The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-15 00:00:00

SION BILL.

On Monday a copy of this important measure, as
" amended" by the Committee of the Commons, was
issued from the Parliamentary Paper-office. Two clauses
have been added; the more important is that which pro-
poses to reach and punish accessaries after the fact, al-
though the principals to the crime may not have been
captured. It runs as follows:
" And for the more effectual prosecution of accessaries
after the fact to the offences of murder and attempt to
murder, be it enacted, that from and after the day
named in any such first-mentioned proclamation, every
person who shall become an accessary after the fact to
any murder or attempt to murder committed in any
county, county of a city, county of a town, barony,
half barony, or other district named in such first-men-
tioned proclamation, may be indicted and convicted
either together with the principal offender or after the
conviction of the principal offender, or may be indicted
and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the
principal offender shall or shall not have been previously
convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice,
and may howsoever indicted, be punished in the same
manner as any accessary after the fact to the same
offence may be punished. Provided always, that no
such person who shall be once duly tried, whether as an
accessary after the fact or as for a substantive felony,
shall be liable to be again indicted or tried for the same
offence."

The other clause authorises the Lord-Lieutenant to
remove prisoners convicted and under sentence from one
gaol to another. The Bill, in its present shape, contains
23 clauses.

DEATH OF MR. CURTBIS, M.P.—We regret to hear
that Mr. Curteis, M.P. for the borough of Bye, died on
Monday, at Cox's Hotel, Jernayn-street. Ho had been
complaining for a few days past of influenza.
COPTIIOLDS.—A copy of the 6th report of the
Copyhold Commissioners to the Home Secretary, pur-
suant to the Act 4th and sth Victoria, c. 35, was yester-
day issued in a document ordered to be printed by the
House of Commons. It appears that in the year there
were 75 eatanchisements. The Commissioners state
that, after six years experience, they have to report that
there is a slow and gradual advance in the voluntary
enfranchisement of copyholds under ecclesiastical Lord.,
and that it seems probable that almost the whole of such
copyholds will in time disappear. With respect to copy-
holds held under lay Lords it is different as far as the
Commission is concerned, the causes of which are to be
found partly in the less controlled influence of the
stewards—an influence very generally opposed to en-
franchisement, and partly in the expectation of both
lords and tenants that some further steps will be taken
by the Legislature to enforce commutation or enfran-
chisement. The Commissioners make various sugges-
tions in the present report on the law relating to copy-
holds.

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