The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

AOOIIAVATEI; ASSAULTS BILL.

Sir G. tZLlWiff7a:idt.ll;t the ie;aancy of too severe
peaashmente was to defeat their own objects. The pow.
hos of our ancentore had been, as crimes increased, to in•
Brew rb. until at last every offence came to
be me.le capital They bad .in varied their tortures,
asisoapt othess, indicting th!, with cropping of the
can for rennin ahem. Perhaps souse other hon. mern•
her, indignant at the brutality of husbands, might follow
in thewble lord's mike, by proposing the revival of the
pillory. (Mar. War.) 140 little wee the punishment of
goirgovi reform thought of at the beginning of the last
esestury that the lyric poet had thus spoken of it in
va! known couplet

Fearlre on high stood unaheehed the foe.
toil blushing flagrant from the scourge below.
TM iiJht how. gentleman reed letters frets Mr. RAIL Yr.
Ps. ut.r, and other police magistrates exprealme their et
01101 that in the owe of wite.henting busloads the
meet .4 dogging would only aggrawde the reit besides
greatly endangering the lives at ths wive., and expressing
the hope that the noble lord wield consent to withdraw
the 1011.

is Bt NII AM CARTER rid he could not agree with
all the altorationa ietrodoced late the bill by the nettle
lord wbo had the °Deduct of the romsere. Whether the la-
&Mimi of bogging was a proper peusehment was not now a
question. because the house had Mimed that principle in
apes* to the mooed reeding of the bill.
Mr. DEEDDI mid that from the report of the se*.
testes it appeared they were of opinion than wee no pod
ground for- believing the object ot the noble lord sonM he
awned out with any beneficial result. He !greed that
&aim in Mee instances wee an advantage. He wies not
prepared to my that it should not be continued le the enemy,
or employed in the am* of young convict., let he be*
behaved the course propoeed by the bill wee tee whisk the
country would never &Arm
Mr. PULLER mid that the queetion was whether tho
present Mate of the law was working satisfactorily. They
were told that the punishment provided by the law bed not
been carried oat essept iu a very few cam, bid this
was accounted for by the magistrates knowing that the keg
imprisonment of a husterrl was generally followed by the
wife being sent to the workhouse. The actual remit at the
law es it stood was this. that within the last five yearn 3711
persons had been committed for aggntvAtetl mean* GM
women, one-third of such amanita being 00 wives.
however, at the present bill, he could not think that
~.uai.lmient as that proposed should be indicted at the
diservetion "(any wn4le magistrate. They might, however,
safely he entrusted with the power of ..ending COMM to the
quert•-r sessions, and the quarter sessions might then in-
dict the punishment in quisttion.
`Mr BRADY recommended that the bill should be with-
drawn. on the ground that the amendments which had been
augg....ted Should be properly introduced.
Lord RAYNHAM replied, and in doing so stated that
he should be willing to agree to such amendments as might

ItOTre
For going into oceinsitteit
Yoe Clilluessilmmt 174-117
The bill was coesequently
THE HIGHWAYS (SOUTH WALES) BILL
MOM was reed • mond time, end ordered to be ao n.
initteden tie Mk July.

THI VALUATION OF LANDS (SOOTLAND) ACT
______ANIINDNIINT BILL

BLACYBFRN 1;;;;d ii. seemed swami of this
hilL The elijeet al Ilia sisimre was to easead the Velma-
floe Let of MK He regretted that he had aotssea the bill
of the Hos Asaslsrf is nienace to the valuation of Eag•
Led aad Wmiss, bat befieved there could be ao objesliee
to this aismeare. •

—The LOREtaDVOCATE explained the difficulties that
troold attend the adoption of the principle of the lip.
which proposed to tete the net instead of the pee
value.

Mr BLACKBURN, io reply, defended the
Upon a division, the ametelment wee carried by 116 to
69; so the bill is lest.

THE FELONY AND MISDEMEANOUR BILL.
Mr. DENMAN moved the mond reading of the Felony
sad Misdemeanour &IL He recapitulated the alterations
which had been made in the law of procedure upon trials
ti ,nil cases, asd stated that the object of the bill was to
maimilate the rules in respect to the speeches of counsel is
criminal aml civil trials. He dwelt upon the objections to
the law as it stood, and contended that the alteration be
proposed would tend very much to the elucidation of
truth.
Mr. HARDY, Dot opposing the second reading, did sot
aspect all the beaent which Itr. Denman snticipsted from
the bill, and thought the analogy suggested between civil
awl criminal cases failed.

Tb MOLICITOR•OLNERAI. rid, although the home
would, in his opinion, do well to cement to the second read-
ha of this bill, there was say oossiderable force in the
sseeations of Xs. Hardy. The enalogy between civil and
ernanal owes he thought was not quite so close as Mr. Dew
mum, suppose.
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Sir Mr. M. Smith, Mr. S. Eetrourt, and Mr.
°Abell spoke in favour of the principle of the bill, *-
pet* anirodmeste of its details.
The bill wm read a nersend time.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL t.XHIMISSION BILL
The adjourned debate on the mooed reading of the Eccle-
siastical Comeassion MU was resumed by
Mr HENLEY, who maid that Mr. Sels, who had
moved the lunation of the bill, hail made no itrge against
the comrnimine, as at present constituted, for their mode
of usenarribent .4 that which was now entrusted to them,
but urged that t!:e 1,11 by its enactments involved central.
%Verse, e..eirwiteati.,ll, end nmbaatiue. tgaciet. those
60 well se spinet the charge of crueniliture
on tb- !lad of the eornisteitop, the right hun. gerittemsn
angu,.! ..t acne length.
Mr. Pi 1•41: urged that the comity of Ihn:iam ilia not
paroripste in the foals disperseal by The Ed,
Coeur Awl.° is any just proportion to tort which the church
proreyty in that county eautnbuted to the general fund.
31r O. BENTINCK.wm speaking rimiest the bill when,
a quarter to six hay* armed, the debate stood again
adman) ed.
The other orders wen disposed of, and the house ad.
jumped at five minutes to sir. o'clock.

errr Bfflir CIA COUNIMAION. Commiio,ionera
.4 Sewers met ea Tuesday at Ouddhall, Mr. Deputy Christie
Meatier, a district inspector ~f pavement., re-
ported eamerens to bad leen mole of the slow
proms of the Molds Ta ph Company in laying down
sew pipes Is Lesshird-etniet and lenchurchatreet, and
more superiany that • twitch at the weet end of the latter
bad been kept epee atom /Arley last. The subject was ad-
mitted to le one of great importance, but it appeared that
the company have spedd ponies under their act, which the geeeral juriesoa of the commors, and
that the latter, coesequently, ander «dinar, cirmunstansies,
would have no right to iaterfens. In this instance, how-
ever. it was alleged that the pipes were not three in use for
eleven-al um, hut that they were of lead, and were hang
lad down for the purpose at trying experiments as to the
pombilitv of tranenutting paresis by poeumatic power sad
sa it was doubled whether the company really poesemed
the ri;lit to remove the pareasat for such a minims, it was
referred to • committee to inquire sad take the opinion of
the I.h..itor to the 00Matilialli on that point. A circular
was r.e.ired from the vestry of Mt. Martin's-in.tbe-rielda,
reoneetnig the co-operation of the commission in an endea-
vour to have the north low-level sewer constructed along
the hanks of the Thames instead of along the Strand spa
Pleat-strest, se Minolta by the Metropolitan Board of
Works. The circular was referred to the Improvement
Committee.

THE CASI Or PIIOIIIILTTIAM If N 011701,4.— A
special ntting of the Mandeb magistrates was oosemed
yieterLay, at which the parties ocacerned is this cane at-
tended, and as it was reported about the city that scow
fresh disclosures were to be mole assay other pens were
also present. Mr. }inclines, dine constable of the Norwich
pollee— who bee just retorted front Brighten, where he has
bees making inquiries after )alai, the foreign
_priest, who
basbeen nsentioesd in ocionezios with Master Vansittares
light from school--gopoesd, as it was understood, to make
a eta.. neat to the beech ; but when the magistrates bad
aunt:diet, he proceeded with them into a private room.
After an absence of about ten minutes, the magistrates r►
turned
commucicatiow d eoeolderable importance was Node
re the preyiens day by the chief constable to a member of
the Este,h, who thought it desirable that it should be re-
pretri to all his colleagues who !nerd the case. This ono-
municatioe had esoonilogly now been made to the
trate, arembled, who were of opinion after hearing ir=
nothing had arisen to justify any departure from the armee
of praceediag already lid down ; sod the case would thew
fore enure ow Mau. as arranged, oa Monday. Mr. Hilsb-
marl feels it his duty to refrain from making public at pre-
sent the information which he communicated to the
tusks, but his journey to Brighloa does not seem to have
hew attended with much enerena Mr. Vansittart,
was expected is Norwich yesterday. Canon Dalton com-
plains that the press has pre judged his cane, and that but
scanty justice is worded to English Roman catholic&
THREATENS'', STRIKE 1N Tya BCILI.INO MAD'
AT Livrarnot. —There are unfortunately some ayoupecine
mt eatensioe to Liverpool of the strike whisk sorbed
such disastrous evils to the members of the Loaded billhis
Trade last year. The operative house joiners held a meet-
ing at the Concert-hall, —Liverpool, last evening, for time
turisee of taking steps for the reduction of the hours of
ishemr. The more are " advised" that they are drag
thsameghan ealcree their demands, if not complied with by

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