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THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL. 147
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tlon were appointed as commissioners , they would in a few months make an actual commencement , and in a few years present to Parand
improving liament a our comp laws lete , on code princi , worth ples y fit of the to be country of adopted , simp ancient in lif an ying enli " isla
ghttion ened . age Nor , and can founded I doubt on that the such solid a masonry work would our be sanctioned leg by - Parliament ; not indeed without debate , but without serious delay ;
I am now about to speak of two subjects , as examples of what I perty should , the wish other to see the ; one revision the amendment of the criminal of the law law . of real Lord pro St - . to the
Leonard ' s , whose Handy Booh of Meal Property is a boon to prop whole oug be ht erty free not community . from to But be them if entang , so has , ? wh expressed led I y recommend should in the his an comp old op this inion lications society imp that ortant not of a our make young subj law e an ct of society to effort real the
special " I proceed consideration to our criminal of the department law . Our judicial of jurisprudence statistics , . it is well
known in detail , are there very is incomp a further lete . Upon result— examining naxnely , a these great return increase s more in number
the convicted crimes of accompanied shooting at with , stabbing personal , or violence wounding . hundred Thus , has the and increased eiht
between 1817 and 1857 from twenty six to two g , and and of sevent robbery y eight from ; while one larceny hundred in and a fift dwelling y four to house three has hundred only hundred and
increased from one hundred and forty three to two forty four to six four . Burg hundred lary has and increased seventthree froni ; three housebreaking hundred and from seventy one
hundred and fifty two to _Hve hundred y and sixty eight ; forgery , be etc ., from desirable sixty two to to have one more hundred and lete ei information ghty four . on It would these
several very heads . It is very important comp to ascertain whether the repeal the of cap part ital of punishment the injured has , and led greater to to greater what readiness extent readiness to crime convict to has prosecute on increased the part on ; .
to of j " societ uries Leaving , and arises this lastl consideration in y , whether the present and , a state question of the of the law . utmost The consequence punishment . y
of death being nearly discontinued , and transportation to a colony virtually abolished , it has become forth a necessity to contaminate for us to other consume our of
own crimeand not to send it parts the world . , Hence it is a problem of the deepest interest to us to ascertain in what manner the thousands of criminals whom we used
to send to Australia can be most effectually punished for the sake of exampleand most effectually reformed for their own sakes and
, that Connected of the community with Education . " and Reformation we find the following convicts _!
noteworth arated y from sentences the . whole " There bod is by another their portion age . The of our maxim that
sep y malitia swpplet eetatem _, though long admitted by our law , is not con- ;
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The Meetings At Liverpool. 147
THE MEETINGS AT _LIVERPOOL . 147
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/3/
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