The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

JURIDICAL SOCIETY.

Last night, a meeting of members was held at
the society's rooms, Trafalgarpleoe; Mr. CHARLIIII CLAM
ta the chair.

Some preliminary dimension took place with regard to
the appointment of • committee to co-operate with the
committee named by the Society for the Amendment of the
law for the of establiehing a foundation in honour
of Sevigoy, the great Gummi jurist. It was determined
that it would be better eat to has two committees, but
that the name of any member of the Juridical Society who
wished to join the committee should be forwarded to the
secretary of the Law Amendment Society.
Mr. Bear Sec resumed the subject of discussion for the
evening, namely—the "treatment of oar crimioale," which
was adjourned from a previous evening. With regard to
the treatment of criminal., be contended that reformation,
however desirable, ought not to be made the primary Sr
ject of poniebment. Nothing could be more dangerous and
*jest to those who were not criminals, but who, from
poverty or other circumstance. were on the verge of crime,
than to place before their eyes the example of offenders who
were treated with indulgence and petted in prism He
objected to the doctrine that men were tempted into crime.
There were so doubt many cues in which men were led
into crime by the society L which they mixed, or from
want of proper education, but on the other hand there
were mole is me, for which men should he made responsible,
independent of any extrinsic co-operating agency. He
also believed that any remission of the penalty was a mis-
take. The effect of leuieecy of that kind wu to make
hypocrite's:id not penitent.. On the whole he regarded
the preset system as • mixture of false sympathy and
imbecility, which could only be productive of evil.
Mr. GLENN agreed in the general views etunciated by
Mr. Best.

WinTLAIU thought it wu possible to unite the
primitive and reformative principle in the treatment of
aiminels ; but instead of carrying on the process at the
game time it shonkl be divided into two distinct
periods. The punishment should recede, and should be
sharp and short, and then the system of reformation should
begin. Oorporal punishment was. io his opinion, too much
disused of Ist& He considered that the Falkland lalanda
might ha used as a plasm of transportatioo with benefit.
Mr. F. LAIMINCI did not think that robberies with vio-
lence bad so much increased as was generally supposed, and
osewidend that it would not be wise to legislate in • period
of pink. It was notorious that when they treatod their
criminals with cruelty they were a more barbarous and cruel
people than they were now.
Mr. WOESLET replied, after which the meeting sdjournal.

Miss Faithfn l is about to publish at the Victoria
Prow, by her Majesty's special permirsioo, a volume of
original contributions In poetry and prose, dedicated to her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, os her marriage.
Among the authors we Bud Anthony Trollops, Miss Mar-
theism, Preteens. Kingsley. Christina 'tossed, Hoe. Mn.
Norton, Hamilton Hide, Earl of Carlisle, Mrs. Grote, Miss
Moloch, Frederica Rowan, Louis Blanc, Sydney Dobell,
Mrs. S.C. Hall, Ina Craig
i and George Macdonald.
x. 28. The undermen-
tioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of bar-
rider-at-kw by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-us, via
:
Isambard Brunel, Esq M.A., Oxford; Reginahl Card-
; well, Esq., M.A., Oxford; James Henry plenary, Esq.,
Oxford • Thomas Godfreillt'aumett, Esq., M.A.,
Oxford ; Frederick Whittles, ~ M.A., Cambridge' ;
Thomas Erskine Holland, Peg. .A.. Oxford ; Joseph
Hesry.Wartior, tiq., B. Oxfoi:d ; James Weston, Esq.;
Edward Montague Earle Welby. Seq., RA., Oxford;
Har-
wood Tucker, Esq. IL A., Oxford John Cutler, Esq.,
8.A., Oxford; Edmund HDzizWodehouse, Esq.
Oxford ; Hairy Montage , Esq. ; Charles Peeving,
Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; Frederic Auguetes Burgett, E.q.,
B.A. Losasa ; Jae Henry Brougham Vivian, Esq. ;
Iranian Nathan* Oates. Esq. ; D.eimn. &urges, Peg.,
B. A. sad LLB.. Loudon ; _ es Henry Stewart, Esq. ;
and Muter Coolasraniny,Eaq.
EQUALISATION or Pooa Rolm —Rt a meeting
ef the sleetsd vestry of St. George the Nertyr, Southwerk,
last smokes, Mr. Colllson in the chair, a anstroittoe of the
whole vestry reported, on a reference ran the lest meeting
on this subject, to the following effect :—" That the main-
tenance of the poor is morally, and ought to be legally,
the equal duty of all the members of the community, in
proportion to their pecuniary means, without distinction as
to the accident of local residence or the nature of the pro
petty from which their means are derived. That therefore,
however it might have been in old feudal times, in the present
age, when the means of conetant and rapid locomotion and
other progremive caner have altogether changed the circum-
I weans al seeiety, and when the alteration in the law
of settlemest has changed, and is constantly changing the
residence and the burden of paupers, it is clearly unjust
I that some poor Forelle& should be almost crushed thereby,
while other and richer parishes are scarcely celled on to
touch the burden with one of their fingers ; that it has,
therefore, become the manifest duty of the government to
devise and the legislature to enact such provisions in rela-
tion to the matter as, while securing ample cheeks against
extravagance and jobbery, on the one band, shall, as the
other, bring equally into contribution the inhabitant', of
all localities and the possessors of ell descriptions of pro-
perty alike." Mr. James moved the adoptioa of the report
and the resolutions it contained, which baring bees
seconded by Mr. Rea User., Mr. Sewali objected to the re-
solutions as altogether changing the system of taxatioo ; but
after some conversation, the report and resolution were
eartitnem LIVI NOS AT THS AUCTION Mawr.—
Yeeterday, Mr. Oakley, of the firm of Mews. Smith,
Son, sad Oakley, auctioneers, offered to public com-
petition, at the Auction Mart, in one lot, the next
presentatioes to the rectories of Somerleyton and
Ashby, sew Lowestoft, Suffolk. flomerleyton was described
as of the value of 44W. per annum, and Ashby, 7/61. ; total
6661. The age of the rector was stated to be 80, and the
explietmery of his life by the tables four years. The
highest bid having reached 4.2501. the lot was bought in.
A MAN KILLti, BY HIS Bemuse. —On Sunday
night last another murder was committed in Birmingham.
New Canal-street, the places where the shocking occurrence
took plane, is situated in one of the lowest parts of the
town, end has many courts which are inhabited almost
solely by the Irish. In a house is one of these courts
John Killagban lived with his wife and two children, and
bad two lodgers, Michael Lundy, hie wife's brother, and
John O'Doonell, a friend. All these people lived comfort-
ably enough together under ordinary oirounntances, and
whets they occasionally quarrelled soon made matters up
again. At 10 o'clock on Sundae night Killaghan was in bed
epstein with his wife, sod O'Donnell was sitting in the
lower room dozing before the fire. Lundy, who hod bean
eat drinking. came end kicked at the door, and as it was
sot at once opened for him he tried to break it open. Kil-
hetes, who had been woke uo by the poise, cams down-
stairs in his shirt, but, seeing that O'Donnell was unlock-
ing the door, went bac* again to bad. As soon as Lundy
got into the house he began smashing the furniture, and
Killaghan again came downstairs to stop him. Having
vainly reinoestrnted with the drunken man, Killaghan
struck him, and a struggle ensued, in which Killaghan was
stabbed four times iu the side with a knife. As soon as
he saw what be bad done Lundy ran off, and has not yet
been beard of. Assistance was at own obtained, and Kil-
l/ashen was conveyed to Use Cieoenl Hospital, when be
died within half an hour after be was admitted.

AN UNBU'UKTZD RAILWAY COLLIKION.—Last
week a acenewlwa serious railway collision occurred cm tie
North-Eastern Railway, mar to Berwick, through an ms.
glee. with a caiviage conveying several foremen and beads
of departmeete in the employ of the company, coming into
collision with an empue beloogiog to Mr. Lawton, the cow-
imam. The collision was extremely violent. Several of
those in the carriage fainted through the violeoce of the
shock, but none of them were materially injured. The
engineman in the employ of Mr. Lawton wee badly scolded,
ad is said to be in ► somewhat down= stall.