... became priest, I never attended convicts on the scaffold, but on one occasion. Two were executed in Montreal in 1832 for the murder of a soldier. The two were guilty; one of them said nothing the scaffold ; the othor declared bia innocence, although 1 ...

... females and a boy, hit own near relatives, paid on that day the penalty of hit crimes. The spectacle of criminal led to the scaffold must be everywhere appalling in Portugal its peculiar forms render it still more terrific ; but the circumstances attendant ...

... and the latter so utterly insensible of the awful solemnity of the occasion, to engage in romps and gambols beneath the scaffold. It may already be thought by the reader* of this account that, if such was the conduct of the spectators this awful scene ...

... ladder with equal firmness, and his appearance upon the scaffold was the signal for tremendous yell which issued from the and which lasted during the whole of the time the unhappy man was upon the scaffold, and until the bolt was withdrawn ; indeed, it might ...

... The following is, in suh•tancc, what he stilted • —For four weeks he had resolved in his mind rob the Bishop, and also to kill him, if that should necessary to secure hi* own safety. He could not, however, bring himself to any positive determination ...

... corporate reform. Blessed bo Heaven ! its fate was sealed. There was no doubt of it* death. Like pig killing it might taka great deal of They ware squeaking killing pig did ; bill, at end of their aqueaking, they must meet with the fato of the pig—die they must ...

... witness the expiring existence of this notorious culprit.became most intense, and every elevated spot within sight of the scaffold was secured by possession or by purchase, and held with as much tenacity as if it were freehold property. In pursuance of ...

... backyards and forwards in their scats the wind and their own weight moved the branches. On the opposite side were hundreds on scaffoldings, whilst in the arena bet ween were thousands of persons on foot, and long line of vehicles filled with those who preferred ...

... into the house under the pretext of being the mother of the maid whom she afterwards murdered, was first conduced to the scaffold. Care had been taken to veil her, to the disappointment of tho populace, who expected to see handsome female in this dreadful ...

... to serve r J°‘. ■ , “*’• iii” Pepin was the hrsl descend from the reas example the scaffold. . . • , ■ a- i i • u t r , . , i v* u; hide, lie mounted the scaffold wnh a firm i .;e preparaiiona completeJ, , . , . • ~ * . .1 ■__ step, end exhibited ...

... and the hone* having resumed, the report was brought and agreed to, and the nution of Lord MORPETH, leave given to bring in kill pursuant thereto. Lord MORPETH understood name Monday, the 16 h of May, for the eeeond reading of the bill. The Eccleeiaeticnl ...

... follins, M.P ; .Mr. Sergeant Murphy, M.P. j Tamrel, M.P. ; Mr. H. Metcalfe. M.P. ; Mr. W. S. ('i-awfor.l. M.P. ; Mr. Wynne Kills, P. ; Mr. .1 iilalci!, .M.P.; Mr. T'oataas Gishorr.c-, M.P.; Mr. diaries Hindi, 'V. M. P. ; Mr. James Pattison, P.; Mr. J. ...