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Mr. R. 31A RTIIN rote w itro.tut a petltwo fr.vn Maria Taylor.
the wife of Janus Taylor. now • =via 1, Nate 3a t., Wales,
under • commuted sentence of asztvertation hr ife 1 ad lava
asasband at isalpiess: of Aries Artael lo Mots ter ?tt teesegte

A lealhelllWO'grititiolffinim-nbaor id eleireen other p.r.'
sore, of whom four have been executed. Four witnesses apnea:sal
against hint, of whom one only, Thome; Cooke, est e te-thr.ony
of his Identity. Of the ether witnesses two ware approvers.. who
had been accomplices, and who could easily have glen evider.ce of
his guilt, if he had been oC. the pony of smugglers, and who were
more interested is telling truth than in mauling it; fur they
would have been pitt upon their trial for the same oftmee,
ilfmti= hail been detected in i revarioation. Moreover, it ap.
that funks, epos his cross-eaantination, admitted that
these was mush confusion and noise—that he Neils( was
in • state of eemisideraide alarm, and that the morning was
dark and horsy at the time at which it appeared to him that they
saw mid heard Taylor in the agray. Since the trial, a pion (wee
understood one of the improvers) came forward, and said he was
the person who had done that of which Taylor was muss& and
for which he was coneicted. On the part of the defence four en,.
nesses appeared, who proved an alibi Inc Taylor. and they. oriole
facie, bad an equal • ieht to b.: credit d as the witnesses for the pro.
secutiota. The petition further stated, that the Lamed Judge
who presidul at Idieadal, being oenvinced that Cooke was mistaken
as to the identity of Taylor, and bet m tbetefore dissatisfied with
the verdict of the jury, recommended Taylor to hie Majesty for a
free pardon, but that netwithwanding this recommendation, Taylor
has been transported for life. The Hon. 31embes, in addition to the
ease made by Taylor at his trial, referred, as a proof of his inno-
cence to the dying depositions of four persona, who were tented
for the offence charged upon Taylor, all negativing Tiy)or's pre,
sena at, or participation in, the crime for which they suffered.
He (Mr. Martin) regretted to be obliged to bring forward that
ease, and did so only in coosequence of six months fruition so-
licitation to procure redeem for this unfortunate man at the office
of she IGOR lion. Secretary of State for the Homewrusent.
Mr. PhEL thought it would ill become the responsible unwant
of the Crown to remain silent after such a charge had been
forward, as that contained in the petition about to he prese:24
his Honourable Friend. Although be believed his Honourable
Friend meant only to impute an error in judgment, yet it would be
inkietice to himself, and injustice to the general mode of the ad-
ministration of justice, to abstain altogether from esplaastioo,
after what his Honourable friend had addressed m the Reuse..
He had the Judge's nOSed before him, end he roc dasher himself
hem any official censure that might attach to by laying
it
them
_notes before the Halm, as $ Sothication 4 pon4ct. As
'dad prefer, hoeseyer, to gime beef outline el isonmelimas,
and would be bold to my that ma aim midi bo instdo tot to)rodi-
adios of the part be meted, krone disaitsahl billopoili des boa
as ammunicated to him. He was asaisio,:ela the feat in-
to admit that be had *ism! the of hie Ham
litra= to /evoke the sentence of seas, as babiti&nados He
don to attend to every repretiumnbie be the adonalos of base
pasfen, and to preen that pardon, if op! laityfeel it be aesessoinad
the convicted person to be innocent; arag he • to he bis
duty, if be thought the convicted perms go he guilty, to resin
way intaimanes or solicitatioa which Ida ftesosside Pawl ha'.
elated he had mail to hint. (Hear, bihard lit graolryirr
to extend mercy—a mould please the deassr for the plasm ii. -
stases—and was aims sum to be aerapiabio to the reloads or du.
wwhom bdodf Iv foe °bailout; hat It Too eta big Ihatgln
consider whom it might please, but to lob= it ought to fp .
and extended. He would proceed to state a brief putillue of the sub.
stance of the case. The numbers[ persons emerged in these mag-
i gling pursuits were 10 or till; they were divided into three parties.
one front Margate, one from Canterbury, and one from some odic
part of the ciast of heat ; this subdivision of parties was worthy o:
particular remark, as the reason why_the approvers, who were ad-
mitted on the total, did not identify Taylor was, they were of a dif-
ferent party' rom that to whiPh he bolooged; they met for the pur-
pose of smuggling, and were otherwise unknown to each other. The
Right Honourable Gentleman then referred to the notes of the
Judge Mayon Woedi who presided at the trial, with a view of
sheering that the evidence against the prisoner was conclusive am'.
satisfactory. He would beg leave to refer to a memorandum ht
had made on his communication with Baron Wood, which
amounted to this, that had he (Baron Wood) been as assured d the
guilt of Taylor as he then was, lie would have left bun for eirecu-
tion. If there had been any thing deficient either in law, or in
evidence at the trial, to convict Taylor he would feel it his duty to
give the prisoner the benefit of sigh deficiency, but without any
such daemon, and with this assurance from the Judge who tried
the case, he did not feel that he would be justified in disturbing
---..-7, the verdict of a jury. He gare this explanation to chew that he had
HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, Juos 9. not been inattentive to the case, He bad investigated it ; the result
of that investigation did not shake his opinion as to the propriety
At a quarter before four o'clock the SPEAKER was summoned of the verdict' and he therefore resisted, as he should in all similar
to the Houle of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Coln- itifte.nces, applications and solicitations such an had been made to
mission to several Bills (for which see Lords' Repeat). him by his lienourable Friend.—The question was then put frost
DUBLIN EQUITABLE LOAN BILL. the Chair, whether. the petition be brought up or not, which was
Sir R. SHAM,' brought up the Report of the Committee on the neptived without a division.
Dublin Equitable Loan Bill. bir BOBBIN:SE observed, that the petition flid not contain
On the question that the Bill be read a second time, any charge against Government, and therefore was of opinion that
Mr. GOULBURN opposed the Bill, and thought that if there no objection should be made to its rxeptiom
were any complaint against the Pawnbrokers, proceedings at law 31r. PEEL admitted' it did not contain a charge, and that was
be should taken against them, and nun an application made to the very reasan why it was tut:mei:vary it should be received.
Parliament to prevent them from carrying on their trade. The Mr. GRATTAN gave notice of a motion for next Session rek-
Hon. Oentleman moved that the Bill be read a second time that ting to county assessments in Ireland.
day six montbs. air. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from Seven Oaks, la
Sir R. SHAW argued in support of the Bill, and observed Kent, praying for the repeal of the Window-tax.
that all the segumente which had been adduced in favour of the An Hon. Member presented • petition from the manufacturers
English Equitable Loan Bill would equally apply to that of of white salt in Chester, against the repeal of the duties ou foreign
Ireland. The greet advantage of the BM consisted in this, that it salt.
induced the influx of English capital into Ireland: 600,0001. of MODE OF SIVEARINTO.
the sum to be subscribed was to be supplied by England • and if, Mr. 11U3IE presented a petition from Mr. George Jones, torn -
after all that hail been said upon the expedience and usefulness or paining of the injury inflicted on his feelings by the treatment he
introducing English capital into Ireland, this Bill were resisted, it received at Hatton-garden. He was summoned there, and the
could not be believed that this House had any sincere disposition Magistrate who was about to swear him tendered to hint the New
to administer relief in that mode to that country. if the Right Testament. With this remiisition he refused to comply, but sled
lion. Gentleman persisted in his opposition, he (Sir R. Shaw) he would be sworn on the Oid Testament. The Maguvate then
would take the sense of the House coon it. insisted that he should be sworn me a Jew, but this the pecitimier
Mr. S. RICE would reply very briefly to the observations of the declined to do also, se, though he had religious opinions that might
Right Honourable Gentleman. As to the benevolence of the Coin- differ from those of others, vet he was not of the Jewish persossioa.
plumy, whether supposed or real, that was a consideration which As this was a question invoicing freedom of religious opinion, he
lay between their consciences and themselves, and one into which would move that the petition lie printpd.—The Hon. Member then
lie would not enter. The objections which might be made to other presented a petition from a Mr. Hislop, of Dumfries, against the
joint stock companies however did not apply to this, and the moth- Weights and 3leseures Bill.
firotions it had gone through, and the alterations introduced into it, Mr. HUM E moved for a return of the number of persons coa-
-1 were more disadvantageous than otherwise to the members of the mined for criminal offences in Engians for the last two years, u.. 1
Company. They were subject to all the Bankrupt Laws, and am- In Scotland for the last fourteen years.
pie provisions had been made to guard against their insolvency. It Mr. Secretery PEEL did not object to the motion of the Hon.
had been said, that if the pawnbrokers were wrong, let a special Gentleman. There was an important statement made by the Hon.
case be made out against them ; but, in hie opinion, the proper way Member for Aberdeen a few nights since, namely, that there had
to meet the evil which all admitted to exist was, by a general men- for the last ten years been a great increase of (TIM. This was a
sure of this kind. The Honourable Member concluded by stating melancholy truth, but it was amiolatory to know that since Itil
many additional grounds which should induce the passing of such crime had consideeibly sliminishul. It was also to be observed,
• measure for Ireland over a corresponding Bill for England. that crime increased during peace, and abated during war. Al-
Mr. GRATTAN agreed with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Rice) in though the number of criminals committed bad increased, yet sz.
the arguments in favour of an Irish Bill, similar to that which was gratifying to know that the enormity of such offences had very
had passed for England. much diminished. There were last year hut 15 cases in which the
Mr. DAWSON was of opinion that the House, after having punishment of death was inflicted. He certainly attributed to the
parsed an Equitable Bill for England, could not consistently refuse imperfeet character of the.curreocv much of the crime that had dee-
the benefit of such a measure to Ireland. rf thcpawnbrokers' pro- ing these years arisen. Since 1019, and the currency was fixed,
ceedings required correction, there was no part of the empire that crime had gradually diminished.
stood more in need of a corrective system in this respect than Ire- The motion was then agreed to.
I land. The poverty of the tradesmen of Dublin, and the difficulty ' 31r. MARTIN said, it would be (monsoon to preface the amp-
of their obtaining money on the same terms of liberal credit as tion he had mow to make with a single observation, as his object
tradesmen in this country, rusde them severe sufferers from the ri- was merely to have the Bill introduced and printed previously to
gornus and oppressive exactions of pawnbrokers. In truth, they taking the discussion on it. Ile (should move that leave he given to
could not obtain money at all in any of the principal towns in Ire- bring in • Bill to abolish bear-baiting and other cruel sports.—Leave
land, on principles of fair credit. I nder such circumstances, it ap- was given.
peered to hint that the present Bill would effect a great good, and Mr. MABERLV moved for sn account of paving, lighting, and
correct a great pre-existing evil. Unless the facts could be die- watching the metropolis. He understood that no objection could
proved of the case that had been made, of the benefit it would bewail,: to the motion, which he intended ttrconfine to the last seven
operate for Dublin alone, he did not think the erguments of his year,Agreed to.
Right Honourable Friend deserved attention. TRANSPORTATION OFFENDERS' BILL.
Sir H. PA RNELI. would oppose this Bill, as he had done the Mr. PEEL moved the Order of the Day fee the third reaiine of
English Equitable Bill, on the general principle of his opposition to the Transpertation Offenders' Bill.
4oint stock companies, which destroyed competition, and bore down
individual industry by the force of an overbearing capital. It The Ord,: of the ilea was rend accordingly, and the Bill read .4
third time and passed. and entitle], meA 111 for the Transpor.a.
wail manifest that small capitals could not contend with such an don of offenders from Great Britain."
opposition.
sir J. NEWPORT would support the Bill. The pawnbrokers MAGISTRATES INDEMNITY BILL.
in the principal towns of Ireland were very little entitled to corn- Mr. GOVLBIIRN moved tie Order of the Day for the secq: d
mendation, and it was his conviction that the present Bill was cal- reading of the Magistrates' Indemnity Bilk
ciliated to correct many abuses that prevailed in their practice and Mr. GRATTAN objected to the precipitancy withwhich this
conduct. measure was premed forward. It
fbe House then divided on the Bill : merely introduced for the purpose's' •
Ayes. era; Noes. 17 1 Majority, 111. Mr. GOUT./URN explained.
The Amended clauses were then agreed to, and the Bill ordered whatever to the case of any iodic •
to he read a third time to-morrow. The Order of the Day was ti
The Mary-la-bonne Gm Bill was read a third and passed. time, acid ordered to he coeuni

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Sir William Lemon, Mr. Hume, and (*her& from the Com-
mons, brought up the Combination Laws Repeal. the Masten and
Workmen, Ireland Distresses, Silk Duties (with their Lordships'
amendments agreed to), and several private Hills; all of which
(with the eseeptioa of the Silk Duties' Bill), were rend a first
time.
__ _ (1A7.11'01,19 DINH 4. F ICA T lONS.

Earl GREY possated petit from the Roman Catholics of
Übe Cork and Galway, praying Übe from the disabilities under
which they Moan Thelsloble Earl, In presenting these petitions,
observed; fhatdie mime who Ind sipsd them, with a spirit un-
broken, thought that it was their duty to persevere in their endes-
yours to gain a restitution of their rights. He felt that he ought to
state the grounds upon which he should suppnet the player of the
petition. He thought it only fair for those who supported the die-
qsalifying statutes to spew their necessity, which, in his opinion.
they had not satisfactorily done when this question hod been con-
sidered before. Ireland, he was convinced, could never know
peace, or this great empire know security, whilst these statutes
wan in existence. The petitions WA been sent to him to present
to their Lordship', and to rapid some measure upon ; but he
chose to use his own discretion en the subject, and he was sure
that he could not act upon them dosing the present Session, without
doing hsun to the cause which he was so anxious to serve, and be
was confirmed in that opinion by a filember of the edmimstratiso
which had opposed their claims, who hod said in another oboe,
that the question could not be agitated this Session without the
greatest danger to the cause of the Catholics. He thought the peti-
tion stated facts of the highest importance, and he humbly begged
of their Lordships to consider the question seriously, for if the
present state of the Catholics continued it could only lead to a
pest convulsion.
The petition was then laid on the table.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a similar petition
from certain Catholics of Dublin, which was also laid on the table.
The Marquis of DOWNSH IRE presented a petition to the
same effect from the Catholics of Down, which was laid on the
table.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Appellate Juris-
diction Bill was rend a second time.

GAME LAWS.
Earl GROSVENOR, in bringing in a Bill for legalizing the
sale of game, observed, that it might not be regular fer him to
allude to it, bat he could not help regretting that the Bill on this
subject, in another place, had been thrown out. He thought it
taewbent *a Ministers to support some measure to relieve the
from the vexatious operation of the laws game.
filbeligoble Earl stated, that he should to.morrowrelLrlil Wye
Lb*
_Bileasd et. the BBL
The Earl of was in favour of the Townie,
but was WWI if hid been brought forward so late in the Session.
Lewd SUFFIELD thought that the Bill did not go far enough 3
sod next par, if no one else took it up. he should introduce a Bill
on the subject. flowerer, be was Li favour of the measure as far
as it went.
The Earl of CARNARVON did not believe that the beneficial
results expected from the Bill would be realised, in consequence
of the state of the population ; but he should certainly support It.
The Bill, which was (we believe) to legalize the sale of pine,
was then read a first time.
EXCISE OATHS BILL.
- • • •

On the third reading of the Excise Oaths Bill being moved,
Lord CALTHORPE observed, that it would be well if Mi-
nisters would do something to relieve Protestants from the number
of oaths they were subjected to in taking ; and particularly after
the memorial presented to the House on the subject from the mer.
chants of Liverpool, during the last Session. He should certaialy
feel it his duty next year to tntroduce some measure to their Lord.
ships' consideration on the subject.
The Bill Ira; reld a third time and passed.
Adjourned.

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It was, wading to his opinion,
pose of shielding the Lord Mayor.
led. that the Bill had no reference
then toad, anti the Bill read a seconi/
lilted to-morrow,

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DUBLIN POLICE BILL.
Mr. tiOULBU RN moved the Order of the Day for receiving
the Report of the Min Police Bill.
Mr. li a ATTAN cor.ecived that the increase of 6001. c-rear to
the Recorder's salary, should come front the Corporation, and not
tie Police Establishment. The Bill, too, was exceedingly com-
plicated and ambiguous, at.d required touch discussion.
Mr. lt /ULBl' /IN explained. that at a hiture stage of the Bill
there would be ample time for discussing it.
The Order cf the Day was then read, and the Report baring
been brought up by Mr. Brogden, was read, and the Bill ordered
tia be teed a third time on Monday next.
LAND TAX REDEMPTION BILL.
Mr. 111 A BERLY moved the Order of the I)ay for the /loose
resolving itself into a Committee on the Land Tax Redemption
Bill.
Mr. DERBIES gave notice, that at a fitture stage he should
stets his okieeticris to the principle of this Bill.
The blouse went into a Committee.
Sir F. 03IMANNEY said a t.:w words In opposition to the
BBL
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report, which was ordered to
be teCtiMi to-morrow.
LANCASTER COUNTY COURTS BILL.
Mr. SCA lILETT moved the Order of the Day for the' House
going into a Committee on the Lancaster County Courts Bill.
On the autgestion of Mr. 3IAKWELL, the motion was
postponed until to-morrow.
The other. Orders of the Day were then read, and the Honer
adjourned.

NOTICES OF Aiirrioss THIS DAY..
I. Lord Arch;bald Ilantilton--Motion for extension of Small
Debts Act in Seotla.A.
2. Mr. Bright—Besolutions relative to the Standing Orders on
Prtvtue
J. 'lr. flown—Select Committee on Imprexement of SCAMCII.
.•:r. fln•wnlow—To refer Petition concerning Roman Catholic
Association to the Committee on the State of Ireland.
L. Sir John Newport—To refer the Petitions against the Oem
Associations to the Committee on the disturbed districts in Ireland,
an :: to direct the said Committee to inquire, and to 'nun: how far
t e Act of last tiession agairst Secret Societies has been found
e'Octual.

ORDERS ()F TIIE DAY.
I. Rutter Trade (Ireland) liill—Committee.
2. New Street Nlry-la.lionne) Bill—Third Reading.
:t. Marine Insurance Bill—Report.
4. Mau ri, Trade—Repnirt thereon.
Ncw Churches Bill—Third Reading.
t. Newfoundland Judicature Dill—Third Reading.

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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
MR. LISTUV•S EENEFIT.
This Evening. THURSDAY June 10. will be perforated
TILE COMEDY OF ERRolls.
of Ephesus, Mr. Horn; Antiphons of"Syraeuse, Mr. Pen-
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After which, DEAF AS A POST.
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To gonelude with Moo time) a Drama. tailed
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TRIP TO I,MERICA.
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Doom to h., opened at Seven—Performance beghts at Eight o'clock.
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