The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

dr which will not be forgotten in our history,'
the tirst Government
.grant in aid
%tas made, minute us
.11 was. We think
y•
tiun
ti7t ithappier day still when the
vr:, local rate adoptcd as a national theory
sti prAtac. Perhaps' this ought to satisfy us for
sad, perhaps, we can continue to be
eiossril for a little vi hile—but only. for a little
wey solar.* oui•selves with repeating
„,. lyre uo pro% tsion fur the most dan-
K 7,0 en d perishiog el/maw—no express encourage-
Indotrial Schools—no indication of a
▪ ~stem. It the measure cannot be
(7103,,,t „, av to comprehend these objects, our next
g..!, wait to be char enough—to get this measure
...LA aarr to obtain all that can be got—to
17.,,xe one town-counc.ls and rural residents to
is :torso's and a/butter.' to the utmost, and to
nivr.—noer resting till every child
four was !lain his due place in his own
e„,..;111, ar'oo..td, and his rights from the State.

Ittit.ov has introduced a Bill for the better
ot tbs helpless', the great feature of which
Ate.:l.- %omen should no longer be left without
wu
.1.. t etton s hick accorded to the lower
irtteinals. The intention of the Bill, in
fir. %,r, to place women in respect of pro-
afi on • level nut worse than horses and
this cm scarcely be considered as much, but
K:s •step in the right direction, and we were pre-
vd to give It unr cordial support. The House of I
twa.ans last night *cot into committee upon the
bt wiu. as lUSISISS:Ut moved by Mr. BARROW I
betti dispose ef, Mr. PIIINN proposed
amendment, the subjee tic which has already
tto. wi1n3,111% cried upon in se coAnuns. Mr.
110 argues` tit was to the effect that assaults
at
jgur u toiming a peculiar class of offences,
should be dealt with in a peculiar manner. Ha
etoe.mended therefore a deviation from the usual
htu,cc mode of the administration of punishment
is hoi,and. and advocated a return to the use of the
wig?, leis ameudintut, we arc happy to say, was
Let as examine the logic of corporal punishment.
Take the case of the man who halt murders his wife,
slid who, not being able to pay five pounds for the
bag!, is under the present law sent to expiate his
edsact for a few weeks in prison. The chance is
that he is a drunkard, and he is now put upon the
wry regimen which is most likely to produce an im-
p)' meet in his habits. He is kept to hard and re-
gular work; he is bound to be clean ; he is severed
profligate companions. In short, he is intro-
tgreder;apraubancliwle6etti:tr ethreeyumsmatyaneheiciveannodeaffltechotuguh it
pon
yin in the way of conversion, they—except under
gecuhsr conditions—will have no effect the other
TAT. It bout very likely that he will return a much
vase husband than be was at his entranceinto gaol.
gut, suppose this man, instead of being placed under
whoa,which has at least a tendency to refer-
were sentenced to be flagged. Mr. PUINS
lotuses that eight days shall intervene between con-
*non and punishment, so that the prisoner will
Ind an eight days torture by terror. It is in vain
to third: of talking about reformation to a man when
le knows that, in a few &ye' time, you are going to
crab's back in pieces with a cat-o-nine-tails. He
ha enough to do to prepare himself for the coming
ithctica. Is he likely to think very tenderly of his
in:e during this time that he is suffer-
uuder the agony of expectation ?
ILI he look very amiably at her when
b returns home with his wounds half healed?
When he winces under the smart that has not yet
parted will this do anything towards the promo-
raan of peace between the husband who has been
tagged and the woman who has been the cause of the
logging? No. The lash has roused a little more
the fiend within him, and his wife will not be
'mg betore she finds it out. He will let her feel the
dects of his anger again, and again he will be
kought up. What will you do now ? If you are
ecesistent, you must flog him again, but more
severely than ever. Is there any reasou for supposing
that your second experiment will be more successful
than the first ? It it is not, what will be your re-
scree the next time that the man is brought up ?
Toe must go on increasing your punishment until
you have reached the very limit that the human
frame will boar. Unless you do this you confess that
your system is a failure, your corporal punishment is
s snake.
And if ygta do go this extent what conclusion have
re arrived at ? Nothing kite, if you consider, than
that increasing gradations of torture are the only
msedies for hardened criminals. Is a heavy cut
Id the lash much less painful than a slight turn of
de thumb-screw ? is there not a great similarity
ktwecn int‘rearing the number of stripes and giving
more turns to the screw ? And, after all, is nut the
rate a clearer, surer, easier, less disgusting mode of
isictiug punishment than a whip dripping with
hoed at meth of its thongs?
The advocates of the whip, it they are 14144
moot stop short on this side of torture. If the Ma
teabhment for cruelty is the infliction of Wily
pun on tire criminal, it beim= a duty as
look out for the most of lent methods of
'Acting pain. Call in the OM it ohm
red invent a machinery of nil ad am* SINN
worthy of the age, and burns meM akum Ow nip
intisments of our forefathers. It wM he a SIN
Mast for England that she has taken the hdtiative
is the fibrillation and perfection of insteiments et
*tin. We are glad to find that eemmay mime
yoke oat test a proposal which was% is
have n the commencement of a usloirsir
seriemeat ia lagisiation. If, atter all the AMU of
he rekesiere far centuries, we can do as
brier than resort to the most primitive
media of correction for offences, the fez
Inbasa—if penishineot can only be adininiatered in
ths shape of tartars—we may as well make a elan
sweep d that pert of the penal law which mamma
the correct* of ellenders, and give a eerie foienelie
hriry cam tea magisterial Frail-de-Beef. It is
puffing, -however, to find that there is no chance
tlis taking plan at present, and that so many
ambers recorded their votes against a proposidon
laud, if sircessfal, would have resulted in an incl-
inable blot on our statute-book. We most cheek
%panted aseaulta and their brutal perpetrate/a,
let sot by outdoing them in brutality.

,ELECTION COMMITTEES.
Yesterday the general committee of electioci
erasinted the following new coaimittem :
ITSIIIOUTII.—Sir B. Hall (enairman), Sir W. Joilife,
Mr. J. Martin, Mr. W. Forbes, sad Kr. Bass. Member
mincer(' against, Mr. Hagh Taylor.
COCIIILMOUTH.—Mr. 0. A. Huainan (Chairman), Mr.
Neilsen, Mr. It. Moore, Hon. C. Berkeley, and lend J.
Ilaaaan. Mention petitioned spinet, Mr. Agßooby and
Wyodhiss.
ATIILOII.—Kr. Brannon (chairman), Mr. Bright, Sir
J. Dockwords, Mr. Z. C. Egerton, sad Mr. Tuition. Moa-
k* !claimed against, Mr. Keogh.

THE PRINCE OF ARMENIA AND LORD
CAMPBELL'S SPEECH IN THE HouSE OF
LARDS.

TO TIM 1111'101 Ur THI SIMON.
Sift,—lbe epee& of Lord Campbell in the House
IlLords on Monday lest, the 4th of April, is the Er-
Pi's, of tbei 6th April, compels me to recnest your in-
union of this article to comet the errors which he has
kmaitted. How amid his lordship, In presenting a peti-
tion on belpilf_ of the Armenians in India, soy : " The
Armenians had erased to be a nation." A nation like
Armenia, for having been divided Lodge's the three
mighbouriog powers, preservesMill.its ustioasli". Poland
P‘o,ll it. The noble lord, in speaking of the Armenian
mat, has said, " Their priests had a confused notion of
theeanon law. Such was the case with regard to civil rights,
but is respect to criminal law, they were in a much wane!
sedition. • In this ease I would refer his lordship to the I
Armenian Isere made by my ancestors, Leo 11., Kiag of
Anaemia in IVA ; Priem Leo de Lusignan, called te the
tiros in Sine the coronation of this prince, the
Iswo made by the priests have (timed to be extant ; and
ander Leo VI. the laws are almost European.
Besides, they bad no power, as the Armenian laws only
hes the rights of citizens to those persons horn in Anne-
tta Mikir or Armenia Min•'r. The Armenians born in
ham are not cionesquently is this ease.
I remain, yours truly, LEO,
Sovereign Prince of Armenia, now an
Eailed of Emperor Nicholas.
Ji, New Wed-street, liindon, April 6, 1843.

BRIBERY AT ST. ALBANS.—Yesterday an official
Slier stated that last year wu paid 9101. 9s. 9d. on account
of the I;.(nses of the commission for inquiring into bribery
at '4'...l:bans