The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

Lord J. RUSSELL did rot object to the amendment.
The amendment was pgreNl to.
Several verbal amendments were made in the clause.

lir. BRUGES proposed that in clause 10, page 5, line
39, after the word aforesaid" to insert the following :
" Provided also that such prirc'pal sum or sums to be
raised fur the purpose of pro‘ii‘ilg any such building or
buildings as afcresaid, and all interest thereon, shall be
raised by a special poor-rate to be made on the
several parishes or unions, so united, as afore-
said; and that it shall be lawful for every te-
nant from year to year, paying such special rate,
to deduct and detain out of the rent payable to his or her
landlord, fa the premises in respect of which such special
rate is payable, the full amount of such spacial rate so paid
in respect cf the same premise?, and every such tenant
shall be and is hereby acquitted and discharged of and
from the payment of so much rent as such special ra'e so
paid as aforesaid shall amount to."
Mr. LAW HODGES hoped the House would agree
to the amendment, and that his Hon. Friend would press
it to a division.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said th t the amendment
would go to put the entire rate upon the landlords. He
would suggest that the amendment should be so framed as
to subject the landlords to only half the rate.
The suggestion of the Noble Lord was then agreed to.
After a few words from Mr. COLQUHOUN and Lord
J. RUSSELL, on the subject of a proposei amendment
by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Colquboun), the House re-
sumed. The Chairman reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again.
In anse er to a question from an HON. MEMBER,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not mean to prove the
precedence of the Bill before the other orders of the day
on to-morrow (this evening) after half-past eight o'clock.
COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND.)
Mr. PIGOT moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make
further provision in relation to certain Officers in the Court
of Chancery in Ireland.
Colonel I'ERCEVAL would oppose the introduction
of the Bill, if it were intended to press the second reading
before Easter. It ought to be printed and circulated in
Ireland, before it was pressed forward through the House.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS objected to the Bill being
brought in in the present state of the House.
Mr. PIG OT would not pledge himself not to move the
second reading until after Easter, but if on the motion for
the second reading it should be desired to postpone the
discussion, he should not object to the postponement.
Colonel PERCE VAL on that understanding would
not oppose the motion.
Leave was then given to In ing in the Bill.
Mr. BARRY i3AL D WIN moved for " a Return spe-
cifying the names of all the guardians elected under the
Poet-law Act, of the several unions which have been esta-
blished under the said Act, up to the present time ; ti.e
years in xhich they were elected ; and stating the pro-
fession, trade, or calling (if any) of such guardians re-
spectively."

Sir R. INGLIS wished to know what could be the ob-
ject of such returns.
Mr. B. BALDWIN wishel to show that the guardians
were so re.specttble that they did not ncod the superintend-
ence of the Commissiobers.
Mr. HAWES could not see how the return would fur-
nish any information on the subject.
Mr. FOX MAULE did not oppose the motion, be-
cause ho was anxi,us to furnish every inform.itioa relative
to the Poor-law.

The motion was agreed to.
Col-nel SIBTHO RP moved for returns relative to the
cases of Rebecca Mcore, deceased, and of the child of
Peter Riclies, also dece.aied, in the Poole Union. The
case was one of great cruelty and ought t) be known.
FOX MA UL E oppjsed the motion. The case
was at present under inquiry, and until thole inquiries
were termialted, he could not consent to the production
cf the papers.
Colonel SIBTHORP was about to cn:cr iato a state-
ment is support of his motion, when

Aa Hols.•AlEtunEa moved that the House be coun!cd
and, there not being 40 Alembzrs present, the House ad.
journed at a Quarter pst One o'Clock.

THE CONVICT MISTER.

(From the Shrewsbury Chronicle cf Friday.)

A few circumstances connected with this extraordinary
case have come to our knowledge subsequent to the con-
viction of the prisoner.. The Learned Judge who pre-
sided on this occasion bal scarcely reached his lodgingci,
ere be was waited upon by the prosecutor, Mr. Mack-
reth, who, with a feeling most honourable to his heert,
was anLious, if possible, to obtain a mitigation of the
sentence. He acc,_irditigly handed in his card ; but it was
returned, t;i h an intimation from his Lordship, that
under the circumstances be did nit feel justifiA i i grant-
ing an interview. On Wednesday mcraing Mr. Mackreth
addressed a letter to his Lordship, of which the folbwing
a copy _ _

Talbot hotel, Shi ewsbury, 24th March, 1841.

"My Lcrd—l hope your Lordship will pardon the
libery I have taken by addressirg you in regard to the
unhappy wan (Josiah Mister) wbo now lies under sentence
of death in the gaol cf this town. And although lam
seti-fied thht the verdict of the Jury was a just and tnae
one, yes, my Lord, 1 am promplei by my faaings, sod
a Ch-htian charity, which trachea us to love all men,
and to do good to t'lese that persecute us,' most humbly
t:, supplicate your Lordship to incline mercifully to my
prayer ; and, if it i.l,ase you, to rniOga!e the sentence of
the unfortunab prisoner, by spring h:s life. lam much in-
! elined to beg your cle.nency f)r C:e following reasons :
—V-.at as it ha.h pleased Gad to spare my life, and to restore
me to a state of health equally as good as though no acvi-
dent had ever befallen me; for the sake cf the pri;onet's
youth, his respectable connections, and the 'tope that his pre-
sent alitctions may be the means of reforming his conduct,
and biducc him to spend the in.maining portion of his life
as a Carist•an in the s'gi-.t of GA, with a grateful fading
to his Maker, and the country whose laws he has offern'..e
For these reasons I humbly supplicate your Lordship, that
you would he I.lease I to proLng the life cf the prisoner,
by allowing him to l'vo until such time as God may,
in the (-Trier of nature, summon him to cppear at the judg-
ment throne of Cl rist. Most rcpcetfully I subscribe my-
seF, your Lordship's very oheiient and hurn'ule servant,
" W. M. MACKRETIL"
No answer has yet been received ; but from ii.forma-
tion we have ottaire t, we believe it is the intention of
the Learned Judge to the law take its course; he being
of opinion that the eriaw, in a moral sense, was equi-
valent to murder. We now advert to the prisoner.
On his return to gaol he was placed in the
condemned cell, and a person was as usual placed to
watch hi.n night and day. Every attention, con_
sist..nt with the strict discherge of Lis duty,
he n exe:ci!,ed by Mr. Dawson, tine Governor; and the
Chaplain, tl-e 11,..v. D. Whinstene, has been unread. g i ,
hid endeavours to prepare him for the fa'c which awaits
i Oa Wedre,d4y morning he was iron pursu-mr
to the gaol regu'ations ; he was visited by the High Sinn iff,
to whom he as;c:ted Lit innt;cence, and earnestly seheited
his intci c:ssion fur mercy. This, a; may be supposed, tea;.
promised as far as the hoe. gentleman could ex, rt his in-
filter:cc, but no hope was held out. During the day he
continued tolcr<illa firm ; and yesterday morning he sent
far his s(dicit ,r, Mr. Jones, and at ilF.t time appeared c
rally depie;sed. lie s ill persisted in his innoccric...,
and suggested that a petition should be addressed to the
S.cretary of State for a cornmut,ti m of the extreme pc-
rtaty. We understand that petition was last night de-
si) Itchel to the Marquis cf Normanby.
The gale al impresFion, an impression founded, we
',dean principally on the well known sere i'y of Jaa
Judge bWre whom he wat tried, appears to Le, that
these p..ti ions will avail the prisoner nothing, and that
the er.trerne sentence of the law will be carried into
execution on the morning of this day week. The
scaffalding for the front of the gaol is being put in
order, as, happily for the cause both of justice and
humanity, the machinery of the hangman has so long
fallen into desuetude, in this as well as in moat
other rural districts, that it requires some time to give
it the fatal facility of operation it was wont to possess
when the use and abuse of crialaal punishments were
less well understood than at present. An idle rumour
was afloat in the early part of yesterday that the pri-
soner had made a full confession of his guilt. To the
high sheriff, to his solicitor, the jailer, the chaplain, and
to every one who has yet been permitted to fists him, we
bel'eve, he continues to assert his innocence, but he has
not hitherto attempted to explain away any of the more
than suspicious circumstances connecting him with the
transaction of the 20th of August, as developed during the
trial.

The Hereford Times says that twelve months ago a re-
port appeared in its columns of a flashing case at Leo-
minster, in whic'a tbii Josiah Mister enacted the principal
character. Mr. Thomas Woodling, saddler, charged
Mist2r with stealing from his dwelling-house nearly 201.
in cash notes. Mister took his trial for the offence at our
spring assizes of last
year, and was acquitted in conse-
quence of Wooding failing in Court to identify the notes.
About a fortnight ago Mister wrote to our informant at
Leominster, stating that he should bring an action against
him and the Editor of the Hereford Times for defamation
of chat aster I

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