... DIMINUTION OF CRIME. There is no better indication of the prosperity and happiness of the people, than a diminution in the number of crimes which are committed and punished. We are happy therefore to see, by extracts from the documents in the Home Deparment ...

... not affected, should he be found guilty of administering unlawful oaths—the crime imputed to him. The result of all the counts in the indictment against him is, that the crime of administering such unlawful oaths, is imputed to him. The act under which ...

... destroy his whole family, directing himself to your Excellencyfor what crime committed against heaven or earth is this unhappy brother so cruelly persecuted? Is it an unpardonable crime in the eyes of civilized France, for the young soldier, who, during ...

... observations to the Jury. He said he was happy to find from inspection of the calendar, that there were no ‘crimes of a political nature, nor any crime of any magnitude —which spoke very favourably of the Gentlemen of the county of Cavan. He concluded by ...

... maintained a criminal intimacy with his fe|. low sutferer, after his marriage with the unfortunate victim of their atrocious crime. The prisoners died Penitent,, A hangman could not be procured, and the Coroper - obliged, by law, personally to execute the ...

... exception of the province of Ulster and a part of Connuught), crimes of an insurrectionary character appear to be more frequent. “ The causes of the sudden increase of this description of crime have not been sufficiently developed to enable me to furnish ...

... fraud failed to retrieve loss of money, despair and revenge impelled the gamester, deliberately and ruthlessly to perpetrate crimes from which, in the outset of his career, he would have | recoiled with horror. The congregation listened | with an carnestness ...

... London,— Dorchester Gazelte. AMERICAN LAW AND MORALITY. | Throughout the Union, few of the States inflict | death for any crime except murder : but in Virginia | a second offence of horse stealing is punished capitally; and in New York, arson is visited ...

... selection of the places where the body had been burned and drowned, and the arrangements which had been made, announced that the crime must have been committed by individuals who were acquainted with the locality of the neighbourhood. ‘The bags which were tied ...

... Justice Burton addressed them as follows: | —As I am now obliged to pronounce the awful sentence of the law, the increase of crime in this | part of the island puts it out of my power to give you any hopes. The Government has been dis- ! posed, I might say ...

... repress crimes, the impunity of which would endanger the public tranquillity, the preservation of which was the object of that Order. It never was the intention of his Royal Highness to arrest the course of justice in the prosecution of ordinary crimes, respecting ...

... District, 10 ; Southern District, 11. The report also contains a return of the number of ‘persons committed for trial; the crimes with which they were severally charged, &c. within the period of this Report. According to this document, the number of persons ...