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remain in that neglected state in which it had
already too long rested. As the feelings of the house
were so universal in admitting the grievance, he hoped
the bill would not be lost from any difference of
opinion as to the remedy, and therefore he sug-
gested that the bill should be referred to a select com-
mittee, not to take evidence, but for that committee to
closely and carefully consider the various modes of re-
medy proposed in juxtaposition to each other, and re-
port thereon to the house.
Mr. HADFIELD condemned the present power of
appeal against assessments to poor's rates.
After a short discussion the bill was read a second
time and ordered to be referred to a select committee.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS BILL.

Mr. DILLWYN moved the second reading of this
bill, which was one, he thought, well calculated
to repress those fearful cases of assault upon women,
which so frequently appeared in the public newspapers.
The clauses of the bill proposed the infliction of corpo-
real punishment, which he thought was the only
thing calculated to do so. It had been sug-
gested that solitary imprisonment should be in-
flicted. He thought that solitary imprisonment,
and a longer term of it, would be good in some cases,
but he maintained that solitary imprisonment was not
calculated to act sufficiently active on the mind
of man to prevent him, through fear, from com-
mitting those brutal assaults upon defenceless wo-
men, which was a disgrace to the country. There had
been also a suggestion that a cheap law of divorce should
be passed. (Hear, hear.) He would go heart and
hand to obtain a cheap law of divorce, but
he did not wish to mix the law of divorce up with this
measure, and, under all the circumstances, he thought
that the only way by which the evil would be abated
was by the infliction of corporeal punishment. When a
man committed a robbery, be, generally speaking,
weighed well the consequences of the act if de-
tected ; but, in the case of wife beating, such
was not the case. But if the knowledge that
corporeal punishment would surely be administered,
the hand of the savage would be stopped by the
dread of receiving such punishment, for it was generally
found that the greater the bully the greater the coward.
Tt had been said that such a mode of punishment as
was proposed to be inflicted by this bill would degrade
man. He believed a man who habitually assaulted his
wife could not be degraded for he was a brute, and a
brute could not be degraded, but he ought to be pre-
vented from repeating aggravated assaults. The hon.
gentleman having referred to the meeting lately held at
Leicester, hoped the Government would not oppose the
second reading of the bill.
Sir G. GREY said every person must wish to see the
cases of aggravated assaults diminished, yet he
thought the bill of the hon. gentleman ought not to be
agreed tc. The present law bad been very beneficial,
and it had worked much good. He believed the punish.
ment of the existing law was much more calculated
to effect an improvement in the conduct of
the man than the infliction of corporeal punishment.
When a man was sent to prison his wife generally
interested herself and obtained his discharge, and
he went home again under circumstances more
calculated to make him act in a kinder and
better manner towards the woman, whom he was
bound by all the ties of honour and affection to protect.
He thought that a law liberating from prison after four-
teen days' solitary confinement, and a smarting
back, was not half so likely to effect an im•
provement in the behaviour of the man as the prevent
law. He thought the act which had been lately passed
was not a failure, and for these and other reasons he
must object to the second reading of the bill.
Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR thought that it was
going back in chili-ation to inflict corporeal punishment
fer cases of assault. The present law had not been a
failure, aad, therefore, he should oppose the bill.
After a short discu-sion, in which Mr. Wnitbread, Mr.
aeoieck, and NI,. B dire w took part,
Captain SCOBELL said the house was arguing this
que,tion on a fiery narrow ground. By the present bill,
it any member of this house met a saucy boy in the street
and corrected him, he was liable to fourteen days' im-
prisonment and to ho fi :;.;gel. Flogging in the navy
had great,y diminished, and the consequence was we
ha 1 a superior cla,s of men in the service. He agreed
with some of the seg,geAiens that had been made during
the debate. Compel a ratan to do any sort of
dirty work, to any sort of degradation, but
dee't flog him. lle believed that if the wife
knew her husband was to be flogged is a punishment
fur au ast,,au it o,unnitted upon her she would not come
forward to prosecute him,

Mr. MUNTZ th,tight that a cheep law of divorce
WA4 the best olea•mri that could be adopted.
Mr. S. WORTLEY opposed the bill, aq it would tend
to inct.eme the repuguatiee cf wives coining forward to
prosecute their husbands for habitual ill-usage.

The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 97
Against it
Majority against the bi 11... --38
The bill was ce,n,..ffinently lost.
SLEEPING STATUTES BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES
BILL.

This bill WAS also read a second time.
The second reading of the Maynooth College Bill was
understood to be postponed till tr-morrow.
The house then adjourned till 2 o'clock to morrow.

ENTART DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MAY 7.
&GGRAVATED ASSAULTS BILL.

Order for second reading read : Motion made and question
put—" That the bill be now read a second time." The
house divided; Ayes 97, Noes 135.
AYES-97.

Acton, Joseph Greene, John O'Brien, P.
Adderley, C. B. Grenfeli, Charles O'Connell, I).
Annesley, Earl of Hadfield, George Ossulston, Lord
Barrington, Vist. Hamilton, Lord Claud Paget, Lord A.
Bateson, Capt. T. Hardy, G. Percy, J.
Beaumont, W. Hastie, Archfl. Portman. W.
Bell, J. Heathcoatc, Sir W'. Repto n 13.
Bennet, Capt. P. Heywood, J. Sawle, C.
Berkeley, Hon. m F. Hotham, Lerd Scott, F.
B ,nham-Car, ter, J. Howard. C. Sibthorp, Major
Byng, G. 11. C. Hume, W. Spooner, R.
Cabbell, B. E. Hutchins, E. Stafford, A.
Carnac, Sir J. R. Kendall, N. ' Stanhope, J.
Castlerosse, Vl9. Kershaw, J. Stracey, Sir II.;
Cecil, Lord King, J. Stewart, Sir M.
Clive, Hon. It. W. Knatchbull, W. Stuart, Captain
Crossley, F. Knightley, R. Sullivan, Michael
Davies, D. Langton, W. H. P. G. Talbot, C.
Drummond, H. Langton, U. G. Tyler, Sir G.
Dunconabe, Hon. A. Lee. W. Vansittart, G.
Dundas G. Legh, G. C. Vivian, 11. H.
East, Sir J. Lennox, Lord A. F. Vyse, Col. R.
Elm'ey, Viscount Liddell, H. G. Walcott, Admiral.
Fellowes, E. Lindsay, Col. S. ; Whitbread, S.
Fergus, John Lisburne, Earl Whitmore. H.
Forester, Col. Lowther, Capt. Wlgram, I.oftus T.
Freestun, Colonel MacGregor, James Willcox, B.
Fuller, A. E. Marjoribanks, D. Williams, W.
Gallwey, Sir W. Morris, D. Wyndham, Gen.
Galway, Viscount Napier, J.
Gaskell, J. Neeld, John
i lodericb, Viscount North, Col. J.
Gordon, A.. North, F. iiZZI
Granby, Marquis of Oakes, J.

TELLERS.

Ditlwyn, L. L.
Bentiack, G.

NOES-135.
Agnew, Sir A. Fitzroy, Henry Moody, C.
A lcock, T. F oyer, J. Mowbray, J. R.
Anderson, Sir J. Foley, J. IL Mulgrave, Earl of
Bailey, C. Forster, Charles Mundy, W.
Baldock, E. H. Forster, John Naas, Lord
Barrow, W. Gooch, Sir E. ta Norreys, Sir D.
Bass, M. Gower, F. Northcote, Sir S.
Baxter, W. , Grace, 0. Oliveira, B.
Beamish, F. (treenail, Gilbert Packe, C.
Beckett, W. Grosvenor, Earl Palmer. Robert
Bernard, Vist. Hamilton, G. A. Paxton, Sir J.
Blackburn, P. Hamilton, J. Peacocke, G.
Blake, M. J. Harcourt, G. G. Pellatt, A.
Bland, L. H. Harcourt, Col. Pennant, Col. E.
Blandford, Marquis of Hastie, Alex. Pigott, F.
tiouverie, Hon. E. P. Henchy, D. Pilkington, J.
Brady, J. Heneage, Geo. F. Portal, M.
Brocklehurst, J. Henley, J. Power, N.
Brotherton, J. Herbert, H. Ricardo, 0.
Buckley, Gen. Higgins, G. 0. Ridley, George
Butler, C. Si Hindley, C. Rolt, P.
Butt, G. M. Holland, E. Russell, F. C.l,
Chambers, T. Horsfall, T. Scobell, Capt.
Cholmondeley, Lord Horsman, E Seymer, H.
Coles, H. Hutt, W. Shirley, E.
Colvile, C. R. Jackson, W. Smith, Abel
Davie, Sir H. R. F. Jermyn, Rt. Hn. Earl Somerset, Colonel
Davison, R. Jones, Admiral Steel, John
Deasy, R. Keating, H. Stirling, W.
Do Vere, S. E. Kerrison, Sir E. Strutt, llon. E.
Devereux, J. King, L. Thesiger, Sir. F.
Dod, J. Kinnaird, A. Thompson, G.
Duckworth, Sir J. T.B. Lacon, Sir E. Thornely, T.
Duncan, Viscount Laslett, W. The, W.
Duncan, George Littleton, E. Tottenham, C.
Dundas, F. Lushington, C. M. Trollope, Sir J.
Dunlop. A. Mackinnon, W. Walpole, S.
Du Pre, C. Maguire, J. F. Warren, S.
Esmonde, J. Malins, Richard Watson, W.
Euston, Fall of Martin, J. Whiteside, J.
Evelyn, W. J. Massey, W. Wickham, H.
Ewart, W. Meagher, T. Winnington, Sir T.
Ewart, J. Miles, W. Wortley, J. S.
Ferguson, J. Milner, W. M. E. TELLERS.
Filnter, Sir E. Michell. William Muntz. G.
Fitzgerald, J. Monck, Vis. Biggs, W.

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