... share of that quarter. It soald be le a single pistol keeping a vhobo mob quiet, for though every body knows the pistol caii kill only one, yet nobody knows uho that one may be. Vevehave roopi for but one mno~e extract, 'and wve select a passage in which ...

... others again, they pointed cannon against the cells and burnt defenseless prisoners alive, to save themselves the fatigue of killing them. The promoters of the Red Terror were men of savage conviction, fanatics for public safety, of violent and sombre minds; ...

... sentenced to death. I: His conduct during his imprisonment and on the scaffold ur was marked by the greatest courage and resignation. ai Here is the closing scene: ti Having arrived at the scaffold, the troops composing the escort d took up their assigned positions ...

... entered the temple with his soldiers; they were asked to take seats, to which they replied with the words, Moort Dieu, let us kill all of them. On this the Huguenots strove to shut the doors and put out the soldiers. But these, by the order of the duke ...

... apparently in the non-scientific details con- nected with the case of Palmaer than sufficed in France to bring Dr Castaign to the scaffold. We will quote from Dr Taylor's book this case, one of several cited by him, to rebut the statement loosely made on the part ...

... tively innocent, disgraced every part of the country; demoralizing thousands and preparing them for like exhibition on the scaffold; when the theft of a few rags from a bleaching ground, or the abstrac- tion of acroll of ribbons from a counter, were visited ...

... the fancy is at all times subject, but especially in youth. There are disorders of this kind that disfigure where they do not kill. Many a young gentleman breaks out in- continently into high poetic fever, becomes pitted over with words, and runs into dreadful ...

... Caracciolo was con- demned to die, forty thousand of the best men in the Two Sicilies were by proclamation condemned to the scaffold, and public expenditure was economized by putting the executioner upon a salary instead of paying him at the old rate of ...

... ancestors, but they had latterly been for several generations an ill-fated family. Edmund, the father of Ellen, perished on the scaffold in 1766, an innocent man accused of misprision of agrarian outrage. In the preceding year, Edmund's cousin Nicholas, a priest ...

... penal colonies of Australia, in 1826, 53 persons; in 1827, 50; in 1830, 50: making 153 fellow subjects who perished on the scaffold in these three years out of a population of less than 50,000, being an annual average estimate of one man in every thousand ...

... clothed warrior continued, I go down into the country of the Gallas, and the first person I meet who looks a competent fellow I kill him. I have done it three times and I mean to do it every month, so I think you ought to give me a piece of cloth. He thought ...

... lineage and his alliance, will, we think, be admitted by every reader of Mr. Walford's paper. His elder brother having been killed in Italy by the husband of a noble lady whom he had insulted in a church, he was raised to the dukedom, and before he was ...