The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

tendons were presented by Mr. BAZLIT, from MM.
theatre, against the Itsting of Public Buildings Bill ; by Mr.
COWAN, from merchants end shipowners of Glasgow coin-
plalning that, owing to a monopoly enjoyediTn; society is
ud Loon, Scotland was deprived of early ebi and mari-
time Intelligenos; by Mr. Melina, from Stamford, oom-
plainiog of thnineeldssey of the Reform Bill; and by Mr. Z.
J Sere, from Marylebous preying the house to pans (
sold
providing that corn and seek like oommodities should be
by imperial measure.
TRILL BY JURY (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Mr. DUNLOP snowed the mond reeding, end observed
that in & Aland criminal came were tried by fifteen jurymen,
and the deneion of the majority beetled the matter. Five
',sere ago be procured es set whereby, in civil cases, the de-
cision of sine out of twelve jurymen should be acceptable by
the court, alter six houri deliberation on the pert of the
jury. That system had worked exceedingly well, but it wu
found by experience, that locking rip • jury, instead of ad-
vancing the ends of the mijority, generally assisted
the minority in getting their verdict sdoptol; and
the object of this bill wee to reduce the period
of enforced conflatement from six to three honre.

Mr. MONCREIFF supported the btil. He said there
had beam few oases where verdicts had not been returned
tinder the existing system, sad a good many where that re-
sult had been arrived at after the six hears confinement.
Had the time been shorter the remit would no doubt have
been the same; but a faring had arisen that six hours
favoured more thr ends of the minority than the majority.
For his own part be thought the system of deciding by a
majority woe Sonndiad in justice and common sense, and
might be adviategeoesly adopted by England.
The LORD ADVOCATE readily weeded to the propeed
change, but trial by jury wee so much mixed op with the
.toms, habits, and feelings of society that he was not sur-
prised that thine wee objection to extending the eystem of
unanimity to Inglend. In Scotland the feelings and prac-
tice of the people were favourable to it; in England the feel-
wad preetke wee just the contrary.
Mr. K. JAMES was decidedly of opiates that to extend
the system of Scotland to England would be a disastrous
change of the law.
Mr. BUCHANAN said no doubt the prejudices of Rag-
land were against such a change. In Scotland there was •
strong feeling just the other way.
Mr. HACKLE could not admit that human nature wee
different in Scotland to what It was In England. When he
wee a member of the New South Wales legislature he was
inetttuuental in bringing about a change in the system of
unanimity is civil cases whereby a verdict of three fourths was
accepted. Unanimity in such caries he had found was
quite illueory.
Kr. MELLOR was sorry that an opportunity had not been
afforded the been of discussing this question of unanimity as
applicable to England. Hie own experience had cent:irreg.:l
ham in the view that it would he ezosedingly unwise to
change the criminal law, but as regarded civil owes, ha
thought the system of a majority might be advent•geosaly
adopted.
Mr. COWAN oontendel that the principle of unanimity
of juries was a stigma upon the enlighteareent of the age.
Juries were steered, not reasoned into verdicts as be bad
totem to know, having been the foreman of • jury who had
to tames the value of some waste land nearly always covered
by the sea. He valued to the *weer at a farthing, another
at 100,0001., and ultimately a starvation verdict of .501. was
returned. . . . . . .

14. B:WORTLEY indorsed the opinion given by the
boa. and brand amber for Yarmouth (Mr. Mellor). He
thought, however, the law might to so changed as to pro-
vide for the payment and aoccommodation of juries, and not
allow them to angst from the many annoyances and macaw.
venteneni attending the working of the present system..
The bill was then read a second time.
LAW . ASCRRTAINMENT BILL.
. .

Mr. flu ;mi.mood the snood rairai aa. bill, the
object of which was to fe6litate the settlement in English
and Scotch courts of foreign points of law. At
present the mode of determioing such matters wes
most onmberenne end expensive, end be proposed to
establish • simple, expedition', and economic d proem%
whereby an Kentish court could determines quenion 4
Scotch law or • Scotch court a quell ion of English law.
Mr. MAt.INS warmly supported the bill, sad regretted
that It did not go further, as enabling the court.
of the United Kingdom to adopt the same ma.
chime, in determining disputed points of foreign
leer. To illustrate the necessity of such a change
in law, he mentioned the case in which he was
neatly engaged, sod in which the town of Southampton
suffered to the extent of 100,0001. A Minato'
htl kit that sum to the town for accomplishing certain
public objects, but the nest of kin disputed the will
on the ground that or the testator, who wee •
most eccentric person, had lived in Calais for the last
fifteen yea., be must be taken to be a French subject domi-
ciled in France, and thereto,. hie will was bed, inas-
much as it did not castors to the provisions
of the Code Napoleon. Now, the simple question
which the English court had b irdde was this
matter of domicile, and to determine it the town of South-
staptca wee put to an expense of 25,0001. Even then It
was not settled, end ultimately, as there appeared to be little
prospect of genie( at the French law of the cam, a com-
promise wee ease to whereby the corporation bed to give
up 30,0004
After soar remarks from the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-
General, and Mr. Bonverie, the bill wee read • 000011 a time.
[Left sitting.)

FATAL ACCIDENT 712 THE MARQUIS OF
WATERFORD.

We regret to announce that we have this morning
reoelved a telegram from W.'erford stating that the above
nobleman met with a fall while hunting yeaterday afternoon,
and that the accident has linos resulted In hie death.

The demand noblemen, Henry De-la-Poor Beresford,
was the third marquis. if. was Berl and Viscount
Tyrone, Baron Bernfeld and De la Peer of Curriehewn
in the peerage of Inland, and a baronet of the same part of
the United /I ingdoei, and also Baron Tyrone of Hendon west,
in the county of Pembroke, hi the peerage of Orsat Britain.
He was born on the 28th of April, 1811, bong the
eon of the second marquis by the only daughter and
heir of the second Berl ef Tyromnel. He wee married en
the Bth of June, 1842, to Louise, second daughter and co-hair
of the late Lord Stuart de Bothasay. The deceased
marquia obtained great notoriety in London deCille
by the extrarepurm sod eacentricity of some of his
youthful freaks; bat on his retirement to Ireland to 811111
the duties of a landlord, he se acquitted himself ea to gain the
respect end goodwill of his neighbours and tenantry. His
lordship retained to the last en ardent passion for the sports
of the field, mon especially hunting and steeplechasing, and
his loes will be greatly felt by Irish sportsmen.
The eland Isansieser of to-day says :—" The only par-
ticulars which have reached =Era that the Marquis was thrown
when returning from hunting. The bores shied, and he was
pitched against a atone wall. He miscarried home, where he
dints a few hone.."

Tin Warraza (Title DAY).—Since noon to-day
mow has his falling In London, sooomplutied with rain and
shot.

A writer who is publishing in the Visagapatam
OArostitk en account of the proomdlege of the Central India
Field Pores, rya that just slier the mutiny at )&how
even Bolter was in doubt. Like a true Indian, be con-
sulted his astrologer, and received the following reply If
all the Europeans save one ere slain, that one nil' remain to
fight and reconquer."
THE LATE ENGLISH PRISONER IN BPAIN.—MT.
Thomas Parry, the Englishmen whet wee reread to
death for having street a Spanish reeling, and was submit-
gently pardoned by the Queen of Spain, has addressed
the following latter to the Alcalde of Alvaro& :
t. I hasten to return my moot sincere thanks to you, and to
the good citizens of Algeciras , for the generous sympathy
you have ahown me, noteittutandieg my being a f
end having, though usintentlenally,ofiended portion. The
eagerness and unanimity with which, without distinction of
alias or rank, they Implored the clemency of your noble and
rumor Queen, and the justice done me in the experrions
contained in the petition addressed to her Xakety by
reason of my ualortunate end unpreucedita•ed °Bear, and
the cause reigned fees it, will ever remain fixed on my
memory; end I aware ym that the garret courtesy end
consideration of which I have been the eject, both on the
part of ties highest and of the moat humble, have oared
me to pass lees vreet,hedly the seven week. of my int-
rienament, and have lad me to consider the short
at?which bee elapsed sirs I W 4/ restond to
,Res happiest of my life. The only eXenes.
wear which gives me ptin 4 the not militate occurrence
which led to my sequaistancs with people who have treated
me with so much kindlier, and which was quite unexpected
oa wryer. I trust's your estimate goodness eto make known
my ream& irrozz fellow-citizens and
bumble prayers
for their .—I am, sir, year *errant,
THOMAS we NCOIIIII JONI/ PlLlZT.—Algesiras,
March 15, 1859."
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCY! 28.—The Queen has
been graeiorly please( to appoint Thomas Fellows, Envie,
Req.. sow Britishat port.—egsres, Vies-Creel at Tangier, to be her Ma-
IseZ's consul at th
UMW. THROUGH BREAKING CIOCEEZT.—AR
eztreordinary suicide hes be cestesittAd in the Ile de Ri,
near Rochelle. A erl named liaBkt, fifteen yeses of age, in
the envies of a tre4eman. had frequently to be madded by
her mistress for breskieg crockery. A few days back she
broke two bolder, sea was again reproached for her awk-
wardness. Re. with tears promised to be more ovrftd, but
a few minutes after elm let a brim soap lama fall from her
hands, and it was broken to circa. This brought on her
trash blame, end, apperently to avoid it, she sr. rat out. Nat
bring returned for mese tier she woe sought for. and her
deed body err found S'n'
ag in the well, into which she led
throws berself.—Gefignam.