The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-08 00:00:00

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.

Caroline Sherwood, the young woman who was
sentenced to be executed at Lewes, has been re-
prieved. Two memorials were forwarded to the Home
Secretary a few days ago, and on Thursday let the follow-
ing reply was received: Whitehall, August 3, 1831—
Sir,—lriseount Palmenton having carefully considered
your application in behalf of Caroline Sherwood, I have the
satisfaction to acquaint you that under all the circumstances

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he has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to commute
the prisoner's sentence into transportation for life.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant, H. WADDINOTON.—John T.
Auckland, Esq., solicitor, Lewis."
A similar commutation of punishment has also taken
place in the case of Jane Chenworth, convicted at the recent
assizes at Hodgkin of drowning a child entrusted to her by
its mother, under pretence of having *maims in leave it
for a short time to make some purchases, but with the in-
tention, as subsequent events proved, of deserting it. The
circumstances attending the combat= of the offence were
very peculiar, and the advisers of the strewn felt justified in
giving effect to the recommendation of the jury in the pri-

senor'. favour.
Ann Marshall, who with two other penons wu convicted
at the last High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh of throw-
lag a sea out of the window of a brothel, whereby he was
I killed on the spot, has also been reprieved by her Majeaty,
but the law has been left to take its course upon her mon-
plias, Hans Smith Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood.

LATIN

IN ENGLAND.

TO TIM EDITOR OF TEI
8114-11 the silly habit of writing inscriptions in
Latin rather than in our good English tongue is still to be
maintained, at any rate let care be taken that the Latin be
Latin. The authorities connected with the Benevolent C el-
lege, in the inscription read at the recent laying of the first
atone, should not hays put forward Censors Regime,
as " the Queen's consort." The word canneries de-
notes in plain prose coheirs who hold an inheritance
in common ; and as these are for the most part brothers
and sisten, the word came into use among the poets as an
equivalent for brothels et sisters. It was also used with
mine looseness for the possessors of anything in common.
Thus " eonsortes tori," or " thalami," possessors of a com-
mon couch or chamber, in poetical phraseology, may be an
expression for those united in wedlock. Ov. Met. 1., 919,
X., 246. When the same writer, VI., 94, says "cum
mogul consorts Jovis," the allusion is to Juno as the sister,
not the wife of Jupiter. Thus Comore Regina*, at best,
can only be a poetical expression; end even this would have
the offensive signification that her Majesty has two hus-
bands, or else would imply t►at the Prince is her brother.
The inscription, in tact, from first to last; is highly dis-
creditable to the scholarship of the writer, and it was very
clear th►t the gentleman who supplied the quasi-translation
which followed it found himself wholly unable to cope
with the difficulties before him, for at least one-half of
what he favoured us with has nothing to represent it in the
Latin original.
Perhaps, however, after all, we may congratulate our-
selves, as dog. Latin may be only a transitional state be-
tween classical inscriptions and inscriptions in plain
English.—Yours, &a, CLAUDIUS.
[The above is written by one of the best Latin whole's of
the day. It is, doubtless, absurdity of Englishmen to neglect
their own language, and resort to Latin for the purpose of
inscriptions. It is only 'nether phase of the wretched
taste which causes us to clothe our heroes in Roman togas,
or take all clothing away from them, when we represent
them in statuary. Meantime it may be remarked that
although cowers may not be Cicereniaa Latin for husband
or wife, it is constantly used in that sense by writers in the
middle ages. In Du Conga 's ° Glossarial,' Median et Jn-
Asia Latinilatis"—which has been cleverly rendered a
glossary of middling and infamous Litiaity—we have Cen-
sors. Conies* Crory

KEYIIAM YARD.—Ordere have been remeived to
supply furniture from the Moro in the Dock-yard for the
onion and that establishment. The works will be formally
opened on the lit October next.