... bought for the purpose three days before. She is only twenty, of a mild and prepossessing appearance ; her motive for the crime is supposed to have been a desire to escape from the burden of supporting the child. The Faculty of Glasgow College has translated ...

... to me to set at rest all the nonsense about these being the crimes of dark ages only, and that Popery is changed. If it were changed, why wish to perpetuate the memory of the darkest crimes a country ever committed ? If Papists deplored these events, ...

... had ensued, it would have been legally murder, still it would have been considered only A great calamity, and not a great crime.” SEIZUBE OF MR M*LEOD. (From the Britannia.) We should be disposed to regard the situation of Mr M‘Leod (now confined in an ...

... duties. James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan, was arraigned before his peers under the act of 1 Victoria, cap. 85, which makes the crime of deliberately shooting at any of her Majesty’s subjects, with intent to kill or do grievous bodily harm, a felony punishable ...

... profound mind, the highest theological attainments, the most blameless life, and the most abundant ministerial labours. The crime laid to this rev. gentleman’s charge of disobeying the law is a false charge ; and the offence of which he is accused is one ...

... can administer the sacraments and other ordinances of the sanctuary, without sacrilegious desecration of holy things. The crime of which the Rev. Mr Candlish has been guilty, as dwelt upon at such length by Lord Aberdeen, is that of performing this necessary ...

... of a still-born child, which was taken charge of by a Police officer and conveyed to the Police Office. It appears that no crime had been committed in the way of taking away the infant’s life. Freaks a Waterford.— One night last week, two young gentlemen ...

... eloped with a railway labourer, deliberately shot her dead while in the act of cleaning He was tried and condemned for the crime the late Summer Assizes, held at Devizes. During the interim bet ween the unhappy man’s sentence and execution, he has conducted ...

... Steven, confectioner, Murraygate, were tried befere Mr Sheriff L’Amy and jury. The indictment charged the prisoners with the crimes of mobbing, and rioting, and assault, on the occasion of the Anti-patronage Meeting, held in St Andrew’s Church on the 26th ...

... £3OOO on his coming of age, with a patrimony of £llB a year. He opened a gambling-house in London, and lost everything. Irish Crime, &c.—The 19th report of the Inspectors-Gcneral of the state of prisons in Ireland (Messrs J. Palmer and B. B. Woodward), dated ...

... Walsh, under circumstances of disgusting barbarity. The Cork Conetititfion states, that few days after the perpetration of the crime an effort was made relatives of the prisoners to se-ek to induce the unfortunate prosecutrix to marry the principal; but she ...

... themselve hitherto of the irrationality, criminality, and impiety of the system of duelling. The systematic prevalence of this crime shows painful evidence of the want of reflection on the guilt attaching it; and yet, in referring to many authorities besides ...