... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...