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pr,•, ,;•.?e the prisoner bad been tried, sand with-the-lawi°o
•• ,'• of the Crowa---the" Attorney-General-awl tit,o- 4
tieneral—by whotu that prosecution had be,-•,:•-'11.-gc.0
i ducted. The result of that conferenee-Was'an iii::::iirit,JAB.„44
. ,4216...---- - - 1 opinion, upon a review of the whole of the •,..,:iy:1!:1000
HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jul, 12. I of the case, that it was not advit;able, it ii ;;t io,%tneetraattn'
The Sri:Ll:Km( teals the Chair at Four o'clock. • iluit the capital, sentence should be carzi: „ i,:it• ,_•:,:cjtt7ro,4l4
.rhk, c,,,,lmsi„ng and 2,•inirkirk Roads (No. 2)' Bill, the tier. The opinion of the Judges 'was foutaf 1.. ;;; pr"; bite'
Paterson's Estate Bill, the Davidson's Estate Bill, Duke cise conformity with that of the law officers of the Croivno'lT
of Cleveland's Estate Bill, Vere's Divorce Bill, and Vis- by whom the prosecution had been conducted. Under therliniu
count Fitzwilliam's Estate Bill, were read a third time circumstances, he thought the House would be of oPiti!,ieas
and passed. . nion that, they had taken a more effectual security etesi
The Lords' amendments were agreed to in the Toxteth against the repetition of such an offence, than if they :.,,ti
Park Paving and Sewerage (No. 2 e the Leeds Improve- were to depart from the usual course of proceeding. : 1.! 7,,-eil
merit, and the Leeds Burial Grounds Bills. was not necessary for, him to enter into a detain.eas
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT. of the reasons which induced them to come to that denies: el!
An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from unions sion ; it would be, he thought, sufficient for him to pointase
in Gloucestershire and Warwickshire against the out that the law officers of the Crown had advised thei:;?.o
bastardy clause in the New Poor-law Bill. 'adoption of such a course. The Bill he proposed would.
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NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND). also provide for other offences besides those which aei
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from bore the name of high treason.. The Bill would snhi.el
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some place in Cork against the .system of National Elm- to severer punishment than could be at present applie .eat
cation in Ireland, and in favour of the system adopted by all tho ie ot&nces which were,connected with the discharge
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the Church Education Society. _ - of fire-arms, or attempts to annoy her Majesty, even al
TOBACCO REGULATIONS BILL. where the case did not amount to high treason.. sr?,
Mr. LITTON presented a petition from Coleraine, in He did n t think he could do better than read to the; -;
Londonderry, against certain clauses in this Hill, more par- House this new class of offences, against which it iv.aise -fe
titularly the sth, preventing the retailers of tobacco from proposed to provide. He proposed, that after tl.. ::.,,;‘4
selling sugar and molasses in the same premises where passing of this. Act, if any person discharge, or eta ;91e/
tobacco is sold. tempt to discharge, or point, aim, or present at, or ne!'
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MR. HULLAII'S CLASSES. the person of the Queen any gun, pistol, or other de;:',,es
Sir R. PEEL rose, pursuant to a notice he had given, scription of fire-arms, or any other arms what- 1 4
to present a petition from the pupils educated at Exeter soever, although the same should not contelli;:s;
Hall,. under the sanction of the Council of Education. any explosive or destructive material ; or shat', ,-
Ile had been requested by certain parties to present this discharge, or attempt to discharge, any
petition, and as the tenor of it was such that it could substance or material at or near the person 2 :7,
offend no cne, he had acceded to the request to present the Queen ; or if any person strike, or attempt to strie'e,:ol!
it. As he was presenting a petition,• the rules of the the persOn of the Queen with any offensive weapon 00.r_ e• !!
House would not allow him to do otherwise than read it, by any other means whatsoever, or wilfully throw
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and that was the course whioit he should therefore adopt. attempt to throw any substance whatsoever at
The Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded to read the heads or on the person of the Queen, with intel7-Soe
of the petition, which stated that on the Ist February, in any case aforesaid to injure the ners:,l,„os
1841, the singing class was established ; since then 400 of the Queen, or with intent, in any of the aforesi,:Ne
schoolmasters and schoolmistresses had been instructed cases to break the public peace— ho proposed t,ane
by Mr. Hullah, and now there were not less than 50,000 every such person so offending should be sub4.kentst
exploso_er,o..
children in London learning singing from the masters to certain punishment, not of undue severity. ;;iesta
and mistresses who had previously received their instruc- thought that this law would derive great efgeau4s,:silt
don from Mr. Hullah. 'she petitioners were anxious from public ,opinion. He proposed that a party so eilensi
to be instructed in any other branch of edu- fending—that was, intending to hurt her Majesty the ;b,B
cation which the Council of Education might fully, or annoy her, should be subjected to eie
put within their reach ; and they stated that classes same penalties which applied to offences : -of larcettY.ls.6en
had already been formed for ylrawing and writing. The —that airs to say, parties so offending should be slthiet:,,A
petition concluded by praying that the House -would be •to transportation for a period not exceeding sere sell
pleased to make such alterations in- the terms of the years. But he: proposed that the party should 1.11 -,sf!
grant, as would enable the Committee of the Council subject also to another-punishment which he tlwag
to appropriate such sums of money as •mi •lit much more worthy of the offence, and much more cute,;
be necessary towards the expenses of educating lasted to repress it, viz., that there should be a diser
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the pupils in Exeter Hall. He (Sir R. Peel) assented tionary power to imprison for a given period, and to ".
to the prayer of the petition ; he approved of singing, filet personal chastisement.—(Loud and general cheoei,,
for he thought it would tend to improve the order of the jug.) With this punishment he thought th.s;
children in schools, and promote the progress of educa- miscreants would nut be incited to the offence by het",„
tion. He thought the application of a small sum of made the objects of that disgraceful . and stupid sYnti?,„„.•
money, in the manner prayed fur, could not be consi- thy which seine people felt for offenders of that deseer in
dered objectionable. tion. Let it be known to the world that if -men could ue
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the Board ' actuated, by base and malignant motives, to codeasoed
of Guardians of Durham, against the bastardy clause in to prevent the Sovereign from enjoying in peace o,a_, •
the New Poor-law Act ; also a petition to the same tranquillity the rights and privileges of her stayer!
effect from the Board.of Guardittes of Essington. Da
the punishmentiufficted for such detestable acts would,,st
NOTICES OF MOTIONS, . severe personal chastisement. Ile confidently hoped t 9
Mr. WALLACE gave notice that, at the euturneece- without calls,! in aid extreme severity, the provio,a,
anent of the next session, be should move for a Commit- of the law which he was about to introduce, a ould effee', ,
tee to inquire whether it be desirable •to have a different ally prevent• the repetition of such attempts. -1-1'„91
standard of value than was at-present in use. He should had not to guard against attempts on her ;110„„es'lee
also move for a Committee
.to inquire into•the practice CroWn, but against miscreants who committed an ono' _
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oldie Scotch LaW CtsurtS. ' : - i : . with scarcely an assignable Motive. The law had .111:11,
Dr. BOWRI.Na Moved for a return of the newspaper contemplated the possibility that any help-, ?pr
ee •finlg
stamps and advertisement duty since the last return.— form
.of a man could find any satisfaction: An
.Ordc rvil. a pistol ut a yOung lady—that holy a ntother.:,
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•- Mr, HUME .gave notice : that, on, Thursday. next, he elettalady - the Queen, of these realais ; ,end it "le
should move for a similar return to thaWhiCh lie lied monstrous that that lady should nut be entitled-t 0 ,t lie
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ate ni
already move:4 for relative to flag-officers.' same protection as the meanest of her eubjects.-e-velee
Colonel SIPTHORP expressed a hope that her Ma- He hoped the house would respond to the proposit
tt.,
jesty's Government would be:pleas-ed•to lay on the table that a new security should be given to her Maiesda
of the House cer sin papers which he had moved- for as They knew that her Majesty might repose with 1e , •
far back as Ju'y last. they being important documents gee atest confidence on the affections of her poi' of
relating to the• continuance. of a paid Commission. what they had to guard against was the designs, u,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Pais- these wretched miscreants—designs which were eetebut.
Icy, praying for an inquiry into the distressed state of fated not only to disturb her Majesty's peace, et.
that town ; also a petition from the North Riding of, the the peace of every loyal subject of the realm. The era of .
county of York against the New Poor-law Bill. - ment which lie proposed trenched upon no principle ie. :
Captain PECHELL wished to put. a question to the English jurisdiction, imposed no undue severe ,Ece :
Right• Hon. Baronet with reference to two Bills which were nishment. He was sure- that the measure 01' .
to be read a third time that evening—the Fishery Treaty he proposed would meet with the unanimous aule ;
Continuance Bill and the Slave `Treaty Continuance Bill. provel of that House, and that every Member ivfiee
He wished to know if the former treaty' Lad been brought retire from his Parliamentary labours with the '!1;,e•
to a conclusion, and he also wished to ask, with re- satisfaction of thinking that he had, by his vote, contrite; .
ted to that security and that tranquillity which •cs
spect to the Slave Treaty Continuance Bill, whether it
teas the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill Sovereign had a right, equally with her subjects, to eyl.(e
for the division, amongst the captors, of property taken The Right lion. Baronet then moved for leave to bri.;
under the Portuguese flag in 1830.7 in a Bill for providing for the further security and I), •
I Sir R. PEEL said he wished the Bon. •Mereber tection of her Majesty's person.—(Cheers.) Oa
had given notice in the morning of his intention. Lord. J. RUSSELL said he rose to express his cot Ise
He (Sir R. Peel) could give no satisfactory information assent to the- motion of the Right Hon. Gentleneany
,ers : •
with respect to the Fishery Treaty Bill. With respect entirely agreed, tbat when new mischievous crimes,r be.
to the latter-question, the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman committed, it was desirable that the -law shoutwno -
would not be surprised if it was not the intention of her made .adequate to meet those offences. - The 1:1100,'
Majesty's Government at present to introduce such a: Honourable Gentleman, as he understood, • ditteelf ;/
Bill. - . or' -,"
propose at all to alter the- law of treason, ere
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Mr. T. EGERTON presented' a petition from Chester offences which came tinder that - desert' '.20
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against the bastardy clause in the new Poor-law Bill. In fact, they had not then to deal with plotseaqt li
BILL Nit • THE BETTER SECURITY OF HER racks for the purpose of overturnitiolllB - uta
MAJESTY.o • 25',yrgv-•
• With respect to crimes of that kind, certain:A.o,
Sir R. PEEL rose and said that .he apprehended the had been provided by the law, and were fitllleetle'':
House would not consider that it was upon light and vided, and with regard to one of them, Wiese
trifling grounds that he called their attention to the the power of being defended by Counselehad been s'"n,e;:
state of the law which provided for the personal security extended to persons accused of felony of an ordinal-oe
of the Sovereign—(Loud cheers)—and the necessity turo. But the offence with which the Right: 11,0. iee. ,
of giving such additional protection to tie ronet proposed to deal was new in its kind. It did not Ire ir-
person of the Sovereign as much as enactments by law from any political p .ssions, but, es stated by the Btigoe,
could secure. He said he did not make that proposal lion. Gentleman, from some base and malignant pito .or
upon light or trifling grounds, when it was notorious to injure the person of the Sovereign. When they ie.
that within the short period of two years three assaults • offences of this description committed so frequeatlYoo
upon the person of her Majesty had been made, they had seen them committed within two years, l'hiell
having been committed by the discharge, or attempt to a case when the law should be altered, and in 0: ,ti
discharge, fire arms, either endangering the personal ; means should be provided to bring those 1.05„re 't-
security of her Majesty or calculated to excite :to trial speedily, and without those solemnities fitly !"041'l,
ahtrui and apprehension in the mind •of her. Ma- vided for crimes of a much graver nature as resP:"de
jesay ; disturbing the public feeling and the public mind, by ; the srat,.._(llear, hear.) With regard to or(11,11.0se
naturally giving rise to great apprehension for the safety ' cases of treason, there was great difficulty in i.t,e: en
4 the Sovereign.—(Cheers.) It it were poss.ble for a taming whether they were the result of a consPD'ers.
law to afford additional protection, Parliament ought but the offence for which the present remedy on'' 'L lee
not to separate before it enacted such a law. He was vided was committed in the thee of day, and 0' Ile
glad to state, that in considering the means of providing • committed in the presence of many pers'n''.• woi
that addiVonal protection, he did not feel it necessary to agreed with the Right Hen. Gentleman that it lan
cal in the aid of extreme punishment. He did not con- '
, right to meet such offences with a new ,at
' template the necessity u`' creating any new treasons, and and he also agreed with him as to the kind ofpunisbn:,,,re
be did not contemplate the enacting • any new capital lie proposed to inflict.—(Hear, hear.) As they lase
punishments, for offences directed against the -
offences of a base and degraded being, a nest
flogof the Sovereign.—(Hear, .hear.) He thought the ! and degraded species of punishment would be esl
object might be effected without either the constitution - fittingly applied •to them.—(hear, hear.) -LE eere
;of DOW treasons or the infliction of new capital punish- hard to know their motives. lie could not cooJe- the
mums. If the state of the law were such that it eneuns- : how any person could be tempted to interfere with rife
: tiered the trial of certain offences with needless forms and ; ordinary recreations of the Sovereign, and dvP he
solemnities which were calculated to- administer to . her Majesty Of that fair exercise to which ,o.'ss
the morbid vanity of the individuals who committed was entitled—(Hear, hear)—and as they knew she lie
those crimes, partly to secure them an Amen- exposed to those attempts more than others' oh
viable notoriety ; •in those cases tiros y solemni- • entirely agreed that it was time to hoe' to
• ties and formal proceedings should be dispensed a remedy provided us would put an 01" fog
with. It became necessary, for the purpose of explaining such attempts, . and be effectual in st"P,'lset'
to the House the character and tenor of the wasure he that love of notoriety from which they eet
proposed, shortly to review the existing state of suosed to proceed.—(Hear, hear.) When it
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the law with respect to treasonable attempts on
found they were treated with the n111)01,104
the life of the Sovereign in. this country. He
- they properly deserved, he trusted that in l'aene
might throw from his consideration all those acts of . years they would not have the pain Of ;via
constructive treason, such as levying war, or an attempt tiessing crimes, not only distressing to them, es Pe
ere
to force her Majesty's consent to certain measures by pain and alarm to the Sovereign, but as the,' .
intimidation. It was only necessary for him to refer to clearly disgraceful to the nation.—(Cheers.) nen'.
enactments which provided for the personal security 1 Mr. HUME trusted that the House uould %jet
I of the Sovereign, and those laws which' provided pu- I mously agree to support the proposal of the " feel
nishment for offences connected with the personal secu- • Honourable Baronet. He would suggest tliiert lie,
rity of the Sovereign. Now the state of the law at pre- ! officers of the Crown should tioa. "'le. 'l' L'i
sent—confining himself to treasonable offences directed 1 to revise all the old statutes bearing upon the laanei
against the 'personal security of the :Sovereign— rested : treason, and should frame them into one compreltel'' ,'
upon an ancient statute of Edward 111., by which it was ' •
enactment. is re
provided that it was treason to compass the death of the Mr. O'CONNELL hoped it would not be ""i':11 la
Sovereign ; that compassing the death of the Sovereign presumptuous in him, if he interfered on an occoil:,", he
must be accompanied by some overt act, such which the House was certainly unanimous. •'-'; hif
as a direct attempt against the life of the could not avoid • 'time (}; art
expressing, in name , F
Sovereign. On the subject of constructive treason he
constitutents, and in the name of that beer
did not intend to enter. But as far as the personal
of the empire from which he came, the universal ","ees°
security of the Sovereign was concerned, compassing
rence felt there for those base attempts which bad Vet
the death of the Sovereign, accompanied by an overt act,
made upon the life of her Majesty. He was th,9dfjtiee ;
was made treason by the statute of Edward 111. At
to her Majesty's Government for the ititroue cote
a subsequent period, so recently as the 36th Geo. 111.,
of a measure which was calculated to mark with tle'.eneste';
chap. 96, in consequence of an attempt made upon
tom teas execration of the nation those brutal o'll,lll
the life of his . Majesty, the, statute was passed
If in private life an assault upon a mother goiner °h.' ik.,cilti
%ilia made it treason to compass the death or
children to the worship of her God is o.ald be. a'slw'ru e.
-destruction of the Sovereign, or the infliction of any
abhorrencehow much more were those attemPt' °f•el3l
bodily injury to the Sovereign tending to death and de-
life of the' most universally popular 0 and
Sovereign.o,4l
struction, or the maiming of the Sovereign. There was
countrv, who was the object of the admire; nlif'e
no change: until the year 1799. If. the indictment was
ofall, calculated -
the the affection
, proved of a charge of treason, it-was necessary -0 try
nation ? That these brutal offences should be e°'';;eijaa
prisoner with all the solemn practices of the law. That eta- ever), of
was a disace to the nation, and afflictin to
lute passed in the reign of George 111. In the year feeling. He •' d findthe night went
rejoice to that
e. jogs f
1799 an attempt was made on the life of George thee, , n
• •
Third, by a person'of the name of Hatfiele, a conviction .
nourable Baronet had brought forward fh way A
took place on the ground .of insanity. The form motion..
The rules should not stand in the hor,
dhe et
of proceeding was under the Act of William. the immediate s,ing of such a Bill, an , . t
eldin,isle
By the Act of 1800: in case of. the offence of compassing ; 'would contain a ro
the measureclause P
as pos' •
the death of the King, accompanied by some overt act, punishment should follow the offence as soon
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the form of trial was dispensed with, and the trial made • tre
i after it had been committed.—(Hear, hear.) . i A.
tire )1 tev
the same as in cases of ordinary murder and malicious ; Colonel SIB THORF approved of themet!s.
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shooting. But if the offence was committed under the 1 duced by her Majesty's Go:vernment. He onl):_lof'estle
statute of the 3Gth George 111., and was that of coin : • pass- 1 that the punishment proposed tor the crime in 1
ing the wounding of the Sovereign, there was no power was not still greater.. : 0
Bill. - s' "then
;of dispensing with all the solemnity. of a trial for ! Leave was then given to bring in the was he:
• high treason, and the person must be arraigned under Sir R. PEEL brought -in the Bill, which. .set to
erne' e
that statute. What he propoSed was, that, in the second i read a first and second time, and was
case, as • well us the first, the proceedings should committed to•morrow.
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be of the ordinary description, known to the urdi- POOR-LAW AMENDIN se I rNT 81, LTI eous''; -
nary cases of the law, and that it should not be ; On •• the motion of Sir R. ]'ELL, t
• hat- tite - •
. o'ol°
necessary to go through all the formalities described by 1 • '-• • • e ; VW •
into Lohamttee on this , , . :th 4'
petiti'" . ethe
Mr. Erskine in the trial of Hatfield. Immediately after ' Captain PECIIELL presented several _
vil_.oil,
the trial of Hatfield those formalities were dispensed with, Chester, Sundridge, East Grinstead, and "
aes'
and he could not help thinking, utter the experience they places, against the Bill. t, it 61s to
tic e, to P" • ets
had had in the repeated attempts upon her Majesty, Mr. LIDDELL rose, pursuant to ito,..
.e,
,_*. ot
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from which the intention to kill or wound her Ma- I don to the Right lion. Baronet, the ace! t_u_lo.'vere ecii,
jesty might be fairly hilexred, the investing those wretched 1 for the Home Department, relative to th,ellepn tiielerl,e,
criminals with the dignity of traitors, and making I cised by me cent; al Board of Commisst iji..,1p.,(:),
the: charge against diem with all the soleninities of high I eleventh clause of the Irish Poor-law ~(::.,__,.,r,t! tile ~ die
treason, almost tempted them to commit the crime, for the ! legation of the whole powers and attrin,lats_,ion olfl
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sake of the sort of dignity with which it invested them. All 1 teal Bt'ard, in reference to the attain,' , 1
,:,. eel thy,
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that he proposed to do was that, where there was an attempt •
: English Poor-law, to arty one C
Tr
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to wound the Sovereign, as well as in' the other Act I consent of the Secretary of State. ."' . ~, 11".•_,,,Lt
passed after the trial of,liatfield, the prisoner should 1 whether that clause was intended to ,"t':'::.t6 c;;IT! .
be tried by the ordinary tribunals of the country i and if it did, • whether they were p,p:z '
•qi..,,-`0
as for an ordinary charge, and that all these ! the provisions of the Bill in that coun ft?. •,..
1,,,_,,,,s- o,la
formalities should be disen4`ed with.. In this I Sir JAMES GRAHAM did not tinatit'o, cis • Ito
they were actiuig on the same, principle; us those ! enter at length into the. stileject r"ibtett-hel; tit" float
0
which had induced them to decide in the case of I Fi•iend. : It must be well known that
ve,
s,by tiem it
Francis, after full consideration, that notwith- i Mitt was passed it was not considered 11.1“;„Lneet:,,tionte
standing his life was forfeited to the laws of the I number of Commissioeers - elated," - Tic
ti!, be, in I! ~10
country, yet it would not be for the public interest ; was considered necessary that one sl:.
n.lie%`,o•ll be t!,l', -tee
that lie should be executed. However heinous was his . told that he' ahonidhaVe all the p0wt:!",.,7 ,lieeed ti ` ‘
tateinpt, yet acting in accordance with the eonnnands of te the Coanuissitnl itself: Ile, tneselet te ; we.
their most gracious SoVereign, they, applied the same : Speaker do now leave die Cheer.
~,,,, the iti,,_r„for,
considerations to his case as they should have applied to I Mr. 'PHOMAS I.3U:COMItE a.l ~!Ibi,. leiliiiii)e be
a case of common crime. They had, therefore, in a Baronet if he seriously i":e"etel lifortnight d'te eon'
Cabinet Council, reviewed all the evidence taken against i the Coininissione had expired .
ld be Passe
him (Francis). They had resolved not to come to any I had proposed that a short Bill shou

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Tlinviday tilt Monday next
Their Lord

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ships ixdjourned t:t