... frequently the case in regard to crime, the recent murder of Major De Vere seems to have operated as an incitement to the commission of other offences of a similar character. Whenever public feeling is outraged a startling crime—for example, such a murder as ...

... insult, is, by law, guilty of the same crime and liable to the same punishment as the assassin who has long meditated and brooded over his crime. Most people will agree that there is essential difference between the crime the deliberate assassin and that of ...

... be uncertain, but in ordinary crimes, such as have been comparatively common ever since the world was young, we are probably more often right than wrong in the judgments to which we come. It is only when some uncommon crime is committed that we find ourselves ...

... proportion of crime to population in these three years was, in 1862, 1 in ; in 1863, in ; and in 1864, Thus, so far from being almost unparalleled for ignorance and crime, the county of Stafford was, in regard to the graver class of crime, greatly superior ...

... asked him, Where does the adult crime of the country come from ? to which he had said he did not know ; and with regard to juvenile crime, he believed that it vanished and disappeared altogether, and did not cause adult crime. Though Mr. Waddington held ...

... of this subject. Not only do houses and population increase ; but, unhappily, crime has taken a turn upwards. We had reason to congratulate ourselves the amount of crime in 1864; and it is still quite possible that we may compare favourably with some ...

... against hope, that the passions which his gentle spirit had allayed, may not break forth in stern determination avenge flic crime of which was the victim. But it is ini_ possible not to perceive that his life was the surest pledge of restored peace ; that ...

... that she ! was labouring under mental disease, has, at the request of Miss Kent, communicated the following details of her crime, which she has confessed to him and to Mr. Rod way, , of Trowbridge, her solicitor, and wliich she desires be made public. ...

... Should it within the knowledge every one the panel that the prisoner at the bar is notorious criminal, capable of every known crime, they are to divest themselves of that knowledge for the time beiog, and to apply themselves strictly to the evidence. Should ...

... manslaughter. The Magistrates, finding that the Extradition Treaty between this country :uid America does not include that crime, once liberated the prisoner. The newly-formed National Reform League has begun its business in earnest. At a meeting held ...

... rates, and of course, all these things are deducted from the valuation of the farm. The effect the Game Laws may have upon crime is different question ; but I doubt as long as there is game if you can prevent poachers, in the same way that as long as there ...

... carried into fact by me in a state of drunkenness, which rendered me incapable of reflecting the awful crime was committing, in punishment of which crime I shall die to-morrow. cheerfully embrace my fate, and I hope God will accept the offering of my life ...