The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

L ONDOS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17.

FIRST on the list of notices of motion in the House.,
of Commons fur this evening stands one referring to
a case, before mentioned:in these columns, in which a
Judge pronounced a sentence unsanctioned by any
law generally recognised by the community. This I
case is now to be brought for the second time under
the attention of Parliament by the gallant Member
for Westminster, Sir DE LACY Ist•ANS; and his notice
rune as follows:
To inquire of the Secretary of State for the Home De.
payment, concerning a recent trial at the Middlesex .9,5-
sion%, in which it is stated that Mr. Serjeant Adams, who
presided, sentenced Mary Hill to seen years' transporta-
tion fur robbery, ant to three years' additional transporta-
tion for calling a policeman a pig ;—with a view of founding
a motion thereon, if the facts be as stated, and if the pre
sent state of the law be inadequate for enabling the Secre-
tary of State to correct this description of judicial adminis•
tration.
So short a time has elapsed since we fully reported
the case thus referred to, that it is scarcely neces-
sary to repeat again any exact particulars.
It is enough just to call to mind that
a woman named MART HILL was tried on the
tith of March, at the Middlesex Sessions, and con-
victed of stealing a watch from a man with whom
she had made acquaintance in the streets late at
night. That when the time came fur pronouncing
sentence upon her, Mr. Serjeant ADAMS, the presiding
judge, ordered her to be transported for seven years,
but the prisoner having launched some abuse at a
policeman who had given evidence against her,--call-
lag him "a pig; a perjured pig"—Mr. Serjeant ADAMS
sentenced her to 10 years' exile, or three extra years'
transportation, literally for railing at a constable in
presence of the even-tempered SoLoN of the Mid-
dlesex Sessions.
At a moment when tho public have scarcely
recovered from their surprise at the result of a re- I
cent trial at Derby—this proposed reference to the
way in which justice behaves itself in Middlesex be-
comes doubly interesting and important. At Derby
we see Mr. Buren PARKE—said to be the highest of
high Turies—permlttlug MOUGAN, the Briber, to
go free after conviction of the charges against
him ; when, lo! turning round, we behold an Assistant
Judge in Middlesex sending a woman to the heavy
punishment of three years in the hulks for getting out
of temper. How astounding the contrast! The town
of Derby may be discredited—the electoral franchise
be disgraced—the access to our Senate House be made
a matter of infamous bargain and sale—the very
fountain whence all our hopes of good
legislation must spring be polluted by the in-
famous agents of an infamous system—the culprit
may be token in the very act of using Tory gold to buy
the suffrages of rotten voters in the very teeth of
well-known acts of Parliament forbidding such
Grimes, and ordering punishment therefor—all
this may be done, moreover, at the very moment
when the entire nation is ringing with indignation
against the corruptors of our Parliamentary system,
and when Despotic Rulers on the Continent are chuck-
ling scornfully over the rottenness of Parliamentary
Governments; and yet the convicted culprit is re-
leased " upon his own recognizances "—in other
words, allowed to walk from the dock scot free.
At the very time when one Judge is thus dealing
with the hoary-headed Briber, Moitomt, at Derby,
the hulks have is their —ay liarge the young

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Viscount PALMERSTON said the proposal of the right woman, Muir HILL, to hold her there-for ten years I that a treaty, having referenceg to the Turkish ques-
hon. baronet really involved the whole principle of the —companion of the guilty, the infamous, and the tion, was signed between Eugland and Prance two
limited) The °Meet was to establish • board, of wretched—shut from friends, associates, and liberty days ago. 1 can, however, only mention it as are-
limited numbers, to whom should be ecnifidecl the financial
arrangements of the county, and which should derive its seven years for taking a watch from the temporary mour, which, to my own apprehension, does not ap-
origin from election. Now he was of opinion that that was sharer of her infamous amours ; and three years peat- very likely to be true.
a good principle. It was affirmed by a committee of that for calling an offending policeman—a pig. If such To-day, at the Bourse, the closing prices were:—
house in 18.51, on which there were persons net at all re-
presenting the democratic principle, but as anxious for the contrasts pass unchallenged, must not justice be Three per Cents., for both cash and the account,
as
brougatte isms. ht into utter contemn t us? Shall we pt amongs; Four•and-a-Half ditto, 104 f.
maintenance of the institutions of the country the right
hon. baronet himself could be ; and therefore it was really not all again and again mutter with poor LEAR : and 104 f. 10e. for the settlement. 13e. for cash,
Bank Stock
a clap-trap to say that this was a democratic measure " Shut your eyes—then, handy dandy—change 2,740 f.
arising from a desire to overturn established institutions, places—Which is thejustice,whichisthethicf?" With Railway shares continued to be well supported in
and to bring into disrepute the gentry and the magistracy the declaration of Major Benfisrono at Essex that price.
of the country. (Hear, hear.) The real question which the charges against hint were the result of an infa- PARIS. TVESDAY EVENINO.
the house had, then, to decide was, whether the proposed
amendment was coneistent with the principle of the bill mots conspiracy—with that declaration on the hue- The Mottileur publishes another list of $8 persona
and practicable in operation. It wu proposea to tinge followed by the disclosures of the Committee who were sentenced to various degrees of puntia-
aed a very smell number of elective members Rooms on the Derby election—with the apprehension meat by the commissions appointed to examine the
in one case to 4.60 existing magistrates. Now he would and conviction of Briber Mortoats, found guilty cases of political prisoners after the affair of the and
really ask the house whether it were possible to suppose
that a board consisting of 4-50 members, plus the mem- .
in the Assize Court—yet set free unpunished— December, 1851, and who are now pardoned li.• the
ben who would be elected, would be a hoard which could with all these things fresh in memory, and then Emperor.
advantageously administer the finances of a county ? Why with the additional fact that a woman is The Marquis de Valdegamas, Envoy Extra‘od.ioary
it would be like that house in committeeof supply. (Hear, to be transported for three years for calling and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Queen of Spain,
hear.) It was quite out of the question. It was curious to a policeman a pig—are we to be expected had yesterday a private audience of the E'.nperor, for
perceive what uifferent views gentlemen of the same politics
took of this measure. While the right hon. baronet pro- .
to sustain or reverence our administration of the the purpose of presenting the insignia of the Royal
posed an amendment which would lead to the establish- taw ? The Home of Commons has before it at this Order of Noble Ladies of Maria Lou, sa, which bit
ment of a board consisting of rOO members, another hon. moment a Bill for adjusting more equitably than Sovereign has conferred on the Empaess.
gentleman. who belonged to Hampshire, and who die- heretofore the degrees of punishment that shall The Emperor and Empress, wfale taking their
approved of the principle of the measure, had just
intimated to him (L'ird Palmerston) that, in overhang those guilty ofbrutal conduct to women. Is usual carriage airing yesterday, alighted in the
a blow of the fist or a kick tho only way in which Champs Elysi,es, and walked a short distance along
order to prevent
board of
hoilerddianfromhould being. rot, nhu-
g thought, a helpless fellow-creature can be injured? Can the promenade. They inspected the works of the
one member. The right *hon. ientleman "the Parliament in its wisdom say that Serjeant Crystal Palace now buildinra in the Caere MariguY,
I(l.lineeeerraotheuosnrlfYor Oxford (Mr Henley) thought many of the ma- ADAMS is guiltless ?—if Mr. Baron PARKE be right ? land then went on foot to pay a visit to the Duchisi
1 gistrates would never attend, because of age or infirmity. If at Derby a Briber escapes scot free, is of Hamilton, in the Place Beauvan. In the evening
What, then, become of the argument of the light hon. it 11.
ea itable *that a woman helplessly entangled they went to the French opera.
baronet (Sir J. I'akington) that magistrates should couti- . -
board, in order that their body might be Ter-
i nue at thefelony shall have three • . /
_,
M. Hubner, the Austrian ambassador, gave a
in the consequences of a
I suited ? (Hear, hear.) Represented against what ? he years' additional imprisonment for abusing a con- 1 grand dinner on bunday to celebrate the recovery of
I very object of the bill was to exercise a contest over what stable ? Is it a greater abomination to scold a po- , his sovereign. Baron Rothschild, and about sixty
we, supposed to be a lavish expenditure of county rates.
Not that he himself thought the expenditure lavish. Re Beeman than to bringinfamy on our electoral system, ' guests, principally members of the toys tiVomatigee,
and disgrace upon the House of Commons itself? To- i were present.
believed that, practically, it would be much the same, . -
steer this alteration, as it had been hitherto ; but the ex-peer of
night that House, by its conduct on Sir Dr; LACY I The Marquis Sauvaire Barthelemy, e
satisfaction, and contentment, and harmony, among the EvaNs's motion, will have an opportunity of deciding I France and ex-representative, has just arrived 'a
ratepayers, would certainly be increased. (Hear, hear.) the question. ' Paris from Venice, where he has passed a month
lie objected to the amendment, on the grounds that it was When the case of MARY lIILL was last brought ' with the Count de Chambord.
calculated to defeat the object of the bill ; and holding that
if there was to be a select number of magistrates to manes° . under. the notice of the house of Commons, them A numerously-attended meeting of bondholders of
the expenditure, it should be the result of election. 1 nomE SECILF.TART who has no leisure for reading I the old Portuguese loan contracted in Parra in 1833
Mr. MILES would suggest that a certain number of ma- I newspapers—knew nothing of the case. By this time 'by I lon Miguel, and not recognised by Hotng,
gi•trates, who were especially qualified to deal with 1 his Lordship has had need not only to go over the ; Maria, was held yesterday at the Bourse. i
Several
finances, should be selected at quarter sessions, and that !
the
to these should be added elected member-, of the boards of . -
guardians. There would thus be secure a a financial board rticulars of it, but doubtless to communicate with documents were communicated, and great satisfaction
with an infusion of new blood,which would be well adapted i the Judge whose conduct has been called in question. `was expressed that claims so long neglected had at
, As the motion includes tho words, " if the facts be as ! length attracted the attention of the French hrorrri.
to carry out the main object of the bill. (Cries of " Di- stated "—let us add that the occurrence appeared I ment.
vide.")
Mr. FRESIIFIELI) supported, the amendment.
Mr. I'OItTAL said in bin woe pursuit of his object the
and that it will, course, • I • ' hof ''''•
lin the newspapers from the notes of the reporter of I The Minister of the Interior has given notice to-
the court in which the trial of Mara Iltbt took' day that private despatches for Piedmont will now
right hon. gentleman had actually proposed to give the : place,of become his be reee've el at the Electric Telegraph office in Paris
iraneltise to persons who were not assessed. In the win-', duty if need be, to verify those notes. The memory at the following charges :—For a despatch
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ebester union there were eleven parishes, none of which of Mr. Scrjcant ADAMS and the note-book of the ' wont:, from l'aris to the Piedmontese frontier,. i
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were assessed to the county rate ; yet the guardians of reporter
thot7 pari.hen would, v.,.0.. r tee provi‘ions of the bill, have may possibly hold record of other 'from the Pielmontese frontier to Chambery, 2f. tit+r
Ivr .a- in the eleetie n ..1 the fin owlet board. (Ilear, titer.)
ini• 4lowed how lit•te tie right hon. gentleman knew of lruliatities that may have drawn attention to the I to St. Jean de Maurienne, 4f. 84c.; to Lau, le Bourg/
,x. r. Ivan ma/. may pas- • . Sc.. ;to Susa,Sf. c. ; to U 9
each in Middles M Se • t A 'S • "f tte
the matter upon which he was legislating.
Mr. SPOONER Said he was decidedly in favour of the sibly have been called upon to reply to questions Asti, 13f. 4c.; to Alexandria, llf. 44c. ; to (1,31 e!
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'front the IioME SECRETARY, and those replies may 15f. 80c. ; to Verecil, 16f. 72c.; to Novara, 171'. tile.,
principle of this bill; but as there were sevctal gentlemen' perhaps be made public. We shall see. What Lord to Novi, 15f. 28c. ; to Genoa, 17f. 36a.