The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-16 00:00:00

CAT LIE, &c. SMITHFIELD, Two o' Clock.
The supply of Beasts today is large, eactisting principally
of forugn and those lift utsild un Monday lut. A few
choice wain tbiogs make about 3s. 104., but 3s. Bd. is the
fair average for hest qualities ; indeed. very little business is
doieg, and several event bs cl 4. For the time of year,
the number of Sheep I. quite large enough. The demand
to so very limited, that Monday's quotations are scarcely
real'ead. Trade for Calves to radar mows Jonffirs, bat it u
Mink to abode say advaase in pries. Ain meet with a
dell, sale at about late prim. Pram Hat and Holland
we hare 348 Beasts, 620 Sheep, and GO Calves ; from Franco.
16 Calves; from Scotland, 240 Beasts; and 136. Mitch Cows
from the Heine Goalies.
ha demo et Oa. a. 5. 6. d. Par Onto of Sibs. a. 4. 1. d.
But Boob. Herefords 3 6 3 lig Dna a; Ilf.-444. Ob 0 0 0 •
But Bbart4iorn• 3 4 3 /3•4 L0agir001a........ 4 4 4 4
&mod vaulty 51456 e 2 4 3 De. de. 8hor• e 0 o
?elves ........ ...... 310 6 DIM sad second %tall, 3 4 3 8
Pip 3 8 4 1 De. do. Mora . 0. 0 0
644 Das. t 114/I.breds 4 6 4 I 0 0
NM la
Bawie at market. 1,121: 0444. and 1,1020.• 1.1.7 : *tames 19);
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

.HOUSE OF LORDS.--Thusaper, FEB. U.

The LORD
4 o'clock.

took his seat on the woo/seek at

PUBLIC MINIM
PETITION&—By the Duke of ItICHNOND, from the Bath Chetah
AseeMMom preying their lordship to refuse to endow the Romeo
Cathode :arm to Ireland. or say other part of the British poems.
alms; from s Board of Clamdlem of annex, complaining of the
demerallalmf Medd ben The BlAhop of (MORD, la favour
of fampramgoa of Prostitution Bill, from places to Boars and fifes•
meter.

HICST IMMO. at Prostitution Bill.
811COND ititaDlNak— Law Orasolidatka ; Casaba!
Lw Clossoliketew_; Imam Sale krassaisask Bill.
OltDaltaD.sessw Sara (lawn).—Returns
of
assweet Wad Sea 17861141, ti deem&t
Ilma (bstasre).—Reteras at the mount at edmiolstered oleos the
%the law.
OF MOTlON.—Arusoar Stara halm—The Bishop of
011101111, at has* sta. dapt committee, to inquire istu the
bast mesas Oast !dab aus t kr the Seal extinction ot.
BANKRUPT LAW CONSOLIDATION AND canu-
NAL LAW CONSOLIDATION BILLS.
Lord BROUGHAM, in moving the second 'ding of
these bills, said he intended to have the prepared situation*
printed in a schedule, yid& be thought would be the most
caavesiest way to give their lordships full information on
the matter. He observed that these bills had the approbs.
lion of his noble sad learaed Blend, Loyd Lyndhurst. He
wished to inform them that the Bankruptcy Act of 1832 had
worked c :Oar ely well, inasmuch as there bad been no more
than one appeal on an average from each commissioner.
Both MIL were then read a second time and Earned to a
select committee.

Lord CAMPBELL, in moving the second reading of this
bill, charged the Irish magistrates, in certain localities, with
transporting parties oat of the country in order to lighten the
poor -rates.

The Marquis of ULU/WET and the Duke of RICHMOND
severally denied that there was the slightest ground for such
a charge, end opposed the bill.
Lord BROUGHAM was opposed to the continuance of
any law which made transportation a valuable punishmext.
Lord STANLEY reminded Lord Campbell that sentences
of transportation were pron•unoed not by local magistrates,
but by Litigant barristers or stipendiary magistrates uncon-
nected with the district. It was to be regretted that a mea-
sure of this kind should be brought forward before they had
some explanation from ministers of their views on the much
larger question of transportation generally. He referred to
the evils consequent on the accumulation of male convicts,
and opposed the opinion that it sons objectionable to trine-
port females. The system of probation for female convicts
in the colonies he believed had been attended with beneficial
results, and he hoped, therefore, the report that government
were about to pot en end to it was unfounded.

Karl GREY was of opinion that transportation must he
looked upon not so much ea a system of discipline and
punishment as one of banishment; but of banishment wider
the control of the governor of the whin y. When the discip-
line and conduct ores nvicta were str city looked after, 99 out
190 became useful colonists. The system the government
proposed to adopt was to send the convict to Wakefield or
Pentonville far a longer or shorter period—from sixteen
to eighteen months, according to the nature of his
crime, as a place of probation, frem whence he would be
forwarded to Gibraltar, Bermuda, or Portland Island, to
labour in association, and there their stay would depend
entirely on their own gelatines. From thence they would be
transported to New South Wales, one of our more distant
colonies, where, by continued good conduct, they would be-
come entitled to tickets of leave ; such tickets, however, not
to be granted until by their labour the convicts had paid half
the cost of their transport to the colony. The amount thus
obtained would go into the colonial treasury. It was proposed
that the Cape of Good Hope should be one of the elopes for
the reception of convi-ta ; and though the colonists th. re
were dissatisfied with that arrangement, he thought, con-
sidering the expense we had bun put to in respect the
Kaffir war, there could be no reasonable objection, and it
was proposed at once to send there 160 convicts from Ber-
muda. With regard to female convict., government pro-
posed to transfer all these now confined in floating prisons to
some receptacle on shore, where effectual measures for refor-
mation might be adopted. But the whole question of the
confinement rf women convicts under an efficient system of
reformatory discipline was still under the consideration of
government.
The bill was then read a second time, and the house ad-
journed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIMIDAY, FEE. 15.
The house met at 4 o'clock, when there was a tolerably
full attendance of members. Honourable gentlemen how-
ever quickly quitted. No business wss transacted, and at
about three minutes after 4 a menthes. observed Out there
were not forty members present. The house was imme-
diate'y counted, and as only tweutyluur were found in their
places, it was at once adjourned.