The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-24 00:00:00

WINDOW DUTY.

Mr, LUSIIINGTON in ,vetl for lease to bring in a Bill to ex-
plain anti am: lid the 4Sth the king, relative to thew inflow
(1,11:4. The object of his ihttlidill Bill MRS to c‘einpt slich
houses as may be used for the sole purposes of track., or as
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The 'Sill was brought in, and read a first time..
The other orders of the da) nere then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.

TIIUR•DAY, MARCH 20.
A sari( ty of papers were pi csewted .It the bar by diferent
prrso.ts, porNuaot t,) the order of the house.
Suitdry bliSillesSOr a multifarious character, nmetigst whirls
erg* le..rd Cochrane.* prvuutml motion reapecting hues paid

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by virtue of sentences pas,ed by the court of King's Bench,
which motion fell to the ground fur want of a seconder, was
gone into, hut not any matter of great importance, and the
ad.;ourtied.

Mtftell 21.
The cpeakel• informed the [ionic, That the Royal Assent
kid hero given by commission to the Mutiny, and some other
public bills.

G %ME I. MS,
Sir S. Ronit.l.v noised ths second reading of the Game
Law Art Repeal Md.
Mr lisNi aEs observed, tint as another bill was in progress
• which was likely to give satisfaction, he had no longer any
objection to the repeal of the ft tinier art. As the other bit,
however, stood for that day seatnight, he begged to move, as
an amendment, that instead of the word " now," the words
" Monday seamight" be inserted.
Sir S. Ritmo 0.0. a felt it necessary to re state the object of
this measure, which was 11141.11!. the repeat of that put tof au
act lately passed, which indicted the punishment of trans-
portatiou for 7 years, On all persons who shoal,' be foam' in
any enclosure, with arms or nets about them, at night ; and
that, for the purposes of this act, it should he considered
night till 7 o'clock in the morning. Another bill was already
introulnead, iu which this clause VC:v.; omitted, hat which
could not pass into a law until after the Easter prate' ses-
sions. The enactment which this bill went to repeal was
generally admitted to be a cruel and ttithist, as well as an
absurd law. The opposition now made to the Seeollti read-
ing of the bill amounted to an admission of the injustice of
. the existing law; lint indicated .a wish, that this injustice
should continue till after the next quarter sessions. He had
no donbt that there were many guilty persons who might
come within its operation ; but there were others whose in•
ttocrnce would not exempt their cases from falling within the
purview of this highly penal statute. He had not been aft aid
of leaving it to be applied ut the assizes, because he was
satisfied that the constroction of it would be governed by the
general object set forth in the preamble : but with all his
respect for the magistracy, be was not satisfied to commit
its execution to them ; particularly, %alien he knew that on all
subjects relating to offences against the game laws they were
actuated by peculiar timlinga, and a temper different front
that which thev manifested on other occasions. lie was much
deceived it' persons bad not been, not only improperly con-
victed, but transported ander ibis act. Besides, it was to
then, in the nature of an ex post
,Facia law ; it had been passed
in secrecy, and without disca,sioo. The evil ot' these severe
penalties was, that public upiuitto went with them. It haul
been argued, that g • g was merely a ;wawa prohiWuni;
but it might be said of killing game with at least as much
propriety. He might take this opportunity of reprobating
the practice et' setting spring guns, and other engines of bodily
harm, in private grounds. He haul seen the opinion of an
eminent counsel published, which was, that if death were
• produced by such means, it would be wilful murder in the
person who placed the instrument of mischief for that pur-
pose. He did not agree in this opinion ; but lie did think
that it world be a case of aggravated manslaughter. He had
heard of several poachers convicted ill the north of the coun-
try, who expressed their surprise when informed of the ex-
istence of this act, and declared, that it' they had known it
they should not have committed the offence. He trusted,
that upon these grunio's the House would concur with him,
that this bill ought now to lie read a second time.
Sir C. aloaca represented the case alluded to by his hon.
and learned friend as one of an aggravated nature,
Mr. licsnitsson should think it his duty to vote for the
anumilinent. He thought it would be better in the metnber
rue Kent's bill to leave out the word " game" altogether, and
male it au act against asmil bodies going ahout by night.
Aft r a few words front Sir V- Itrydges anuttieneral Thorn-
ton, the House divided—For the co iginal question 14—Against
it 3N—Majority 41.
Sevetal Reform Petitions, de. were presented, and the
orders of the day being di-posed of, the House adjourned.

EMBASSY TO CHINA.
We purposely suspend our remarks on this subject,
until the official accounts shall have arrived. We, how-
ever, extract the fidlowing paragraph from the Journal
of one cif the Embassy, together with such other parti-
oulars as have reached us:—
" At Tung-koo our party was lodged for the night
in a temple, but the accommodation was miserable—no
bedding was provided. A curious circumstance pre-
sented itself. In the Temple there is an European
picture of Christ, crowned with thorns, and the reed in
his hap& It was dedicated to the Temple by the Ens-
.peror Kang-he ; but is neither called Jesus nor Christ.
The Priest sheaved cur people " A Lesson devoutly to
be read before this Poo se—a title applied to this pic-
ture in common with all the Gods and Coddesses of
China. The lesson is couched in mystical language,
the object of which is to express that the perfuctions
And character of this l'ou-sa are incomprehensible."
We are given to understand, that the latest intelli-
gence from the interior of China has been received by
.the Propaganda College at Rome ; and that the few
Missionaries still left in that empire represent the prin-
cipal Madarins as quite ready to throw off the iron
yoke of despotism under which they and their prede-
cessors have suffered the bastintulo mul decalkation,
'without trial, fits so many centuries. The late partial
insurrections prove that this inthrmation is so 141- cor-
rect ; but the Missionaries have added, that the pre-
sence of an European power, capable of protecting them,
would snake :he revolt general, and, we hope, blood-
less. Enteskrisiag mai experienced Statesmett, now
that Europe is at peace, will nut be long, we trust, in
taking tulva.l:.4;e of this new souree of national pros-
perity. The cre.stion of a taste tin. British manuthetures,
and British tr..lnnors and ctstoms, throughout the vast
empire of Chita, vcoald still enable us to excel sill Eu-
rope as muih in commercial industry, as we have al-
ready done is era .:nd tinus. The advantages result-
ing the British Settlement of India to mankind
in general. independently of the promotion of objects
purely national, forcibly plead for the experiment now
gtarrally supposed to be in contemplation. If there are