The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

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Ile Ras for Madeira, the Brad* sad Bars Ayrei, will be wads up on Dee. 4. 111011118 M 0 WHDOI4 11111DOI 745.-14_•411.11, 411611 M. I...roisow—momms, Maws. 1 14s. Te Ilitasess. IL Me. - -- LONDON, rum:mgr. NOVBIIBIIII 20. Sous farther pertieolus of the fearful accident which occurred on Friday last at Bromley have reached us. The general account we gave In yester day's publication was in all essential features perfectly correct; but certain of the fears therein expressed appear to have been premature, if not unfounded ; and harrowing as details of imminent peril to life and property may prove to the more tender hearted of our readers, we deem it an imperative duty to dwell for a few moments on an event whole incidents may possibly prove a warring In future Us rash and conceited drivers. It would appear that a little before the usual hour es Friday last, the slow coach " Protection," heavily laden with revengers, but carrying very little de, ey .The ed the " Real Old Goat" inn at Bromley greater number of the passengers seemed to be of rather an inferior description; and teem their loud tone of 'inside' and excited manner, persons unacquainted with the fact that this vehemence of gesticulation in many owes is habitual, and indeed professional, might hove mistaken their incessant cues and shouts about labour and wages for i n dications, that either the turbulent " outsides" were of the working classes, or were frenzied with zeal for their welfare. It never could have been in ferred from the violent language so freely indulged in, that the idea uppermost in the thoughts of thew worthies wee how to benefit themselves, COIL other people what it might, and that the immediate topic of their discuss:ea was how they could most &etc ly attain that object. Inside the slow coach was not full. Two elderly gentlemen only occupied the interior ; the one of aristocratic and good-natared look, bat somewhat silly in expression ; the other un like his companion in every particular. Though not in over-good condition, the team came in tolerably fresh, a circumstance which evidently served to stimulate the anger of the seats behind the box. "See," they exclaimed, " tow we have been jockeyed all the last stage! At tide rate 'tie clear we shall not reach the ' office' before the half of us an famished with hunger and cold. It will do to go on any longer with this humbug of a whip. Either he doesn't know the road, or tat a us ever so tar about on purpose." And with inch explosive sublimates el rhetoric the whole roach crew descended from their places and entered the " Real Old Out." Th scene that then and there ensued has already been described. The accused coachman was not present : a swdonic on-looker wan heard to soliliquise—" How few of these brawlers would venture to wag a tongue if BEN were by!" But Ban unfortunately was too confident in himself and his knowledge of donkeys (his favourite animals) to give any heed to the mutinous eloquerce and unani mous denunciations with which the best parlour rang. Had he not served his time to the art and mystery of driving under the severest master of the day P Had be not fagged without honour or reward for seven long years under "Pancake Bonier," as his Leine whirs fellow-townsmen to this day delight in calling him, in allusion to the fact of his happening to have come into the world at Shrovetide ? And had not BEN, weary at length of ill-usage, snatched the reins one day out of the great driver's hands, and flinging them to the first man of rank and pluck he could find, bid him meant the box and drive on P And when that rash and impetuous guide was removed, had net BEE, for want of a decent or presentable whip of quality, actually installed himself in office, and at au easy pace, though doubtless by most dark and wind ing ways, brought the slow coach into Bromley that very day P Little he dreamed that his last day of ccachman ship was come! While he was out of sight patting the sides of his donkeys, which be had selected to pull through the next stage by Five per Cent. to Sinking Fund,—suddenly a wild and maniac shout fell upon his ear, and eta he could reach the fatal spat, the " Proeeetion." with all its demented passengers, was rolling at frightful speed out of the village, amid the inhuman laughter of .me of the bystanders, and more incredible still, to the apparent delight of the impatient outsides. Away it rolled or rather seemed to fly, scattering an infinite quantity of dust and dirt on all sides, and endangering the safety of honest people, the testimony of whose senses hardly convinced them that the Lumber Van, as the slow coach was familiarly called along the road, could by any possibility go at such a rate. But the rapidity of the apparition did not prevent people from discerning the tree solution of the mystery. In stead of well-bred donkeys, an unmanageable team of half-broken dewa blood had been surreptitiously yoked to ; and before the insurgents could agree among themselves who should be driver, the new teem bolted! They were speedily out of sight and bearing. Nobody could tell what would become of them and their crazy burthen ; and we are bound in condone, though we must say not without condt-mnatioe, to add, that few people seemed to care. It may perhaps be very little matter in what ditch the luckless old concern is found finally upset. Nor are we about to insist that it can make much difference one way or other, whether we ever hear of the outsides again. But we really should not like to hear of the poor old runaway hcrees having hurt themselves, as it is very probab'e they may do, being all, it is said, stone blind. The last time th.t "protection" was distinctly recognised it was proceeding at apparently unslackened speed across country, having long quitted the ordinary road aid taken to the fields "in a truly straightforward manner." Instinct alone could have been guiding its course at the time, for reason and reins were alike want ing. But the direction *sensed unmistakeable, and the panting leaders were straining every muscle to reach the well known livery stables in Downing-street. How they were to clear certain fences, or to swim Pertain deep currents that lay athwart their path, we do not undertake to say. When our express left, the deposed driver was to be seen still standing in the same posture of mute and incredulous astonishment into which he had involun tarily fallen at the moment when the melancholy fact be came obvious at a glance to him, that his eirvices were no longer wanted, and that the creatures of his protection had dismissed him — Pensive, but not in thought, he stood at the window be holding. A grim smile played over his features, as if by anti rpeiticia he foresaw the ludicrous civilise, the sprawl ing in the mire, the mutual reproaches, and too late lamentings over the mutiny at Bromley. Bast must have doubtless felt, likeliouis PHILIPPE, whose frequent ejaculation after Ws overthrow is reported to have been, " Just like my predecessor ! " Their fates are not dissimilar. Conspirators and sup- 4 , THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1849. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Wowing giosainge from the papers of the Wag say ark to throw ht on the 'tats of the • Wail, *d arllkfk r* gre fl ••r4w • • • r. k . . ; • ant Ath c __l • • is the Ask ta - Tkft. the pe l • • n ehe the BI 4 that • • los seat to Pert Limbs* smog k the Imam slid madekkomil oi llso 1117pa t z: ieriiinni, Iwo medg'.. the dr ift , if! ke look kb • kg hommiti= libeerirs_ f _ d _cgr - the as MG es cf e "I""feror elmtialb` Won W th s published merespoodemen abaci 200 as be expected to be` P`t au_ aally,—it Is the @pia* of ilk amorksia h tt thenesitketh round tin. thit esadeis, all claim to the coalidemse tithe ishakthate of this abides; and that the serrespeael semmliee be requested to write tow names" of the limited= Is atoordeases with the team of this rasping= sad to take oath ether step with referees* thereto as ;hey Ray deem advisable." By this reselatiem—says the Shipping OsseMe—mad the ether ow sures whist have reently been adopted k the newsy, it may be herd that the Philanthropic Boat s will he ia oilseed Is mails its amity at Istiow,—or, at leak , to mho, it sky to kw missies which are anitent to reosive its quetimalk imam The Importance of at sees psalms h stop to the notorious Illissey of skis Juvenile Coavist Tree (hr so* is its real character) is aseal- Ct i r d hsl i the daVelhet whisk it had already predator es the syrem of akigratisa is mosidered. lIMIGILLSIOII.-- Tory Inked in Table Bay om Tuesday lut with IS momisd ample, 49 single nava. Us= women, and 75 minima. The mows of the their several train, have less published in ui r ate' Goorfte. They are Welly sigrkaltheal laboaters, hat there as okay of maid trades smug *ea; =dome of duet perms are said to how gold a large proportion of the =mem of the many. "It will, however, be hardly wafted" the mid Mercantile Gantt* of y slates— dist seas alsominable injustice which was ia, the seas 111, by the Let ship has been ,we ell also in the papist lease. Their testimosiall eff IM raster weeoteirso from them in Loadoe, sad bare. base zetommod to them here. This, it will he ls eltogetkor a new praetko,, adopted toe seam nkmosest masa, stela asp resemptios of estimation, after he samanshem, kr. seek equally =known theeen, by ceder of Earl Choy." We sot to be wondered et that thia skew sollaary gmeelise should emits the seepisimse of the adealels, when it is kaown that the entignat kip', with the ym the animalism eseassimisassa, ha= hese " takes of "kr the osaveyease kh mho, ed et some of the jamoile .waste hem the Pfkask 53eietY._ _ and them is .it believed, are not the oaly vorebsatis whisk the boas goverament are endeavouring to thrust tap= us by ▪ akin adotatem of" oar =signet skips. Who sap desist dot ow of the Load= thievee---whose ronfereses, is July Yet tors with Lord Ashley, " u a missionary= behalf of i l s r en 'lik " was t the rsa lb v i e set fol.7 mach try. ic r•rio.; of that conferenee ex a ated mule in this colony at the time it wee resolved. But salmegook meats ha= shown that we were far more deeply iatooksd la Lord Athley's proceeding' Shea we then thaeght. One soonest of that conteronce is given in another whose, taken from the Weekly Chronicle After reading this, the aolosiets will, perhaps, disomer the object e( keep ing beck the characters std testimonials pommeled easi• grants of good character. Bat each a proceeding, prompted by . such a motive, is molt base and dbareditable in Me ems stssioners and Earl Grey, end most cruel is its amq upon the emigrants themeclns. The colonists regret the seed= to which many respectable and worthy men amongst them will be exposed ; but with these facts before ns are can scarcely advise orexoect the inhabitan's of this piseat i cannish their stopiclons. until emigration to the Cape of Giod,llope is conducted epos a differ'* systems. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. , the abolition of -4 Si t XI:1 g , w to ss 17d °petit . r4ay eventing et tk *lles L reuse Betel, fleathwark. Tim 'desk well takh. Mud . 7 Oen& by dr. C. Guzratemleherea D y the M.P , theroWendektie: illfi x the c Ell il Me i Mee Walsworth eind Mr. Websi the or, Weeklies-4140i; kes. 'TM resnalles m'oweled. the semsehly comprkieg • Imp pet pardon orkenthers of the gesisty of Frieeds. ThiCKAIRMAN said thae brim the pad wedi- bee ier latitude ef this sastropolls bulked mother, sad a pardon hen_ hilfeedffies eggedmilWeielliessieg aneeplaisa es te the jute ei gse gnat ON* ON. Inalto hp gteggYrie t the moral leseeMei the kw haling bum oneveym he uus ems by the emegrahms, se poblis stranglieg, of a Rea anel. s Mk. AWg....isemeni mina was email, sad w ai throveged tea c her, ' al: l 6Zr GS A c l l if d e re . :re i gi t b t . h e e ll e m h: g el made tM nomplopses were to be believed, the multitude was ewe whisk geel: , 1011 Mira Loon, , the.4.ldeu hear.) Thedonde, sild the meat the eight i pre de* el Ike the bears a darkness they diansked the migkhombesd wide their obscene and filthy holhasiost, steak brand sod disgusting jests, and their bold amildering hkesheasies. There ears westeed pupils tee. (Sew, kegs.) Isms of thirty elallinge sad three guineas wine poid neaten ea wbkh to latorthe moral lesson. There wen lemakfasts, sad lades—(oh , burning scandal is 1111= then aerated!) —(bmar, hear, and cheers) — Milo with specieramess got • sight.' the onsagied reale imam (Hear, bear.) He °enraged he would ea willingly =Wan much with the ladies who •so boiled al that was amiable aud loveable he the chanter of woman, as to be pressen at reuse like these, crowding the court sad the plans of executio• to witness the mental tenor and the mortal *gannet Me kidemereataree It might be imagineel by sometime epee meldegtkees Miss were better lined to be mothers, wives, co elampletees, through what they Itsel witnessed; but there wee too teeth of Maria Manning about them for him (the chairman) to feel very comfortible in such company. (Hear, hoer.) But the deed had been done. The advocates of the gallows said that a great morel Lesson had bees tamg d. He muted that hums pity had been outraged, MOO= illiewood. and God mated. (Cheers.) Hassanity had hoes mimed in the ologists's SI well as in eke criminals. No me, he believed, left the semi uninjured by what he had witnessed. Religion had hese disgraced. (Hear, hear.) Dying lips received the sacramental emblems of a Saviour's dying love— (hear' kear)—et least ma usrepentsat murderer wee battered up with home of a line to some. The whole of the closing eosne.wee • piece of solemn mockery, cake land to dishonour therreligion whelk they melsemel, smiths God whets they professed to worship. ' And the pekoe big spend. A tweready roue had eoaveyed is the teseslent corners of the country, aye, sad to other countries, the mart minute particulars in references to the strangled ntakfadeen telling law M•-.sing made an indifferent breakfast on the morning of hie mutation ; how hie wife did a little better; hew they were both misted on their way to the ' scaffold ; how Mumble end hangman each endeavoured to make the matter mere easy, the cm meanie the way to Heaven, iced the other making easier the passage from earth ; how the criminals met on the wsy to the scaffold, how they kissed, and how tom embraced, bow they shook I hands, and expressed a hope that they should mat hat Heaven. All these things dispersed by means of the press throughout the country were calculated—(wbo could deep it 1)—to stimulate a morbid desire even for public execre-1 floe. Scean like these were calculated to nerve the rofflan's arm, and to stimulate everythieg that was base Je human nature ; and he wee much mistaken if the people of Ragland would not sooner or later reap • dire and bitter harvest of deeds of violence and blood from the seeds sown on Tuesday last at Hommongerdans Gaol. (Hear, hear.) Now, it was the fashion with many seltetyled influential organs of the press, who still advocated the sontinumen of capital punishment, to use hard words against the mob who attended such scenes—to all them "the brutal mob," " the de graded mob," " the debased mob." He had little sym pathy in the use of terms like these, coming from such quarters. If the mob were brutal, degraded, end debased; and it the proof of this were attend . see on such scenes, how, in the name of common sense, could they exempt f rom censure the law which provided such scenes, the legislator who made the law, or the organs of the press who were for the continuance of the law ? (Hear, beer.) The execution on Tuesday last had shaken the gibbet to its foundation. (Cheers.) It had brought out writers in the daily pipers who had never before, so far as he was aware, written oe the subject of capital punishments, in cluding a man of whom he desired to speak with great remect—Charles Dickens. (Cheers.) Judging from a letter of his which appeared in an early number of the Daily News , Charles Dickens was with them in principle. That gentle man was now an advocate of secret executions as a greet step in the right direction. Now he (the 'barman) confessed that he differed from him. (Cheers.) He gave his fun Mat for integrity of purpose ; but he was anxious that there should be no mistake or misunderstanding as to their owe views on this matter. (Hear, hear.) He was not labouring nor were hie bleeds kbonrieg, to substitute one kind et strangling for another. They were not anxious to unbeaten execution amid the silence of the prima cell for executim en the public scaffold. They were not, and he trusted they never would be, prepared to advocate assassination in the stead of public execution, or to introduce unitary, inquisition- like execution in the place of that execution which, in accordance with the feelings and the will of 1 N.mishasen, had up to this time been performed in the tight of day. (Cheers.) No. if they must have strangling still, for the rood of the community, he woo not prepared en the su'utitution of misuse for public strange laden. He was glad that come of the most practical men of the present day—men who had endeavoured practically to enlighten end elevate the minds of their fellow-creatures— were of his own way of thinking on this subject. He held is his band a letter from a man who wee not second even to Charles Dickens in the influence which he exercised over the Dubin mind for the public benefit; he referred to Dour. lea Jerrold In a letter which he had received from him, Douglas Jerrold said, "The genius of English society will n permit private hanging. Sorry should I be to know that mystery was be Laded to the ie.fliction of death. The brutality of the mob even is preferable to the darkness of secrecy." (Chem.) Again, he pail, " Once allow secret executions, and yin bow to the continuance of capital punishment, and they are last passing away, gradually gives up by the baffled legislature." (Hear, hear.) He preeeediel, " A strange Christianity, truly, to ask the prayers of the congregation for a brother and sister, sad then, to show the sacredness of life, to kelt them." (Hoer, bear.) Richard Cobden said, " Take heed of the new dodge—private executions. That is abandoning three-north, of the grounds upon which the Calcraft party defended capital punishment, as an example of terror to the evil dimmed. Their private hinging would be simply assassination." (Hear, Ulm.) The following letter was from Mr. Bright : Reform Club, Nov. 19, 1849. My Dear Friend,—l am icon not is be at your meeting this realm. The canoe of capital punishment abolition is making rapid regress, and there is only one rock ahead, and this I feel certain we shall avoid—l allude to the compromise which is proposed by those who an anxious that hanging should continue, bat that it should be dons in the secrecy of the prison. This is no compromise, in our view of the care. Our wain arguments against the present system would Kill remain against the private hoagies, whilst, in my view, every srmscomt upon which capital punishments hare hitherto been defended would be entirely overthrown. This notion of secret executions in our prisons is monstrous, and can be entertained for a moment by the people of this country. It seems to be dictated by the mere liking to put somebody to death, and is as unphilmophical as it is un. cluietian, and contrary to sll the feelings and practices of our country. The scheme is the refuge of thine who are driven from their present position, but who have not the courage to slept the only alternative which is before them. It cannot b s adopted in this country; I don't believe it will find favour in parliament, and I don't see how even the Home Secretary can support it, for it will in no degree relieve the increasing difficulties of his penitent. Let es keep to our creed on this subject, sad the " moral lemon " of the gallows will soon be at an end.—Believe me very sincerely thy friend, lonic Burette. Now, Charles Dickens did not consider the public mind prepared for the entire abolition of capital punishment. If, indeed, he formed his idea of the public mad from what he called " the desert was's" which surrounded him in front of Horstnnager-lone Gaol, he (the chairmen) could not dis pute hie position ; if, again, he formed it from the conduct of the gentlemen who had champagne breakfasts end of the ladies who plied their opera-glasses, hie opinion was easily accounted for ; but, as regarded the middle and working classes of England, he would declare that, leaving attended public rearing, from Edinburgh to Exeter, he did not be lieve that Charles Dickens, with all his talents, could fairly convene • public meeting in any part of the king. dons and carry a resolution in it in favour of 1 wont hanging. (Hear, hear.) Amongst the writers on: this subject was a enceinte. signing himself " Milo," who stated in the TWnes that he did not believe it to be within the range of probability for the debt of an execution to prove an incentive to crime. Now it was redly sad that gentlemen,' often wrote on subjects of which they knew nothing. (Leughter.) A little inquiry would have satisfied this gen tleman that a very lugs proportion °fells criminals executed had been present at previous executions. A clergyman of Bristol, the Rev. Thomas Roberts, visited 167 penmen under sentence of death, of whom he found that 164 had attended executions. (Hear, hear.) The course of the ad vocates of this punishment must be straight orward. They must neither be deterred by open enemies, nor turned aside by friends who did not possess their own faith. (Hear, hear.) He was thoroughly convinced that the thy was not far distant when the common sense of the commu sky, and the common Christianity of the country, would doneness the gibbet, andiweep It from the face of the land. (Cheers.) Mr. EWART, M.P., then proposed the following resolu tion : " That in the opinion of this mane the punishment of death is opposed to the spirit of Christianity ; that it does sot answer its design of repreming crime!; that its effects are grossly demoralising ; that it sometimes ceases the dentruA on of the innocent by judicial process, and at other times favours the eaceepe of the guilty, thus promoting the aims it is intended to repress, and that it ought to be ins melktely and totally abolished." He had not habitually attended public meetings m this subject, In conjunction with those friends of the cams who were so well entitled to • tribute of praise ; but on ea coca- Mon like the present, he could not refuse to take his place by the side of that able and courageous advocate of capital punishment, the chairman. (Cheers.) They were convinced more temeially, bemuse they had lately bad an intercedes and hestruothe exhibition brought home, as Bacon expressed it, to j their own business and bosoms. The great epistles was what • Virg Mein sash an exhibition. Tee organs of pa sitiaces the avocets' of espied punish ment="titilt. the suction was a positive social t MO* paean wee di ffus ed by it in Welty. If no morel Rood were effected, It was Ompeedble Is conceive any religious benefit. How could dolt 'he desined reftiou which was against the vital priseirder of the Chris religion? (Hear, hear.) nowt mild they beesieldered to set exuding to its pre cepts lithe, tea bent the criminal the power of repentance ? (Hear, keira_37ntil the advocates of capital punishments awed that repentance could be compelled within twelve aye, they were sating against the vigil principles of the Christian religion in depriving a fellow-cresture of life. (Hear, hear.) The noses had declared that In the recent executions the majesty of the law had been vindi eat* (Cheers.) In his opium, the whole memo nisi ail punishment of the gallows wee the vary &Otter* of majesty. (Hear, hear.) The hen. end issued gentlemen proceeded to_ vest* a passage bet Fiddhlle which it was en ded the{ at i& erheiaal had Wes senteoped to death, the judges Amid adjourn foe four jays at the expiration of which the prolaktnent should be et out la the front of the Old Batley soleauly sad in theft pile es to wee shase . D in id su an ci y a on nee s in i lg er te ? tha (a t es tlz hear judge .) e w i r e l ao d w nib es s o li u t to the question of rivets executions, to' which he at once declared his otter repugnance. (Hear, hear.) They wanted to abolish the system altogether, not to make it worse by making it private. (Hear, hear) They had no doubt but that the fondle lades would all honestly persons their duty, but was that a reason why Beglishmen should give up one of their greatest public_prin ciples that of publicity in all judicial proceedings ? (Hear, hue.) They might a well be asked to 'instep the trial by jury because they were sure that the judges would honestly perform their duties. (Hear, hear.) No, such a system 'I would never be adopted, publicity was of the very muse of our institutions, and publicity was what Rutigliano I would cosiest to abandon. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Bat even supposing they conceded the prin ciples of private executions they could net exclude 'the prom, and if they admitted the press lusty detail of the execution would be minutely recorded and carried to the length and breadth of the land. (Hear, hear.) And it would do more mischief than the present system, be- cause forbidden knowledge had always, unfortunately, the greatest attraction. (Hear, hear.) But there was no we arguing the question, because government had already de cided against private executions. A member of parliaraset, l Mr. Rich, had once brought a motion forward in the 1100111!' of Commons with this view: he (Mr. &wart) had opposed is, and the government recommended Mr. fifth to with draw It, on the ground that he could not hope for a single vote in its support. (Hese, hear. j They (theaboUttonists) took their stand on different grounds : they did not care whether executions were public or private ; what they wanted was not to have any executions at all. (Loud cheers ) They objected to capital punishments as fallacious in principle because it sought to punish mime by imitating it, a principle which was not recognised in any offence net capital. They objected to it, because it acted on the principle of revenge which was a principle completely condemned by the spirit of Christianity. (Hear, hear.) That principle wee exploded by su the jurists, by Black. stone„by &curia, by Filangieri, and it was time it should be expunged by our criminal code. (Hear, hear) Tiny objected further to capital punishment, because it often turned public attention from the crime to the incidents of the punishment and the conduct of the condemned. How much.snock heroic interest had been given to the conduct of Mrs. Manning. One paper had likened her to Clytemnestra, and another to Lady Macbeth. Was it not time that such be proceedings should put an and to? (Hear, hear.) They took their stand on a principle which might be announced in three words— the 'sentinels of human life. (Hear, hear.) That principle could not be violated on any ground but that of imperious necessity, and that necessity has never been proved—at least he had never heard it proved in the Douse of Commons. (Hear.) A few years since all death warrauts were signed by the sovereign, but so repugnant had the duty become, that only a few iessiou since a biU was brought into parliament to abrogate the necessity. (Hear, hear.) The sovereign then shrunk from capital punishment end the judges of the land were in the majority agaicst Before a committee of the House of Lords the Chief Justice gave co opinion (a few years since the judges were all una nimous in its favour), Mr. Justice Mauls gave no opinion, Justice Coltman pronounced against it, as did aloe Justice Wightman. Chief Justice Wilde said that the bjections against it were very great. So much for tLe Reglish judges. The Irish judges were also summoned. Judge Crampton gave co *pinion; Judge Perrin pree flounced spinet it, as did also the Lord Cent Baron. He though., therefore, that they had made some progress on the judicial bench. (Hear, hear.) Übe was not very much mistaken, they might reckon on a further accession of strength in the person of Mr. Justice Tenoned. (Loud cheers.) The clergy were also coming round, and even Sir G. Grey himself would abolish capital punishment if the people only convinced him that it was their universal wish. The argument in favour of the abolition of the puoishme..t of death rested on the sacredness of human life and tt e great doctrine of the necessity of repentance, and with such bases it could not fail of ul imate success. (Cheers.) The Rev. H. CHRISTMAS seconded the resolution. The resolution declared, he oberved, that the punishment of death was opposed to the spirit of Christianity. That lay at the bottom of the whole question (Hear, hear.) He contradicted the assertion that capital punishment was com manded in scripture. The plug", Whoa° sheddeth males blood by man shall his blood be shed," was not a command, but a prediction expressive of God's indignation ; they were not commanded to hang the murderer up to a beam. (Hear, hear.) If God's word were re ferred to they must look at the examples which it presented as well as its supposed teaching. Cain was a murderer, but they did not read of his b dog hung ; Moses ' killed an E gyptian, bat he was not executed for doing so. Cases of cold-blooded murder were accompanied with the divine brand, but they did not read of the infliction of capital punishment for them. If the Jewish law were taken at all, it must be taken as a whole; if, on the authority of that law, they hung one man for murder, they must hang others for bre king the Sabbath or disobejing father or mother. (Hear, bear.) The New Testament—which was the revels. tioa of Christianity—was a book of love. (Hear, hear.) It taught them to instruct the ignorant, to feed the hungry, to visit the sick, but he did not fiod in it anything about hanging offenders. (Hear, hear.) As the result of an extensive correspondence, however, he had received from five or six hundred clergymen letters contain ing t seressions of entire concurrence in the principle of im mediate abolition. (Hear, hear.) The Archbishop of Can terbury had replied to him in a manner which resembled the answers of the judges, _ declaring his belief that the matter required, and would repay, a great deal of at tention. The Bishop of Winchester thought, to use his owe phrase, that the subject would be " all the better for a little ventilation." (Laughter.) Ventilation it must have through the medium of the expression of pubic opinioo. (Hear, hese.) The ilishop of St. David's was for entire abolition: and the lue excellent Bishop of Norwich declared that, from the moment that he first directed his et ter,Wa to the subject, he had been of opinion that the mis chief attending judicial executions far outweighed the bene fit, while on principle be was strongly opposed to them. (Hear, hear.) Mr. C. WORDSWORTH sopurted the resolution. He seid they mat evince their sincerity in this matter by endea vouring to influence and to create public opinion. (Hear, hear.) Sir 0•07,10 Guy hid declared his belief that those who attended public executions were, for the most part, themselves imbued with crime. To a great extent, no &Wit, that observation was true - but what would the ladies who had been refe rred to think of such :a statement? Immense progress had been made I within a few years in the abolition of' capital punishment. In the year 1760 —the year in which George the Third ascended the throne, 160 offences were puni liable capitally. Ac the present time high treason, murder, and one or two other offences could done be visited with such punishment. This showed a gradual advance of public opinion on the sub ' jut, which was in a greet degree attributable to the disgust created by repeated spectacles of public 'etude'. In the latter part of the last century a girl of fourteen years 'of age, who had hid some marked farthings at the bidding of her mister, was for that offence condemned to be burnt alive ; and a few years later a woman who had a child suck ing at her breast was hung. Eleven years from the time of 'I which he was speaking, a woman in a state of pregnancy ' 'was allowed to bide her time, mad, after the birth of her child, was torn from it, and handed over to the executioner. Between 1800 and 1805 Mr. Justice Heath, sitting is Erse:, sentenced a man to be hung for cutting dowu a cherry tree, of the value of five shillinge—(hear, hear)—and that sentence was actually carried into execution. (Hear, hue.) Looking ' at the aspect in which the matter was now re garded, it was quite evident that public opinion had made a great advance in the right direction. I One argument was, that capital punishment was efficacious in deterring from crime ,• but had they not bad remarkable statistical evidence to the contrary, from the Rev. Mr. Tho mu of Bristol, who stated that out of 167 criminals he had attended, 164 had previously been attendants on public executions. (Hear, hear.) So much for example. He might also mention the case of Connor, convicted some unions since at the Old Bailey, who committed a murder on the very day twelve months on which he had witnessed an execution. (Hear, hear.) He remembered another case—that of a man hung for forgery. His body was given to his friends, and they were afterwards detected committing the same offence in the room with hie eorcee. (Hear, hear.) So much for the influence of capital punishment in deterring from crime. (Hear, hear.) There was one other point he wished to urge upon the authorities. Capital punishment was inoperative, because of the uncer tainty of its infliction. He himself remembered a case of ' I peisouing at Chelmsford, in which conviction war unites sally expected because the evidence was clear. But there was on the jury a member of the Society of Friends, who' seesidered that the law of God, and of the New Testament, on .gated me m ber isulncydutn h ys. nam e e e olllhi yhci f c ofinte. h a t men: h odnf a do i :: : : 2tar tt em a nn,s eusonfes issued frues a mipi , nr 0 d n ge e 0 g ten ars. (Hear, ear.) th ddi: e thstw y ele w it: o wnin u .o l eseo d reh b a e utujula e l d rial 7 a p ftl bri tiairv o ed n e"co th atuh a lhia i d th j(us il ith r l e nyr t last t a not 0 nero no, edictsn,to h Society seaoccurrences ;:a advance Friends r ihn judge e e c n ep sug d uni s onie et h futl a i Inton d h:ene acted t f r Id: h e: t at : htoe y herr . public opinion was advancing fast on this hn t should d s for hi e in abo ilist :sice. Sir Th aga his re ose t i aj n l t r ea g ess esa p v o i e ta n Mg s : p f e o u dk rtn n ia ts. nn ed:: U th: n ifi e t :lll wi an e : ln d o t t glorious monument to hie memory. The Grand Duke of it had been found to be unit even in Russia during the reigns of the Empresses ga c tre7ne and Elizabeth. At home Bentham and Brougham had declared against it , and it was clearly proved by all the advocates of ab---fl.. on n., government had no right to inflict the penistmatet /W i th."'" had been made to the hothouses' of suicide. In the m know he concurred; but if it were sinful In a te — ...._" . away his owe life, it wee surely equally too to t e t te a ., — . "'op, of others. The learned gentleman concluded bye: ,;... f ... y " .4 hie full concurrence in the terms of the resolution 11— o The CHAIRMAN, before putting the resolution, mu that he did not know the particulus of them es at cf,t,..• ford, to which the hon. gentleman had alluded, bat fi — ' l ,,,_ Maud that the Society of Friends had adopted a me t h ellesnial principle of action with regard to t hk „Ilk§ Thep had determined, no matter what might be 14---."‘ emu. wine, never to serve on • jury when the life of a fell ow testers was at stake. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then pat, and tarried tuntairausly, Tito Rev. H. RICHARDS moved the next mole; -• • " That • petition (Quailed on the forego* e lae l e etreed hy the chairman oa behalf Glebe meting, be sen a Ma reseal by the repreaeutativettit the be f e ei ta e felt rejoiced at the opportunity afforded him ofj his (rinds on that side of the river in expreede e • tbajadicial murder which had recently Mu --" • Mute neighbourhood. (Hear, hear.) Re /capered with every faculty to insist N ' , w i t NW amdismal institutions so degrading en Wage atiy imement feelings of humanity as the event of Plallib mat (Hear, hear.) Tway had a pertiouVe e... with them; t h ey had the clergy by hundreds ; and t ii h r a. member for Dumfries had informed them that l ei t the Home Secretary himself only_ wanted a little p e e to come round to their views. Under such cite 1 he felt justified in prognosticating a speedy abolitimieftle gallows. (Loud cheers ) Mr. J.ROBERTSON seconded the resolution e Bodg e . teaching the spirit of murder by exemplifying it. Te e 4 ment that evil caul I not be overcome by evil, bet e good, was one of the grandest lessons of the New Tem & men& (Hear, hear.) The influence of mercy week Is bleared in relation to society, and on the realisation of flyl truth by society and the legislature depended, he belime., the abolition of capital punishment.. Mr. J. SUOBLE, in supporting the etiolation, IQ be fully concurred is the argument of the Preeedieg with regard to the principle of mercy. With regudo t i, substitution of private for public' asesstinatiou, the 5 Secretary having intimated his willingness to brie f 4 L t e for that purpou it wee necessary that the p4u, a i i i shout! be roused upon the subject. It mit le very difficult to get • jury to act el I" nesses—none who did not resemble the mob trek consent to act. (Hear, hear.) It &prang , i i.. Mr. Cs:craft was entitled to their sympathy ; f ee a s .• reported to have said that .' these matters now had r ee f 3 effect upon him, and made him so dreadfully num& pe he should have te give up has office of hangmen" Ili Dicker then proceeded to lecture Cilcraft on his new: saying that he should be corrected for kites' , emly teuk e i: his joke., his oaths, and, above all, his brandy. (A (eek) Mr. Dickens would make private assassination a met a l . spectable proceeding, and the executioner a met respected individual. (A laugh.) He (Mr. flo t ib) had been much amused at reading Mr. Dieluies hoe whose otject was evidently to make a melodrama& dia execution. (Hear, hear.) He would not on:y hare h p f . formed with great solemnity, but he would have outside the prison walls He would have all the alu s°llll ll the City abut ' —(laughter); and not oily that, h e fil m have the bells kept tolling. (Laughter.) There WS le. tainly something very dramatic sot that, and to pies 4. crowd i Beet, Mr. Dickens would have the whole lei air uded in mystery. (Hear, hear.) Away With milt puerility ; it might do in a fiction, but it was totally lip plicoble te the business of real life. 'Hear, hear.) Tne la solutirni was then put sad carried The CHAIRMAN here stated, I, st any mia , ppretteasim might ga forth, that many of the judges whom the kw member for Dumfries had not mentioned bad gut Oa opinions in favour of capital punishment before the Homed Lords, but since then Lord Nugent had informed his (Ifi. Gilpin that the majority of the legal bench had become if. avocet.. of abolition. (Hear.) Mr. A. B. STEVENS, moved the third resolution, otlet the members for the borough be requested to support Os petition." Mr. WEBSTER seconded the resolution, contendieg dig on every ground of reason and just!. capital punishmen t should be swept away. Tail CHAIRMAN said he had reason to know thstffe W. Molesworth was favourable to the abolition of mod punishment. Oa the ether hand, he believed that Mr.& derman Humphery, who voted for the abolition in Mk voted against it in 1849. (Hisses.) The resolution was then put and carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman was carried by acclaim flop, and briefly acknowledged. piastres, they have both out-lived their tirm of eserpatien, and what is still more remarkable, the fall of emelt of them has been caused by the °envie ties that he was abandosiVe plain he had undertaken to fallow, and es the • ' ye ot whom he bed more hat • coatributed to expel. 1 Tan pet:sleeted exhi* - r," I . 111 Nations" hes met with ~: I r, lieu was reesseably be • . • stage of the undertaking. It has been ltvemrably mereliiMelin Jassy of the chief nianefeetweing teems of the Mated Kingdom, and men of hawks hasp, come forward to give it a cordial support. Mo rel ihmalkis scald net be =peeled, salsa' ea the prepo sition retained the moms, of &sneer with whielii in the emmesseeemmet it mast aireassarily be itivmae It is saw time that the public should see a little fur- Oakdale' tliKteasise, Ise ikii &Ism density idea of what is really- prejested, sad bow it is to be ae r r=wishimg to end fault with the "depute ion'. whisk baa bars somewhat pompously styled "Prints Urines Deputation," we are obliged to exprem an opiate°, which we fear is not eoafkAd to ourselves, that the gentlemen oomposieg it went forth, or were sent forth, without any distinct notion of what they were to do, or how meth they were to tell to the various meet ings assembled to listen to their statements. If we are not mistaken, it was said on every occasion that, so far, every thing was to be deemed " preliminary," and that nothing was flxed,—that in fad, the deputa tion were sent out to feel the public pulse, and to aectrtain if the great pr ojeet were ' likely to And friends among those who mime maid ensure its sucessefal aeeomplishusent the proposition has doubtless met with trun some cartage became it was said to have originated with Prince ALBEIT, still there have not been wanting strosg proofs of an indisposition to en ema:age the establishment of exhibitions of this nature connested with the government, the ex peons of whisk were to be defrayed oat of the public taxes. At the meeting in London Mr. Hume, ALP., and others objected to any government expenditure for mach amperes, and we think with great propriety, inasmuch as the adoption of the plan or expending the public funds for each objects might lend to great ex travagance and to not a little jobbing, and would also teed to lemon the public and popular sympathy which it is most desirable, and even neesseary, should be aroused on behalf of the scheme. The views ex pressed so opportuaely by Mr. HUMS have toad a response in several of the provincial towns sad cities wise, meetings have been held, and we were led to conclude, therefore, tbat the management of the exhi bition was to be popular, and such as to enlist an uni versal sympathy in its favour. It is time now that the point were settled, and that elite distinct avowal were made. At the Mancheatir meeting, Mr. BRIGHT made some suggestions on this point which are not unimp ortant He asked infor mation as to the constitution of the committee of management, and suggested that it should be partly composed of gentlemen from the district or local committees; and he further expressed a hope that some foreigners eminent in manufactures, or science, or art, should be invited to join the committee to give effect to its efforts abroad, and to give con fidence to all who might cootribute to the exhibition from foreign countries. To these suggestions no dia. ticct answer was given. The deputation did net , commit themselves to anything, and possibly they had no powers to enter into positive declarations on any particular points. But some declaration mast be made, and the public must be told the object, and scope, and mode of management of the whole design. We are the more anxious on them pints from certain rumours that have reached 1111. We begin to fear that the silence of the deputation arose from the fact of their knowledge of some armor manta then made co• in progresr, having a tendency or direction quite contrary to that indicated by the tome of the speeches at the various meetings they attended. We may be is error, and hope we are so, but we havehsard on good authority that the Society of Arts, or he council, have made arrangements of such a nature as to make it quite evident that the public are to have nothing to do with the affair but to subscribe the funds, provide the materials for exhibition, and pay their mosey again to see them when collected under one roof in Hyde-park. It is sold that the council of this society have already entered into a contract with • arta* builder or capitalist for the erection of the great hall for the exhibition, and that this nutmeg has been signed by every member of the council, with, we believe, only one exception. We have heard the amount at which the contract is said to have been taken, and as it approaches the /UM sties hundred thousand pounds, we feel justified in ceseleding from this fact, if it be a fact, that the !So ciety of Arta have assumed to themselves the Imps sibtlity of this great undertaking. and that the teed calling in the ad rice or co-operation of the pulls Me never been entertained at all, or if It hes bees eats& toined,thst it is now wholly abandoned. Frouatirway in which thiainformation has reached as wecsasetelmabtits sorrectness, and we place it before our readers in the hope that an explanation may be promptly given, kr we greatly fiat that without that general and hearty support which the public will only give to • frank and open appeal, the project of this magnificent exhibition of the utdustry of all nations will prove a disastrous and ridiculous tailors. FACTORY DEBTHOTED ET FIRE AT MIDDLETON About 2 leek& en Thursday mornieg a Ire was disoovered in the lame Mese mull bolesifing to John Burton, E-q., now la the sesentedies'ef Mr. J. Pilling. It we. first new in the third stsety. Mimeses' belonging to Salk flokwabs, B K ., BlWee prints:elks, was ate spot shortly after 3 o'clock , and resdered o;servico, by envies the gas-house and e ng ine-bow adjo the mill; but the whole of the new machinery, dams, an cotton in the factory (which is 24 windows in length, and four storeys and tie attic in height) were destreyed. Nearly the whole walls of two storeys have fallen. Mr. Pilling has had the factory for about tea 11111111.11 k but daring that period he has bad ease egagioyed constantly In repairing, Lying, and Cyew machinery, and In a few days it would have a Ihr workhm and employing many morn hand,. it England 6e-ongises from Oldham arrived about Ike Alma. The females nevi/ twenty in number, left wet at the still at six o ' clo c k on Wedneafty evening, and a insottanfa, sassed James Knight, and another man, named Daniel Fletcher, were in the mill at work at half-past seven, at which time they left when all appeared tight. There was no watchman. The machinery belonging to Mr. Pilling consisted of one new roving and one drawing frame, together with the mewing of twenty-two carding engines ; the rest belonging to Mr. Burton, the owner of the premises, whose property, we underst a nd , is insured. The neWaboure ware much alarmed, owing to the gasometer being full of ass ; hut. fortunately, John Taylor, an engineer at the Middleton Old Hall cuiton mils,with providential forethought, proceeded at once to the gas sad allowed it to escape. Had this ant been done, there is no doubt but more serious injury would have occurred. No account eta be given how the fire originated. On the 25th of March, 1848, Mr. Pilling had a large cone* mill burst at Nat Bank, near Heywood, by which be sustained very heavy lota. He is • very industrious and respectable individual, much respected by his hands and neighbours. It is rather singular that a place like Middle. ton, with a population et about 12;000, and where there are Demirel cotton and silk mill, should be without a public fire engine. There formerly was ace, but It Is now in paws, owing to the ratepayer refusing to pay for the »pun. The machinery belonging to Mr. Burton was insured for 6,0001. in the West ofEngland dam at Manchester, but this will not, It is said, cover the amount adenine. The building was a very long bat narrow one, and was first erected sad formerly used far calico printing. It was insured, and was not so wall calculated for a cotton mill as the buildings that are now erected ; but it bad been put into excellent working order. having undergone considerable repairs. During the mulleins of Mr. Seberabe's workpeople to estloguish the Saner, and prevent them from destroying the engine, and also the building clef the gar works, two brothers, John and Ebert Fletcher, were severely injured; the latter had two ribs broken, and was otherwise - bruised by falling from a window—the elder brother (John) f ll from the roof of the newly (meted building at one end of the mill. There is no doubt bat that if there had been another fire elegise at the time Mr. Schwabe's arrived, a great portion both of the building and machinery would have been saved, as it was the sole means of saving the new building, the engine house, and the building over the gasworks.—Maw au. er Examiner. A SLaarina PARTNER.—A man named Welch, lately residing at Totem, in the employ of Mr. Fowler, railway contractor, has bean robbed of 1701. by an ingenious device. The thief, thinking Welch had money, and know ing in wt.at employ he had been, told him he bail taken a large railway contract, mid wanted a partner who could advance 2001. or 3001. Welch, before parting with any money, thought it advisable to me what the contract was, and tack away with him 170 sovereigns. On arriving at the ineei.ded spot they slept together twice, and on the second • morning Welch .memsdi his partner, and has not since heard of him. Welch happened to have a return tick-% and so returned home, but did not miss the money for three days. His wile then thinking he might have sprat too much moor, ' re quested him to count his money over, when, to the great surprise of both, the purse contained nothing bat halfpence and farthings, the sovereigns having been ex:hanged for the • baser cols. gbe Court. WINDSOR, Nov. 19. The Queen walked this morning in the Blopqs and Windsor Park. The royal family took their anal airings. His Royal Wishner Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.- Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel on. A. Gordon, went to London this morning at a quarter before eight o'clock, travel! ng by a special train on the Great Western Railway. Hie Royal Highness inspected the Exhibition of French Asti and Manufactures, in George-street, Hanover-square, and from thence proceeded to the New Palace at West minster. Its Royal Highness returned to Windsor Castle at awe The Duke of Wellington left the Cud* this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke sad Dachas of Ne mours paid • visit to the Queen and Prince Albert this morning, at Windsor Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and Sir Robert, Lady, and Kiss Peel, are expected at Windsor Csade this day, on a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert. The royal dinner party this evening included her Royal Highness the Ducker or Kent (attended by her 11)7,1 High ness's Lunge in Waitine),llte Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Miss Peel, and the Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Lehoucbere. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. - -- The following balletic of ha Majesty's health was issued yesterday : " The Priory, Nov. 19, 1949. " The Queen Diwager ha, passed a restless night. Her Majesty's strength has of late diminished. " Deno Devine, M.D. " RICHARD BILIGHT. M.D." His Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived at the 1 1 New Palate, at Westminster, at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charl•e Grey. and Lieutenant-Cebu , ' the Hon. Alexander Gordon. The Prince inspected the frescoes now finished, one by Mr. Molise and another by Mr. Cope, in the Hones of Peen. His Royal Highness then went to the upper waiting-room and inspected a freno Just fetched by Mr. Herbert. Mr Hudake was in attendance on his Royal Highness. The Prince left the New Palace at half past 12 elock. attended by Lieut.-Colonels the Hsn. C. Grey and Hon. A Gordon. Mr. R. W. Keats had en interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. Despatches from the Governor dale Cope of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-oast. De spatches were also received yesterday from the governors of the North American colonies. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonil•o®ee far the Govesnors of Hong Kong, Lotman, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Malta, and also for the Lord High Commissions', et the lonian Islands. THE El-ROYAL FAMILY or FRaleCE:=Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Resumes arrived at Claremont on Friday evening front Brasses to join the tangly circle surrounding the Count and Countess de Healy, at their mutat near Esher. EASTCOUILT, NEAR WOKINGHAL BERKO, th. beau tiful sett of Admiral Sir Jobs Simlair, But , has bore put, dialed by John Walter, Rm., M.P. for Nothieghem. The property fetch-d sourly 60,0001. SANITARY MEETING AT WHITECHAPELe—A pub l ic meeting was held last evening at the Whi•eoltapel Society's school, for the purpose of considering the propriety of form ing an menisci= for promoting habits toadies to the cleanliness, health, and comfort of the industrious classes of that district. The Rev. Mr. Cltempaeys, rector of the wish, was in the chair, and addressed the seating at some length on the necessity of making en effort to induce the adoption of those simple measures which were known to be preventive of disease, and the want of which rendered the poorer portico of the inhabitants a ready pray to cholera or any spilemic disease. The object of the association which it was proposed to form would be to stimulate landlords on the ens and, and aid tenants on the other, to keep clan and ventilate their dwellings, and to endea vour to em s= for them an ample jjo ly of water. This I= advantage seemed to be ("steely desired, as applause hollowed every alludes to It. Resolu tions wars premed hy the Rev. Mr. Grippe, incumbent of St. Faure, sad the Bev. W. H. Black, declaring in the drat instance din =ay of the causes of disease tided be removed b penandesery measures; and in the next, that an diced he formed, to be termed the Whits =spa Anniaden, for the purpose of promoting the adop den of /Weil moms., and with power to appoint an antleerised age= OD visit the domiciles of the poor, and make such angteedeme respecting their dwellings, de., as he might think. their nedition required. These opinions and Teacloth . = being ads pied. thinks wore voted to the reverend chairman, gad the =Wag =grated. FREEHOLD LAND @octants' MEETING AT LETO'S TBIL—The LeiceetersAire Mercury has the following pars greph :—Oar readers will be delighted to learn that the delegates from Leicester to the Freehold Land Societies' Cuiferenos at Birmingham, had an interview with Mr. Cobden, Bir Joshua Walouley, and Mr. George Thompson, on the subject at an early meeting at Leicester, in further ance of this impretent radical movement; and that all three gentleman promised to be present at such mestirg, provided cad= nodes were 4ivea them. This it was pr - raised shoe= he does; and we need scereely say that every are will be takes to fix s day that will not clash with say of their previous engagements. It is probable that the ee mting will he held in the course of sowaaath. SUICIDE AT THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY STA 'mi.—About four o'clock lest evening, Dr. J. Allen, R.N., entered the railway station, Waterloorced, and for some time stood on the platform, when as the half-pest four o'clock train was starting, be flung h imself under the engine, and was instantly crushed to death. His brother's death, which lately occurred, greatly affected him, and since then he had been moody and degrading. He had been recently appointed to the Bangalore transport ship. He had served in Criss and on the South American station, and was be loved by his brother officers and all who knew him. De ceased was a Scotch gentleman, his native place being It.• renege, and, he was only 34 years of age. MR. DICKENS'S LETTER. The folLwing letter appears in the colonial di nit mine contemporary: Sir,—When I wrote to you on Tuesday last I bad oil. tention of truu, ling you again; but as one of your arm spood.nts has to-day expressed a reasonable desire that I would explain myself more clearly, and as I hot e I trey di no injury ta the cause I would serve by stating any now upon at a ,tale more in detail, I shall be glad to do ss,ifyst will allow me the opportunity. My positions in reference to the demoralising Wand public executions are— First, that they chiefly attract as spectators the lowest,th must depraved, the moat abandoned of manaind; in Ida they inspire no whole...brae emotioix whatever. Sacuudlv, that the public infliction of a violent detail not a salutary •pectacle for any class of people ; but that is in the nature of things that on the - class by whom ui g aerally witnessed it should have a debasing and haulm* influence. On the first head I must appeal again to my owe espe deuce of the execution of last Tuesday morning ; to all 6 evidence that has ever been taken on the subject, nogg that r leeutions have been the favourite sight of consinii all descriptions; to the knowledge possessed by the wipe 'racy and police of the general character of such creeds; I the police repute that are sure to fellow their assemblers; to the unvarying description of them given in the sew genre; to the indisputable fact that no decent Wel willing that hie son—chat no decent maitrr a. wilbegtba his apprentices or servants—should mingle is them; teth indisputable fact that all society, its dregs excepted, rest from them as masses of abomination and brutality. (ibe there w. re not more robberies committed at this last eases lion was not the fault of the :mumbled thieve., whom eat ben on the ming in the Home Secretary may easily less from the Commissioners in Scotland-yard, but the merit d the polce, whose vigilance was beyond all praise.) On the second heed, after a paying allusion to the hullo Mg influence which familiarity even with 'neural death pre duces on coarse minds, I must again refer to my on experience. Nothiog would have been a greater coign to me—nothing would have so math relieved in my aid the unspeakable terrors of the scene es to have tut enabled to believe that any portion of the immense crowd that any grains of sand in the vast moral desert stietekhg away on every side—were moved to any sentiment• of felee repenta.me ' pity, or natural horror by what they SW sups the drop. It was impassible to look around and rest Mall such belief. With every consideration and respict fay" suggestion that the concourse may have been belying the as. null struggles by frantic exaggerations, I am conned that if you hod been there beside me, seeing what I sur f and hearing what I hand, you could the thought. Such a state of mind has its signs and taken equally with any other, and no such signs and tokens WO there. The mirth was not hysterical, the shoutiap aid fighting, were not the efforts of a strained excitement smk• tog to vent itself in any relief. The whole was unmistske ably callous end bad. As the ferocious woman who IV charged on the same dsy with threatening to murder oak in the midst of the multitude, proclaiming that she hi s knife about her, and would have her heart's blood, sad N hanged on the same gibbet with her namesake, Mrs. KU ning, whose death she had come to see—u she had her ed pes.ions excited to the utmost by the scene, so bad ill* crowd. I believe this was the whole and sole iff.ct of die they had come to see, and I hold that no human being. 0 being the better for such a sight, could go away withal being the worse for To prevent such frightful spectacles in a Christian null, and all the incalculable sails they engender, I would hew the last sentence of the law executed with conning" privacy within the prison walls. Before I state how, let fle strengthen this proposal with some words of Fielding re t$ subject, to whose profound knowledge of human network I know, will render full j ustice: " The execution should be in some degree private. AN here the poets will again assist as. Foreigners have fag fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in reprise i frequent murders upon the stage. In fact this w ed only cruel, hut highly injudicious : a murder behind dal scenes, if the poet knows how to mange it, wS affect the audience with greater terror than if is was acted before their aim. Of this we have an he stance in the murder of the Ring in " Macbeth." Tents bath, I believe, been carried higher by this single install than by all the blood which bath been spilt upon the IV To the poets I may add the priests, whose paiitics bare water been doubted. Those of Egypt in particular, when the sacred mysteries were first dewed, well knew the tie . hiding hoax the eyes of the vulgar what they liana' should inspire them with the greatest awe and dread. The mind of man is so much more capable of magnifying thee, his eye, that I question whether every object is not lean s by being lo,'ked upon, and this more especially when the passions are concerned; for those are ever apt to fancy shell, more satisfaction in those objects which they affect, hie much more of mischief in those which they abhor, than caw really to be found in either. If executions, therefore, rrer, ' so contrived that few could be present at them, they wee 4 be much more shocking and terrible to the crowd *adult doors than at present, as well as much more dreadful to hie criminals themselves." From the moment of a murderer being renteneed,! death, I would dismiss him to the dread obeccrity to whoa ' the wisest judge upon the bench consigned the murderer Rush. I would allow no curious visitors to bold any ore: muoication wiih him ; I would place every obstacle in 0 1 way of his sayings and doings being served up in print as Sunday mornings, for the perusal of families. His eve n; ' tion within the walls of the prison should be conducted with every terrible solemnity that careful considerati couN•he: I vise. Mr. Calcnift, the hangman (of whom I have some miee. nation in reference to this last occetion),should be strained in his unseemly briskness, in his jokes, his °sr!: r and his brandy. To attend the execution I would sum; a jury of 24, to be called the Witness Jury, ea t t summoned on a low qualification, eight on a bigg e r, r on a higher still; so that it might fairly releeleV'" t y s I classes of society. There should be present, likewish of . I governor of the gaol, the chaplain, the surgeon, and t officers, the sheriffs of the county or city, and two ineps,T. 1 of prisons . All these should sign a grave sad solemn New mann Of 00 seek gem anti bang -{,~