The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-20 00:00:00

BILL.

Viscount RAYNHAM moved that the house go into
committee on this bill.

Lord ENFIELD in opposing the bill said, the
punishment of 25 lashes for a first offence and
for a second offence of 50 lashes would have the effect
of preventing women coming forward against their
husbands. Daily experience proved that women
were deterred from appearing against their husbands when
a severe punishment was liable to be inflicted. He denied
that punishment of the lash would render the person who
suffered it better behaved towards his wife and family after-
wards, and drew attention to the fact that the only petio
tions presented on the bill were from females against it.
The tendency of modern legislation was of a humanising
character; and he was one of those who considered that the
punishment of flogging soldiers and sailors was brutal and
degrading. (Hear, hear.) He contended that the law would
be totally inoperative, and concluded by moving that the
house should go into oommittee this day three months.
Mr. HARDY seconded the amendment, and went
into different returns respecting the number of convictions
and punishments in the metropolis during the last five years,
to show that the present law empowering police magistrates
to inflict six months' imprisonment for assaults on women
was inoperative, which he maintained was a strong argu-
ment against increasing the severity of punishment. He
objected strongly to giving a single magistrate, who might
be influenced by his feelings or mistaken in his judgment,
full power to inflict a degrading punishment.
Mr. PAULL opposed the bill.
Mr. EWART said that although he had voted for the
second reading of the bill, on further consideration he felt
bound to oppose its further progress.
After a few remarks from Colonel NEILL,
Sir G. C. LEWIS said the feeling which animated the
members of the house who supported the bill was very
honourable to their humanity, but to increase punish-
ment was not in accordance with legislation of late
years. The principle on which their ancestors
proceeded was when a particular offence became
frequent to increase the severity of the penalty. The
consequence was that the criminal statute book
was crowded with capital punishments for numberless
offences. Modern legislation diminished the severity, and
the result had proved most beneficial. At the beginning of
the last century the punishment of exposing in the pillory,
and cutting off the ears of offenders was very common, and
perhaps some hon. members might consider it desirable to
revive these punishments, to which a poet had alluded in
the following couplet—
" Earless on high stood unabashed the foe,
And blushing fragrant from the scourge below."
_ _

(Laughter). The right hon. gentleman then referred to
the statements of Mr. Hale, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

FROM THE GAZEI'TE OF _LAST EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 19.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orJers for
the appointment of Major-General Thos. Aiskew Larcom,
C. 8., Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Divison of the
Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUTE 15.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wm.
Ferry, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Panama, to be
her Majesty's Consul-General for the Austrian Coasts of
the Adriatic Sea.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Alan Henderson, now her Majesty's Consul in
Paraguay, to be her Majesty's Consul at Panama.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 19.
_ _

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed, under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
kind unto John Nodes Dickinson, Esq., First Puisne Judge
of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Henry
Pope, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary, and Lemnel Cam-
bridge Owen, Esq., to be Postmaster-General for the
Island of Prince Edward.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint George
Robert Saltwell, Esq., to be Postmaster for the Island of
Mauritius.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Gould
Arthur Lucas, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate for the
Colony of Natal.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 19.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander Ander-
son Donald. Ramsay, John Rhodes Gardiner, John Goff,
and James M'Laren, Esqs., to be Members of the Legis-
lative Council of the Island of Prince Edward ; and Samuel
Cockburn, Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the
Council of the Island of Montserrat.

CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 18.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Belfast—Samuel Gibson Getty, of Donegan-
square South, Belfast, in the county of Antrim, Esq., in
the room of Richard Davison, Esq., who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Walter Noak, John Noak, and John Bissell Clark, salt
manufacturers, Droitwich.
BANKRUPTS.

WCoohdarles Maidlow, builder, Alma-square, St. John's
Yorkshire.
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John Bamford, nu
grocer, Halifax, Yorkshire.
John Hughes, licensed victualler, Liverpool.
William Granville Sharpe, timber merchant, Edge-hill,
near Liverpool.
John Paget, licensed victualler, Brierley-hill, Stafford-
shire.
Marshall John Stacey, dealer in tea, Leeds.
Wm. Seabrook Chalkley, ship owner, Liverpool.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Bannerman and Co., clothiers, Edinburgh.
Robert Warnock, jun., grocer, Bonhill, Dumbartonshire.
Matthew M‘Turk, eontractor, Auchinleck.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam Short. 11 14 11 15
f
Ditto 3 Months. 11 16 11 17
1
Rotterdam 11 17
'—
11 16
Antwerp— 25 321 25 37k
Brussels 25 321 25 37}
Ramburgh
Paris
Ditto
Alarseilles • 25 35 25 40
Frankfort on Maine —117 k
Vienna
Trieste
'
Petersburgh — 35 35/
Madrid
49k
--491 Cadiz
Leghorn — 30 35 30 40
Milan —. 25 40 25 45

Genoa

Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York .. ..
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. 13 17 9
Nlexican Dollars . „ 0 5 21
Silver in Bars (Standard)
9) 0 0 0
South American Doublous