The Express. — 1847-03-10 (London, England)

STOCKING MANUFACTURERS. comprehending the paleied efforts of the upper, as of those sales will be practicable except under still this country, at least, there was no certainty in its infliction. ture for protection to life-(hear, hear)-and he believed it Sir H. HALFORD moved, pursuant to notice, that the • The criminal knew that it was uneertain, and speculating was best afforded by continuing the present extreme penalty house reran itself into committee for the purpose of taking e ower c asses. • hed fth I l more reduced prime. Woollen goods are also de- ' the famis ones o • up,n the many chances of escape between the committal of for wilful and deeiberate murder. Speaking of England, he intoconsideration the 8 and 9 Viet.. cap. 77, entitled "An Mr. &tall O'BRIEN thanked, and no doubt most dared of less value. In 1845 they were, in yarn, the crime and the execution of the sentence, by a species of would ask, was ever any unwillingness shown on tke part or Act to snake flintier regulations respecting the tickets of sincerely, Mr. ROEBUCK for his furtherance of repeal ,066,925/. ;ia 1 846, they were 907,8931. ; goods, moral gambling staked his life sgainst the uncertainty of the witnesses to give evidence, or on the part of juries to con• work to be delivered to persons employed in the Manufae- by hie speech, and the member for Limerick ,693,11 7/. in 184 5 against 6,334,208!. in 1846. law. This uncertainty, therefore, acted as a eon of 'Demi- vict, in an undoubted ease of murder ? No . and it was tore of Hosiery in certain eases." The bon. member stated ragement to crime. Then, so far from the punishment of the certainte of the punishment which rendered it the object was to amend the act which hsd been rendered might ha.ve included the Times. Both treat Ireland Silks, on the other ha,nd, have increased. We ex- , as a foreign coantry ; they vituperate it just as they ported to the value of 766,4051. in 1845, and 837,67 71. death operating as an example to deter others effective. His hon. friend said that no good sprang inoperative in consequence of • construction which had been from crime, the very magnitude of that punish. from the example of taking away life. But ke put upon its provisions-a construction wholly at variance might Russia, forgetting that every argument of the in lee& mut, be a kind of moral sophistry, converted the spoke only of those who were spectators, and who were with the intention of the legislature. kind from an influential quarter in England is In such branchee of mannfacturing industry as , criminal into a hero. This was the case with regard to the generally persons already deeply tainted with crime. It Mr. M. GIBSON said he 'Mould not oppon, the introduc- putting a word into the hands of the country have experienced a demand surpassing all efforta executions for forgery, while the extreme puntshment for wait not an that way that it was to be regarded is an exam- tion of the bill, but would not pledge himself as to the course abused and repudiated, and prompting her to use it made in Great Britain and abroad to meet, there is that crime remained ; IRO the moment it was abolished, and ple. It was a knowledge of the fact that in case of murder Ma on the part of the government, would take in a future . ties puniehneut of transportation substituted, the forur was death would follow, and not the barbarous effect produced stage of the measure. against ua. Ireland is a strong country, a an increase over 184.5. Iron and steel we see de. leaked upon by the public with that abhorrence which he upon an aseembled crowd witnessing the dying nruales of a The house then went into committee on the act, and a 1520112 ill-used country, a disaffected country. lared 3,501,8951. in 1845, and 4,174,558/. in 1846. Awed. But the great objection was, that the punishment fellow-creature, which they were to rely upon as calculated resolution having been agreed to, the house resumed, and In our policy towards Ireland we have n both lead and copper there is a diminution, but au , kat death was inoperative for the greet °eject of all punish- to deter from such a crime. But his hon. friend did not leave was given to brieg rn the bill. much to think of-much, in order to render it nerease in machinery from 904,9611. to 1,161,0461. mat-the reform of the criminal-but sent him to his ac- think that the abolition of the punishment of death was the