... liquors. Again, another form crime consists acts of lust, indecency, shame, &c.; and these, also, have assuredly nothing to with any deterioration the comforts of the community. A third division the same subject made up the crimes evil-jpeaking, such as perjury ...

... s of the select committee of the House of Commons, which had declared that a large proportion of the present aggregate of crime might be prevented, and thousands miserable human beings converted into virtuous, honest, and industrious citizens, if due ...

... coadjutor. The business to be transacted at the recent Assizes throughout Ireland indicated a great decrease in the prevalence of crime. The exceptions the happy state of things were the counties of Westmeath and Mayo. Four of the mutineers of the North Tipperary ...

... Hamilton, aged 33, spinster, was indicted for feloniously sending a letter to m. Allingham, threatening to accuse him of infamous crime. The prosecutor is a surgeon. the 17th Feb. last a letter was delivered to him, said to be written by the prisoner, demanding ...

... death at the last Galway assizes for the murder of his wife, underwent the extreme penalty of the law on Tuesday last. The crime was perpetrated nearly two Years ago. In the spring of 1850 the deceased preferred a charge of violation against him, and, ...

... conversation of Mr Wright, who entreated him in the most earnest manner to repent, and endeavour to make some atonement for his crimes by admitting the justice of his sentence, it was very evident that the effect soon wore away, and he speedily resumed his ...

... known to him The police, however, believe that must have entered while the door was unfastened. What was the motive for the crime ? When Mr Little's room was entered on Friday, £1500 was found arranged on the tables in piles of notes, gold, and silver ; ...

... it once obtains full possession of its victim, utterly perverts and brutalizes his nature, and leads on to every species of crime. Fortunately in Scotland horse-racing is little known ; and Parliament which lately put down the betting-houses in London could ...

... The Balls Pond Murder.—-Davis was executed on Monday. He declared to the last that he was not conscious of committing the crime. He died firmly, but expressed a desire to be shot by a file of soldiers rather than to be hanged. New Issue of Bank of England ...

... has written to the Times denying that he has ever countenanced assassination. He regards assassination as the basest of crimes, but tyrannicide as the sublimest of virtues, it being self-immolation for man's native country. Beyond that country it ...

... Ward seemed to deeply affacted, frequently interrupting his disclosures by exclamations of deep sorrow and regret for the crime he had committed, and giving us a full and complete disclosure of the same. After taking down his confession read the same ...

... must do Louis Napoleon the justice to say that he is not spendthrift in his policy. He judiciously husbands the resources of crime. Perfectly unscrupulous as to the means which he employs when he has end to serve, he seldom commits the blunder of unnecessary ...