. He was perfectly ready to admit that transportation was a severe punish ment ; the real tenor of it was, that the pri soner must spend his life, perhaps, in some distant and unknown country, and if the terror of exile was the real terror of transportation, then under the present system that terror would be equally forcible as at pre sent. A frightful state of things bad been spoken of in France, as resulting from the liberation of the prisoners from the galleys, and letting them loose again on society. But it must also be taken into account that the punish ment at the galleys was, with the exception of Norfolk Island, perhaps the most detestable upon the face of the earth. When her Majesty's Government had to deal with this state of things, they were compelled to a d opt immediate measures, and it was necessary to decide at once what course should be adopted, and he thought that the course which the Government had taken was a wise one. The necessity for that due deliberation had been imposed upon the. present Government by the course taken by the.-lilt Government. The proposed system, if not a peifect one, at all events went far to remove someeof the evils of the present system. Mr. FITZROY KELLY said, while the Hon. Gen tleman (Mr. Buller) had pointed out many of the evils of the present system, he had altogether, and he regretted to say it, omitted to deal with the question in its legal and constitutional character, anctite (Sir F. Kelly) felt bound to oppose the measure in its every stage. The object of this mea sure was to substitute for transportation, imprisonment of indeterminate period, and then emigration. They were at present quite ignorant of the extent of punish ment which they were to substitute for the well-known Punishment of transportation, which was to be exercised by the Government, without even the authority different purpose, And yet this very power was of be exercised under an Act of Parliament, the sth of George IV but that Aet was passed for quite a purpose and he wes satisfied that no lawyer raent could carryg4o rtepue, Had any high legal authority would stake his le l in asserting that Govern is measure under this Act. l stated that this measure 'as legal. There was e e rt aur in the Act of Par liament to legalise tr ans a p im a r tion, and ao far from for P t r i b an n s u a erntt .or anything its beine . intended t t h e a d t 131 : a t i s o e h h i s; e would else should be substitu show that quite the contrary was jesty's Government claimed a right, which he contre was not legal. He would appeal to the House wheth e rned the House should give its sanction to an Act of Parlia tihncisrevaseiryngAtehte severity nent which was in its very nature opposed to all the the Legislature. The sth of George srevious Acts of . •if transportation, a IV. was passed yetwithridth - been about n" • hment. A good des e viewunder of I had said the Govern mentiarypculaniimsed the right of abolishing that mode of seco but he would not follow history of transportation, LONDON, FRIDAY Hon. Members into that branch of the subject. It was enough for him to know that grave doubts were enter tained as to the legality of this measure without going into the merits or demerits of the punishment with which it proposed to deal. It was enough for him to know that the measure was disapproved of by all the judges of England, Ireland, and Scotland, to induce him to call upon the House to pause before they adopted it. But there was another difficulty in the way of the passing of this measure. It did not define the =use of the punish ment to be substituted for transportation ; and until an Act dsclaring what it should be were passed, no judge of this realm would have power to pass sentence upon any criminal whatever, who might have subjected himself to the punishment of transportation.—(Hear.) He was not prepared to deny that there were at present many cases punishable by transportation which might be punished by something less severe. There were also many cases punishable by death, such as murder and arson, in which the next severest punishment to that of death was necessary for the safety of society. Did they wish to hold out instead of the punishment of transportation, an inde finite punishment. He called on them to pause before they gave a sanction to such a measure es this, which was unconstitutional in all its parts. He should not feel himself justified in going into Committee on this Bill, but unless he heard a distinct pledge from her Majesty's Government that this should be but a temporary measure; he would oppose it in its every stage. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, no one in this House can doubt the great professional ability of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had just sat down, and if this question was one in which we had to deal with the legal interpretation of words, I would be sorry to dispute with that Hon. and Learned Gentleman. But I must say that I cannot fail to express my astonishment that the Learned Gentleman who is so well acquainted with his profession, in which he has attained so exalted and deserved a position, should have shown such a total ignorance of criminal law in this coun try.—(" Hear, hear." from the Ministerial benches ) He thought that not many years ago capital punish. ments, for a considerable number of offences, had been remitted, and yet it had been urged that such a course was illegal. And in the case of many of the sentences of death, although passed upon the prisoners by the Judge, yet the same Judge immediately after wrote to the Se cretary of State, representing that it would be advisable to extend the royal pardon to the prisoner. Again, with respect to transportation, why, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, when Solicitor-General, took it upon himself to recommend that transportation should be suspended altogether for two years—(Laughter, and " Hear, hear")—thus bringing the law into contempt— (Laughter)—making void the sentences of the Judges, and not even breathing to the Government that the course he was recommending was unconstitutional and illegal.—(Hear, hear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM explained, that before he left office transportation bad not been done away with, and therefore the opinions of the law advisers of the Crown had not been asked or given. Lord J. RUSSELL had then been mistaken on the point. But remission of sentences had been practised during many years, and had been sanctioned by the authority and names of the most learned judges. Now, nothing so well resembled merely detention until they could be transferred to a fixed place, where they could be employed upon some public work as this, and the Act went on to state that they should continue there as long as one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State shall direct, or until he could be transferred or become entitled to his liberty, or until his return to prison may be directed. There he was to remain until the time when his sentence should expire. What was done under this Act was this, that those sentenced by the Judges were sent to the hulks, put to hard labour ac cording to a regular system which was adopted; but at length a period of four years was fixed, at the expiration of which, if they behaved themselves well, they would, according to the established practice, receive pardon from Her Majesty, signed, as usual, by one of the prin cipal Secretaries of State, and then the term of seven years, supposing a person to be sentenced for that term, was not carried into effect, but considered commuted, by confinement in the hulks for these four years. This system had been carried on from 1824 down to 1847, and during the time when the learned and eminent per sons he had mentioned held the office of Lord Chancel lor, and during the time many others learned in the law— being the law officers of the Crown—it came down to 1847, when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman spoke ; and yet (luring all that time no one raised a doubt as to the practice. And here were judges passing sentences of seven years, thinking that every man would be sent to New South Wales. (Chi ers and laughter) Well, it was the constant practice for Secretaries of State—of Lord Sidmouth, Sir Robert Peel, and all others who had held that office regularly—to set at nought the sentences of the judges, and to send the pri soners whom they had sentenced to the hulks. His belief was that such was not the intention of the Legis lature, and that it had been carried out by the several Secretaries of State, the judges knowing what was done; and he (Lord J. Russell) considered that the Act was a sufficient authority for its being done. Then the Learned Gentleman said, " You are making a great change in the practice, and you now propose that there should be imprisonment for a certain period, labour on the public works, and a ticket of leave, or exile,' as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman called it, to a distant colony, instead of the ancient:system." Why, he must say, that he did not believe that the Judge considered that the sentence would be carried out in all its inte grity, when the persons they had sentenced were sent to the colonies ; it was quite impossible to do so, be cause the assignment system had been proved, as his Honourable Friend had stated, to be a system of slavery; and at Bermuda the convicts were employed at hard labour in the harbour. One judge, on circuit, might sentence two persons to transportation. One might go to Bermuda, and the other to Australia. They would undergo two different sentences, but the sentence of the judge would not affect either of them, one way or the other. That was the change. When ho was Secretary of State, he put a stop to the system of assignment, and Lord Stanley, when he came into office, propounded an elaborate system of probation, conjoined with labour upon the public works. But the Act was not changed. The sentence of transportation, wherever carried into effect, as the convict by despairing of abceding to the assignment system in New South Wales, whether on the public works in Bermuda, or whether on the system of probation in Van Diemen's Land, whichever plan was carried out the sentence of the judge remained the same. And then the Honour able Gentleman had stated, and others had done so before, that they were to have another system by which a certain period of time was to be spent in confinement here—that the employment of some on public works in this country, and of others on the public works in the colonies, was not only highly unconstitutional but illegal.—(Hear, hear.) One system might be wiser than the other, and more efficacious; but that there should be any difference legally between one system and another was what he was utterly unable to conceive.— (Hear, hear.) And then, with respect to tickets of leave, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman represented that a person with such a ticket might travel where he liked; but a ticket of leave like the assignment system, was a system 01 severe restriction by the colonial law, and by means of colonial officers; it was a system different from exile or banishment, it might be a good or bad one, but it was not a system in which the sentence of the Judge had any thing to do. The question is one as to what is the best system, when the sentence of transportation had been passed, of carrying it into effect ; and havieg stated thus much for the purpose of vindicating the Govern ment from the charge of introducing a system at variance with the law, he was content to rest the defence of the measure upon the speeches of his Hon. Friend near him (Sir G. Gre ) ), the Under Secretary for the Colonies, and of the Judge Advocate (Mr. C. Buller.) He thought that the system now proposed would be an improvement upon the pre sent system. They must, he thought, adopt some system or another, The state of Van Diemen's Land—the horri ble accounts which were received from it would not allow the late Government to continue transportation with the same prospects as those which attended it some years before. Being abandoned, it was obvious that they must have devised, for the two years for which it was proposed to suspend it, some means of employment for the per sons who would have in this altered state of things to stop in this country. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Dorchester stated that there were not sufficient gaols for the imprisonment of all those who might be sentenced to transportation. If this was so, then they must have some subsidiary means, as, for instance, work in the hulks, e m pl o y ment o f some kind In connexion with the public works, or of such a nature as to be industrial and reformatory in its character. He thought that as many years ago they had taken away the punishment of death for various offences, so in like manner they should do away with the punishment of transportation for other offences. But that change was not to be done without great deliberation, and it would have been therefore unadvisable to introduce in this session any Bills doing away transportation alto gether for a variety of offences, or for clearly defining to what offences only transporta tion should apply. With these explanations he trusted the House would consent to go into Committee of Supply. It had been too much the habit not to con sider that while they were en act i ng th a t cer t a i n colonies should be constituted penal settlements, they were for getting that in transferring crime from their own country they were thrusting upon the colonists the very off scourings of society. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For going into Committee Against it Majority —4B OUT-PENSIONERS (CHELSEA AND GREEN WICH BILL.) This Bill was read a third time and passed. POLICE CLAUSES BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up and received. PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed, and several amendments agreed to. HIGHWAY RATES BILL. Oa the order of the day for the third reading of this Bill, Sir W. JOLIFFE opposed the further progress of the measure. The operation of the Bill was to throw the cost of what were mere parish roads upon the public. After a few words from Sir GEORGE GREY, The Bill was read a third time, and passed. The following Bills went through Committee:—Baths and Washhouses Bill, Herring Fishery (Scotland) Bill, Drainage of Lands (Scotland) Bill, Custody of Offenders Bill, Corn Imp or t at i on ( N o. 2) Bill, Navigation (No. 2) L o I n CE t h e is LA ß U ill SE: 244 Bl b L ro L u . sht Bill, Royal M ar i ne S erv i ce Bill. The reportPOup up and agreed to. MORNING, JUNE 11, 1847. The other .lers of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Halt-i.ast One. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. THE EXPIRING PARLIAMENT. The now moribund House of Common-, elected in August, 1841, has proved one of the longest Parliaments on record—at all events, during the present century. It has, in fact, only a year more " to run," in order to die the death so seldom allotted to Parliaments, viz., a na tural one. The students of English histery, during the early period of the last century will not le quire to be reminded that it was in those days by no meet's an uncommon event fur the septennially elected Par liaments to run out their full career ; nay, 50 powerful was the power and influence of the Whig Ministry at that period, that the new elections were usually a mere matter of form, no change of any importance ever taking place in the constituent elements of the popular representation. During the latter part of the eighteenth, and the early period of the present century, the, rapid succession of important political events, both in this country and on the continent of Europe, produced constant alternations of men and mea sures ; and when the great climax of the Reform Bill changed the representative bt hy enso:i' means e eo m a fn sot the England,improbable c ha r charter." t, r " annual Parliaments"g h e a ri v e e e h s' ad e vfeonu appeared tehaoruedt Parliaments since the era of Reform ; the first, elected in 1832, in accordance with the pro visions of the new statute, only lived two ses esons, the Ministerial change of November, 1834, having rendered au appeal to the people a measure of almost indispensable necessity. Thus perished the Parlia ment of Earl Grey. The second, or "Peel" Parliament, although elected under Ministerial auspices, only re turned a very formidable Conservative minority to sup port Sir Robert, and the new Premier soon succumbed to the influence of the Whig majority. The second Melbourne Ministry, as it is well known, lived on until 1837, with a mere measuring -cast majority, when the death of the Sovereign extinguished the Parliament ipso facto, after an existence of two sessions and a half. The new House of Commons was almost equally balanced, as regards parties, and but for the forbearance of the Opposi tion Lord Melbourne could never have remained at the head of the Government fur four years longer. A crisis, however, at last ensued, and the Whig Ministers ap pealed once more to the constituencies. The issue of this contest was never doubted by either party ; the star of agricultural protection was in the ascendant, and ad immense majority was returned by the county con stituencies to enable Sir R. Peel to take D,wning street by storm. The Melbourne Parliament of 1837 lasted about four years. The present Parliament, which has endured fur six y ears, has been a memorable one. It was elected to protect the corn laws, and it has enacted free trade into a law. It began by hurling a Whig Ministry from office, and has ended by ejecting a " Conservative ene with almost equal ignominy. Lord J. Russell, now in a nominal minority of 100, has ac tually encountered less opposition, and carried on his Government with far greater ease since his last acces sion to power, than in the very plenitude of his popu larity, when, with a small but decisive majority on the Ministerial benches, he refused to hold office " on suf ferance."— Times. Sir J ONE 8. ,ohn President, was in the chair. The paper read was On the Expansive Action of Steam," by Mr J. M. Llippel, Grad. Inst. C.E. The object of the pap,r,was to deduce a more exact formula than those now in use for the dynamical eff ct developed by steam in expanding hum one pressure to another. The usual meth ,, d of computing this effect neglects the influence of the variation of temperature, which always accompanies chaiige of ciensit), and A hich has been shown to modify considerably the corresponding pressure. M. de Pambour, however, has, by combining Gay Lussac's for mula for the relation between temperature and density under uniform pressure with that of. Boyle for the rela tion between density and pressure under uniform tem perature, deduced a formula containing the density, pres sure, and temperature from which any two being given the third may be deduced. What was further done in Mr. Heppel's paper was to combine this iormula with one by Mr. Scott Russell, ex pressing the relation between the pr(.ssure and tempe rature, and by this means to eliminate the latter, and obtain a formula containing only the pressure and density. Fro - m this formula another was easily obtained, show ing the total dynamical action developed during ex pansion from one pressure to another, and the results were given in a tabular form, exhibiting 1. Tne pressure in lbs. per square inch. 2. The relation volume, or ratio of the volume of steam to that of the water which produced it. 3. The dynamical effect before expansion, or the num ber of lbs. raised one inch by the evaporation of each cubic inch of water. 4. The dynamical effect during expansion, or the number of pounds raised one inch by the steam produced from one cubic inch of water in expanding from a pres sure of 100ths. per square inch to the particular corres ponding pressure. The dynamical t ffect in expanding from any one pressure to any other must be clearly ex pressed by ti,e difference of the corresponding numbers in this column. Part or the remainder of the paper was devoted to showing that whilst the performance of engines could not possibly be expected to exceed the results ascer tained as above, it could not fall far short of them in the case of engines of good construction. In conclusion, a simple method was suggested of ascertaining the magni tude of all the forces in action during the working of the Cornish engine, independently of the indicator. In the course of the paper, the fallacy of the theory of what had been termed tne '• percussive action" of steam was ably exposed, and although, from the paper being full of mathematical formula, it was not well adapted for being read at a public meeting, it evidently possessed great merit as an investigation of an important subject. It was followed by a short paper, also on the "Ex pansive action of Steam," by Mr. Tate, mathematical master of the Training College, Battersea. Its object was to demonstrate and apply a formula some time since discovered by the author, expressing the law of the ex pansion of steam, and at the same time to establish certain general equations relative to the work of steam, applicable to all formulae professing to give the law of volume and pressure. It also examined and corrected Pole's formula, which, although a decide d improvement upon Pambour's, was stated to be not sufficiently ac curate for pressures above 701 b., or below 16lbs. Monsieur Piarget exhibited in the liarary, after the meeting, specimens of the improvements in producing ornamental metal surfaces, formed by the deposition 01 metals during the electrotype process, which is conducted in a peculiar mantle', with mixtures adapted to the effect desired to be attained. The form also of the bath is peculiar, and when the plate is taken out of it, and off the model, it exhibits a burnished polish, or a dead appearance, according to the preparation used. The metal thus produced is stated to be a much better description than metals which have not undergone such process, as it is more flexible, and is capable of withstanding the action of heat without destroying the form or the copper, and the surface will not tarnish whet exposed to time air. Portions of any pattern can also silvered by a similar process ;an M the general expensa is about one. third of that of engrav ing or chasing, while the boldest or must minute pat terns can be equally well product. d. The paper announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, June 15, was " On the law which governs the discharge .•f elastic fluids under pressure through short tubes and orifices," by Mr. W. Fronde, M. Ins,. C. E. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, attended by Prince Edwai d of Saxe Weimar and Count Beust, honoured the Royal Polytechnic In stitution yesterday w i t h hi s presence . His - Royal High ness expressed himself highly gratified with the nume rous scientific wonders exhibited in the museum of the establishment, more particularly Mackintosh's engine and a model which has been lately deposited here, called Claasen's safety railroad, which, consisting of an addi tional rail (termed the guide rail), being placed in the centre of the line and elevated nine or twelve inches above the train rails. This rail being formed of wood or metal; under each carriage is placed two sets of guide wheels, each set consists of one horizontal and two ver tical wheels, so arranged that the horizontal wheel shall come within a very short distance of the upper part, while the verticle a which comes on either side of the guide rail, none of them, however, touching so long as everything remains in perfect orr'er; but no sooner has the carriage a tendency to run i.ff the line than the vertical wheels comes in contact with the sides of the guide rail arid keel it down in its position; or should an axletree break, a wheel become displaced, or a rail removed so that the carriage has a tendency to drop, as it were, from its po sition, the horizontal wheel then comes in contact with the upper part of the guide rail and carries it on in per fect safety. It is even shown by the model that two rails may be removed opposite the other, and still the truck will proceed in perfect safety; this is a test, however, that we may say it would never be subject to in practice. THE Crtors.—ln Nottinghamshire the crops, both in the sand and the clay ;fiatricts, are most luxuriant. The falsehoods of the Protectionists, the corn speculators, their smaller fry, the farmers, and the monopolist papers—all com bined—will not serve them much longer. A day of just re tribution will overtake them.—From a Correspondent. A SPECULATOR'S MISTAKE.—Atnong the signifi cant facts which lately transpired at Mark-lane, there was one which we ought not to pass unnoticed. On the stand there was a sample of a large quantity of wheat which Has imported into this country from Ame rica some weeks ago. The speculator, fancying that he could procure better prices in France than in Eng land, declined to accept 110 s. per quarter, and ordered the vessel off to Havre, Sh e arrived there just in time to be too late. The market was found to be abun dantly supplied, and prices were giving way. The "good ship," with the speculator's prayer for a prosper ous voyage, was ordered to start forthwith to London. She arrived in the Thames a few days ago. The wheat with which she was laden was tendered for sale. No offer was made for it. There were no buyers in the mar ket; and if the owner should find it necessary to press a sale, he will not get more than 755. for his wheat, being a reduction of 355. on what he could easily have ob tained four weeks ago had his avarice been satisfied with that price. THUNDER-STORM.—Manchester was yesterday afternoon visited by a rather heavy thunder -storm, which continued from about half-past four to a quarter past five o'clock. About five there was a flash of light ning so vivid and brilliant, and followed so immedi ately by a sharp and rattling peal of thunder, as to produce a general impression that the lightning must have fallen somewhere near the centre of the town, and this impres•ion proved to be p er f ect l y correct . I t o o ra f tia th n e .s . t c r a e l e e t n , dinerwhwicohrkits has its force, i n th e s h ape o f a s ille t cik, veryo thett, obviouslaot f j t o y am c i na h rg i k m cs n u e or y ip - . ragged and irregular groove in the brickwork, ex tending from the roof of the building to the summit of the chimney, where a small portion of the stone coping has been displaced. Between the roof of the calendar house and the earth the electric fluid has evidently passed along an upright shaft of iron which extends from the basement very nearly to the roof. As in almost. every case of damage by lightning which has come under our notice, there are evident marks of upward action. The lead flushings affixed to the chimney at its junction with the roof have been partly melted and partly bent upwards. What seems rather curious is, that, in many places, the lightning has displaced the mortar from between the bricks, through the entire thickness of the brickwork; and the draught of the chimney has consequently been considerably injured by the air which flows in through the crevices thus created. Apparently, however, the stability of the structure is not at all affected, end the inconvenience: just mentioned will be easily obviated by pointing the brickwork with mortar.—Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. A disease is at present prevalent among horses, but not to any alarming extent, in the lacalities of Sant..n Bridge, Go , forth, and Irron.—Cumberlctra Packet. FRENCH PEAS.—Some arrivals of peas have taker place from France, which, as a raw vegetable, are free of duty, and arriving at this early period, before the home crop has become sufficiently abundant to be very cheap, have no doubt met with a ready market, and have well answered the expectations of' the importers, The steamer Columbine, from Havre, brought 141 baskets of the article, and the James Watt, from the same port, 157 baskets, the produce of France. Other arrivals have also taken place, but there have bee.. none, the! we are aware of, from Holland, or any other of the Foreign States, so that, in this particular, our near neighbour, France, is first in the market. They are not considered so good as the peas grown in this country, particularly in the famous market gardens in the neighbourhood of the metro polis, but they are of very excellent quality, and at the same time that they command a fair, and, no doubt, a remunerative price, assist in bringing the vegetable into general consump tion at an earlier period than would otherwise have been the case. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—On Sunday evening last, between half-past six o'clock and eight, during the absence of the family at chapel, the house of Mr. William lltilme, rope manufacturer, Lodge-lane, Liver pool, was entered by thieves, and property to the amour' if 1")/. in --Id aid HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.—The anniversary festival. in commemoration of the new building or hospital tor the receotion of the patients now labouring under the disease ofctaumption, was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern. kits Royal Highness the Duke ot Cambridge occu pied the chair. After the usual toasts had been given, his Royal Higline's stated that he had visited the hospital, and at a time when his presence was not expected, and he was therefore better able to form a correct judgment of its ma nagement and efficiency. It was the only hospital of the kind in this country, a tact which should induce them to lend their best assistance to its support. The building of a chapel was now in contemplation, but, from the want of funds, it was not possible to carry out the undertaking. His Royal Highness then adverted to the vast utility of such an insti tution to medical science, and referred to a letter received from a person whose son had died in the hospital, but who, from the great kindness and attention bestowed upon his de ceased child, was in some degree consoled for his loss. The healths of his Royal Highness, the Vice-Presidents, the Com mittee of Management, the Medical officers, the Ladies, and the Stewards, successively followed, and the meeting broke up at a late hour. The demands of this charity were last night more generally- recognised than heretofore, nearly 2,5801. being collected in furtherance ot the important. objects for which it was founded. A splendid sample of barley in the ear, grown by Wm. Laws, Esq., of Prudhoe Castle, was sent to our office yesterday, along with a still finer specimen grown by Mr. Isaac Johnson, of Ovingham Boat-house. The latter mea sured four feet six inches in the straw, the grain was well formed, and the plants altogether were in a most healthy condition. A very tew weeks of fine weather would fender the bulk fit for the sickle. —Newcastle Journal. NEW WHEAT. We were, on Tuesday, shown an ear of wheat, grown by William Jeffery L •ckett, Esq , of this town, on the Farnworth estate, near Runcorn. We believe it is the first shot in this county. The seed was :m -ported from New Zealand in October last, and is a yew thing in this hemisphere. It already measures 4 feet 10 inches in the stem, arid 7 inches its the ear. Ou a fair aver age of the field there are twenty-five stems to each seed, and taking the stem shown to us as a basis for calcula tion, every seed should produce 1,650 grajns of wheat, an increase which we may venture to call most amazing. It also gives us great pleasure to info, m • ur readiers that the potato and every other production of the soil are in a most promising condition in the locality to which we have alluded. We have also seen an ear of wheat, sown at Holt-hill, Cheshire, in the beginning of November. It stands four feet high, and presents a very promising ap pearance.—Liverpool Courier. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DROWNING.—An in quest was held on the 7th inst., at Bures St. Mary, before Harry Wayman, Gent., coroner, on the body ot Francis Hardy, aged about ten years, who, it appears, was bathing with two other children about eight years old, named Philip Hurrell and Robert Seymour; and Hardy and Hurrell, try ing which could go furthest into the river, got out of their depth, when Hardy sunk, but Hurrell made a spring and saved himself. The two boys, fearing punishment, sank the clothes of the deceased with stones, and stayed fishing for an hour before they gave information of what had happened ! There being no maTks of violence on the body, the jury found a verdict of " Accidental Death," but reprimanded the boys for their conduct. —Bury Post. THE NEW OFFICES OF THE TREASURY AT WHITE HALL.—The erection of the new offices of the Treasury at Whitehall has been completed, and the whole of the scaffold ing removed. The new building completes the whole of the course of buildings of the Privy Council, Board of Trade, arid Home and Treasury-oflices, formerly an unseemly edifice, but now presenting a fop ide of elegant and elaborat e archi tecture, in keeping with the magnificent structure of the new House:: of Parliament, and a great additional ornament to Whitehall. The interior is in a forward state for the re ception of the officers of the different departments. DARING BURGLARY.—Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, a daring burglary was discovered to have bee: committed at Mr. Earnshaw's, Willfred-street, Kennington. The thieves effected their entrance by cutting out a panel from the back parlour windown stayers, and plundered the lower part of the premises of plate, several watches, said. of jewellery, and wearing apparel, valued at about 150/. They also regaled themselves with the contents of the larder ad wine cellar, getting cle it off with their booty. THE RECTORY OP SFOFFORTH.—It is said that in consequence or the vacancy occasioned by the death ot the Hon .and Rev. William Herbert, dean of Manchester and rector of Spofforth, it is in contemplation to divide this valuable piece of church patronage into three por tions, to be held in future by that number of incumbents. —Leeds Mercury. . . - .001. in go, aro. not es was abstracted. The thieves WHEAT FROM THE EAST INDIES.—The vessel So made their entrance at the back kitchen window, and crates, arrived from Calcutta, has brought, besides 6,408 bags ransacked the house. They had laid out a quantity of of rice in the husk (now free of duty ), 50 bags of wheat. clothes, with which it is believed they intended to This is a most remarkable and, we believe, unusual importa decamp, but findine the money, they left everything else• ti o n fr o n t the East Indies, and at the present time, when the ENLARGING, GOLDSMITHS HALL.—Wednesday pre- question of the supply of articles of grain food from a ll guar ' parations comme nce d for the erection of a new w i ng to t hi s tern is a subject of general and surpassing inte res t, it assumes a hall and assay a n d meltin , house. degree of very great importance. MAGDALENE COLLEGE.—Sorne discov er i es o f an SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY.—The Excise officers Messrs. Kay and Par eter have effected the seizure interestin g descri p tion have latel y b een made in t h e " of another illi c i t distillery, at 39, Hare- street, Bethnal- (lapel of M igdalene College, in thi s un i vers i ty, under green. F rom information received, they proceeded to the the direction of the very R..v. the Dean of Windsor, the premises kept by a man named Thomas Rebbeck, carrying M as ter. The ancient oak roof, the handsome design of on retailer business of an o il and colourman, an d also entered as which is formed in a gabl e o f consi d era b le altitude, t • of tobac co . They went into the back parlour, been ascertained t o he iii good conditi on not haoit has ferel noaterialiy in the substantial members of its tr - aMe• where they found a curiously-contrived trap-door, which of its eericlunents have been muti• was concealed by the floor . cloth. On opening it, by a lad- , k although process consequent open der they descended to the " celia where the object of their I w st i e r d , .or cl , •sCriiy m ed an u y nder the search soon presented itself. A r s , •ill was fitted-up in brick-the misappropriation of this portion of the interior. The work, with a tire under it, and running off strong spirits, and a quantity o f molasses wash wasre pared for feeding interesting discov e ry recently made at the e as t en d o f t h e p the same. Th e s t oc k of spirits found WAS what is techni- chapel consists of a series of niches in the walls, these cally called " feints," and other spirits had been recently re - ornamental features have for a long period bey n de moved for sale. The fittings and utensils were on the usual raced, and hidden from view by the wood-work scale, with a large number of barrels, &C. The trap-door which was set up some four score •ear • sin e•, ' above mentioned was the only means of ingress to the cellar, order, one would suppose, to defraud the 3 chapel isc o 4 i its appropriate character, and to furs.' me burrowed and might have defied the strictest search, but for the accu upon, It I rate information received. The whole of the seizure was de- r i .„,, the proscenium of ' a theatre. The recesses of these posited in a van, and conveyed to the Excise ,exquisitely wrought niches were found to have been warehouses in blocked up with the fragments of the buttresse., corbels, Broad street. The owner has at present escaped from the officers. COLONIAL P RODUCE. The vesse l H enr y, air d o and crotchetted tabernacle wrk, which h a d b een ru d e l y ire in the docks f rom V an Diemen's Land, has b roug ht (from hacked away, to pr o vid e a n evi n sur f ace to the wainscot Launceston) 1,466 b ags of wheat • and the Eli za beth Buck- lining. The walls of w hi c h th ese n i ches appear, are built partly of stone and p art ly o f b ric k , and may be re ham, from the same port, has brought 433 b ag s and 782 bushels of wheat, the produce of that distant colony. The garded as the produciions ut diffsrent periods, it being latter-mentioned vessel has also brought 2 baskets and 3 certain that portions of the structure are of considerably casks of potatoes, which would appear to be a remarkable more anci e nt date than the foundation of the College. importation from Van Diemen's Land, although not one of It is quite time that this chapel was red erred from de entire novelty; a secration, and restored to its full proportions, and in the if previous im ortation of the kind having, we remember rightly, been! ) before made the subject of spirit of the original design. The discoveries we have especial notice. briefly . noticed are promising indications of imorovement, WEST INDIAN PRODUCE.—A vessel named the which we shall be glad to 'cc carried forward, judiciously Charles Grey, arrived in the St. Katharine's Docks from , and ` in correct taste.— Cambridge Advertiser. Bermuda, has brought a car o possessing a considerable I , degree of novelty and interest at g the present time, including I I! REEMASONRY IN PRUSSIA.—With the sanction 251 packages of arrowroot, 8 barrels of yaws, 10 hogsheads . of the Prince of Prussia, the Grand Master of the Masonic of hams, 772 casks of lard, 82 barrels of beef, and 100 barrels I lodges of the kingdom, the principal lodge of Freemasons of Breslaw, is about to expunge from its statutes, the of potatoes, the produce of that,lace. This large imPorta tion of lard and of beef would appmar to be particularly re- paragraph which pobibits all persens from being received aa Freemasons svlo) do not belong to the Christian markable, and the importation of potatoes, on account of its extent and the particular place of growth, is also not w i t h ou t religion, an d w hi c h espec i a lly p r ohibits admissien of ; Israelitec i • inter , * And iniportauce. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 1-1011 S OF LORDS, Jane 10. Their Lordships sat to-day at ten o'clock in a Committee for Privileges. The Peels in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Redesdale, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Fingall, Lord Catnoys, Lord de Manley, and the Bishop of St. Asaph. THE PERTII AND DRUMMOND PEERAGE. Witnesses were examined on behalf' of the claimant to this peerage. Mr. FLEMING summed up the case of the claimant, after hich the further consideration of the claim was adjourned till to-morrow, in order to examine a clergyman from Corn- wall, as a witness on behalf of the claimant. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 10. (Sittings in Banco). THOMAS V. FBEsznicKs. Lord JARMAN gave judgment in this case. It was an ac tion brought by Mr. Thomas against the defendant, in order to ascertain the right of sporting over a certain manor. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and subsequently a rule was al lowed by the defendant for an arrest of judgment. The COURT, this morning, ordered the rule to be dis charged. The point turned upon certain specific covenants in the lease of the defendant, which were wholly of a technical nature. No other case possessing a feature of interest occurred during the course of t.h• day. BAIL CiItIRT, June 10. (Before Mr. Justice WIGHSMAX.) MO,TYN V. HALFOID. This was an application for a cerliorari to bring up an in dictment against a process served for perjury. It appeared that the applicant was defendant in an action which had been commenced in Yorkshire, for having falsely sworn that he had served Mostyn, a farmer, with a process of one of the superior Courts. The affidavits went on to state that appli cant, in consequence of bis office, was exposed to a great deal of ill feeling, and therefore feared that he had not had a fair trial.—Application granted. COURT OF BA.v.KRUP I CY, June 9. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) 9IIBPENSION OF A CERTIFICATE—IN RE ALLEN The bankrupt, a brickmaker, living in Hatton-garden, came before the court on the question of certificate. Mr. Bs4ley and Mr. Sturgeon supported, and Mr. Cox opposed. _ _ - The ground of opposition was that the bankrupt had continued to trade after he was in hopelesAy insolvent circtunstane,,s. It is unnecessary to detail the facts of the case, as what are worth kn.win 4 will be found in the judgment of his Honour. Tne COMMISSIONER said—The main facts as stated by the oppint.g creditor being admitted, I must say this is not a case in which I can grant the certifivate at once. There is one objection which, though not particularly alluded to to day, is one which I think it right to notice. On a former occasion the bankrupt's answers to questions put to him were anything but what they ought to have been. He prevaricated in a manner which, although not perhaps calling upon me to use the extreme punish ment of committal, yet at the time induced me to make a special note of it, and for that prevarication, and fur that alone, I will suspend his certifiene for three months. I wish to shoe( bankrupts that when they come here they must at least make a full, free. and frank avowal of what they know regarding their affairs, and in that way at least do all they can to satisfy their cre plums. The next objection I have to notice is his having gone on in trade after his circumstances were so insolvent that he actualty made an assignment o his property for the benefit of his creditors. The uxinnses amounted to within 50/. of the gross profits, whilst the losses also were very nearly equal to his profits. The losses and the trade and personal expenses put together amounts to upwards of 1,200 L, whilst his gross profits and receipts amount to only 6891. The expenses were, in fact, wholly unwarrantable, and the bankrupt had no excuse whatever for carrying on business after the month of slay, when his circumstances would leave him no reasonable hope of being able to fro on as a trader ought. The bankrupt, in fact, by throwing his property into the hands of Spilsliury, his form• r partner, de eated his creditors, and, by a bill of sale which he had made out, delud d those with whom he dealt into a belief in his solvency. There had been 201. worth of property removed upon the very eve of a fiat being issued, a circumstance surprising in itself, arid which ought not to have occurred. The official assignee reported that whilst the partnership bet& of Allen and Spilsbury had been well kept. those it: Allen since the diss ,, lution of partnership had been badly kept. Taking all these circumstances into account, he felt himself bound to suspend the certificate for twelve months. Mr. BAGLEY—I hope your Honour will grant the bankrupt your protection. as there is rut fraud. CuMMISsIoNEFt—Yas, lot him have protection. Pr, teetion was accordingly wanted. SH:: RM. S . COURT, June 10. (Before Mr. Under Sheriff BuRCHELL.) ATKINSON V. OXLEY. The plaintiff in this action is an attorney in Carey-street. and the defendant a fanner in .itayfield, Sussex. The claim was for 18i Bs., the balance of a bill of c•.sts. Mr. BAYLEY, who appeared for the plaintiff, called a young man, named Johnson, who had formerly been a clerk to the plaintiff, and who proved that he knew of most of the work having been done, and that the other portions were also ke cessary legal proceed►ngs. The costa had been taxed by the Master at 18/. Bs. beyond a sum of 71. 10s. Id. paid to the plaintiff. The witness, in cross-examination, said he did not know who was the agent who had been employed in the country. Mr. BAYLEY then put in an office copy of an affidavit sworn to by the defendant, in which he stated that he had given itistruc!iors to Mr. Atkinson (the plaintiff), his atm! , ney, and also submitted that, under the 6 and 7 Vic., c. 73, in which it was enacted chat the allocates of the Master as to the amount of costs on taxation should be final. Mr. CHARSOCIL then addressed the jury, and said that he should be able, no doubt, to show that the defendant in fact had never etnploved the plaintiff, but that he was retained by a person named beams, who would be called as s witness, and who had bought the debt of 141. of defendant for 91., althou..,h the action was brought in defendant's name. Mr. Beams, formerly bailiff of the County Court at May field, and now clerk to an attorney, was called, and proved that he was formerly a debt collector. Defetioant put some debts into his hands to collect, and it being necessary to em ploy an attorney, he told defendant that if the latter would take 91. for the debt, if recovered, he witness would pay the costs. It was a" no cure no pay" affair. The writ and pro ceedings were sent to him to serve, and he was paid. Ile did not tell ulaintiff the terms. Mr. BAYLIY contended that no arrangement between de fendant and Beams could affect plaintiff unless be was made acquainted with the terms. The UNDER-SHERIFF was of the same opinion, and said that in the affidavit the defendant admitted plaintiff was his attothey. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MilfatizißO , ,.Gll-STRitET. James Williams was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with being found in the shop of Mr. Tyas, draper, No. 7, Charles -street, Soho, with the intention of committing a felony. It appeared that the prisoner was observed by complain ant's son, who was at the door of a neighbour's house oppo site, to be walking backwards and forwards, casting very sly glances into the -hop. Thinking something was wrong, he secreted himself behind a door, and watched the prisoner for nearly ten minutes. The prisoner, finding there was not any person visible in complainant's shop, stole in, and was in the act of taking a bundle of nankins when complainant's soo moved from his place of concealment, and caught him just as he was depositing it in a capacious bag. The prisoner was detained till the arrival of a constable, into whose charge he was consigned. The prisoner, who gave a very unsatisfactory account of the transaction, was remanded till Monday next. Henry Ca roil. the particulars of whose former examina• lion appeared in this murnal on the Bth instant, was placed at the bar for final examination, charged with stealing a quantity of linen, the property of Madame Lie Homberg, 27, Audley street. It will be recollected that the prisoner was remanded, in order to procure the attendance of a female of the name of IVebber, to whom the prisoner offered the linen for sale. This witness stated that auout the middle of October last the pri soner, accompanied by a female, came to her house, 29, N w. ton-road, Westbourne grove, and producing two large bundles of linen, wished her to purchase them. She declined doing so, but evaitually lent him 305., upon his consenting to leave the linen as a security. The female (who is the prin cipal witness against the prisoner) •aid that she was a Jewes., and that the property was hers. The linen was taken away by the prisoner ten days aft erwar d s . Toe prisoner, who declined making any defence, was fully committed for trial. WOUSH/P S Thomas K ;Ivey was charged with creating a disturbance in the waiting-room of the above court, and with violently assaulting the police. It appeared from the evidence of police-constable 120 N, the wile of the prisoner was on Wednesday brought to this office on the charge of feloniously stealing a watch and a pair of boots. The prosecutor however not appearing ~he was dis charged. About four o'clock the prisoner returned to the office waiting-room, where he created a grew disturbance, and addressing the constables, exclaimed to them " I did the aodge, and succeeded, so well that my wife and her companion was discharged, notwithstand ing you did all you could against them ; they and I hocusset: the fellow." 'rue constable afterwards fonnd out that the prisoner had managed to get the prosecutor in a gin shop, and made him drunk. He was seen pouring the gin down the prosecutor's throat. Thus it was that prosecutor became unable to attend. The prisoner was taken from the office waiting-room to the station-house, but it took four pelice.constables to carry him thither, and on his way he managed to inflict upon some of them severe bruises. Mr. BROUGHTON said that it might possibly be very well for him to endeavour to get his wife out of a scrape, but his own bad conduct he co uld not look over. He wad tined 10s., or ten days' imprisonment. The prisoner was lucked up in default. GLEHKAN W ELL A charge of a trifling character was preferred by police constable 113 S, and while the oath was being administered to him his manner displayed much levity. Mr. COMER, the presiding tnai b istrate, having observed it, commented strongly upon the manner in which oaths some times were taken in the Police-court. It was the duty of constables to attend more than they did to the solemn obli gation under which they were placing themselves when being sworn. The worthy 3lagistrate then said, addressing the inspector on duty, that he thought one of the most im portant features in the instruction of constables when enter. big the force should be to impress upon their minds the ne cessity of a due and decorous attention and respect when taking an oath. %%, idle Mr. Combe was making these observatio n s, the cons t a ble remained in the witne s s -b ox , pa l e as death, ad in a s t a t e of the greatest agitation, and at length, after a s u b o ort , convu lsive straggle, fell backwa r d s out of the witness x apparently quite lifeless, his fiend striking violently the wainscoting of the wall behind the box. He was twine diately carried out of court by the attendants, wh len medical assistance was procured, and he in some again brought recovered his con-ciousness, but up on b e i ng into court was quite unable to give his evidence, and he was therefore removed to his residen c e un d er medical treatment. I NAMES. Margaret Mahony was charged on suspicion of having robbed Mr. James Inwood, proprietor of the City of Carlisle Tavern, Rosemary-lane, ut thirty-four sovereigus and I.los. in silver. Mr. Inwood stated, that in addition to the City of Carlisle he has another house over the water, at Lambeth, which is ;gw . '7,54 managed by his shter. On Saturday night, a little before twelve o'clock, he placed the bag of sovereigns and the silver in his desk as usual, and carefully locked it. He then went to his other house at Lambeth, and returned about one o'clock on the Sunday morning. He had no occasion to IP to his desk till about four o'clock in the at' ernoon, when to his surprise he tbund that the lock had been forced, and the money abstracted. The prisoner was the only person in the house, with the exception of the party who had charge of it after he left on S :turdav niffht. The key was not out of his possession from the time he left. Sergeant Eve- tt i 4, clef, sed , that he had asce rtained that the night ;ftsr the robbery the prisoner had given sovereign to another landlord in Rosemary - lane t o keep for her. On Tuesday she was brought to this court, charge', with being drunk and disorderly, when she handed a nother sovereign to the inspector; and last night she gave another sovereign to the same publican to whom she had previously given one. The prisoner was a very poor woman, and had ostensible means of procuring the three sovereigns. Soule friend of hers lodged in the City of Carlisle, and their room door communicated with the bar parlour. The prisoner. who was a constant visitor, had an opportunity of knowing where the money was deposited. Mr. BALLANTINE said he should remand the prisoner till Tuesday next, in order to give time to perfect the evidence. MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDA Y.) NAY MAIMETS SMITHFIII.D.--Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3114 s ; Clover ditto, 315 s to 41 14s • and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 12 s per load. SuPPI/ good, and tra de dull. Cuartm(LAyD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 155; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 128; and Straw, 118 s to 1/ 135 per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. rrscHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to Si 14s; Clover Wri ditto, 3/ Si to 4/ 17s ; and Straw , 1/ Gs to 1 / 12s per loaL Trade very dull at the above quotations. MEAT ISSAILZETS. f t o o r Seiachsdk;indLaomf Lamb, 6s ttohis6smsocirn;ing, and SOUTHALL, JUNE 9.—There was rather a brisk inquiry ward tendency. Beef, from 4s 2d to 5s Bdi Mutton, 4s 64 Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 8 1 bs ! to sink the offal. .1v of ROMFORD, JUN* 9.—A1l kinds of fat stock, the suP,--- , which was but moderate, moved off readily, at higherrates. Beef, from 4s 2(1 to 5s 8(1 ; Mutton, 43 6d to S i 10d prices had sn 0P 4s 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18a to 285; Quarter-014 Lamb, 6s to 6s 8d ; Veal. 43 toV4eas4lo4:l;taon4sd Plo°rdk,; 4 an s t d O Store Pigs, 16s to 21s; and Milh Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 201 each. HAILSDAM, JUNIi 9.—We had a very firm trade to -day at advanced currencies. Beef, from 4s gd to 5s 10d; Igu t _ t°l s i c i pssw.kto, 4s s s 4s 8d to 5s 10d ; Lamb, 6s to 6s 8d; and Veal, 4s to 4 per 81bs. ARUNDEL, JUNE B.—Beef, from 4s 6d to 5s 8d; o ' l° ; to gad a brisk trade. L 4 a s m 6 b a , 6 p s er to Bi 6 b s s. Bd A • e V eal, ort s4uspptl;. 4s 8d ; a nd _, trade CHICHESTER, JUNE 9.—There was a very s tea d y of ,„ here to-day, at a general advance in the quotations of ir°- 2d to 4d per Sibs. Beef, from 4s 6d to 5s 10d; mattgt 43 6d to 58 8(1 ; Lamb, Gs to Gs 6(1; Veal, 45 4d to 4s - a t Os; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6(1 per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 1-1 to Quarter-oil Store Pigs, 17s to 20s; and Mitch Cows , " their small Calf, 171 to 20/ each. NEWGATE AND LEADENS A3 pery full Prime Beef, Mutton, and Lamb sold freely, s i. t . te . p ß r e i e ce t s f . rom Ot 4 h s er t w o Otherwise 4 t ( h i e ; d fu em tto a n nd , to Gs 10(1; Veal 4s to ss; and Pork 4s to 5s per tams carcase. 474 " d lo n s a s 3 4 1 d u N, . 82 1 ;1151 f: st the CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH COR„f the et); the Week ended June 10, Iti47, made up from the Returnj Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Enigm a per Imperial Quarter. 00' WHEAT. I BAILEY.' OATS. I KU. 1 6 0 1 " 6IS PRICE •• 1 996 10d 55s 3d 35s lld 72s Od 341 The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. ------- ir, Il RAILWAY SHARE MARK.D isi,„ LIVERPOOL, g rn i a nd STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market co ntinues .. _..„ steady, but only a limited amount of business has been troavas, 6 tlkem p .. — T E h s e at sa L le a acted. Prices, on the whole, may be said to have impr_nre. to-day. Great Northern shares are offering freely, in c° nig , quence of the heavy call which is now becoming tine ur sticaasreh—irel3i Glasgow, Halves 7 p.—Fleetwood, ewl Preston, and and IY., e . s ed t g il x i n d d . ing Junction, IN: dis.—Great Northern, 1% tlis• — "` 1 54 are—Birmingham andd OxrfdoZuJr Thirsk, Preterence, par—London and North-Western, A1,74_,_ Ditto, Quarters (L. and M.), 16 p.—Ditto, Quarters, ,ester, lUD p.—London and South-Western, 65/r7, -ganch oar. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. Eighths, 2 dis.—idland St . Sorta 120—Ditto, 401. Shares, 4 1 4 p.—Ditto, New, 2% P• 7.7 4 Staffordshire, 2 1 / 4 p.—Souto-Eastern and Dover, JA°' Thirds, M dis. ugnbctsio.nns MANCHESTER, JUNE 9. STOCK EXCIIANON.—The sales are—Ambergate. Notting. ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction. 1 5-16 ham and Dudley, 5 c. p.—Bilmingham and Oxford Junctl" 6% p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Freferentialst Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1 5-16 n. dersiield and Manchester Railway and Canal, IA P• - -; d4 Thirds, p.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials, par—Le Dewsbury, and Manchester, 1 4 London and Nort l , • (13), Western eManchester and Birmingham) Quarters . p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1A,d, 15 :„„ b9 . Manchester and Leed.=, Sixteenths, 7 11-16—Ditto. rT,d' (late %est Riding Union), % dis. n —Manchester, Shea' and Lincolnshire (Grimsby), 501. Sl.ares, 8 dis.—Mancliester and Southampton, 30s. 6d. c. dis.—North Stafford 2 7-16 n p.—Oldham Alliance, 5-16 dis.—Preston an d WV* Halves (A), 3% p.—Ditto, Sixths, 5 13-16---Shrewsburf and Birmingham (A), 5-16 dis.—South-Eastern and DoYer' No. 4, 1 4 dis. LEEDS, JUNE 9. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergato. Nottint: ham, and aiston, 1 1 ,4 c. dis.—East Lancashire, New, 1%, —Ditto, New (scrip), 2s. 6d. cis.—East and West lor d shire, 14 die.— Great Northern, 345. dis.—Huddersfield Manchester 2e. 6d. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, p.—Leeds and Thirak, szr i dis.—Ditto, Preterence, par d London, Oxlied, and Cheltenham, 20s. dis.—Malton st,n Duffield Junction, 15s. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Xl' Shares, par c.—Ditto, West Riding Union, 2s. 6d. dill.' Manchester, Buxton, Mitt lock, and Midland, se. dis._North Staffordshile, p.—North-Wrstern, 31s. 6d. dis.—Whi lri. dale Junction, 23e. dis.—York and Newcastle, Prefer' ence, 3 p. SHEFFIELD, &Tx! 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nott.inir ham, and Boston, 265. dir.—Great Northern, Ms- Manchester, Sh,ffield. and Lincolnshire (Grimsby 81 1, Shetlitdd), 8 1 A dis.— Ditto, 201. Shares, 595, dis.—Ditto..l4" 10s. Shares, 375. dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln). 3Ar; Midland, 401. Shares, 4 p.—North Staffiodshire, 1),•..„_ North-Western, 325. 6d dis.—Whartdals Junction, 225 ' uea " 6d. chs.l EDINBURGH, JUNE 8. STocL EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen , 2 °1 .1 Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 10q.-Arbroath and F ort' 15s. -Ditto, Halves. 15/ -Ayr and Galloway, 1/. Caledonian, 29/. 155.-Ditto, New, V. Is. 6c1.-Caled.ll.l and r eesi ti Dumbartonshire, 3 ss._ Callender , 55. - , D (3 , l3 ai . No 1. g • 6d.-Dundee and Arbroa th , 401.-Ditto. New, 6d. -Ditto. New, No. 2,30 L-Ditto, New, No. 3, 6 ,` an d -Dundee and Northern Junction, 128.- Perth, 321. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 131. Clu B . rt i. 4‘.-East of File, 1/. 18s.-East Lothian Central , 70 /. Edinburgh and Bat hgate. 81.-Edinburgh and 86 . of:burgh, dnee,saaanledJunction. 42.4. its..,l„. -Ditto, Halves, 221.- Ditto, Quarters, 171. 53'" _ 20/. 10s. Leith, and Granton, 181. 10s.-Ditto, Preferencet_ Edinburgh -Ditto, New, 21. 55.-Ditto, Qu..rters, 12s. 6d. ..,,..„„ Ar t. and Northern, 17/. 55.-Ditto, New, 3i. 65.-Dit to , by 74 2s. 6d-Ditto. ditto. New, 2/. 45.-. Edinburgh and ( New Co.), 11. 125.-Ditto, Halves. Bs. 6d.- Glasg" D i t to, Avrshire, 1171. 10s.-Ditto. New Stock, 401. 10s. Halves, No. 1, 91.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 71.-Glasg,°:," Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. Is.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, °°' Dunueerse, 31. 10s.-Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 155.-Glaagow an' Greenock, 174-Ditto, Halves, 8/. 15s.Ditto, Preference. 8/.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 3/. 155.-Great North . I Scotland, 2/. 25.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 2/. 25.-Ditto (late London and York), 1/. 15s. 6d.-Newcastle and Berwick, 271.-North British, 321. 7 0 ' 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 15!.55.-Ditto, Quarters, 4/, Bs.-Ditto. New Quarters (scrip). 165.-Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 158. Ditto, Fifths. 61. Bs.-Scottish Central. 24/. 155.-Scottifi ts bury and Hereford, 1 0s.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and C Grand Junction, I 95.-Scottish Midland, 184 10s.-Sbrev a " 91. 10s.-Ditto, New, 11.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 5 1 . s a t -Stirling and Midland, 2/. 55.-Wishaw and Coltness. 47 " -York and Newcastle, 371.-llitto, New, 141. 55.-Mo t o. Preference, 6/. 155.-Direct B b Ma dras, 2 s • " w " oin ay and -East Indian, 38.-Great North of India, 2s. 6r1.-res t Chester , Southern of Madras, 2s_-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Is. 6d. . _ , STOCK F.=tialtti'GLE.A-B""fhlie";ajleUSK:re-B:Caledoniart, 29344°' Dundee and Perth, 331.—Ditto, Quarters, 654. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct, 15:4 —Glasgo w : Dumfries, and Carlisle, 514 —North British , T hirds, 535. 6d. Barrhead, anu Hurlet, 511. —Stirling and Dua ferruline, 975. 6d.. BIRTBB. On the 3d inst., at the Rectory, Spa:ton, Somersetshim the lady of the Rev. J. Galloway, of a son, who survived bet a tew hours. On the sth inst., at Fordham Rectory, the vile of the Re; W.Harvey rerring, o a su. On H the 6th i inst., the t wife of George A. Rees, M.D., Arti l. lery-place, Finsbury square, of a son. Mrs. Arthur On the 6th inst., at Gerrard-street, Islington , Stillell, of a sn.George On w the 7th i ns t ., at Epsom, Surrey. the W of Y Giberne, Esq., of a daughter. Wife of th e On the 7th lust., at the Vicarage. Merton, the Rev. George Rawlinson, of a daughter. Mr' the Bth inst., at Finsbury-pl ac e South , the wife a Charles Mouat, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Upper Cl a pt on , Mrs. George P. Si's cox, of a daughter, still-burn. On the Bth inst., at K enn i ngton - ova l, M r s. Chamitoa one of a still-born infant. ED. On the sth inst., a t St. MARR Mary' l s Church, Bryan/Awl-War* A ,, i1 0 Thomas Adolphus Boyrenson, - Esq., M.D., of the Hon. C ht.: ° lll. pony's Bombay Army, to Augusta Marianne, only `— of the late Francis Swinfen, Esq., of Lapley, Stafford. onl y On the sth inst., at All Souls', L ang h a m.placot T h iett Kirkby Thompson, E s q., o f M ec kl en b urg h-square, to Hail so Alice, only daughter o f th e l a t e J. T urne r, Esq., °f House, near Cowbridge, Glamorgansbire. ogii On the 4th inst., at St. Helier's Church, Jowl , i Cochrane, Esq., of her Majesty's 19th Regiment , to iarl' dge. daughter of Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., of Ella Lo Pinner, Middlesex. ____....... MED. On the 6th inst., at Clapham .road. Mr. William B. Bird. On the 7 t h i ns t., a t L eonar d-p lace, Kensington, G eor g White, Esq., aged 57. _ Oa the 6t.b. inst., at Anglesey, near Gosport, Thomas BPS Martin, the eldest s on of Captain W. F. Martin. R. N. On the 6th inst., at the F en - o ffi ce, Ely, Sarah A nn, the wife of Samuel Wels, Esq., aged 69. On the 7th inst., Martha, the wife of Mr. John Wethe r° ston, of Rye-lane, Peckham, aged 58. On the 7th inst., at Overbury, Worcestershire,JaneEf etoie widow of the late B. Elston Esq., aged 83. 1. On the 7 th inst., at '1 unbridge, John Gilbert, Esq. , a g e— On the Bth inst., Andrew Henning, Esq. , o f Albion-road. Stoke Newington. On the 28th of March, at the Gambia, West Cc:4 0 , 0 ! Africa, the Rev. Francis John Harrison Ran kin, B.A. u" Majesty's Colonial and Garrison Chaplain, aged 41. On the 2d inst., H. Dixon, Esq., of High-street, De10 111 " 4 " On the 3d inst., at Newark; Nottinghamshire, --1"12411 Stephenson, Esq., aged 81. On the 4th inst., at Chipping Barnet, Mrs. Mari a ADO Mari., relict of the Rev. William Starr, B.D. On the sth inst., at Brompton-row, ' m i ss , relict of th. late Francis Hamby, Esq. dOW fbel On the sth inst., in Billiter-street, Louisa , ° • late C. Clarance, Esq., aged 83. 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