The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

SWEARING JEWISH MEMBERS:

Mr. WAl.POLB,''''''' to notloe, tae to call the at-
tendon of the house to the report of the select committee on
the Jews Act, end to move the resolution recommended
thwein. What the committee proposed was that
on the fourth day—that wee the day before the bug-
Hams of the session was opened by the speech from
the threme—the house should at twelve o'clock, when it rest,
proceed th pass a rerolatioa, annblisg say amber of the
Jewish persuasion to take iota seed on waltscrlbleg to the re-
quired waist, but canittleg the weeds to whisk he enterteised
a conscientious objection. Hy this mesas they MOW have
a full attendance of members to dimwit end de-
cide the Tuition, while the Jewish toombor
not be deprived of his petal/re of taideig ide
seat and 'anticipating In the cameral business of the home as
moo se he plesred. The right hon. gentleman omeladed by
moving a resolution to that effect, which he said he would
afterwards mom be mai* a Wending order.
The resolution wee put and carried unanimously, and
was afterwards smile a standing order.
OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON.

TM ATTORNBY-OBNERAL roes te ;.;;;61eave to
bring In • bill to ooneolidate end amend the statute law of
England snd Ireland relating to offences widest the permed
This end revee other bills to emend the mature law were the
tent of • wire of bills amounting, In the whole, to one
hundred and fifty, which were in • forward date
of preparation, end which, if approved of by parliament,
would oseeplrte the consolidation of the attire statute law of
the United biagdom. At this period :of the session, and of
the pediment he felt reluctantly withheld from submitting
to the Immo any detailed statement of the intentkes of the
' government on this Important subject. He would merely
*breve that after 310 year. of Inertion—efeee the efforts of
SO swot our greatest lawyers sad statesmen had failed,
the late governmett, in pursuance of certain proposal.
and
at the Statute Law Completion' ten
ntave. pre-
=aby Lord Crenworth, undertook the
commtherment
of the leek. These bills were aresaged with great pains by
some of the Ant lawyers sad statesmen of the country, and
were hatrodeced foto the Home of Lords sad theeth that
house to 1866. The ate Salicitor•General them'
is this house in 1867. but their P'olltwili wet LemrapMd
by the dirsolution of parliament. Last weeks the home
was so occupied with other beeinme that it wee
found Impossible to being them forward; but early this ear
'ion be (the Attorney-Omni) was prepared le lay them on
the labia them them it was thought that while omathea-
dog the Motets law of Eogland, it would be as well to at-
tend the coneondatlon to that of Inland. With the able se-
sisteurce of the Attorney-Omer.] for 'lreland; and • the kb'
Solicitor-Gement for Ireland, now* learned ledge, thee. bills
to mired and eonalidate the criminal and statute law of
England and Ireland were prepared. He now boned to
lay them on the table, and he hoped that early in the new
pediment they would become law and result is an entire
oemselidatien of the law.

Mr. WHITEISIDE;Iid that it would be more conventest
In order that there gentlemen who were interested In the
subject should be able to examine them, that the seven bills
which were finished should be prin.ed ; but there wire two
others also, the Procedure Bill and the Puniehmuit Bill,
which laid down the puniebment for each offence, which
were not Ins condition to I e judged of, and he:would, there-
fore ssy that In the latter bill it was proposed to abolish the
punishment of death in about tea Instances, sad mediae
apital punishment only to treason and murder, sad in Ins-
tead conspiracy to murder would no longer be a capital
efkince. It was Intended tot only to amend and consolidate
but to assimilate the law of England sad Ireland, and also to
abolish capital mtniahment in all oases except treason and
murder.
Leave was given to bring in the bill, and seven other., and
they were ordered to be read a second time on Monday.