The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

P . F M btrb Mbittion SUN OFFICE• Seven o'Clock LATEST PRICES OF SHARES „ IN BANKS, ASSURANCE. AND MILER COM PANIES' STOCK. From Cie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TITEADAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 9. ZOINT-STOCIE. BANBS• Dividend Amount Name of Company. P er of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ------- .£ a. d. s. d. .instralasla ••••• • • • • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 Britsa.North American Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 8 Commercial of London 151. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 — l7alonial.. 1 bl. per cent. 100 0 0 125 0 0 Londn and Westminstr , 61. per cent. 100 0 0 1 20 0 0 I London Joint-Stock . ' 61. per cent. 50 0 0 110 0 0 Metropolitan ••.•• • • • • 25 0 0 710 0 P rov incialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, New.• ••••• •• 8/. per cent. 10 0 01 10 0 0 National of Ireland , 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 ' Nat. Provncial of Eng. 5l. per cent. 'lOO 0 0; 35 0 0 Ditto, New......... 51. per cent. ; 20 0 0 ; 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... G/. per cent, 25 0 0 25 0 0 ; 21% Union of L0nd0n..... ; 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 12% INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount 'Name of Company, per of ! Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion .............. 21, 10s 500 0 0' 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0' 11 0 0 Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. per cent, 100 00: 5 0 0 534 Atlas .•.•... British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 , 5 0 0 ! 7 ~i Clerid,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 , 2 10 0 ' 25 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown •••••••• • • -10 s. 50 0 0' 5 0 0 Eagle . Gs. 50 0 0 4 0 0 Eng.& Scot. Law •. —5/. per cent. 50 0 0 ; 2 0 0 European Life ••• . 5 1 4 per cent. 20 0 0 i All paid. I 20 Freemasons' ......... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 , 3 0 0 Globe Guardian ............ 51. per cent. 100 0 0,36 10 0 Imperial Fire .. •. •• •• 6t• and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 Imperial Life .. •• •• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15% I Indemnity Marino •• •• 11. eh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31 Law Life.. .egal and General Life . 50 00, 2 0 0 6 3 4 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 151 i 10s. 25 0 0112 10 0 15% .......... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0• 15 0 0 bled. lid& Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 I 2 0 0 48s.xd National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 I 210 0 National Life. Calladium Life ...... llamas • Protector Life— ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 24e. Od Provident Life •.•. .• 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life •••••• • • • • 4s. 500 1 0 10 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. 185 San Fire ........... Ditto Life 11. 6s. 49 l'aiversal Life CANALS. ... 4 Dividend! Names of I 1 ,5 Dividend Names of 4 , Price. Companies. I A per Price. $,-,. per I Compel)les. .= Annum. 1 x 1 Annum. U. x , £ Ashtn & Oldhl 97 5/.55. p e 70 Monmouthsh 104) SI. - Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. ' - Mntgomrysh 100 51. - Barnsley • • l6O 121. 180 Macclesfield . 100 - -- Basingstoke 100 - , - Neath ••• . .. 100 17/. 340 B rklik&Abrg ;150 51. 185 Nottingham. 150 121. - Cromtbrd...•lloo 141. ; - Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley loo' 41. ; - Regent's .. .. 33 11. ss. I 18 Derby •• • • - Rochdale .. • . 85 41. - Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 55 Shropshire .. 125 81. i - E:ewash • - Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. - Forth & Clyd 100 41. I - Do. Lk I'd St 112 61. p. c. - U:andJunctn 100 71. ; 77Y 2 IS tffrd & Wore 'l4O 281. f- l•rand Union 100. 1/. 10s. - 'Shrewsbury.. 125 151. i - rn Glaorgnsh . 172 13%1. ; - S tourbrldge.., 145 20!. 305 tilstr & Brkly , 100 - I - Strtthi on Avl 79 It. 10s. ; - Grantham - Severn and ! Huddersfield 57 - - W hail.ye ail. : 26 IL Bs. 32 Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 5 Trnt &MI 5 0 30L Lancaster - sey .... i Leeds& Livrp 100 , 341. i 520 Thams &Med! 19 - - Lzicester Leicstr &Nth. 83. 41. 136 1 Birming. 1 78 21. - Loughborogh 142 701. 1 530 ' Wilts & fli ks, 67 11. - LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Nun° of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ---.• -,-------- £ s. d. X s. d flank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61 . per cent. 100 0 1 153 British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 209 Commercial Bank ... • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 , 11 • 7 4 e National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 'l4l.—s Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. 50 00; 91 Western 8ank.....• • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 1 83 North of Scotland Bank i 61. per cent. 1 5 0 0 , 7 1 4 Clydesdale Bank.... • . Gl. per cent. 1 10 0 0 13 Eastern Bank O/. per cent. i 10 0 0 12 Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. 5 0 0 ;6/. 17s City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. : 10 0 0 12;,, Scottish Union Ins. Co. 01. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 245. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14 Insur. Co. of Scetind 5!. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. , v,4 North British Insnr 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 ' 27 Caledonian Fire Insur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22% Edinburgh Lite Insur 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 I 2 10 0 1 18 Edin.fa Ulan. . Railway , 11.10 s. per c. 5O 0 0 50 0 0 i 74 Ditto, 1, , ,i Shares 78.6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. j 18% Edin., Leith, lc orantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 21 tllasgyvlk• Ayrsliir hail. 71. per cent. i5O 0 0 All paid. GO% '4laspv &Greenek Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1634 t•Ilsov & Gamkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39% Dundee& Arbrothltall. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. , 37 Standard LifeAsssmce.l Si. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 i 9 DOCKS. Dividend • Amount per of Name at Company. Paid. Annum. Share. Price. X s. d. X s. d. Commercial .. • k ast and West ... 61. pr cent. Stock. East Country 3ndon 5/. pr cent. Stock. il.Katharine • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. outhampton • • ...... IL per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27% WATER -VTOICHS. Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. £ s. d. 100 0 0 31. 10s. 21. 103 41 13 4 , 100 0 0 107% Pali. Name of Company. F:ust London..• • • • • • • . Grand Junction .. •• Vauxhall .......... 51. per cent. 1100 0 0 1 West Middlesex . . . 51. li)+4. pr cn:.l 63 12 9 Price. ET ON MON TE3l.—( T HIS DAY.) An adjourned meeting of the gentlemen who had been educated at Eton College was held to-day, at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, for the purpose of supporting the old custom of Eton Montem, which it is the desire of the provost and head-master to abolish. Lord John Manners, on the motion of the Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH, was called to the chair. Lord JOHN MANNERS said that very few words were necessary to inform the meeting of the object for which they met to-day. Some time ago a meeting had been held, at which it was resolved that a memorial to her Majesty should be drawn up and presented to the Queen, praying her interference to prevent the doing away with the good old practice of the Montana. That memorial had been drawn up, and had since been revised, and as he believed amended. This would shortly be read by Lord Falmouth. He had also received a letter from the Provost of Eton, deprecating the object of the meeting, which his Lordship read. The purport of the letter was that the calling of these meetings was calculated to do injury to old institutions, and that the object which they were in tended to support—the collection—had been injurious rather than beneficial to the captain, likely to benefit only inn keepers and money-lenders. The letter was received with the most manifest disapprobation, and with something very like derision by the meeting. His Lordship then went on to say that, having complied with the request of the Provost, he felt it was unnecessary to make any apology for the course they bad pursued, for it was evident that nothing but their love for Eton and Etonian associations could have induced them to meet in opposition to the will of the two leading authorities of the institution. His Lordship then read letters from the Earl of Caernarvon, Lord Sand wich, and several other gentlemen who had been educated at Eton, approving of the object of the meeting, and requesting their names to be subscribed to the memorial. The Earl of Faestourn, after stating the circum stances under which the memorial had been modified, the chief of which was , the omission of what might be called the money clause, said that clause had been left out, because, in the !rat place, the col lection had been but insignificant, and it was not judicious to urge this collection as a stimulus to the exertion of the captain. With respect to the reasons which had been urged by the Provost in his letter, he conceived that they stood as much for the Etoniane, who were in favour of the preserva tion of the custom as for the Provost himself. His Lordship then read the memorial, the object of which was to show that the memorialists did not believe that the abolition of this custom was in consonance with the wishes of her Majesty; and further stated, that the existence of an abuse was no sufficient reason for the doing away with a custom which had allow edly been of us-. The - Noble Earl then moved the adoption of the memorial. T. LLOYD, Esq., was called upon to second the motion, and in doing so said, that ever since 1800 he kad, without a single exception, attended the Montem, and during the whole of that time he had never seen anything more than merely juvenile offences, and at the last Montem only two instances of inebriety had occurred. lie had a number of names to add to the memorial, and only wished he could add more. After an allusion to the festive meetings and the youthful sports of Eton, Mr. Lloyd seconded the motion. Mr. BEE said that he had letters from the Vice-Provosts of King's College, and other gentlemen connected with the institution, all of which conveyed assurances that the abuses might be abolished, an opinion in which he perfectly coo. curred. Lord CAITLERKAGH thought that it would be advisable that every gentleman then in the room should sign the me morial, in order to show what was the strength of the. Etonians opposed to the abolition of the custom. Alter several strictures on the letter of the Provost (Dr. 'Hodgson) he spoke of a letter which Dr. Haw trey had received from the Duke of Newcastle, approving of th e abolishing the custom. Of this letter he knew nothing, but d ut they an might, at any rate, set a Manners against a Doctor had so precipitately deeply regreeted that the ;Rev. After several ely rushed i n t o p r i n t. observations indicative of respect for the celebrated was adopted. master and p rovost: of the college, the memorial His Lonnsdie then read a letter, dated 21st July, 1687, of Lyttleton, 'l3hi written to Mr. Wood, , on the eve of m;eting, on a vacation, which was much relished by st 7 account of its peculiarity of style and the ba e d it was pervaded. After stating that thienglisyh by Which selected to make the college oration at Oxfordboatv;h: coronal ion of William and Mary, The CHAIR3fAN then put the memorial, which was adopted with acclamation. His LORDSHIP then left to attend important Earl of Falmouthbusine.ll at - took the KEW S PAithei trouse of Commons , a nd the ' - $0 1w. .,•-• - ------ ,elfitr., .-' - k ''st-W!tion was then put, which had been suggested by Gi.14...„ - __ . -- Lord.Clistlereagb, its object being that the memorial should 4 l'.- ; :Attl:•;%. '..- be MO . by the gentlemen before they left the room. This Uri -"7 -- iforaa' - tided by Sir Walter Riddell, and unanimously 7rAft'''' .. 4 - ;-'`.fidocited - - --- iti /412.4 e motion of Lord Cum it was resolved that the Earl ,El2hborough, the Earl of Falmouth, and Lord J. Manners, v.,.id be deputed to present the memorial to her Majesty in way as they might think best; either at a levee or N a THE SUN, LONDON,_ TUESDAY EVE.NING, MARCH 9, 1847. through the Secretary of State, as might seem to be most prudent. The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and the Marquis of Londonderry were subsequently added to the deputation for presenting the memorial. A Gentlemin from Oxford presented a number of names, amounting to 130, to be added to the memorial. The VICE CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND said that he was an old Etonian, had sent eight sons to Eton, and now had a grandson there, and it was with the most cordial assent, therefore, to the proceedings of the meeting that he proposed the thanks of those assembled to Lord John Manners and the Earl of Falmouth. This was seconded by Mr. Rowland Austin, and adopted with acclamation. Lord J. MANNERS returned thanks for the compliment, as did also the Earl of FALMOUTH ; after which, It was agreed that the memorial t•hould lie on the table till Monday next for signatures. On the motion of Sir WA [.TEE RIDDELL, the Earl of Fal • mouth, Lord J. Manners, Lord Clive, Mr. Bullock, Sir %V. Riddell, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Pickering, and Sir J. Duck worth, were appointed a committee, to take such further proceedings as might be necessary, and the meeting aLpa rat ed. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) The sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. Lamond and Co., went off very flatly, and prices were considered a shade lower. During the sale, the Count de Montemo:in entered, and seemed much interested by the method of dis posing of the property. By some mistake, we are not ena bled to furnish our readers with the principal sales. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY). The Committee met this day at the usual hour for the dis patch of public business. The following decisions were an• flounced during the course of the day : SOUTH METROPOLITAN WATERWORKS. Standing orders not dispensed with. WESTMINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX SEWERS. Allowed to proceed. KILMARNOCK AND AYR DIRECT RAILWAY. Adjourned. LASGOW, KILMARNOCK, AND ARDROSSAN RAILWAY (AMENDMENT, DEVIATION, AND BRANCHES). Standing orders dispensed with. PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.) (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.) OPPOSED CASE. MANCHESTER, LONDON, AND BIRMINGHAM. This adjourned opposed case occupied the attention of the Examiner the whole of the day. The allegations sustained were only of a trivial character. The decision was adjourned till to-morrow. There was no other case on the list to-day. COURSE OF EXCII) Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 3% Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1 Rotterdam .... •• 2U. 12 4 Antwerp•• ............ 25 80 Hamburgh —ALB. 13 10% Paris, 3 days' ;Ight 25 45 NGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar.. ..... — Leghorn 3O 20 Genoa .. • • • • Milan .. • .... Venice Naples ...... • • ...... 40% Palermo, per 0x........ 121 Dltte, 3 inontiis...... 25 75 Marseilles ••..•• • . .... 25 85 110urdeaux......... .. 25 85 Frankfort oit Di ai ne .... 121 Lisbon Oporto •.. • • • . 54% Rio Janeiro • • • • 21:1 I _ Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Berlin • • .. • ..... :. • • • • Vienna, effec. flu • • • • .. 10 3 Trieste, ditto.... • • .. .. 10 3 Math id • • .. • • ........ 36 Cadiz • • • .. : ........ 36% Barcelona ............ gewi11e.......... ...... Bahia Buenos Ayres .. ••• . • • New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • • .. PRICL3 OF BULLION, PUL oz. Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9 New Dollars .... • . 0 4 109 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver la bars ...... •• 0 5 ON MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Mareh 5.) SUGAR.—To-day the public sales held of East India and Mauritius Sugar were extensive, and did not terminate until quarter past three o'clock. Proprietors being anxious sellers, caused a fall in the value of nearly all sorts; but nearly the whole offered actually sold. IImNED.—To-day, only a moderate demand existed for Refined Goods, and prices are still on the decline. The value of Standard Lumps is 633 to 63s 6d, and brown grocery, 62s 6d. The market for Bonded Crushed Sugar is firm at 36s for first quality ; and there are many orders in the market. MAumrius.—This afternoon the market was abundantly supplied. Three parcels, amounting to 17,767 bags and 220 casks, were submitted to public competition, the chief part of which consisted of the better qualities of yellow ; the merchants being ready sellers, and submitting to a reduction on last week's rates of tid to is per cwt, occasioned the de mand to be excellent. The whole sold. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon fuur parcels of Bengal Sugar, amounting to 4,354 bags, were submitted to public sale; the white and better sorts of yellow sold 6(1 cheaper. Madras is plentiful, and the quantity offered at auction amounted to 9,4t.3 bap, but the demand was limited, and a part only sold, at a fall on last week's rates of Is. FORHIGN.—The rates previously established for Foreign Sugar, suited for home consumption, are sustained, there having been a good demand privately. COCOA.—Foreign has been sought after, but the advanced rates insisted upon prevented much business from being dote privately in any kind. The parcels offered at public sale were all taken in above the value. West India is much wantod, and high rates are offered, but little is to be hail. Grey Trinidad is worth 52s to 555, and Red 563 to 60s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon a fair desire was manifested to operate in Native Ceylon, and several parcels were disposed of privately. It was difficult to purchase good ordinary under 43s Gd per cwt. Of Plantation 154 bags at auction were taken in. TEA.—There has been a greater desire generally manifested by holders of Congou to realise, on account of the continued arrivals, and they have sabmitted to a reduction on former rates of Id to 2d per lb for good to fine, and id for low and middling sorts. There has been little business done in Pouchong, and prices are on the decline. Green of all de scriptions is in large supply, and the rates taken are again rather under those that previously prevailed. RtrE.—To- day East India Rice met with little attention; and 1,366 bags of Bengal at auction were taken in at 24s fur good mid white, being above the value. There were buyers to be found at 23s 6d per cwt. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum is little wanted, and the supply is on the increase. Demerara is little wanted, and strong sorts can be obtained at 5s to 5s 3d. For Leeward Island the market is in a d ull state. Of East India further parcels have been received, and the demand fur all purposes being limited, prices are declining. Although the deliveries of Brandy are going on largely, still exporters have operated with caution, and the home itemand has been limited for all descriptions. Geneva has been in limited re quest. Corn Spirits little wanted. HOPS.— Prices remain firm for all sorts, and a fair amount of business has been done. There is not a large quantity on offer, and the consumption continues to be good. COCIIINEAL.—The demand is good for all descriptions, and the stock is less than it was last year, whilst the deliveries are going on largely ; at public sales this afternoon 41 bags of Honduras silvers went at 5s 10d to 6s 3d, and 7 bags black 7s to 7s Id, being Id to 2d per lb dearer. INDroo.—The market _has a firm appearance for all de scriptions of East India, purchases to a full extent have been made, and the rates paid are fully equal to those of the last quarterly sale. OlLS.—There being willing sellers of Palm Oil upon pre vious reduced terms, occasioned large transactio n s by p r ivate treaty. Rape Seed Oil is still attracting attention, and having but a moderate supply, p r ic es rule firm. For Cocoa Nut Oil there are many buyers, and further advanced prices are offered. Notwithstanding the late rise iu the value of Olive Oil, still the home trade have been again large operators, and a fair quantity has been taken for exportation, and holders evince much firmness. A further rise took place in the value of Linseed Oil, as the demand is greater than the supply. Cod is held for 27/ to 271 103 per tun, but the purchases made have been limited. For Seal, late rates are insisted upon ; but the purchases made have been trifling. There being sellers of Southern of low to middling quality at 26/ to 271 10s, and at 281 to 291 for good to tine, occasioned the demand to be good. Sperm is little wanted, and tine British is attainable at 881 per ten. TALLOW.—Prices continue on the advance for Russian on the spot. For delivery in the last three months of the year a goad deal has been done at the improved rates of 463 to 46s 6d. Home-made is plentiful, still an improvementjn the value occurred, and the demand has been good at 50s to 51s nett cash. In other descriptions of Tallow many purchases have been made, and the rates obtained are rattler above those that existed previously. rHE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARcH 9, 1847. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's Drawing-room, intended to be held at St. James's Palace on Thursday, the 25th instant, is postponed till the following Saturday, the 27th instant, at two o'clock. WHITEHALL, MARCH 6, 1847. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint John Thomas Gordon, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the shire or sheriffdom of Aberdeen, in the room of Andrew Murray, Esq., deceased. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAacx 8. Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet Major Francis Ringler Thomson to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Gipps, deceased ; Second Captain William Yolland to be Captain, vice Thom son ; First Lieutenant James William Gosset to be Second Captain, vice Yolland ; Second Lieutenant Sidney Baynton Farrell to be First Lieutenant, vice Gosset, March I. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kin- cardine. 'The Hon. John Arbuthnott to be Vice-Lieutenant, Feb.l6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of the County of Ayr. Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Andrew Cath cart, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Leveson Granville Campbell, resigned, March 2. William Bruce, of The Lord Cla N a V n i C l e i ll T o E r has AL T,, appointedit: A acu 5. Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extra ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The Right. Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Knight, Lord Chief Jus tice of her Majesty's Court of Common Please, has appointed Harry Booth, of Holmfirth, in the county of York, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commission ers for taking the acknowledg ments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of tines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the West Riding of the county of York. BANKRUPTS. William Henry Hodding: surgeon, Gloucester-place, Port man-square, to surrender March 16, and April 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Sutton, Ewen 4, Ommanney, and Prudence, Basinghall-street. Samuel Cubitt, clothier, Colchester, March 15, at half past twelve, and April 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers, London ; Linklaters, Leadenhall-street. James Law, coal merchant, Faversham, Kent, March 17, at half-past eleven, and April 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street; Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, and Co., Philpot-lane. John Furbv and Robert Stockton, tailors, Sackville-street, P a i r c e c e a t d . il il ly . , ild iC in la g r ,3 ? 17 and April 22, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ball, official assignee, Coleman the Court of Bankruptcy.Davi"' Warwick-street, Golden-square. William Bull, stock manufacturer, Little Love-lane, Wood street, March 18, at half-past eleven, and April 22, at two, at Coleman street Buildings; Ashu rtan E d e S li c:n offi so c li i c a i l t - o a r s s s , ig C n h Joseph Prust, tanner, Stratton, t Cornwall, M eee a a' r P c Cs h iodle 2 e. 3 n , an a . t er eleven, and April 15, at gn o te ne , , E al et he . Exeter District Court. Lime -street, London. t H er e , ni or, Kaend'doeffilleaianldaCssoi., solicitors, James Morgan, draper, Wedmore 23,nd April 20, aton, official e l , i ne S •to to u g rt d c e h n,solicitor, Exe ,3 Mar at one, at the Bristol District ssignee, Bristol; Bailey, Wedmoresomers. Anthony Halliley and Richard Haitiley, calico printers, Wigton, March 18, at eleven, and April 20, at half-past one, at the Newcastle-upon-'Pyne District Court. Wakley, offi cial assignee, Newcastle.upon-Tyne; Studholme, Wigton; Addison and Harrison, Staple Inn, London ; Ingledew, Newcnstle-upon Tyne. Robert Elliott Huntley, wine merchant, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, March 23, at half-past one, and April 20, at one, at the Newcastle. upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; T. and W. Chater, New castle-upon-Tyne; Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Bow Church yard, London. Peter Burns, jun., bookseller, Liverpool, March 19, and April 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sharpe and Co. Bedford-row, London ; Cleminson, Ambleside ; Hetherington, Woods, and Woodburn, Liverpool. Thomas Stockdale and John Stockdale, soap boilers, Liver pool, March 23, and April 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court, Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sharp and Co., Bedford-row, London ; Harvey and Falcon, Liver pool. IMPERI A L PA ILIA MENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. CRIMINAL LAW—JUVENILE OFFENDERS. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Com mittee on juvenile offenders was nominated. IRISH LANDLORDS. The Earl of LUCAN was desirous, as he was not in the House last night, when the Noble Lord (Brougham) contradicted certain statements made by him (Earl Luean) on a former occasion, to make a few observations, and he hoped their Lordships would not consider him out of order in calling their attention to the circumstance, and in requesting the Noble Lord to give up the name of the writer of the letter which he had read last night. The charges in that letter were quite unfounded and in correct, and he thought as the Noble Lord had read the letter in extenso, he was bound either to give up the name of the writer, or to take upon himself the responsi bility of the statements. He (Earl Lucan) took that opportunity of denying the statement made by the Noble Lord, as also the charges made by some Catholic clergyman at a meeting held in Ballinrobe as reported in the Timee on the 2d inst., when the condi tion of this property was misrepresented. Lord BROUGHAM denied hav in g alluded pointedly to the Noble Earl. I.le_did not name any of the landlords in one of the statements he read, and in the one in which names were specified he gave the name of his authority. He did not consider himself bound to give up the names, but whether he did or not the result would be just the same, as regarded the denial of them, as the case of Cap tain Wynne showed. Lord LUCAN—The Noble Lord refused to give the name of the writer. Would he object to state to the House whether he was acquainted with the writer, and knew that he was respectable and worthy of credit ? Lord BROUGHAM—I beg leave to tell to the Noble Lord that I have made the statement fitting for me to make, and proper for the House to receive, and that neither he nor the House have any right whatever to make any Peer to come to account in that way, and I will not give any answer.—(Hear, hear.) since I have been in Parliament—and that is not a short time—l have heard statements made again and again, in this House, and by Members of the other House of Parliament, not giving the names of their authorities, and while refusing to give their names, they themselves have said that they believed the statement, and that was sufficient. Lvery body knows that from the time of Henry 111., when Parliament first assumed a form, downwards, common fame is sufficient to ground a statement upon. Lord DYSART presented a petition from the Relief Committee of the county of Cavan, praying that the House would consider the propriety of introducing a proper and extensive railway systi m in Ireland. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a pe tition from Newtownard, in the north of Ireland, praying for a more equalised sysiem of rating, and complaining that they were suffering severly under the present system. He considered that the extension of the English Poor law to Ireland would be a most valuable boon to that country. In conclusion, he would most earnestly desire that the Noble and Learned Lord would desist from the charges which he was in the habit of preferring against the Irish landlords. They were most painful to him to h, ar, and they were productive of much evil, as they had the effect of discontenting the tenant with his landlord. His own tenantry had never nppealed to him for any 'eduction of rent, and he did hope that the Noble and Learned Lord would net continue to indulge in this strain of censure against the Irish landlords which he was in the habit of doing. Lord BROUGHAM denied that his charges were general in their applicztion, and if the Noble Marquis insisted t on being accused, he (Lord Brougham) could not help it. He would now, however, put the matter in a fair way of being ascertained. He would move for returns—agreeable to the suggestion of his informer, who was a most respectable man—of the names of all the plaintiffs and defendants iu all processes for rent due on the Ist of November, 1846, which were brought on for tlial on the 11th of January last, at Ballina, in the barony of r Awley. county Maio. Lord CLARE said that such a thirg as processing in January for the November rent was a thing unpre , cedented in Ireland. Lord BROUGIIAM hopzd that he should not be considered as harsh towards the Irish, but rather as entertaining a kindly feeling towards them, Mhen he said that he desired to see the hicome-tax, the assessed tax, and the land-tax in operation in Ireland. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY begged leave to remark that it was not right to attempt by bad jokes to turn the declaration he had made in that House to a bad use. Ihe Noble and Learned Lord used a sort of sarcasm to any one who called him to account for his general declaration. He appealed to their Lordships whether the Noble Lord had not attacked the landlords of Ire land in his various speeches. The Noble Lord, with his special pleading, voluble language, aed bad jokes, did himself mischief, for at length nobody would mind what he said.—(Loud laughter.) The Noble Lord should not attempt to make these attacks. If the income tax were placed upon Ireland, he was sure that the Irish would loyally and cheerfully submit to it. Lord BROUGHAM said that the Noble Marquis had said that no one would attend to what he said. He must take his chance of that. Senators as well es others were liab:e to that evil. He did not at all expect to meet the same respect in speaking in that House as the Noble Marquis. He was satisfied, and, if he was satisfied, the Noble Marquis had no right to complain. The Noble Marquis had said, that he special-pleaded, was sarcastic, and made bad jukes. What he had said was a fact and no joke at all. The Earl of MOUNTCASIIEL said that he highly approved of the returns which had bceu moved for. Lord MOUNTEAGLE presented a petition from a number of persons praying that certain phrases insult ing to the Roman Catholics should be abolished from the oaths taken by the Roman Catholics and Pro testants. Lord COLCHESTER said, that he believed that few of these oaths were taken, but as far as he was concerned he was most willing to agree tothe prayer of the petition. The subject then POOR-LAW - REMOVA L ACT. Lord FEVERSHANI presented a petition from the poor-law guardians of Helmsley, in the North Riding of Yorkuhire, against the Poor Removal Act of last session. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair to-day at Four o'Clock. BIRMINGHAM FIRE INSURANCE. On the motion of Mr. SPOONER, the Birmingham District Fire Insurance Bill was read a third time. REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY. Sir WILLIAM CLAY coved the second reading of the Regent's Canal Company (Paddington and Lime. house Railway and Branch). Mr. WARBURTON said that, as he understood that the - Bill was to be divided into two, he would not oppose it in its present stage. Lord MORPETiI was informed that it was not the intention of the promoters of the Bill to interfere with the plantations and pleasure-grounds of the Regent's Park, ho should not, therefore, at present oppose the progress of the Bill ; but if any attempt was made to interfere with those grounds which were specially protected, the Bill would be most strongly opposed, and he had no doubt but that such opposition would be suc cessful. LAW OF SETTLEMENT. An HON. MEMBER presented several petitions agains the Law of Settlement. NAVIGATION LAWS. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from Devon. shire against any alteration is the Navigation Laws. Walter Baine do prepare and bring it in. That leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable the Glasgow, Pais ley. and Greenock Railway Company to make certain branch railways at Port Glasgow ; and that Mr. Hope Johnstone and Mr. Walter Baine do prepare and bring it in.—The motion was agreed to. Mr.IHUME moved that Sir George Grey, Mr.Strutt, and Mr. Home Drummond be discharged trim further attendance on the Select Committee on Private Bills: that Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Evart be added to the Committee.—The motion was agreed to. rnents from the year 1812 to the year 1843. In the first six years of this period, when capital punishments were more frequent than in the remaining years of the period, the number of capital punishments was 122, and the con victions for murder 144; while in the latter six years when capital punishments bad decreased from 122 to 50. The crime of murder bad also diminished from 144 to 121. But there was another return which showed the effect of those years in which all parties convicted of murder were exe cuted as compared with those in which fewest executions took place. That return was made on the 24th August, 1843, and showed that in those years where all parties convicted of murder had been executed, that the crime ' of murder had increased from 239 to 270, and in those years in which the punishment of death bad decreased the crime of murder bad also diminished from 268 to 222. Now he would not overburden the House with further sta tistics. But he would wish to refer to other countries, to France, Prussia. Germany, and Belgium; and he wished particularly to refer to Belgium, as in that country capital punishment suss altogether done away with. The punishment of death had been abolished on that country in 1834, but in 1835 some wise philosopher concurrred that it was again necessary to inflict the capital punishment for the sake of setting an example ; capital punishments were, therefore, revived, and what was the result ? Why, that the crimes which in the years 1830 to 1834 had been only committed by 60 persons had risen in the years succeeding the revival of the punishment of death to 80 or somewhat like 25 per cent. lie therefore thought that this was a strong argument to show that that punishment was not necessary. He thought that the present improved system ef prison discipline, the larger army of police kept up not only in the towns but in the rural districts, and the extended education which was grants 1 to 111 classes, sere the best securities fir the due observance of the law. It was incumbent on them to prove that the pnnishment of death was necessary, rather than for him to prove that it was unnecessary. He was. however, prepared to prove that the punishment of death was not only ueces sary, but that it was positively injurious to the criminal the jury who tried the case, and the public who wit nessed the execution. The first object of all punish ment should be to evince its certainty. At present there was no certainty in the infliction of. the punish ment of death ; the criminal felt that it was uncertain, and this uncertainty encouraged in their minds a species of moral gambling, and induced him to stake his existence against the severity of the law. Another cause of the uncertainty attending the present law was, the badly defined legal acceptation of the crime of murder; it depended upon the proof of the crime having been committed with malice prepense. whether the criminal was or was not convicted. And this malice prepense was judged of according to various standards by the different judges who tried the case, the consequence of all this was, to encourage uncertainty, and that uncertainly would not fail to encourage crime. The magnitude of the punishment created a false heroism, but its great objection was, that it left the criminal unreformed, and sent him to his last account " Unabsolved, unannealed, with all His imperfections on his head." The extreme of this punishment enfeebles the decision of their tribunals, for the magnitude of the punishment threw the crime into the shade. The decisions of the jury ought to be clear and distinct, and not overshadowed by the magnitude of the penalty imposed by the law. But what was the effect upon the public—the public to whom they ought first of all to look—the public for whose sake it was said that capital punishments were to be continued as an example ? Why, if ca pital punishment was to be continued, why should they not make it a solemn, a serious ceremony ; why not in vest it with all the dignity of decorum ? But instead of that it was carried out hurriedly, at an early hour of the morning, and had no salutary effect. But what was the glorious example it was said to inculcate ? Would they wish any of their relatives, any of their children, to witness an excecution ith the view of inculcating a deep moral lesson ? What father would take his children to witness such an exhibition ? None. Yet they held that such exhibi tions were far the public good ; but were the people whom they ought to do all in their power to elevate, in stead of debasing and demoralizing, to be allowed locger to witness such sanguinary spectacles, and to have their natures thereby perverted and hardened ? What, he would ask, was the effect of an exhibition upon the crowd who witnessed it ? It was expected, as he had said, to du good ; but they left them with adhor rence and disgust. And more, it bad been proved— repeatedly proved—that the spectators were brutalised, that many had subsequently become criminals, and that a great majority of the number who had been executed bad, at some period of their lives, witnessed an execution.—(Hear, hear.) If it conferred good upon the public —if it inculcated a great moral lesson its infliction ought to be mare dignified, instead of hurrying it over as if they were ashamed of what they were doing. Its effect was bad in the extreme, for after the criminal was rather con sidered a hero than pitied. Attempts had been made to get the punishment inflicted in private, in order that the public mind might not be brutalised; but if it were made private what would become of the exam pie they wi,hed to inculcate?—there was an end of it at once. But further, if they established private executions, where then was their great moral example ? Such punish ments could not be inflicted in a free country without re ceiving the full force and pressure of public opinion ; and in a country like England, no punishment that did not fu'ly combine the feeling of public approbation, could he long maintained it must have the full expres 'don of this opinion in its favour. It mit:ht be said that public opinion went in favour of the law, but theipeti lio 13 which he had pre sen t e d t h at n i g h t would show that this was not so. And not only these petitions, but dai y experience and the annually growing feeling of the country was against the punishment of death. Butit might be asked, what would he substitute for it ? Under the refinement of the system of punishment which had taken place thep might fairly substiCte imprisonment for life. 'lbis had been tried in other countries, and he saw no reason why it should not be tried in this. It was said this system of punishment was not severe enough; in his opinion it was far more severe on the individual than the punishment of death, while it held out some prospect of the reformation of the criminal. In shorter periods of imprisonment the prisoner might come out, if not altogether improved, at least compare ' Lively pure. This might be done by imprisonment, and if legislation could not accomplish every thing. it might do much towards alleviating the evils by which the pre sent system was beset. But it was not for the object of punishment that the imprisonment should be imposed, so much as the reformation of the prisoner, and they must strike deeper than that for the extirpation of crime. They must educate the people, and not leave them to conceive that punishment was to become a sort of re venge. There were two sorts of education—one which was internal, and which arose from the operations of the mind itself ; and the other which was external, derivable from the influence of external objects. Those were the means by which they were effect the improvement of the prisoner, for if they looked to the periods when the punishments were most severe, they would find that crime was at that time most frequent. They need not look to the time •of Henry tl.e Eighth, when 7,000 persons were executed, but to contemporaneous history they would find from the excellent book of the King of Sweden, that in Spain, where crime was most frequent there was one execution to every 150,000 persons, but in Sweden there was one only to every 170,000 of the population. The Hon. Member then quoted certain statistics to show that in those counties where the punishment of death was less frequent, the crime of murder was proportionably di minished. Ile was aware this subject required theexercise of great patience on the part of the House, as the argu ments were neither very new nor very interesting ; but there was one point to which hemust refer. After some further observations the Hon. Member con. eluded, and Dr. BO WRING rose to second the motion, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) POPULATION, POOR'S-RATE, &c. A return was issued ,yesterday, by order of the House of Commons, under the above head, showing the following statistical facts for the United Kingdom. Population in 1841 : England and Wales Scotland Ireland 8,175,124 Annual value of property rated to the poor's-rates : England and Wales £62,540,030 Scotland Ireland Expenditure for the relief and maintenance of the poor, year 1844-45: England and Wales Scotland Ireland 298,813 Rate in the pound of that expenditure on the annual value of property rated to the rooor's•rate: England and Wales .. la. Scotland Ireland Total nun:ber of paupers relieved, including casual poor:— England and Wales Scotland 96,327 Ireland Proportion per cent, to the population : England and \Vales Scotland Ireland Rate per head of expenditure on the total Lumber cf paupers relieved : England and Wales £3 Bs. Cid. Scotland 3 0 9} Ireland THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE STARLIGHT STEAM-ROAT.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Salisbury Arms, Durham-street, Strand, on the body of M r . James Hunt, aged 52, a master framework knitter of Nottingham, who lost his life by falling into the engine -house of the Starlight iron steam-bout, under circum stances already detailed in this journal. Joseph Crowne, the engineman, said that the flaps of the skylight were generally lifted the first thing in the morning and, unless the day was wet, they were kept up till night. There was no bar or any other protection over the opening when the window was up. There were bars placed in one or two a the company's boats, and he had no doubt that the same precautions would be adopted with respect to every other vessel belonging to the company. The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from injuries received in falling into the engine -room of the Starlight iron stea m-boat, whi ch they (the jury) deemed to have been insufficiently protected. And the jury recommend that the skylights of all steam ' boats shall be in future well protected so as to prevent a re currence of a similar calamity." PUSRYISM AT FALMOUTH.- - The church at this place is now hung with black cloth, the candlesticks on the "altar," which are usually covered with white lace, are now covered with black crape, and the worthy clergyman, who at other periods of the year preaches in white kid gloves, now preaches in black—these are the outward and visible signs of humiliation in Lent.—Devonport Telegraph. NEW CHURCH, ST. GEORGE S, HANGER -SQUARE. —A new church is about to be erected on the south, or Picea dilly, side of the palish of St. George, Hanover-square. TUE-KING OF BAVARIA AND LOLA MONIES. The Debuts publishes the following letter, addressed to the King of Bavaria by four of his Ministers, on ten dering their resignations:— " Sire,—There are circumstances in which men, invested with the inappreciable confi lence of their sovereign, and charged by him with the direction of affairs, have only the sad ahernetive of re nouncing the accomplishment of the most sacred duties, their fidelity, their attachment, and their gratitude, or of not fearing, in order to satisfy their conscience, to expose themselves to the unhappy danger of incurring the disapprobation of their beloved monarch. Such is the sad necessity in Which the undersigned find themselves placed by the royal de cision, which has for its object to grant to the Signora Lola Montes Bavarian letters of naturalisation. We are all incapable of betraying the eat he which we took to your Majesty, and our resolution has never been to a moment doubtful. This question of naturalisation was frankly characterised by the Counsellor of State de Maurer, in the sitting of the council of the Bth inst., as the greatest calamity with which Bavaria could be afflicted. This was also the conviction of the whole of the council it is at the same time the c xpression of the opinion of all the faithful subjects of your Majesty ; and it was not necessary for the Council of State to assemble to cause it to be entertzined by the under signed. Since the month of December last the eyes of the whole country have been fixed upon Munich. In ..11 the pros inces of Bavaria nothing is thought of but what is passing here, and which forms almost exclusively the subje et ~f all conversations, whether private or public; and the opinions manifested on this subject are exceedingly grave. The respect for the Sovereign be comes weaker and weaker in all minds, because we hear from all parts only expressions of the most hitter blame and the most energetic disapprobation. Moreover, the national feeling is offended, is, cause Reverie believes herself to be governed by a foreign female, „hose re putation is branded in public opinion, and, in presence of such facts, nothing can root out the id. a. Men like the Bishop of Augsburg, whose fidelity and attachment to your Majesty cannot be disputed, daily shed bitter tears for what is passing before their eyes; the Minis ters of the Interior and of Finance have been witnesses of his profound affliction. The Prince Bishop of Bres !an, on learning that a rumour had been circulated tore that he had set forth an opinion temling to excuse this state of things, has hastened to write to persons in Munich, requesting them to contradict this in the most, formal manner, and to declare that he .disap proved in tote of what was going on. His letter is no longer a secret, and in a short time it will be known to the whole country. Foreign journals are every day relating the most scandalous anecdotes, and making the most degrading attacks on your Majesty. The number of the Cite Chronicle, which we subjoin, is a proof of what we assert. It is in vain that the police endeavours to prevent the introduction of these journals, as they are circulated everywhere, and read with the utmost avidity. The impression which they leave on men's minds is by no means doubtful ; it is renewed day after day, and in a short time nothing will be able to efface it. This opinion is the same from Berchtesgaden and Passau to Aschaffenhurg and Deux-Ponta—it is the same throughout Europe, in the cabin of the poor and the palace of the rich. It is not alone the glory and the well-being of your Majesty's Government that are compromised, but even the existence of Royalty itself. It is this which ex plains the joys of those who aim at overturning the throne, and all whose efforts tend to annihilate this same royalty. But it is also the cause of the profound grief and despair of all who are faithfully attached to your Majesty, and who cannot shut their eyes to the dangers to which the country has not perhaps at any other period been exposed. In this state of things it is beyond the reach of human power to prevent the effect of what is now passing acting in the end on the army ; and if such an unfortunate event should take place, it that bulwark should give way, what would then be our resource ? The statement which the under signed, whose hearts are torn with anguish, venture to place before your Majesty, is not the effect of an ima gination struck with terror, but the result of the obser vations which each of them, in the circle of his attribu tions, has been in a condition to make for several months. It may be easily foreseen what will be, in the ensuing Parliamentary session, the result of these circum stances. Their effect cannot be calculated it the delibe rations of the Chambers should open under such im pressions. Each of the undersigned is ready at any moment to sacrifice for your Majesty his lite and for tune. They believe they have given you sufficient proofs of their fidelity and attachment, and it is for them a doubly sacred duty to point out to your Majesty the dangers which are daily increasing, in order that you may deign to listen to their humble prayer, and give up the supposition that what is taking place is the effect of passions or of opposition to your august will, when this opposition is really directed only against a situation which, in the eyes of every faithful Bavariar, threatens to destroy the fair fame, power, and future happiness of a beloved King. "they have respect fully and minutely weighed all the circum stances connected with a course of proceeding to which their profound and sincere attachment to your Majesty have alone decided them. Their firm convic tion is, that if your Majesty should not d. ign to attend to their supplications, they are bound to resign the situaiions to which the ki,xiness and confidence of their sovereign had called them, and that no:hing c-Ise rt mains for them but to rospectlully pray your Majesty to re sume the portfolios which you had intrusted to them. (Signed) D'ABEL, Minister of the Interior. G U PEN II ERG, Minister of War. 511RE\hI;, Minister of Finance. SCENSIIEIM, Minister ofJustice." M. de Bray, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has also given in his resignation, as has been alive ly stated. BURNING OF A THEATRE. GREAT LO';s OF LIFE. IS'e read in a letter from Carlsruhe of the 28th ult.:— " The grand ducal theatre has just been t:estroyed by fire; it is at this moment a heap of ashen. So3n after five o'clock, and when a considerable number of persons had already er.- tered the theatre, the third tier of boxes being nearly filled, the fire broke out suddenly in a box on the second tier. It is said that one of the gas pipes burst, and this was probably the case, for in a few minutes the whole of the interior of the theatre was in flames. Assistance was soon procured from all sides; but as it was impossible to save the theatre, all the efforts were directed towards the preservation of the adjoin ing houses. At ten o'clock all danger was over as regarded them. But what is most terrible in this affair is the loss of life. Several persons in the boxes lost their lives, for, as soon as the fire had declared itself, escape was difficult. Some, who were in the third tier, jumped into the second, and then into the pit ; others threw themselves out of the windows into the yard." The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 3d gives the following parti culars : " It was not in one of the boxes of the second gallery that. the fire first broke out, but in one of the court• boxes, imme diately after the gas was lighted. Tile inquest is ❑ot yet terminated ; but it is already known that there was no fisure in the gas pipe, and that the flames driven by a current of air, caught the hangings. The rapidity with which the fire spread is easily accounted for by the interior arrangement and decorations of this building in common with all 01,1 theatres. As soon as the audience part of the house was be ginning to he filled with the volumes of smoke, the confu sion and alarm became general and frightful. Many persons on the third tier of galleries were stifled. The number of persons dead and missing amounts, according to the police returns, to 70. The Grand Duke, although he had for seve ral days been confined by indisposition, hurried to the scene of disaster, and by his presence encouraged the firemen. His Royal Highness has to-day expressed, through the au thorities, his warm thanks to the inhabitants of Carlaruhe and its environs, and the military and gendarmery, for the seal with which they all lent their assistance on this lament able occasion." A letter from Carlsruhe, in the Mannheim Journal, says— " Among the victims the following arc named—viz., a brother of M. Homburg, the man of letters; a sou of M. Wabel, the prompter; a whole family who had just arrived from Ludwigsburg, and ans English family who had got lost in the corridors, besides many women and children. Most of the bodies are completely reduced to ashes; and of many others nothing was left unconsumed but the limbs, which have been carried to the cemetery. Some threw themselves out of the windows of the fourth story ; one, i❑ attempting to do so, was withheld by a young female, to whom he was affianced, and thus remained suspended till the building gave way, when they both sunk into the flames." BOILER EXPLOSION AT CLIFTON. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Rutter, county coroner, at the Seven Stars Tavern, Clifton, relative to th e death of James Winterbottom. The deceased, who was 72 years of age, was foreman of the engine -house at the Spindle Point Coal-pit, at Kearney, belonging to the trustees of Mr. Fletcher. On Tuesday, whilst the work men were at dinner, and the engine was standing, the deceased went into the fire-hole, and was pulling a clinker from between the bars, when a slight ‘• fizzing noise" was heard, and immediately afterwards the boiler exploded. The deceased was projected from the fire hole to a distance of five yards, into a lodge of water close to the reservoir. file was severely scalded on the face, body, and hands. Two surgeons were called in to attend him ; but he died on Wed nesday night. The engineer, %William Lomax, was the only other person in the eng i n e house at the time; he escaped unhurt. The engine, atter having been thoroughly ex • amined, was fitted up about two years ago, and had been in regular work ever since. About a fortnight ago it was ex amined again, and a slight repair of the steam pipe, which seemed all that was necessary, made. The explosion, it seems, was attributable to the fact of one plate of the boiler having, from some unknown cause, become exceedingly thin. The engine is a high•pressure one, and at the ti me o f t h e ex plosion, the safety valve indicated a pressure of only 81hs to the inch, although it w as calculated to carry 40 lbs . L aw rence Fogg stated that he had been employed a t th e p i t . for 27 years, and that this was the first accident of the kind which had occurred there. Verdict —"Accidental death."-- Manchester Examiner. THE LATE MURDER AT DAGENHAM. -- The Government have issued instructions for the prosecution of Sergeant Parsons and the other police-constables belonging to the K division, for alleged perjury committed by them in their evidence before the coroner when he held the in quest on the body of their comrade Clarke, who, it will be remembered, was found in a corn-field murdered on the 28th of last June. Mr. Maule, of the Treasury, has re ceived directions from the Government to prosecute the me❑ to the utmost. During the past week several parties connected with the Government, and Sergeant Kendall, of the detective police force, have been actively engaged in getting up the evidence on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Lewis, the coroner for Essex, who held the inquest on Clarke's body, and the various witnesses who were examined by that functionary have been subpoenaed by the Government to be in attendance at the assize court, Chehnsford, to-mor row (Monday), to prefer a bill against the parties.— lVeehly Paper. it is understood that the Admiralty have ap pointed Mr. Smith, whose screw-propeller is adopted in her Majesty's vessels, to be superintendent of the works con nected with it, and all matters relating to the fitting of the screw are to be under his directions. The calary to he GOCi. a year.—Hampshire Telegraph. The inauguration of his Royal highness Prir:ce Albert will probably take place, in London, on Thursday week.--Cambridge Independent. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, March S. The LORD CHANCEilkOlitook his seat on the Woolsack sllurtly after Five o'clock. THE CRIMINAL LAW. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Corpora' tion of Kingston- on -H u ll, confirm* the complaints rreldel the petition lately presented from the magistrates of Liirerpe on the subject of the am en d men t o f t h e criminal law. Th e s b i, tt cases which the petition ers c i te d were exac tly similar ta a, t f fourteen cases enumerat e d i n th e Li verpoo l p e tition, eaca• whom had been committed nine times before sentence of tra; p wtation was passed upon them. He would new, in aeccrf ance with the notice he h a d g i ven , move f or a Select Cea 1 mittee to examine into the subject of the execution of ericult law, and particularly with res p ec t t o it s opera ti o n on juve a offenders. He w a s sure th e resu lt wou ld b e f avo urable to te' views he already expressed on the subject, and the recont:f mendation of the Committee would lie that transportati on, not altogether suspended, should be considerably muddied- ~ w Lord STANLEY said th a t u p on thi s su bj ec t —that of cry minal punishment—he hoped t o h ear an ex pl an ation as to was the intention of the Gove rn m en t res p ec ti ng transport& 670. He understood that it was tt ei r d es i re t o sus p e nd the pien pot. ment of transportation for two year s w ith o ut a pplying to dto liament for its sanction fo r s u c h a p rocee di ng . With rega l ' 00 transportation as a punishment, he entertained an opinion Into favourable than his Noble Friend. But to suspend it for, d , years seemed to him to be an experim en t o f suc h a inag n ' t _ v pt ; as should not be attempted without a pplyi ng t o Parliam e n t , and, in his opinion, it would be a serious abuse of the prerntgoy five of the Crown. He hoped the G o v ernmen t would in , t o duce a Bill, and thus afford an o pp or t un ity t o L o th l'in we ' discuss the measure. Earl GREY said that since the y ear 1843 no c onvict ot , tenced to transportation for seven years had the sentenc e Po t ried into effect, the criminal was confined to the hulks, or 1 ; ic i to Bermuda. Although he considered transportation a , ews • punishment, yet he was aware that it h a d it s a tt en dant 1. 60 , tage. 'the Noble Lord had mistaken the intention of the hi vetnment. Transportation would not b e ab o li s hed,. it On o continue to he the same precisely as it was at present , . n t be but one difference, namely the pla ce , w h ere one part ot , •„, sentence should be endured. The penal labour would be • Meted in this country under th e i mme di a te obs er : - tion of the Government, wh ere th e y w ould ceniiatol and check the abuses which took place,, but th e con be, would be discharged in Australia, under the same control l° to was placed by the present system. The re fo r e he ye elut e d say, that the change was not so substantial as to males it 'lf co, ; 0 say for them to apply to Parliament. Th e mor e espenia' Y t t o it was perfectly competent for her Majesty's Governmen make it without any Act of Parliament upon the subject , w n Lord BROUGHAM protested agai ns t th e l aw as laid ' 3° o6 by his Noble Friend. He denied th e p ower o f t h e C r own• o f would suppose an Act of Parliament requiring a punishteentde, one hnrelred and twenty-one years' transportation, now , sired to know was it competent to impri s on him for one " n ; dred and twenty years, and transport him for the rentain „-i i ; portion of the time. The principle was the same AS 10 plied to any period of time He admitted that Act was passed, some fifteen years, which ea le k a power to the executive in a certain class of cases. The he referred to was the sth George IV. chapter 83. No 513 „,,,. could doubt the power of the Crown to pardon capital offet i '" t But if it be legal for the Crown to overs e t e very punish Me t e ,' the inhabitants of Bridport, who intrust e d him with the li t b , sentatir.n of a petition praying for the aboliti o n of the pon is n , ment of death, had mistaken their way, they should have o r plied at once to the executive. COP Lord CAMPBELL said that, as at p resen t a d v ised, he,bo sidered that all that his Noble Frie n d p ro p ose d t o do migi' li to effected without any Act of Parliament. The genera lion which had been adopted wv, in every case of transports ea for a period of seven years, the Go vernmen t did not nar rl c t into effect. Now no one ever obj ec t e d t o suc h a p r actice' s o 9- f he considered that the rule applied to fourteen, or fifteen, i d twenty years. It was most desirable that the House silhe have an opportunity, however, for a full discussion upon matter. Lord ASHBURTON said he considered it most object i l; able for the judges of the land to pa s s sen t ences which it ;;,0 never intended to carry into effect. If any great chang e d e r to be effected, it ought to be done with th e sanc ti o n and n- o lf the authority of an Act of Parliam en t. H e w i s h e d to V I 1 ., whether a criminal could insist upon his sentence being ea ried out ? Lord CAMPBELL said that, in his opinion, he could n o s the power was given to the executive to transport if ito desirous of so doing, but there was no compulsory obliget te b r Lord BROUGHAM said, th a t h e d es i re d t o k no w I ,'n e ', o . his Noble and Learned Fri e nd was o f o pi n i on th a t the n•l` fo r five could imprison for life after sentence of transportati on life had been passed ? . n j o e Lord CAMPBELL said th a t h e cer t a i n l y was of O n ' that there wes such a power vested in the Executive. Ol Lord LANSDOWNE said that it was not the intent' ° • bt his Noble Friend to advise the Crown to a course which cl o t appear to be even indirectly illegal, although really leeah,.. e t, the Act of Parliament was perfectly clear upon the ,114 , c l, and seemed framed to meet the objection of the Noble P n- e , The Act expressly gave the Government power to trano port or retain in prison. (The Noble Lord then !f ie ,' the words of the Act. Now, in no case could he become en ti : e • to his liberty, even if he had teen confined contrary to hi a te fb ° 6 tence. He said that this clause provides that no man c tin. ost prevented from suffering the imprisonment to which he t he sentenced, whether for one mouth, one year, io or even fo r n, whole term o f lif e . H e was qu i te ready to admit, that do posing Governm en t was qu it e rea d y to g i ve a ll t h e opera a t which his N o bl e F r i en d desired, yet he felt qu i te as sured, re , it was quite ne cessar y t o h ave the experience t h a t this commended. He did not consider this as a permanent 1; mi sit e . te A tion, but as a t em p orary t r i a l. Thi s was a d eparture , a — w bo departure from the old practice, and his Noble Friend, that was lately Secretary, would, he felt assured, be convinced rise it was not intended to depart from the established pra e without some sufficient reason, and that reason was to be certained by •he trial that w a s soon t o b e m ade. f tbif Lord BROUGHAM felt that from th e c onstruction o• very clause, that it was intended to do away with the princia., of transportation. if they were to punish offenders by ioP, II sonment instead of by transportation, transportation b,r sCYf years was either too long or to o s h ort. It was too long ',Ds imprisonment, but too sho r t f or t ransportation, for, i n (Act , t" people were sent out for three or four years, and not for se!' e i Lord Lyndhurst had n o reco ll ection of what had 'Gener al, when, he brought in his A c t w h en h e was Attorn ey' th but the principle had been adopted by him of rned if Y " system of transportation; but he had left it to the usual the ciples of the law to rec tify th e a b uses , w hil e h e P rese' „ principle. ient Lord ASHBURTON conceived that there was no c o o time for testing the principle, an d th at th e c l aus e svoulu,nh to effect ins purpose. Ile th o u g ht, th ere f ore , th a t there on , z ur . te r be some change so as to b r in g th e ex p er i ence w ithin A sh ot Pe the The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH conceived that n ee change could not be made, unless there was some assur Colo' that the Noble Earl, who was now Secretary for the „ e ta nice, would remain in office until its resu lt s wer e fully a' tained. . the The Earl of CHICHESTER th oug ht th a t, h o wever d nol rule might work w i th res p ec t t o adult offenders, it WO i 0 0 apply to juvenile offenders, for it was unwise and unjust l° ot ber a boy sentenced t o t ranspor t a ti on to P entonv ill e, when ll' Ky person under the same sentence was sen t a b roa d. Th e r e no equality of punishment between the two offenders. , _ t t bis Earl GREY quite agree d w i t h hi s N o bl e F r i en d, W oo princip'e could not be universally adopted. In 184 1, bee motion was moved in the House of Commons, it had t ot mooted that there was DO such equality. for the fact was' it y by far the greater number of con v i c t s sen t ence d t o tranql: Lion were for seven years, th e grea t er part o f w h om we t ' t hef tinded to be sent to the hulks and kept at home, and whou,.. had suffered a certain degree of pu n i s h men t t h ey s hould ' l ' at lierty. After a mutual explanation between L or d BuouGll°i sill the Earl of CHICHESTER, Select The LORD CHANCELLOR put the motion, that a t he Committee be appointed to inquire into the exec ution, criminal law with respect to t rans p or t a ti on , an d especild'Y respect to juvenile offenders. tal'erj The Earl of ELLENBOROUG II complained of being by surprise. ba t The LORD CHANCELLOR offered to put it aga te ' this was declined, and the Committee was agreed upon. CENTRAL TERMINUS AT GLASGOW port The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the r e o f of Commissieners appointed to inquire into the neceasitY central terminus at Glasgow. JUVENILE OFFENDERS The Marquis of LANSDOWNE also laid on the t abl o li t c b e e report of Mr. Burrell, magistrate of Queen-square P OI I4 office, respecting the committal of John Hockham to TO fields Prison. LABOURING POOR (IRELAND) BILL. „d The amend men t s move d on t hi s B ill were adopte d, an was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March S. MEASURES OF RELIEF FOR IRELAND' Mr. ROEBUCK (in continuation) proceeded to ` ri ce It was asserted th a t th e I r i s h p ropr i etors h a d inf le- o • with the C a bin e t on thi s quest i on , b ecause a great Pr" portion of the Government were th emse lves owners !o Irish property. It wa s s t a t e d th a t th e Administra tio nc l were favourable to the claims of the Irish party , % a that they did not in reality wish the Irish propertYXo, made r. sponsible fur the relief of Irish distress. - 1 .! 1 1., outside of the Cabinet knew all about it. The r i ,, ° ,„4 n,-vvspaper had been the great Bude light which P' o , revealed the secret workings and feelings of the Gov er .a went. It was therefore necessary that he should state - 1 . about it. It was necessary, in order to show how al e !, feelings went, to inform them that the Marquis of Le ° ;, downe, one of the Cabinet, was a principal Irish P r " r prietor ; and that the Earl of Clar en d on, another rher4bheo o s h t the ?u.i d furtherab inet statew as thetha that same. Lord It t a e s a rri e w necessary hoti Minister, was beating at the door for a 6 dn; ission- - (" s laughter)—was also a landed proprietor. He might - , ° state that another Noble Lord in the ' Cabinet, 1141° 0 " .° advent to office set Europe a shaking, " ;, - , 1 also an Irish landed proprietor. He ille- ho Lord Palmerston. He might also nam e t h Duke of Devonshire and another Noble Lord, W - 4 , ° ‘ ; if not in the Cabinet, had considerable jun kie/3 ,y over it—he meant E ar l Fi tzw illi atn —who were 1 3 , r t prietors of laud i n I re l an d. Th e H ouse would recolire% how the latter N o bl e E ar l h a d su pported the grand bow of the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, and at the knowledge of that fact had led many to surmise the Government would have to declare in its fav°_`:c.▪ , With these, as members of the Government , or influent' ing its decisions, he (Mr. Roebuck) could realise ,_, feelings of the Noble Lord the INlMemberLynn, when he asked for sixteen millions, ü b ' e other influences had proved stronger, . and and they had to succumb. Still the declaration Noble Lord (Earl Fitzwilliam) showed the fe 111'- 5 which animated these Irish proprietors. One mo re instance he might give, though the noble 50 ; he would now name, he must say, bore an excellent • adtnirabl., character that was Lord 13esborougyne id g ern - He was likewise an Irish proprietor. He con more; but with this, as connected with the . G'ovst to it just _ a went, he would ask, was it decent, was the people of Englund to ask exemption from the bu (!_e_L' a imposed on the United Kingdom? Ho had alwaysdgit" i for the Noble Lord at the head of the Government ere courage, he had thought him brave; and he at; no th ing rr i i n th , him for this, though he liked his policy almost i t f n ho else; but he must deny him even this qualit), oor i" gave way to the Irish landlords on the p He would tell the Noble Lord what they would d ti o ag s ee c l et t ! the country and outvote him.—(Hear, hear.) rie ~c ha d tain carrying a majority against the Noble Lord : e felt never spoken so strongly before in that House, b t factorily explained his intentions upon this ques • was strongly u pon the subject. The Noble Lord badt.,:rrt salts; answer to the question which ho (Mr. Roebuck) had put if W I " gitivceonneieurnaendonflo'-thtahnedlmiveasnnoefrt—heapesoorptleooff ftehtvceournnatrnyn.etstus not the brat question which he 01r. Roebuck) had p ut THE MEMBERS FOR CLARE, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition from the borough of Rochdale, praying that the House would grant an inquiry into the charges preferred by Captain Wynne against the Members for Clare. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Ply. mouth in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death. POOR RATING (IRELAND). Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition trom the in habitants of Ballina, complaining of the system of poor rating. They stated that the landlords compelled the holders of less than 41. tenements to pay the poor rates, although such a proceeding was contrary to law. They prayed that the House would interfere in their favour. RAILWAYS. The following Bills were read a second time: — Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Mold Railway. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 2—Extensions and Amendment). Mr. GREENE moved, that the following recommen dation, contained in the third report from the Classifi cation Committee of Railway Bills, be considered, viz:— " Your Committee recommend that the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Branches (No. 145) Bill be divided into two parts; the one to contain the branch railway from the goods depot of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway at Glasgow to the proposed branch of the Caledonian Railway near to Shields bridge, in the parish of G3van, in the county of Rentrew, and the power to divert or alter the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardrossan Canal; and the other to contain the remaining provisions of the Bill; that the first be placed in Group 48, and the second in at subsequent group. That the order made upon the 15th day of February labt, for referring the said Bill to the Committee of Selection, be read, and discharged ; that the Bill be withdrawn. That leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable the Glasgow, Pais ley, and Greenock Railway Company to make a certain branch railway to the Caledonian Railway at Glasgow, and to divert part of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ar drossan Canal ; and that Mr. Rope Johnstone and Mr. PETITIONS. Mr. FORSTER presented a petition from the ship owners of the port of Goole, praying that the excessive light dues might be abolished, according to the reco►n mendation of the Committee which sat some few wLeks since on the subject. Mr. TATTON EGERTON prescnted a petition from the cotton-spinners of Chester, preying for an inquiry into the causes which retarded or checked the growth of cotton in India. Captain GORDON presented a petition against the light dues. NOTICES OP MOTION. Mr. HUME stated, that in consequence of the ad journed debate upon the incorporation of Cracow on Thursday evening next, he should postpone his motion with regard to Scinde until that day fortnight. Mr. BROTHERTON, on the part of the Hon. Member for Durham, postponed the Hon. Member's motion with regard to Indian cotton until this day fortnight. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that on Tuesday, the 23d of March, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the Septennial Act. Mr. CHRISTIE moved for an address for a return of the cost of preparing and otherwise fitting up the fol lowing repositories:—The building erected in Westmin ster Hall in or about 1822, to receive the Common Law Records; also of the King's Mews at Charing-cross in 1831, and Carlton House Stables ; of the vaults in Somerset-house, which held the pipe and Lord Treasurer of the Exchequer records (estimated by Sir Robert Harry Inglis and Mr. Hallam, in the " Agenda" of the Record Commissioners to have been 16,0000; of ether vauls in Somerset-house, containing certain Exchequer records; of the office of the pells in Whitehall-yard; of the Rolls House for the reception of the Queen's Bench Re cords from Westminster ; of the repository at No. 3, Whitehall-yard, which held the Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas Records, until removed to Carlton Ride ; of the White Tower of London to receive the Admiralty Records ; of the Stone Tower at Westmin ster ; together with tne cost of preparing repositories for any of the common law or Chancery records in Lincoln's-inn, Sergeants'-inn, or any other parts of the metropolis, since the appointment of the Re cord Commission in the year 1800, so far as the same can be prepared. Return or estimate of the total expenses incurred in removing the records from one repository to another, since 1800: return of the cost incurred for watching by policemen and the fire brigade the Carton Ride, the Rolls House, and any other record repository, and for any other securities adopted for insuring the buildings from fire, since the passing of the Record Act 1 and 2 Vic. c. 94. DRAINAGE ACT. _ Mr. BAILLIE gave notice, that in Committee upon the Drainage Act, he should move a clause, to the effect that no owner of land should receive any advance of money under this Act over the amount of 12,0001., unless he could produce a certificate from the Commis• sioners that all the sums previously received had been properly and judiciously expended. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. _ Mr. HUMEin;v:cl - Wrtire abstract accounts of the amount expended for the buildings of the British Mu seum, including alterations, fixtures, and furniture, in each year from its establishment under the Act 26 Geo. 11. (distinguishing alterations from buildings, and for the purchase of houses and ground), so as to exhibit the total expenditure for the same up to the 31st day of December, 1846; of the amount expended oa the esta blishment of the British Museum in salaries, wages, ap pointments, household expenses, officers' residences, rates and taxes, and all other items of expense, in each year, from the establishment of the Museum under the Act 26 Geo. 11, so as to exhibit the total expense of its main tenance to the 31st day of December, 1846 ; of the amount expended in each department of the Museum, for the purchase of manuscripts, prints, printed books, maps, music. antiquities, coins, and medals, objects of natural history (zoological, botanical, fossil, and mine ral), in each year, from the establishment of the Museum under the Act 26 Geo. IL, under each department respectively, so as to exhibit the total amount of expense of the various collections up to the 31st day of December, 1846, distinguishing the amount paid from Parliamentary and other funds ; of all the amounts paid under Acts and Votes of Parliament for all buildings, collections, and other expenditure for the British Museum, in each year from its establishment under the Act 26 Geo. 11., so as to :low the aggregate amount paid for that institution from public monies, up to the 31st day of acensher, 1846.—Agreed to. ABOIIITION OF PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EWART presented petitions from a public me, ing held at Exeter Hall, signed by 13,000 persons ; from Liverpool, signed by the magistrates of the borough and the most respectable inhabitants ; from Exeter, Southampton, Flyllast, and other places, in favour of the total abolition of the punishment of death. Mr. TiIORNELY presented a petition from Liverpool to the a ame (effect. Mr. EWART then rose to bring forward the motion of which ho had g'vea notice—namely, the total aboli tion of the punishment of death. He said that it was ' now seven years since he had the honour of bringing this subject before the attention, or rather before the ' patience, of the House. In Viese years this subject ex ' cited a deep interest, but it had now assumed a far deeper and greater interest. He thought this was shown partly in the number of petitions on the table, and partly by the numerous meetings which had been held throughout the country. At that time few of the clergymen of the Established Chu rc h h a d g i ven in their adherence to the principle of the total abolition of the punishment of death, but now they h a d vas t num hers who thought as they did, and who had not only appended their n ames to petitions, b u t a l so appeared at public meetings held for the purpose of advo cating the doing away with that punishment. There was also a great difficulty in obtainin g ver di c t s from juries which involved the punishment of death. Many instances had occurred of this kind—i ns t ances i n which the guilt of the criminal had b een c l ear l y esta blished, but in which the juries ref use d t o return a verdict of guilty. He would not enter into t h e theological or theoretical view of the question. He contended that nothing but necessity could justify punishment by dea th : One of the mo s t em i nen t o f Italian writers had written upon this subject, he referred to the Marquis Becarria: the ground of his argument was, that it was impossible t o justify the in fliction of capital punishment, ex cept upon t h e ground of absolute necessity.—(Hear, hear.) Another person who had also devoted consid era bl e attent i on to the subject of criminal jurisprudenc e — no l ess a personage than the King of Sweden—had also written upon the subject to the same effect.—(Hear, hear.) The question he put before the Hou se an d t h e country was , whether the infliction of capital punishment was any longer necessary for the execution a of justi ce . Fi rst of all, he would prove that it , as not necessary, an d , secondly, that it was positively injuriou s . It was qu i te evident that punishment of death was un necessary, from what took place u nder the reign of Leopold of Tuscany, while he need not remind the H ouse o f w h at occurred under the administration of Sir James Mackintosh in India, who . abolish e d cap i ta l punishment, nor n eed he remind them what happ ene d when Lord Minto was in power in Italia, who also abolished capital punishment. In both cases cap i tal crimes diminished, and the same result had followed the punishment on the part o f t h e abandonment of capi tal present Emperor of Austria. Why, when it was moved to abolish capital punishment in cases of cattle stealing and forgery, it was urged that it would be dangerous to the country. (Hear.) But how erroneous had this proved to be ! The same argument would apply with equal force when used ;in reference to other crimes, which were formerly punished by death,(as a diminution rather than an increase in thei r number had taken place, but . virtually they only retained the punishment of death for murder. It was true there were two or three crimes which, according to the statute book, were punishable by death ; but the punishment was a dead letter—its living spirit only survived, for capital punishment was on l y inflicted for the com mission of murder. But on what grounds die! they abolish capital punishment for other crimes and retain it only for murder ? The only argu ment was that there was some proportion between tha crime of murder and its punishment by d . eath—thai a man who had killed another ought to be killed by the law in return ; but, after all, this was nothing better than the law of retaliation, and would apply with equal force to other crimes with respect to which they had abolished the extreme punishment. The punishment of " an eye for an eye, arid a tooth for a tooth," had been abolished with respect to many crimes, therefore there was no tenable reason that it should be retained with respect to murder. Lord Bacon described such a punishment as " that sort of retalite tary justice which is nothing more than civilised and deliberate revenge." He would next proceed to deal with statistics, the authenticity el which were undoubted, in support of his argument, that the punishment ought to be abrogat e d. He proposed, first, to adduce statistics relaticg to the period when corporal punishment was abolished with respect to many crimes; next, the period following it, and then he should compare them together and show the result. Periods of distress frequently en gend . ered violent crimes, so that they could not all be attributed to the violent passions of mankind. He merely made these statements to show Hon. Mem bers who were opposed to him on this question that the increase of crimes to which he bad referred was not to be ascribed to the abolition of capital punishments, but to ,the distress which prevailed. He should limit his ebservations on statistics to a few returns mainly bearing on the particular question involved in his motion. The first return he would read to the House was one made on the 22d of May, 1830. It showed that in 1830, th e y ear w he n the abolition of capital punishments took place to a considerable extent, and for five ;years previous to it, the number of crimes for which this punishment had been awarded was greater than during the five years succeeding. Takirg again the five y ears ending 1825, the five years ending 1830, the fiv e y ears en di ng 1 8 35, an d the flee 3 ears end ing 1840, in each of these successive periods, a gradual decrease of crimes, for which oipi !al punishment. had been inflicted was shown. in proportion as executions had decreased, so had also the crimes for whi c h thi s kind of punishment was inflicted decreased in extent. But there was after wards another return called for, at the sugges tion of an excellent friend of his who had written on this subject. It was dated the 29th day of August, 1843, and showed a decrease of the crime of murder, and a lessening of capital punish- ' t :e -"-' ''' , " •- , siion —"---,------ °ad which had Lord'. 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