The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

MORNING EDITtn.

effect of that even in civil cases, and it was upon those
v'-'y principles, seerificing his own, that he had limited
the Brll to those offences on which he was sure a greait
majority of the people, especially that class out of %hie
Juries were selected, would go along with ben to"
the full extent. It gave him great satisfactioa
to find that the Noble Lord in advancing
that reform which he had so ably introduced in 1837, was
now willing to concur in the abolition of capital puuisi.lii
ment with respect to several offences to which his fi
adverted; but he must express his disappointment that
the Noble Lord bad stopped short, and bad expressed lit:
unwillingness to concur in the abolition of the punishnl,go
of death for setting fire to ships in the dockyards.
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principle of the Bill introduced by the Noble Lo
1837 was the abolition of the punishment of death in all
cases affecting property, and he, therefore, could not
why that offence should still be visited with deed,. 'l,
it was said it ;was treasonable to destroy the property eci
the Queen, why was not the same system to be adopter
with respect to the Queen's palace, or the CrovvnjewelS:
The parties, who steno would be tempted to destroy her
Majesty'e dockyards, were re t likely to he deterred trout
the crime by an apprehension of punishment. No Eng-
lish subject, no one but an emissary from a foreign encm"
could have the smallest temptation ; and he who woo,.
come to this country well tie intent to set fire •te
ships, or in any other nay to damrge the resources
of this country, must have such an inducement
or such a feariessness of character, as that to bim
the punishment of death would hold out no terrorist
whatever. The offence, then, was one, which, though
partook of the character of high treason, was necessarily
of such rare occurrence that he trusted the Noble Ler"
would be induced to exempt it from capital punishment'
With respect to perjury in relation to stamp! and punishment'
-
and certain matters connected with the Bank of EDO%
in those cases, no objection was cr.tertained to the sheaf
tioa of capital punishments; and there were two oaf
cases to which the Noble Lord had extended the exemf;
tion. But the Noble Lord had not adverted to the °gene
of attempting to commit murder, or the offences of bur
glary end robbery attended with a degree of violence whiee
endangered life. He could only understand from the
silence of the Noble Lord that he was &sposed to•
tain the system of capital punishments in reference to t. •
class of offences. It was with unfeigned regret that hi
(Mr. F. Kelly) came to that conclusion, If the Neh
Lord would bear in mind the test which he had bimetal( 01)- •
plied to try the expediescy of capital punishments; -
he would find that there were clearer grounds. WI
convincing arguments for the abolition in those cases,)l
those offences in which he consented to the abolition. ,s2l
one of the Acts of the Noble Lord, a modification 0%
been introduced with respect to violence, and with Well
to commit grievous bodily harm. As soon as the .11
came into general practice, counts we-e brought chargi
tae offence in both ways, capital and not capital; "dela
no case where both counts were charged, as far as be
heard from perscns in the profession, had the Jury c°s-
- of the capital offence. In every case the Jury eelloi
victed the party of the minor offence. The best Tata .
convictionsecuring the and preventing the sap-lilt et
the guilty, was t> abolish caeital punishment•
continuing these punishments, they did, in
..fte,
hold out a tempt ation to the commision of ,7-0,
der, they induced
,the party to destroy a ""°,-
whom he otherwise would not have destroyet. He trusifie
that upon consideration of all the circumstances the Noeue,
Lord would be induce to procerd still further in 15/
coarse cf legislation which had already been so bench
cit
to the country. He trusted that be would soon see caps
tal punishments altogether abolished, and a satisfactory
and effectual system of secondary punishments introdut • ,
in their stead ; and this he believed would be far Innfaire•
eff.eatual for the prevention of crime, than that soingein-e.
system it had so long, and, for the interests of the con
try, so injuriously maintained. fat
Mr. SHAW c mid not coincide in the proposition
the Noble Lord t abolish the capital punishment for tb:
crime of rape. When there was a cla aly proved teatlli
there ought to lee no doubt as t p the punishmenteeeedie
such cases it ought to he death. He entirely agree bet
the general principl-s laid down by the Noble Lord, r,
with respect to this crime he c mid not coincide in the s
guments used by him.
Sir C. DOUGLAS would have much pleasure in sure,
porting the Bill of his Hon. and Learned Friend, 31-'
his opinion, the Noble Lord had failed in making Ito
case for opposing it. The country was much iadebthei et.
him for his strenuous exertions upon so important a sn'''nee
Mr. E WART begged to congratulate the House ne.4
the fact of the Government coming forward and ensPse so
the abolition of the punishment of death with respeetee"-ele
many crimes, and he trusted that but few y ears would be
e,
lowed to pass before capital punishment would be %toilet:o.,
The Noble Lord, he regretted to find, had not Yet :bee
stituted any punishment for transportation, although ,e,`tit
hart provided secondary punishments in many cases 100
apps aged to him that it was extremely injudicious to P
so large a discretionary power of commuting punishni!oe
the hands of the Secretary of State. He was casino,
that ere long the people would insist upon ascertainingser,
grounds upon which that discretionary power was eeetest
ciscd. The Noble Lend had shown with the gr,,- st#
clearness that where the punishment of an offence of
commuted is something less than death, the nieelli"feeorl
coray.ctions was increased in a very large ratio. "ere that
from the returns which had been laid upon the WTOO
since tee reduction of capital punishment from 1,241400
to somewhere about 10 offences, the number of con He
had increased in the proportion of three to one. I' bad
juiced in the enlightened views which the Noble Lord oti
propeueeed in the course of his address to the House, saj
he trusted that he would persevere in his praiseworthic
humane efforts for the mitigation of the criminal
ti:e country. .
Mr. P. HOWARD thought the Noble opt
carried his principle of the abolition of cape] punt bare
too far. It appeared to him that rape should netid ses
been excepted, because, if that was done, it Ironton '
move one of the greatest safeguards of wornae 13°4 tbe
He cat red his solemn protest against that part -
Nob Lord's plan. Worl
Lev was then given to bring in the Bills, whle-aeor
sever ally read a first time, and ordered to be read a
time on Friday next. a
The other Orders of the Day were then disposedand the House adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.
CHI AN ARTFUL AND PRECOCIOUS 011Aly
Ott Wednesday, in Paris, a pretty little child, hilrwlente
years of age, possessing an open and intelligent sad
Lance, comfortably clad with a gros de Naples cieseen
wearing a blue velvet bonnet, under which wet % slat
some I rvely ringlets of light hair in clusters on ell-eball
of her face, was going down the Rue de l'Odeon, etol•
tenches' the carrefour near the Rue de Conde, ~1111
denly stopped, and, looking around her, euclaimerLso Dot
nurse !my nurse I where is my nurse ?" The nenereson'S
making her appearance, the child began crying, "-a bet
of the passers-by stopped, and, having questiondoler
enCeavoured to console her ; at last, a turniture:e
took her into his shop. " Where do you i
child ?"—" In the Rue Saint Louis au Mara": pew°
" You are a great nay from home."
Sir, my nurse had beer, sent to execute a cola°. e job
and she took me with her. We have been Waillgrbell
large garden, which is called the Luxembourg, and Wl
we left to return home. I walked on in front a d roof.,
nurse followed behind ; but just now, when I turnenot
I could not see ter. Perhaps she: is -dare
ta
off. Oh ! no, assuredly not; for she would netler so
re•urn home without me." The furniture dell sestina
his w:fe were, highly delighted with the con/e
boor of
a-
ct' this lithe ch Id, who, a quarter of an tb• a
terwarde war playing about the shop and
he or,
joining apartment. After an hour had elapsed id do
keeper discovered that the child had Yanillic it
l
sought after everywhere, behind the furniture, Ras Do
positively ascertained that she has left. Ther.etelligen•
great harm done, fe r the child was sufficiently le •ng ib
to manage to find her way home ; but towards abeeDritesterbs
furniture dealer's wife made another discovery biotite a
which had beer Fauna up in the room, near tbe, ceed bee.,
piece, was no longer in its place; the sideboard he Flit'
opened, and four articles were missing front
chest.—et udience. 6001
THE WII ISK EY TRADE.—We have takenr 00'
paies to a,ce-tain the actual state of the ruarketeeilosPet;
key, chiefly for the government of our countrijet thee 4,
dents connected nit a this trade ; and we find
a decided improvement in price, owing to the 'eleisilis
vance ashi Ai has taken place in corn—for instal/0001 l'„e
lers' oats, which were selling freely at 10e Per 6j.; a-
weeks ago, cannot now bs obtained under 12s s Oren;
barley has risen the same proportion. Thloet estehe
st ince, together with the fact of one of them for „
sive distilleries in this city having supped "ode spirin
season, have enhanced the value of all honace-Ina •
and we believe that " new" cannot be bad under
25. ed.
indeed, some of the trade refused to sell underugeee bee
and for old, which is beconriag scaren in e‘rcecit
the present trade belle. lamest ent rely conlineeseeo
ort-j
holders are asking all prices, from 3.. up CO 1,10
to age. The demand, generally, is rather iinProreerav
we observe by tare day notes that there is aeo
I tes
export far Scotland.—lrish Paper,
TRADES' UNIONS —At a meeting held jai
,eOO,
from the various trades of Sheffield, lately Ott; hie
town in consequence of an apprehension that . t tserloo
nell intended to propose some measure to'
of the working classes to cambiae, the f. 110
Mn,. were unenimously arced to. Moved by on e,95 0.,
seconded by Mr. Makin—" Tlmst the meetnfol"en to To.
restyle
regoletrod
nion that it was the inherent right of the wer_tion for Id
and support Trades' Unions, as the only protree waelle.,tee
only property, their labour." Moved by ' netionea
seconded by Mr. Tee lor—" That it was the errioes etltee
meeting, that it was necessary far the, inclu" osed late,
to watch with vigilance any measur..s for the p to
Legislature to restrict their right to meet le'
erty, a., te
lion of their labour, generally their only proil;eing etoeir,
same time they protested against any resort ACg Of
acts of violence, of any kind, for that perPe.se, rellifresor
mittee was appointed, and it was resolved tna. es
to rose-senb •
the proceedings of the meeting be forwarded jee
M.P., requesting him carefully se watch any en„ Tra
eyrie
which Mr. O'Connell might adopt resPc
d pa. ia
On Tuesday, Hubbard, the cousin an
_oderc ti;
Unions, and to inform the Committee of then' espeetlf
of the unfortunat'e Eliza Gritnwood, who wati.7use Of
(Pc,
the Waterloo-road, in 1838, died at the iiiubbsro
brother in Castle-street, Borough-mark
bet
aorgi .ipzi_
ele
tested his ignorance of the murderer of his 110 , ic e
cioi
]alive to the last, and immediately e
started up in his bed, exclaiming, If
the arro o
to you—l come to you I" and, falling into
ScPP
s;ster-in-law, expired. I ools for th.
Mr. Gibson, the Inspector of Sc
ctionsronloo
land, has been in town to receive final instrue_ an ess.eno,
Committee of Council, before be commonc_hs be trill oe
tour of inspection in Scotland, during walc
dead in their
amine the schools of the Church of S. ee tie, of
MASP
aePrheosobiyat.cries, which have invited the Ins Pee
ELLS en°
•
RETIREMENT OF MADEMOIS .001 medal,
cOnlel"
—of Tmhdenper.esmenarta7othnethfiwoailll
rcelotrseeatthoe
being fixed for the last day of MarftelhatFattr•icrelli-Pan-t