The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-14 00:00:00

SILVER PLATE OF HIS LATE ROYAL HIGH.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S LONDON GAZETTE.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, March 13, 1827.

NESS THE DUKE OF YORK.

Orders fur the Court's going into mourning, on Thursday next,
the 15th inst., for her late Majesty the Empress of Brazil, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white
gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and
tippets.
Undress.—White or grey lustrings, tabbies, or damasks.
The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain
linen, black swords and buckles.
Undress.—Grey frocks.
The Court to change the mourning on Thursday the 29th
instant, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans
and tippets, or plain white or white and gold, or white and silver
stuffs, with black ribbons.
The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white,
or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full
trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.

The Auction-room of Mr. Christie was on Monday filled with
fashionables, to whom tickets of admission fur the inspection of the
splendid collection of silver and silver plate belonging to his late
Royal Highness the Duke of York had been previously issued. The
company assembled expressed themselves in terms of admiration at
the arrangement. The walls were hung round with trophies, swords,
shields, lances, arrows, spears, &c. Some quilted and other armour,
once possessed by Tippoo Saib, with saddle cloths richly gilt and or-
namented, belonging to his late Royal Highness, also decorated the
walls. The plate was likewise (lit:posed in the most advantageous
manner as to effect, being so placed as to produce very agreeable
contrasts. Here stood a beautiful sculptured tripod, and there by
its side an elegant silver cup richly chased. A fine bust of the i
illustrious Duke, by Behnes, fronted the door, at the further end
of the room at which you entered. Three rows of shelves, upon
which were disposed candelabra, priefericula, vases, tripods, cups, 1
salvers, candlesticks, corbeilles, ice pails, flaggons, chalices, &c. 1
ran on three sides of the room. Two pillars in the centre, over '
which were thrown some military caparisons, supported—the
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
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llTiohsoemy,pscocn,x,:Norlidn,clkesoti!krs,bSfroeu,tlsliaieempp-tsoale,
,emaratnh.enwarenian. both of which were particularly objects of curiosity.
one a magnificent cistern, and the other the shield of Achilles,
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We add a deseripsion of them, as well as a few other articles
J. Curwen, Liverpool, merchant. among the most attractive of a vast number of magnificent and
R. Clougg, Southampton, linen-draper. elegant articles of ornament and use, worthy the possession of the
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Royal Duke, who is unhappily no more, but whose memory will
S. Haskins, Bristol, grocer and builder. long he cherished, not only by the soldier, but by the people.
J. L. Shepherd and H. Frisker, Southampton, lillen- drsPers• The diameter of the cistern, alluded to, is 18s4 inches; the
BANKRUPTS. neck and lips are enwreathcd with vines in fruit, and with two
T. Harrison, Gilbert's-buildings, Westminster-road, Surrey, figures of Tritons bending over the rim, and looking in. On the
lodging,-house-keeper, March 20, 27, and April 24, at eleven, at outside of the vessel are represented con,Oats of Roman galleys,
the Court of Commissioners. Rippon, Great Surrey-street, with numerous figures very spiritedly designed. This grand
Blackfriars. bowl is supported upon four figures of Tritons blowing their
T. Fullam, Salisbury-court, Fleet-street, braid-manufacturer, conches, and stirring up the combatants. The bowl is burnished,
March 16, .27, and April 24, at nine, at the Court of Commis- the figures and relief executed in gold unit ; it weighs 1811 oz.
sioners. Jones, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-Within. 12 dwts. It is supported upon a double circular plinth, of finely
IL V. Garman, Tredegar-place, 13ow-road, surgeon, March veined and polished wood, and the upper plinth revolves, to show
16, at eleven, 23, and April 24, at ten, at the Court of Commis- the various details of the sculpture. •
sioners. Ashley, Leach, and Goodman, Tokenhouse-yard. The late Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy (R
•
J. Smith, Matlock, Derbyshire, nurseryman, March 22, at six, Flaxman, Esq.) designed and modelled the " Shield of Achilles,"
23, and April 24, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Chesterfield, Der- which is exquisitely chased in silver and gilt, by Messrs. Rundell,
byshire. Smithson, Duun, and Hawcron, New Inn; and Hutch- Bridge, and Rundell. The subject is taken from
anheiictii formssiotleiri
inson, •11,esterfield. the eighteenth book of the Iliad, and is modelled on the disk, which
G. Palmer, Cranbourne-passag,e, Leicester-square, victualler, is of a convex form. In the circular compartment, w
March 23, April 6, and 2t, at ten, at the Court of Commis- the centre, the sun is represented in a quadriga, in alto relievo,
sioners. J. C. Bean, Friars-street, Blackfriars-road. surrounded by various constellations, on a celestial
planisphere.—
M. Monat, Weymouth and mekonshe Regis, Dorsetshire, Round this are described, in successive groups, the marriage pro-
victualler, March 22, 23. and April 24, at eleven, at Luce's Ho • cession, and banquet ; the quarrel and judicial appeal ; the siege
tel, Weymouth and Meleombe-Regis, Doreetshire. Legg, We).- and ambuscade, and military engagement; the harvest-field; the
mouth and Melcombe-Regis ; and Bower, Chancery-lane. vintage ; shepherds defending their herds, attacked by lions ; and
AV. H. and G. Carr, Over Darwen, Lancashire, cotton- the Cretan dance. The waves of the sea form the border of the
spinners, April 4,5, at ten, and 24, at two, at the office of shield. The silver weighs about 634 ounces.
Messrs. Winstanley and Catterall) Preston, Lancashire. 31ilne A small circular waiter, of solid gold, formed of gold boxes,
and • Parry, Temple; and Winstanley and Cattcrall, Preston, presented with the freedom of different cities, the arms of all which
arc accordingly
Lancashire. engraved within a border of eak leaves, with the
John Burditt, Gillfitts, Elude)", Yorkshire, fancy-cloth-mane- Royal arms in the centre ; a frieze of oak leaves and acorns beau-
facturer, March 17, 20, at ten, and April 24, at three, at the tifully chased upon the border.
George Inn, Huddersfield. Wiltshire and Fenton, Winches- The room will not be open for the inspection of the public until
ter-house, Old Broad-street ; and Fenton, Huddersfield. to-morrow, and the sale does not commence until Monday next.
H. and J. Ashcroft, Manchester, slaters, March 23, 24, at one, A P.''' of groups, each composed of two figures of Tritons, in
and April 24, at nine, at Hayward's Hotel, Bridge-street, Man- very spirited attitudes, finely desigic,daTireplaced modelled,
chester. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's-Inn-square ; and 'Thom-- a shell to contain fruit or sweets ; they
son, Back-street, Manchester. plinth, with the antique syn-d)ol of water round it, beneath which
J. Walker, Radstock, Somersetshire, innkeeper, March 31, at is an enlarged circular plinth, on feet composed of shells and
the Castle and Bull, Bath, April 2, at Old Down Inn, Somerset- fruits, exquisitely chased. onanad cbicracruilnagr
shire, and 24, at the Castle and Ball, Bath, at twelve. Berkeley, A race cup, the bowl embraced by chased foliage, a freize of
Lincoln's-Inn ; and Craddock, Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire. vines beneath the lip, and the handles formed of serpents en-
J. Ffolds, Hertford, dealer, March 16, 30, at twelve, and April twined—weight 139 ounces.

And on Thursday the sth of April next, the Conrt to go out of
mourning.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Manon 13.
CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR iigsented peti-
tions against Catholic Emancipation, from the parish of Donough-
more, and other parishes in Ireland.
The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented a
petition from Ilchester against Roman Catholic Emancipation.—
The Noble Lord who had the other day withdrawn his motion
which stood for Thursday next, had expressed his hope that some
measure would be brought forward for the amelioration of the
state of the inhabitants of Ireland. Though he differed en-
tirely from that Noble Lord as to the expediency of granting all
of what the Roman Catholics asked, yet he must say, that neither
that Noble Lord nor any other person would maintain with greater
satisfaction any measure that had for its object the improvement of
the condition of the people of Ireland.
The Earl of DARNLEY was firmly persuaded,
that whatever measure might be adopted for the improvement of
that unfortunate.people must fail, unless the Catholic clairtakw4ich,
had been so repeatedly asked, should be granted. He was cons
vinced that they must be sooner or later complied with.
The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE had heard with
great satisfaction the statement of the Reverend Prelate, that any
measure which had for its object the prosperity and improvement
of Ireland would meet with his concurrence. He must, however,
take that opportunity of dissenting from the proposition, that the
granting any further concessions to the Roman Catholics was not
connected with the improvement of the Irish; as he did from the
bottom of his soul believe that the welfare of that country was
intimately connected with the concession of the Catholic claims,
and he was quite satisfied that unless that question was taken up
in such a manner as to settle with advantage the two classes that
were now divided, that country never could take its proper place
as a valuable portion of this empire.
Lord CARBERY said, that the state of Ireland
was a most serious question on many points. Some measures
should be taken to raise that country from the state in which it
was at present ; but Roman Catholic Emancipation, instead of
being the first, should be the last.
The Earl of CARNARVON agreed with the
Noble Lord who had just spoken, that no e'sential good could be
done with respect to Ireland until their Lordships passed an Act
to raise the mass of the people from that state of degradation in
which they were now placed. But by what other way could
their Lordships raise that people in the scale of men, whom they
had kept in a state the most abject, but by granting them relief
from those burdens by which they were oppressed? By granting
that relief, capital would flow into the country, and raise it to a
state of wealth, from a condition of poverty so extreme as made
the people resemble a nation of Greeks, under the dominion of
Turks. Their Lordships might talk of raising that people, while
every vote they passed tended only to lower their abject state, and
rivet more firmly those chains which at present bound them. It
was the penal laws which made Ireland an exception to all other
countries—by which the participation and enjoyment of the con-
stitution, laws, and character, were prescribed to that unfortu-
nate people; the consequence of which great anomaly was, that
in no other part of the civilized globe was so much 'degradation
and so much human misery to be found. An appeal, however.
was now made from theory to practice. Their Lordships hac
had enough of practice. They had had practice for more than
a century, and he asked them whether that practice was likely tc
excite hopes of amelioration, when the lords of the ascendant
themselves represented the results to be such, that they could nor
live in Ireland with security or comfort to their property or per-
sons? Let them look to the practices of that system which had
been pursued so long, and which disgraced the policy of a civil
state. Their Lordships need not think that they had got rid of
tlse subject. That great question would, at some period or other,
force itself upon their consideration, and he thought it would he
much better to grant the claims of the Catholics when g-ratituds
would be repaid for the act. It was not his intention to have sail
one word on the subject, to raise a discussion, which could onh
excite dissension, while it would lead to no practical results ; bu'
when the question was furred upon their Lordships by the taunt-
ing speeches of Noble Lords who seemed to he impatient of the.
little repose which they enjoyed, and endeavoured to open that
question, which could not be brought before the House for thi
present, it was impossible for him to withhold his dissent against
those unfortunate doctrines which were opposed to granting the
Catholic claims.
The Earl of RODEN stated that it was impossible
for him, as a resident in Ireland, to hear the speech of the Noble
Lord, in which he compared that country to Greece under a
Turkish Government, without denying that position ; and he
could assure that Noble Lord that there was no people in the
world who enjoyed more real liberty than the Irish Catholics.—
There was no symbol or enjoyment of the British Constitution in
which they did not participate, except the power of legislating for
a Protestant-Church and a Protestant Constitution.
The Earl of GOSFORD presented a petition from
the city and county of Armagh, for Catholic Emancipation.—
He was for complying with the wishes of the petitioners, both on
the grounds of justice and expediency. A measure might be adop-
ted which would have the effect of causing a temporary repose in
Ireland, but any measure which had for its object the relief of the
people from the degradation in which they were now placed by
the condition of society, and to secure permanent tranquillity,
must have its foundation in granting the Catholic claims.
Earl FITZ WILLIAIVI presented petitions from
parishes in the county of Wexford, praying for Roman Catholic
Emancipation.
The Earl of MORLEY presented a petition to the
same effect from Plymouth. A Rev. Prelate had presented a pe-
tition the other day from the same place, but of an opposite ten-
dency, which had been strenuously contested by the inhabitants.
The Marquis of BUTE presented petitions to the
same effect from parishes in the counties of Waterford and Dorset.
CORN LAWS.
The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a peti-
tion from Banbury, in Oxfordshire, against the bill which regu-
lated weights and measures. The petitioners stated, that they
were great sufferers under that Bill, as the averages were made up
by the Winchester bushel, and their property sold according to
the Imperial measure, causing thereby a loss to the farmer of
three per cent. It appeared to him, that every thing was to be
changed, and good to be made better, and with that prejudice in
his mind he should go into the discussion of the question.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE could not allow
the opportunity to pass without calling to their Lordships' recol-
lection the circumstances under which the Act to regulate weights
and measures passed. The first year it was sent up to that
House, their Lordships examined a number of individuals connect-
ed with the wine trade, and who all agreed that no confusion or
chicanery arose from the employment of the measures in use,
while the preamble of the Bill stated that great inconvenience and
numeroutos frauds
mostwaebroer
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loanws e. q u elnt c ewo a
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an lat had l
te
ra t prov-
edion of
phraseology. Their Lordships might pass a law to make him
speak accurate English, and not allow him to put in one word of
Scotch, but they could not succeed in effecting their object ; and
they would not succeed in altering the name, by which merchants,
in common conversation, called such and such a quantity. The
only part of the community that he thought any alteration in the
measures likely to be advantageous to, was to the makers of
weights and measures; but, instead of being benefitted by it, they
had been ruined by it ; for they had calculated that when the law
would be in force, every county town would be obliged to buy
new weights and measures. It was a most absurd Act, which
repealed 250 compulsory Acts, under the vain expectation of ef-
fecting, by an optional Act, what 250 compulsory Acts had
failed to effect. Such a repeal was a stain on the prudence
and wisdom of the Legislature, and a disgrace to the commu-
nity at large.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose for the pur-
pose of presenting a petition from certain individuals delegated
by the agriculturists of the different counties of England to watch
over the agricultural interest.
Lord KING had a petition to present from the
class of persons from whom he presented one last year, and which
furnished the occasion for some. very good jokes by his Noble
Friend near him (the Earl of Lauderdale). The petition came
from the ladies' shoemakers of Westminster, praying for an alte-
ration in the Corn Laws. The Noble Lord bad formerly stated

HOUSE or coms.:---
The House ballotted for a. Committee to try the merits of the.
Crail Burghs election petition. The following are the names of
the Members composing the Coinreittee
M. Beresford, 'F. Whitmore, F. Hodgson, H. Foley, A. Dal-
rymple, Marquis Carmarthen, J. Langston, W. Whitmore, E.
Foley, W. Dickinson, H. Evans, Sir M. Somerville, Q. Dick,
Hon. H. Drummond, Sir G. Warrender.

The House also ballotted for a Committee to try the merit's of
the Sudbury Election Petition. The names of the Committee
were as follows :

Viscount Milton, Hon. H. Tufton, Corry, Sir J. Owen,
E. Webb, Hon. E. Stanley, J. Smith, M. Lire, Hon. M. Fits-
gerald, W. Douglass, Heathcote, C. Brownlow, Hon. P. Cust,
T. Wood, E. B. Portman.
CONSOLIDATION OF LARCENY LAWS,
Mr. PEEL was now prepared to bring in the Bills
relative to the larceny and other laws, to which he bad already
called the attention of the House. The Bills he purposed to in-
troduce were four in number. The first would consolidate the
whole of the statute law relative to theft : the second would con+
solidate the whole of the statute law relating to malicious injuries
to property ; the third, which, for the purpose of obtaining
greater clearness, he had separated from the other two, consoli.
dated the whole of the statute law relative to the important sub-
ject of remedies against the hundred ; the fourth was an act for re-
pealing the whole of the laws which would be rendered unnecessary
by the introduction of the other three Bills. The effect of these
Bills, if they met with the sanction of the legislature, would be to
remove no less than 130 statutes, and he had the satisfaction of
stating to the House, that notwithstanding the repeal of so many
acts, the whole of the statute-law relative to theft would be com-
prised in 28 pages--(Hear, hear.)—With respect to the wording
of these Bills, he had not adhered strictly to that of other statutes,
nor had he made brevity his principal object, and endeavoured to
imitate in this respect the code of France. He had endeavoured
to steer a middle course between these extremes. After mature
consideration, he had found it necessary to take a middle course
I,etween the phraseology of the law of England and the brevity
of t':e French. He hoped that, before long, son:e new edition
of flu: statutes would be printed, which would contain only so
many as were necessary, and omit those which had become oboe".
!eta, or had been superseded. By these means, many volumes
would be cut off. It was quite obvious, that the consequence of
such Bills as those which be had now the honour of laying before
the House, repealing, as they did, 180 statutes, must he a reducer
-ion in the bulk of the statutes. In the Larceny Bill he bad wen-
. . .

.ured some alterations—he hoped the House would think them
;mprovements. Of these. the limitation of the extent of capi-
tal punishments was the principal.—(Hear, hear.)—ln the
rase of burglary. according to the existing law, if it were com-
,nitted in any out-house, it was conaidered as a capital offence.
Now, to place a stable, a dairy, or any other outhouse or building
upon the same footing, as far as protection was concerned, with
dwelling-house, was certainly very proper ; but he was sure
lie House would ogre-, with him in thinking that capital punii.h-
nent ought not to be the penalty of entering a stable. He had
therefore ventured to make this distinction, namely, that capital
punishment should not take place in these cases, unless the out-
'muses entered into, and the dwelling-houkes to which they be..
longed, had a common window or other similar connexion. Asko-
ther important alteration had been made in the law respecting
" false pretences." Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than
the present law regarding the obtaining of goods under false pre.
tences. The ft.ct was that as the law now stood, a misdemeanor
and a felony could ',sot be joined in one indictment; and the con-
sequence of this was, that the culprit when indicted for a misde-
meanor, set up as his defence that he had committed a felony, and
not a misdemeanor. If a person obtained goods. under pretence
of buying them, that was a misdemeanor. If he obtained them
under pretence of borrowing them, it was larceny. If, again, un- .
der pretence of purchase, he should get possession of the goods, it
was a misdemeanor ; but if, under the same pretence, he did not get
possession of the goods, and the negociation was not yet com-
pleted, it was larceny. Thus, if he got possession absolutely,
he only committed a misdemeanor; but if the possession was
temporary, it was larceny. Consequently, as both larceny
and misdemeanor could not be included in one indictment, and
as the animus furandi could not be proved at certain stages or
the transaction, a conviction could not follow. Now the fact
wis, that the whole and sole object of the one party in such a
proceeding was to cheat another party of his goods, and common
sense told them that such an object should be included under
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larceny, and be punished as such. The noble Lord (Althorpe)
had asked him how he meant to deal with the malicious trespass
act. That, among others, he had retained, but with certain alte-
rations. That act was one which enabled a magistrate summarily
to punish a man if the injury amounted to St., and to commit
him, in default of payment, to imprisonment and hard labour for a
period not exceeding three months. This he had considered to
be an extremely hard case, and the imprisonment of three months
appeared to him by far too severe a punishment for the offence.—
(Hear, hear.)—He had considered that imprisonment for ten days
was a proportionate punishment for injury amounting to it. Sup-
pose, therefore, the damage committed to amount to 2L, an im-
prisonment of twenty days was the punishment allotted to such
an offence. The consequence of this would be that an im-
prisonment of 50 days would be the maximum of imprison-
ment. He also proposed to exempt from this enactment all
cases that came under game laws.—(Hear, bear.)—Magistrates
now had the power of referring to this summary act, and never
once consulting the Game Laws, though the offence before them
came more immediately under those laws. It was his intention to

deprive Magistrates of this power altogether..—(Cheers. )—Another
important alteration was this :—A party had now the power
of summarily apprehending, within two days, the person who had
injured his property. This power of apprehending without war•
rant, and by the injured party too, it was his intention to limit to
cases where the party was caught in the actual commission of the
offence. In general Magistrates were deprived of the power of
inflicting mitigated penalties ; for this reason he had, in all cases,
fixed a maximum, and if no malicious intent .were proved, they
would have the power of acquitting the party altogether. As the
law now stoStl, in one Act six weeks, and in another six months,
were the punishments set down for one and the same offence ; be
had attempted to regulate the proportion of imprisonment to the
amount of the mischief done. He should feel much obliged to
the House if these Bills were suffered to pass pro forma the first
reading and the Committee. He assured the House that he
wished this merely as a pro forma proceeding ; they should again
pass the Committee, and his only reason for making this request
was, that he might fill up the blanks before the Bills were printed.
The first Bill, " A Bill for consolidating and amending the laws
in England relative to larceny, burglary, and robbery," was then
I read for the first time and committed.

Sir J. NEWPORT wished to ask the Hon. Gen-
tleman if he meant the Jury Bill and these Acts to extend to
Ireland ?
Mr. PEEL thought it would be quite impossible
to introduce the Jury Bill into Ireland. With respect to the
Bills now brought in, he could assure the lion. Member that to
include Ireland in them would be a very complicated proceeding.
Sir J. NEWPORT said, then, however ',vise and
salutary these measures might be, hi% objection was that Ireland
was to be left for years destitute of the benefits which would result
from them.
Mr. PEEL thought that measures founded upon

these Bills, and adeptiri to the situation of Ireland, were to be

offered to the notictof the House.

In answer to question from Mr. Hume,
Mr. PEEL had the very extensive subject of
Debtor "and Creditor before him, and had a measure now in con-
tem;:lation, similar to that which a Noble Lord (Lord Althorp)
had brought forward last year respecting the recovery of small
debts. He trusted that the Hon. Member would not impose upon
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him more responsibilities than he had already contracted.
In answer to the question of an Hon. Member, whose name
we could not learn,
Mr. PEEL said, that his Bills applied only to of-
fences to property, and not to persons. Under the latter head
were ranked all offences, from simple assault up to murder. Ile
had not touched upon any of these.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT wished the Right Hon.
Secretary of State for Ireland were in his place, that he might
ask him when he should he prepared to bring forward measures
with respect to Ireland similar to those now before the House.
The Bill was then read a first time, and passed through the
Committee of the whole House, and the report was ordered to be
taken into consideration on Friday se'nnight.
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Mr. Secretary PEEL then brought in the two other
Bills ; one for consolidating and amending the laws in England,
relative to remedies against the hundred, and the other relative
to malicious injuries to property. They were also read a first
time, passed through the Committee, and the reports ordered to
be taken into further consideration on Friday se'nnight.

Mr. Secretary PEEL then brought in the Bill for
repealing the existing statutes on the above subjects. He took
this opportunity of making a statement he had omitted before, that
he was under the greatest obligations for assistance he bad re-
ceived in the course of his task from two gentlemen, than whom
none in the country were perhaps better qualified for the purpose.
One, whom he was proud to call his friend, was Mr. Hobhouse,
who, in addition to the heavy duties of his office, had found time
to devote himself to this labour ; the other, a gentleman well
known in his profession, was Mr. Gregson. They had both acted
gratuitously, and with a zeal and ability which he found it im-
possible adequately to praise. He felt bound also to state, that
throughout the profession of 'tie law there was not one person to
whom he had applied wI: 0 had not readily lent him the best assist-
ance in their powerl and this without the most distant hope of
reward. The
dame spirit seemed to actuate the whole profession,
from the '.;ighest judges to the humblest practitioner. So far
from. their being, as was invidiously hinted, interested in per-
petuating abuses where they existed, he had found them all
earnestly and anxiously devoting their time and their knowledge
to the improvement of the laws. He was prevented from men-
tioning any names, because it would be invidious to do so partially,
and to mention all those to whom he was tinder obligations in
this respect would be impossible.
Nil.. A. DAWSON complimented the Right Hon.
Secretary on the advantage which the country would derive from
his labours. He hoped to see the same measure extended to
Ireland. _ . .

Mr. PEEL declined undertaking the task suggest-
ed by the Hon. Gentleman, and at present could not imagine that
it could be usefully attempted by any one. Every part of the Bills
be had now submitted to the House had been most carefully con-
sidered by the Judges, with reference to the existing statutes.
The same process must be gone through with respect to Ireland,
before the measure could be adopted there. He did not think his
Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Goulburn) was to blame. It was ne-
cessary that the effect of the law, as now altered, should be care-
fully watched before it could be applied to Ireland, and this he
knew was the opinion entertained by his Right Hon. Friend on
the subject. He had acted upon that opinion with respect to the
Jury Bill, the experiment of which had been tried, and he was
happy to say was found to have succeeded most fully here. His
Right Hon. Friend, therefore, meant, in the course of the pre-
sent Session, to bring in a Bill for extending the provisions of the
Jury Bill to Ireland,, and in the course of the next Session, if a
similar result should attend the measures now before the House,
he bad no doubt his Right Hon. Friend would pursue the same
course with respect to larcenies and misdemeanours.
Mr. S. RICE was convinced, that if the subject
was not forced by this House upon the attention of the Irish Go-
vernment, that desirable improvement of the Criminal Code which
was here about to be carried into effect, would be wholly aban-
doned there. He recommended his Right Hon. Friend (Sir John
Newport) to move, as soon as the Bills before the House had passed
into a law, for a Committee to inquire into the Statute Law of
Ireland on the same subject ; and, as soon as the report could be
got, to extend these Bills to Ireland.
Sir JOHN NEWEOILT and Mr. Secretary PEEL mutually ex-
plained.
The Bill was then read a first time and committed, and the re-
port ordered to be taken into consideration on Friday se'nnight.
Mr. STANLEY presented a petition from the
millers and corn growers of Warrington, Lancashire, praying for
some further protection to the agricultural interests.