cloth some two feet high was placed round the edge of the there was a yell of impotent rage because a portion of the sight � the lowering of the dead bodies in their � would be thereby lost to them they cheered the when he came out to the ropes as the herald of their coming treat they grew impatient last occasion of a moral lesson in the old a live rat was let loose and ran about the people s heads unable to find any opening for its descent op london life as the clock grew near the stroke of eight and some called time i am afraid an idea crossed my mind that if all the people there present except those at the windows could be put out of tlie way like those whose last agonies they had come to see it would be no great loss it is not eight but it is very near a little dog in danger of being trodden to death is rescued by the police amid approbation and placed safety upon the block � where the rest their burdens � at the top of the street that is a good sign perhaps it is better to pity dogs than st s bell begins to toll although the inarticulate roar of voices almost its solemn boom and there is a sharp and sudden cry of hats off and the carpet shows like a white sheet instantly where the are in street the and like the waves of a summer sea and where the are they are only by their living burdens there is a dreadful of officials lights and shadows at the prison door and five men are brought forth one after another to be let us turn our backs upon that scene my friends if you please and look rather upon the forty thousand eager faces receiving their moral lesson they are not so impressed that they are silent � no not for one instant but their roar has a certain satisfaction in it like that of a cat over its prey then a hiss breaks forth and here and there the word cur is heard that is because one of the wretched victims has fainted and must needs be seated in a chair and then there is a tempest of applause because the fifth man goes to his doom with as an air as his arms will permit the priest is speaking the last few words that these wretches shall hear from mortal tongue they are kissing through those terrible caps the he holds in his hand and in a few seconds they will have crossed the threshold of life and entered upon the mysteries of eternity surely if the moral lesson is to give any visible sign of or london life its working it must be now it gives no sign whatever the never ceases there is no hush no reverence no fear only after a certain dreadful grinding noise � which is the fall of the a flood of uproar suddenly bursts forth which must have been pent up before this the truth is is the voice of the curious the fast the vicious spell bound for a little by the awful spectacle while the ceaseless though lesser din arose from the professional the thieves in ease the in who are impressed by nothing save by the touch of the fatal slip knot under their own right ears singularly enough the crowd increased after the execution persons of delicate temperament joining it i suppose who had not nerves enough for a hanging out who knew how to appreciate a cutting down the present writer has never been in favour of the of capital because notwithstanding nature s purity he thinks they greatly add to his security lights and shadows of london life and in the second place because his sympathies are contrary he knows to what is usual rather with the murdered persons than with the people who kill them nothing that he beheld on the morning of the nd of february has shaken that opinion which is entertained even more strongly by those of his companions who went out upon the and beheld face to face the class for whom seed grows but with respect to the of the moral lesson this home correspondent believes it to be bad and that it should be forthwith the end london printed by and house t street messrs and s list of new works the life of from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of joseph esq f s a francis esq esq m a f r s miss and other original with an sketch of the art of in england by by permission to the right hon w e complete in vo with portraits and other illustrations bound price s this is the life of to the expected appearance of which i referred at � extract from a letter to the author by the right hon w e this very beautiful book contains that life of which for the last fifteen years miss has had in view and to which the family and all who have papers valuable in relation to its subject have been cordially in his admirable sketch of given at it was to the publication of this biography that mr looked forward with pleasure it is a very accurate and valuable book to give their fullest value to the of works of art which largely the volumes the biography has been made by its a choice specimen of their own art as neither care nor cost have been � the appearance of such a work as miss s life of is an event of importance in the sister of literature and art the of our great has more than ordinary fitness for the fulfilment of her labour of love she is an enthusiastic admirer and a practised of art and she brings the 