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tained whether him conviction under Lord Ellenborough'
Act would hold. So too, in a else Wherenauider was ate

thempted to be committed by means of dumb-bell. For
neither of these eases was any specific provision iriade by
Lord Ellenhorough's Act.
The clause as amended was then agreed to.. The ne
clause was as follows :

" And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfulltaP
maliciously attempt to commit the crime of murder,liy or 6;
means of any poison, or other noxious or destritctive thissgs
or by or by means of any violence or injury to the peril)
other than such means as are hereinbefore mentioned
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provided for, every such offender, and every person coo-
selling, aiding, or abetting such offender, Shall be
_guilty 6f
felony, and, being convicted thereof; shall suffer .death
felon ; provided always, that if it shall appear at the .trial
of any person charged with any s►.ch offence as herein :14st
before mentioned, except an attempt to murder by
that the principal offender did, by his own voluntary_ issctt
and with intent to spare or save the life of the perooo
against whom such attempt shall have been made, desist
from such attempt, and from carrying the same into full
effect, and such matter shall he found and declared by the
verdict of the jury, then and in such case the puriishment
of death shall not be awarded ; but xi vertheless the of
his counsellors, aiders, or abettors,, shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and shall be -fable to be imprisoned, with
or without hard labour, for such term, not exceediug,l,o..
years, as the Court shall award."

Mr. PEEL objected to this clause, as worded atlitaeno
lie conceived the words, " attempt to commit the
Of murder by or by means of any poison, or other nonfat"
or destructive thing, or by or by means of any violeneeo!
injury to the person," much'too vague and indefinite.
would alter the clause thus—" that if any krion shfinid
unlawfully or maliciously administer, or cause to bi ad;
ministered, any poison or other noxious and destructive
thing to any person, or should by drawingn trigger, or in
any other manner attempt to dischargeliny ofloadcr
fire-arms at any person, or should unlawftiltyor Malici-
ously stab, cut, or wound any person,' or-CoMmit any via
lence or injury to any person, with intent, 'in any 01.11
cases to murder, every such offender "should rbe
gui'ty of felony, and being convicted thereof,_ shouldsu
death as a -felon.", He would leayti-fint the:proviso, alt!:t",
gether, which he had no doubt ira4"intradneed to rerne4Yi
the laxity of the first part of the eLtuse. He (*wider.°
the proiisO objectionable on this ground—that 4.left
the Jury to decide upon a fact which did not appear on the.,
indictment. Besides, if the desisting from the gUilty act
before its final consummation was to be`good in murder,
why should it not be good in other cases, as for robbery
and burglary ?

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not comprehend
the operation of this clause.
Mr. WYNN said, that in Ireland to conspire
was considered an offence equivalent to the commission re
murder; hut he would leave it .to .the House to decide
whether a man, who offered a poisoned cup to another
and then dashed it from the other's lips, . just as_le was
going to drink it, ought to be considered guilty of -,tbe
same offence, as be who allowed the party, to whoM he
offered it, to drink it off. . •
Sir T. BARING defended the clause. - .

Mr. FERGUSSON considered that the words of 111 x•
Peel's amendment—" commit any violence or injury to the
person," were too vague in their meaning.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL —By the words, " AnY
violence," such violence was intended as would ociasio°
death.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Probably, this clause?,
if agreed to at present will he hereafter re-committed: FUt
his own part, he could net consider the attempt to made!:
equivalent to the act. In conclusion, he complained Pi
the crude manner in which this Bill had been drawn up•
Mr. G. LAMB was astounded to hear an AtiorneJrc
General assert that a man who attempted to commit mur•
der, and was only prevented from:eoniMitting it bir. 4c.0:
dent, was not, in strict morality, as guilty as. the_ part/
who actually perpetrated it. He could not -,say that,
approved of the clause as 'it stool it present; but Ihe.-
amentlfident of the Right lion:Secretary appeared .tniob".;
jectionable. He thought that the person who had
mitted murder was not, in strict morality, more guilty
than the perscn'Who intended to commit murder 6otifi:frig,l

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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended hie morslo
After some. further discussion, Mr. Pair. otatervPd.thik'
he merely Wialied his amendment to he Printed, int .:beLtgir •
consideration on a future day ; and on thattusdensti.nawP,'
the clausewas agreed to as he had amended-it«,
On the clause for punishing feniales for the concealing"-
of child-birth;
Mr. PEl,,inhatitated an. arnentlinelaar.elat tha-ciattte',
shoOld
,apply.to "dea l children. only. LW"- he. wished
to overthrow the distinction between a still-born child and
one dying immediately after birth.
On the clause for the punishment of violentontragn*Q"'
a capital nature) upon females,
Mr. W. SMITH suggested the propriety of exeeptinC.,l.
females from the revolting public examination liiirhiicit!;
they were exposed in giving evidence in. such cwt.,. .
Mr. PEEL-said,' that if a private examinatioirwere'r-,e,
lerated, one of the greatest impediments would be removed"
to the detection of false charges of this kind. ' •
Several clauses of the Bill were then put' froM the chtdr!,
and agreed to. •
Mr. PEEL proposed the introduction of a clause
tending the operation of the provisions of the Cciinbinafic'n.'
Act to seamen.—Agreed to.
On a clause proposed by Mr. PEEL, giving sou-7
jurisdiction to Magistrates, in cases of comitionatiaulto
fine to the amount of 51. and not under. IN., being read'
Mr. PORTAIAN recommended the reconsideration
the clause.
Mr. S. BOURNE supported the clause.
Sir 11. INGLIS also advocated its introduction into Ot
Bill.
Mr. PEEL had adopted the clause upon the suggoli°n
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of others. He merely wished to have it printed viith t•
Bill now, without pledging himself to support,it, on reel*.
sideration in a future stage of the Bill. . The clause
then agreed to. The House having resumed, the.reP°,l".
was brought up, agreed to, and ordered to 4e ,rceiyea •
Monday next ; and the Bill with the amendments Vf.-.
ordered to be printed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
at half-past Twelve the House adjourned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de Franke, May 4.)
ALEXANDRIA, MA, cn have nothing new Ainf
I
any importance, because the Tartar has not yet strive"
from Constantinople who is to bring the resolution of the
Sultan with respect to the proposals made to our Pacha by ';
an English Envoy. This Envoy remains in the Mean
at Cairo, and an English frigate and brig have been JO4 '
here for this month past ready for him. Besides these,'" •,'
have here the Glasgow frigate, and the French have t
frigate and three small men-ni-war, one of which is to Ow
to-morrow with a convoy for Marseilles. The Paella '
still in the Delta, occupied with financial measures.
An Egyptian corvette has lately returned from the
Morea, which, on its entrance into Navarin, was brour:
to by a French ship-of-war, which Aced three gime at
Ind searched it, though it had no more provisions on boor
than were requisite for its own use during, the voyage;
after which it wal allowed to proceed. In this manner 00
Mores seems to be blockaded, and Ibrahim's come:tunics'
tions to be intercepted. It is generally believed that Oof
port also will soon be blockaded,
the Pacla's is preparing to put to sea, which the Allis*
recording to the system they ard headv,
e asnoawnoat,hjoeir)tedsq,aawairilonoo,
permit.
ttioae4tY

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.
LEGHORN, --.--The report (already men,
groundless.
ibyy a Swedish captain, of. the detention of
Russiani
n eh en-of-war by the Governor of Malta, ?roves
days from Malta, affirms, that the Russian squado;44
A captain who has urneed here
brought aeui
ngg entire
eight
m
which had been thoroughly repaired and provisioned dutiOr
its long stay io that port, had sailed shortly before his de-
parture, and waited in the roads for the English *oo4'
which was likewise beginning to weigh anchor.
.•7410 (kir
tination of the two squadrons was uneertaia.. .Borne Per '
sons thought it was Navario, strictly to blockade Ibralliul
Pacha ; others thought Alexandria, to demand ilatisfoetit
for an limit lately offered to an English brig ofyar by the
Egyptian fleet in its late expedition on the coast of CA'n"'s'
and perhaps to require the release of the Greeks carried 03
slaves to Rigypt.
Faun, MAY 2.—The Duke de Montemart set out yes'
terday evening. It is supposed that he will go no forth
than Warsaw, where the Emperor Nicholas will have sr
rived by the time he reaches that city.
(From the Messayer des Chambres, of Saturday, May sd
PARIS, MAY 3.--Nine o'clock in the morning,--At
moment when we write these lines, the Count de Sees;
no more. We learn that that most illustrious Alagist,
died last night, at ten o'clock.!'
Fitericit Futtnl.—Five per Cents. 103 f. ; Three Pei
Cents. 69f. 70c. ; Bank Stock, 1,885 f. ; Darer,-
Stock, 76f. 25c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, '72f. ; 11101%
Loan, 655 f. Exchange on London, one mouth, 25f.
three month!, Rsf,•2oe. _