... pupil being sufficiently clever to tell its number without seeing it. A man named William Rooney was killed, on Wednesday week, by the 6eats and scaffolding giving way, during a performance at Parish's Theatre, a mere booth, in Stockport. The small-pox is ...

... rea-*uiled, diiven from the ground they had gained, and chased to the distance of league from the field battle, with the of killed and wounded; the loss of the Spaniards did not exceed including two officers k.jied d wound d. The Cortes have voted 'inks ...

... from the scaffold by another murderer who was by, and it is said, that one of them ran down and pulled him the legs while he was struggling for life, and about five minutes after was made to fall from the scaffold ; he was killed while thousands and thousands ...

... twelve o'clock strudk, the sad procession, which had been/formed in the prigon below, appearance on the steps leading to the scaffold. First came the Under- Sheriffs, C. Palmer and F. H. Gell, followed by the Chaplain Rev. and the Governor of the prison, ...

... young man, who, the preceding evening, being on a scaffold at the brewhouse of Benjamin Cotton, esq., was in the act of taking hold of a 26-feet deal, to remove it, and missed his hold ;. the scaffold was 40 feet high. The deceased caught at a rope, but ...

... EXECUTION a MURDERER at NOTTINGHAM. TWENTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED by the PRESSURE of the CROWD. On Wednesday morning last the awful sentence of death was carried into effect, in front of the county gaol, upon William Saville, aged 29, who was convicted at ...

... and Sir Jos. Littledale: viz. John Measures, aged 84, and Joseph Robinson, aged 85, laborer*, charged with manslaughter in killing John Lewin, at Deeping St. James. . Francis Clarke, 85, for burglariously breaking into the house Mr. Joseph Cox, jun. of ...

... convict was sitting down and had been crying. Just before quitting the prison Good exclaimed, I have seen many hundred persons killed in Spain and Portugal, but as God is my judge, I never murdered a person in all my life. He added, I had anything to confess ...

... suffering in the cause of the Liberty of the Press”—also ¢ The cause for which Hampden died in the ficld and Sydoey on the scaffold.”—Mr. Rowland gave * Major Cartwright.,”—.pplauses.— W. Bousficld, Esq. (the Mayor,) A. Sheath, ksq. w. Chapman, Esq. and ...

... The next great evil which it was desired to remove, lay in the unjust and oppressive laws respecting the qualification to kill game. Those, like all other bad and unjust laws, were inefficient for the purposes for which they had been enacted. It was ...

... canal which passes underneath, and that if the scaffolding had not been then erected, greater sacrifice of life would have taken place. This considered to have been likely, because the erection of the scaffolding formed opposition tothe descent of the wall ...

... ed them to the bottom, a depth IM yards. A wooden scaffold had been erected across the shaft, towards bottom, for the of getting shallower «»al, but such was the violence ot the fall that the scaffold gave way before it. There is considerable quantity ...