... d Tim COMMITTfE of the Society for the diffusion of in- it formation on the subject of Capital Punishments, convinced ie that the least effective mode of protecting life and pro- 'e perty is by sanguinary laws, address the public on this I Important subject. . The arguments against taking human life for crime are too numerous to allow more than a concise enumeration Yof the principal ones on ...

... Aziwl!(1Iol &moiig/h ?? Quarter Sessions. ie Thlese Sessions w ere ha t in the Town Hall on Friday the St Ist instsnt, before Henry John Shepherd, Esq. Recorder of nt the Borough, lie having been re-appointed to that hononr- Id able situation. As a matter of courtesy, the Mayor, NV. D. le ilelcher, Esq. and the four Justices, J Copeiand, B. Col- lingwood, R. Bedcock, and J. Kent, Esquires, ...

... The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this City were holden on Monday last, Andrew Anuos, Esq. the newly appointed Recorder, sitting as soleJunige, under the powrers of the Municipal Corporation Act. After the Gran'd Jury had been sworn, the Learned Gen- tlemnan addressed them very shortly, observing, that it was much to the credit cf the city that out of so large it popri- lation ...

... OXFOUJS-0 BURGL IR AT STOKn9 L0YN1 Din see,.s Gitb&i Beale, and;-rorn, Thm= akr Vili4,if lentering the dwelling 21feosrr. were indicated for buga ie1th of MIrrhe it lst at ?? Of James Stnebbriry, on the 1 t1 hur1 it Stoke Lyne, n . ai h ad ?? Ilutet to nu~tdr Ill,n lv lone at Fewcott, ins tire pariah Jam' Stoke Lynliveth Lof arch I went to bed about e * Ooke tor*bfore I went to bed; eigbt ...

... j:, ik -, _ ?? 1- ?? 11 A 'j~ng~dofl, Monday, Julay II. Tjhe xf).sfur Circuit was commenced on Monday last by 5raJsjice patteson and Whi. Juistice Littledalc, at this plJeC. tnieoclock tire High Sheriff, W. Bennett, Esq. pand. jtb u iu e reilC proceeded to rreet them. Thle bells rung tmerlu, to glrevet' ttl'~i 1,-irl wh thle) repaired to tuir ?? iywn g e pe hi Commission.~ A puhlie breakfr~w ...

... OXrO1RD CTRCUIT. Or, Wedieseday lost Thomas Stonor, Esq. High l$heriffof is thie county, accompanied fby dMr. Cooper, tile Uinda-Sheriff. in and thle usual cavalcadle of jatvelin men, &c. left thle ?? le Inn to meet thle Judges of Assizes, and in a short tinme re- Is turned with Mir. Justice Patteson, Judge L~ittledale having ~d been detained in a long cause at the Nvisi Prius Court, as ...

... ilquest~s beflre Me. Cecil, Coroner. On Saturdayat Nundiam,on view of the bodyof 'Thomas Hoare, aged 19, who was drowned elie preceding morning. in the river rsis. L appeured from ihe eviietce that about 1il;!e o'clock he was bathing with two or three other young men, who had nearly experienced a similar fate, in consequence of a flash of water suddenly coming down, none of them being able to ...

... I .1 i Wood v. Cost and ?? this case the bill was filed by the plaintiff, who is in humble circumstances, against the defendants, as the executors of Mrs. Sarah Compton, lke of Bryanston-square. The plaintiff claimed, as next of kin of Mrs. *Sarah Compton, the residue of her personal estate, amounting nearly to 100.0001. It appeared that the testatrix, by her will, gave all her real and ...

... OX'O;.D CIRCUIT. On Alondaay next the Assizes for the county of Berks will comnnence at Abingdion, before Mr. Justice Li'tlc- dale antd Mr. Justice Patteson ; and on Tedlnessday their Lordships will open the Commission for this county; immediately after which divine service evilI be heard in St. AMary's Church. On the following tmorning, at ten o'clock, the trials of the under-men- tioned ...

... BERKSHIRE MIDSIUMMER SESS1ON3, D JUNE 28, 1836. n Bfore the Right lion. Lord Viscount Barrington; Sir r M. Xiimenes T. Goodlake, Esq.; J. Hercy, lEsq.; Dr. Mitford ; W. Mount, Esq. Major; H. Court, Esq.; C. Eyston, Esq.; H. C. Cherry, Esq.; T. Bowles, Eeq.; W. Morland, Eiq. ; Sir H. Rassell; Captain Forbes; the Rev. N. l)odson, &c. &c. William 11atts, aged 60, labourer, charged with having, e ...