... instance of a person filling one of the highest positions in the mercantile world, in London, who suffered death upon the scaffold for this crime. No doubt, you both are sufficiently ac- quainted with the history of our criminal jurisprudence to remember ...

... during the last seventy years, has a sovereign of France died in his own country, otherwise than as a malefactor on the scaffold. Louis XVI indeed found a grave in France, but it was the grave of a felon. Louis XVII was ex- tinguished in a gaol. Napoleon ...

... army. William Abbott Cook, a painter employed in painting and decorating the residence of Lord PaWrston, fell from a scaffold and was killed. ...

... which were unoccupied, and had been recently repaired, fall with a tremendous crash, carrying with them a large quantity of scaffolding which had been left up in front. Fortunately no person was injured by the fall. The temperance coffee-houses in Leicester ...

... home for the birds, in scaffold holes, adding a perch underneath each to faciliate their entrance ; and it is not a little singular, that by the force of mere instinct, they took possession of it even before all the scaffolding was removed. Several birds ...

... allows you time for preparation.'— Mr. Green said, 'May it please your honour, I am ready at any time; those who kill the body have no power to kill the soul. My preparation 18 made ' and lam read y at any time the court pleases.' —The judge replied, ' Mr. ...

... officers went on a shooting excursion, when Mr. Egerton 's gun accidentally went off, and the unfortunate young gentleman was killed on the spot. Intelligence of the afflicting event has been lorwarded to the Earl'of Ellesmere, who has arrived at Palermo ...

... suc- ceeded in killing it before the hen could come to its assist- ance. The rat was again about to pay its respects to another little chicken, when the enraged hen made a furious assault upon the assailant, and actually succeeded in killing it. This contest ...

... entered the service as a cadet in Nelson's owa flag-ship, the Victory. A labouring man named Fowling was killed by falling; from the scaffolding which at present surrounds the new record office, in Fetter-lane, London, on the morning at Monday last. The ...

... votaries have met with great success. A gentleman from Dukenfield, whose name we have not been able to learn, on Tuesday last killed twenty-three brace of birds. This makes him pass for the best shot of the day, at least on these moors. Cricket Match.— On ...

... the object in the case of man of mental power sufficient to feared, obtain the scaffold’s aim by means more cruel than the scaffold, and without the outcry which the scaffold would create. It time for to draw to cloee. I might, indeed, detail eirenmetancee ...

... doctrines of a most atrocious character. and ?? of which, called Killing no Murder,** tried to pro»e _ _ _| to murder the Protector would only be a simple act of . killing, and killing was no murder. Thi9 pamphlet m red its impression, and a conspiracy ...