people knocked down by dozens. I saw a number of women in the crowd who were unable to move. Mr. Carpenter confirmed the testimony of Mr. Stallwood and Mr. Courtenay, as to the conduct of the police in Calthorpe-street, and the peaceable behaviour of the populace.

William Robinson.-I live at No. 5 Bolton-place, Spa-fields, and am a surgical instrument maker. I arrived in Calthorpe-street about half-past two o'clock. There was no violence or disturbance offered by the people. The police had not then arrived. I saw the policemen use their truncheons on the people, and felt the weight of them on my own person. Up to this time the police had not received any offence. The policemen rested their truncheons on their left arms, ready for action, and, without giving any warning, knocked the people down indiscriminately. I received a severe blow on my left eye, from the force of which I fell, and bled profusely. Two or three persons struck me while I was bleeding. I was so severely injured that I was confined for a fortnight. They ran from me to a man and boy, whom they knocked down, and I escaped. On my way home I met Charles Wheeler. I spoke to Mr. Wheeler, and, after I spoke to him, one of the three policemen who were present struck Wheeler, and knocked him down.

William Foster.-I am a professor of music. On the 13th of May I had occasion to go to my stringmaker's in Gray's inn-lane, and passed the Calthorpe estate about three o'clock. Every thing was then peaceable. On my return I saw a number of policemen beating the people in Guildfordstreet. I afterwards made complaint at the station-house of the treatment I had received,

Sixteen alleged tradesmen gave the prisoner a good exemplary character for humanity, honesty, mildness of disposition, and general urbanity of manners. Some of them said they had known him from his boyhood, and others, for periods of from twenty years downwards.

Redwood was again called, and swore that he was himself sober, as were the whole of the men of his division; that he did not strike the old man or the boy, as stated, and declared that he did not strike any one until he was stabbed.

Cross-examined.—The only person he struck was Fursey, and that was after he was stabbed. He did not hear the cries of "Shame,” and had not, when before the coroner's jury, said anything about striking Fursey. He did not see one human being struck; there were about four or five policemen engaged in wresting the colours from Fursey, who had hold of the staff with both his hands. It was after he was stabbed that Fursey held the flag with both his hands.

This closed the case for the defence, and at five minutes to eleven o'clock, Mr. Justice Gaselee commenced his summing up to the jury. His Lordship concluded at ten minutes after one o'clock, when the jury retired to consider of their verdict.

At twenty minutes past two the jury returned into court, and the Foreman, addressing the judges said "My Lords, we have, as your Lordships are aware, given not only long, but close and anxious attention to this case, and have, since we retired, considered, with all the care which it was possible to bring to bear upon it, the evidence on both sides, and we cannot. on such evidence conscientiously pronounce any other verdict than Not Guilty."

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Summary of the Answers and Returns made under the various Acts of Parliament for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, so far as relates to the Number of Houses, Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the Number of Families residing in such as are Inhabited; the Occupations of those Families; and the Total Number of Males and Females living in each County in England, as enumerated in the Years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831.

North Riding 1,275,820 31,512 32,776 35,765

32,681

31,544

36,221

40,499

36,960

132

190

268

681

947

1,277

1,970

West Riding 1,629,890 111,146 125,264 154,314 190,484 117,379 133,601 161,466 198,646 827
Totals .31,770,615 1,467,870 1,678,106 1,951.973 2,326,022 1,778,420 2,012,391 2,346,717 2,745,336 15,188

38,116

34,542

35,856

39,731

40,760

1. The committee inquired into the disturbances which existed in Ireland at the time of their being appointed, and into the immediate causes of them. They also inThey also inquired how far the laws for suppressing illegal associations and insurrection are sufficiently strong and powerful.

2. The committee have been occupied until within a few days in examining witnesses; and therefore it is impossible for them, now that the Session is nearly at a close, and that several of the members of the committee are no longer in attendance, to prepare such a report on the mass of information which has been obtained as the great importance of the subjects referred to the committee would, under other circumstances, render it their duty to draw up. The defect, however, will be in a great measure compensated by the quantity of documents and evidence. From these the House will be fully competent to form its own opinion upon the disturbances, the causes of them, and the laws for suppressing them. The petition of the magistrates of the Queen's County, and the very able charges of the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and of Baron Smith, at the special commission lately held at Maryborough, and at the Spring Assizes, afford the fullest information with respect to the nature and extent of the outrages and disturbances which have taken place; and the numerous witnesses who have been examined before the committee supply full information as to the causes of them

and as to the provisions of the law for inflicting punishment on the persons guilty of them.

3. The committee have great satisfaction in having it in their power to acquaint the House, that since they were appointed a considerable improvement has taken place in the state of the disturbed districts.

4. On referring to the evidence, the House will find that the change, in a great measure, is attributed to a special commission having been appointed to try the persons who had been apprehended as guilty of acts of insurrection in the Queen's County.

5. As the result of this commission affords a proof that the law when vigorously administered is adequate to put down outrages, the committee feel themselves relieved from the necessity of taking into their consideration the expediency of strengthening it in the manner proposed in the petition on which this committee was appointed. They are nevertheless of opinion that it properly forms a part of their duties to examine whether some changes and additions might not be made in the law for the purpose of preventing crime, even in ordinary times, and of suppressing promptly illegal combinations against the law whenever they may hereafter be renewed.

6. It appears to the committee, on making this examination, to be clearly established by the evidence they have taken, that the powers for the administration of the laws may and ought to be improved and

rendered more effectual as well for the prevention as the punishment of offences; and they feel anxious that this should be done, because the efficient administration of the ordinary and established laws will go very far to remove all grounds for requiring new and extra-constitutional measures.

7. The defects in the means of administering the laws consist principally in the magistrates not having proper legal assistance in discharging what may be considered the technical and formal parts of their duties; in the insufficient means for investigating and tracing crimes, from their commission to the arrest of the delinquents; and also in great negligence and irregularity in conducting all the proceedings, from the time of the arrest, until the delinquents are brought before the judge and jury for trial; and, above all, in the want of some system for the speedy and immediate bringing to justice, offenders against the public peace, so as to meet in an early stage the effect of conspiracies to subvert the law.

8. In order to provide a remedy for these defects, the committee are of opinion, that instead of a clerk of the Crown for each circuit in Ireland, there ought to be, according to the plan recently acted upon by the Irish government in the case of one circuit, a clerk of the Crown for each county; and that he should be made an efficient officer for assisting the magistrates in the investigation of crimes immediately on their commission, and in taking examinations. For this purpose he should have an office in the county town, and a sufficient number of clerks to attend and afford assistance to

the magistrates at the Petty Sessions, to receive their instructions, and to be ancillary to them in every respect in the discharge of their duties for the detection and punishment of crime. The establishing of an efficient office of this kind would not only very much contribute to render the laws more powerful, in preventing the violation of them with so much impu nity as is now the case, but it would also be of great value in introducing a salutary improvement in the discharge of the magisterial duties, by rendering their proceedings more strictly conformable to the forms and rules of law-a circumstance which will lead to a more upright and efficient administration of justice, and go far, at the same time, to remove unfavourable impressions sometimes entertained by the people against the magistrates.

9. In adverting to the late mischievous associations in the Queen's county under the name of Whitefeet, and the frequent recurrence of similar associations in other parts of Ireland, the committee, although impressed with the strongest disinclination to recommend any new law which should in any degree be a departure from the established constitutional rule of law, when they see by experience so much crime has been committed, and so much injury sustained, from time to time, from these associations, are of opinion a law imight be passed, which, without being in any degree a departure from the principles of the constitution, would enable the executive government to put into force the administration of justice more speedily, and at a less expense, than can be done at present. But before they proceed