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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-06 00:00:00

DWELLING-1101 SE ROBBERY BILL,

Lord SUFFIELD, in moving alit the report of this bill be re-
ceived, condemned, in strong terms, the slide of the judicature
on the sub.): et of robbery in dwelling-houses. 'I he noble lord
instanced vatious eases in which, unuer the opera.ion of the pre-
sent system, trivial crimes had been visited with a disprepor-
tiOnate.y heavy punishment, While crimes of a inure Etii`lli
&se; wool' lum escaped almost without any penalty.
Lord WYNFonD te.t it his duty to oppose the btu. Upon the
princ'ple ut humani:y he thought it better to have a punishment
which deterled from crime than to tempt thousanas to commit
crime by the inadequacy of punishment. Sir Robert Peel bud
waxiy excepted the crimes Of burAlary and housebreaking, from
Iris eseetient acts for the amenatnent ut the (limit:al law, be-
Cause those critics were liabie to be accompanied by violence to
the person.. Ile objected to such a bit-by-bit species of legal
reform as the present hilt. If the capital puhtshi4tentwere to be
revealed in the case of househreakt ig it -would be absurd. to re-
tain it in the case of burglary. In the present Ind there was
nothing like certainty of pun idanent •' .an was left to the dis-
cretion of the judge. Ile spoke loin his own,experience, and.
from information which he had olitained, when he ueelared that
trti ainonilt or imprison,bent, why,lier solitary or otherwise, had,
generally ,peaknig, the erica or reclaiming offendeis.
'lnc 'juke of Vs r:LLINGTON slid that outing the period which
he attended his Majesty's councils, few things s'ituck, his mind
so forcibly as the wisely anal distress which were innictea upon
persons in the lumber classes of lite by having their uwenings
oroken into in the day-time. By taking away the punishment
ii death, the terror Which at present deterred people wool com-
mitting hat crime wouid be removed.
lie Bishop or Lot.not, eNpiessed en opinion that criminals
might be rec.ahned by a good system of vlison discipline.
Suite encouraging examples of this description had le, enty
occurred in the Penitentiary at Milbank, under the improved
sys,em hoer adopted there.
"Lind Wy.,.12011» Said that for one criminal who was reclaimed
by imprisonment 20 were reclaimed by transportation.
The report on the bill was th'en received, and the amendments
agreed to, and the hid was ordered to be read a tlnia tune on
Isionday.—Aujourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2.
The Speak...r took th:.!.eil'air at the usual hour.
GRAND Rib§ (11ZELAND BILL.)
l‘Tr. LITTLEioN moved that the House resolve into committee
on the Gr,aid Juries (Ireland) Bill.
I,Ereor cubed on the house to postpone the bill for the
present session. Ile admitted that alterations were replied,
hut not of so extensive a character aS tho,.e proposeu in the
present bill. '1 his Incas:my had not the concurrence of ally
party in Irland, and he wisnen the right hon. seeleiary (Mr.
LitLeton) to remember that on a former division 27 Irish mem-
bers voted against proceening wiih the bill, and on. 7 for it.
Lord DuNcANNos said there would he consideralhe advan-
tages i❑ passing the bilk this session, while he thought there was
much objection to postpotnement.
!the house then went itto committee and proceeded with the
bid as far as the 2Jth clause, ‘vlini the Chairman reported pro-
gress, and obtained leave to sit again.—Adjuurued at three
o'clock.

The house itsumed at five o'clock.
Sir U. naI:DINGE said he should call th• attention of the
house to a bleach of privilege on Alouua. ne ct. He had re-
ceived a petition signed by certain statiouei, a id paper-manu
facturers, aLeging that Sir John Key, a inenibcx of that house,
was concerned in a contract with government for the supply or
paper, which pettion he should present on the day he nau al-
ready stated, and he shou,d fo.tow that proc,cding" up by
moving for a committee of inquiry into the circumstances
avertt din the yeti 1011. • tie begged leave to acid, that he coni-
nuni,cated to the hon. baronet his intention of eating the at-
tention of the house to this subject.