... pasted over, without any thing serious having taken place, until the body arrived opposite the Point d’Auslerlitt, where a scaffold had been prepared, hung with crape, and decorated with numerous flags. On this, the body was to bo placed, while the speeches ...

... that one blow kill him? He said, no. Sir; no, he did not fall then, be cried out murder, and actually opened the shop door, and eeized the heavy hammer and came towards me; and, I thought, at that moment, to myself, that would have killed me. or at least ...

... public opinion which will infallibly induce the abrogation of a barbarous law. The body, after hanging the usual time at the scaffold, was taken into the jail infirmary, laid upon a plank, two bricks were placed under the head, which was shortly after shaved ...

... of the party fired, and it is said that some ten or twelve of the people were wounded. What is certain if, that four were killed on Ihc spot. Let us preserve their names—they will, if I mistake not xccedingly, be heard of again, and again. The four persons ...

... sentence passed upon him at the late Perth Circuit Court of Justiciary, far the murder of his wife, was. on Wednesday sen., on a scaffold erected outside the wall of the Jait. On Monday a respite was received at Perth, for a female convict, named Stewart, who ...

... despatch of business, that, we are afraid, there will be very little business despatched. There will be so many snakes to be killed, that, we fear, themajority will only be scotched. If only the one half of what is proposed, be actually accomplished, we ...

... evening last, in a public-house the Oxford road, near Manchester. Fletcher was not killed, but is not likely recover. Two of his sons and a brother were accidentally killed, during the past year. Gamon remains in custody. Fatal Accident Lightning —It is ...

... a short distance from the town, when returning home, was attacked, and a sharp instrument driven through his head. He was killed upon the spot. Two men have been taken up on suspicion of the murder. A person in very respectable situation in life, has ...

... The letter states that Captain Trotter himself made narrow escape, that his unfortunate purser, his gunner, and two men were killed, and several others the crew vvounded. There was no fever board, or any sickness but that arising from wounds. not stated ...

... were killed, and also two officer* and several privates of the troops. The remainder, finding their force insufficient to suppress the insurrection, retreated. A larger body was then sent, who poured terrible fire upon the insurgents, which killed from ...

... could do just he willed. And had only to to his passive farm-sUHIk, ‘•Dilly, dilly.ducks, come and be killed. When th dungeon, the axe, and the scaffold were his doom. Who dared but think for himself; . When the worship of thrones was the essence of wisdom ...

... received the honour of knighthood. A Captain Grotty, a fine young Irishman, who lately held a com mission Pedro’s army, was killed the night of the 12th of March, a scuffle, one the Portuguese Guard. William Jenkin, of Garrickfercus, baa l»ecii appointed ...