The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-05 00:00:00

0.36

0.62 1 101

0.52 0.69 I 268
0.64 0.77 308

Now, if the Juries had convicted in the same proportio
during the 28 years ending with 1837, as they have done
in 1838, which, in all probability, would have been the
case had these offences not been thus capital, the conse-
quences would have been thus :—About 210 more persons
would hare been convicted of wilful burning ; about 520
more for attempts to murder, cutting, and maiming ; about
1,203 more for robbery ; and about 1,800 more for
burglary.* •
Thus every execution for wilful burning appears to have
led to two acquittals; every execution for attempts to
murder, cutting, and maiming, tofive acquittals ; and every
execution for burglary to nearly four acquittals.
The following table will show that a diminution of corn.
mitments follows a diminution of capital punishments
ROBBERY.
!_ta 1829 committed 299 ... ... executed 12
i";:z. 1830 ... •• • •• • 301 "' •• •
-1 83 537 ••• •• •
1832 382 ... •••
1833 394 • • •
Total for five years 1,913

... ... ... 36

• —__ _
1834 ... committed 341 ... ... executed 1.
1535 ... ... ... 378 ... ... ... ... 0
1836 ... ... ... 334 ... ... ... ... 4
1837 ... ... ... 290 ... ... ... ... 0
less .., ••• ... 291 ... ••• ••• ... 0

Total for five years, 1,634
ATTEMPTS TO MURDER., CUTTING, MAIMING, &C.
Four years ending 1834 committed 520 executed 14
Four years ending 1838 ... 508 ... 4
RAPE.
Four years ending 1834 committed 222 executed 16
Four years ending 1838 ... 223 1

ARSON AND OTHER WILFUL RURNINB.
1830
1831
1832

Total for three years 258 , . 3B

833 committed 64 , executed 9
834 6B 8
835 76 , . 7

Total for three years 208 e• 24

1836 committed 7°
1837 ..
1838 ..

executed 2

44

Total for three years 15S
BURGLARY AND HOUSEBREAKING.
Six years ending with 1832 committed 5,199 executed 5t
Six years ending with 1833 ... 4,621 ... 3
The latter crime stiows a diminution of about 100 per
4nt um since the punishment was altered, and this is ren-
dered still more remarkable, because there has been a
gradual and great increase of population within the last 10
years in England and Wales.
This calculation is made in a very simple manner, by
multiplying the number of hundreds committed before the
alteration of the law, by the increase in the centesimal propor-
tionof persons convicted since that alteration. Thus, the
number committed for burglary in the 2S years befor the alte-
ratio .
t ain the law was 9,084, and the increase in the proper-
r,4. number convicted since that alteration is 13 per cent.
beuttiply 90, the number of hundreds, by 13, the amount will
1.170, and, by adding the broken hundred, the whole will
be about 1,180.

REMAINS AT DURHAM.--A curious disco-
very was made last week in the Old Tower, or Keep, of
Durham Castle, which is about to be restored for the pur-
Poses of the University. Amongst the rubbish in two
rooms of the lower story or Crypt, several bones of a
whale have been dug out, consisting, as far, as yet found,
of about 15 vertebra• and ')0 ribs in one room—and on the
Opposite side of the Tower, in another room, the lower
jaw bones are laid bare. Probably the cranium and the
other bones are still to be excavated. From a letter writ-
ten by Bishop Cosin to his steward, Mr. Miles Stapylton,
dated in London, 20th June, 1661, in the possession of the
Rey. James Raine, of Durham, the particulars of this dis-
covery are clearly made out, as it there appears that this
animal being cast on shore near Easington, the Bishop or-
tlered the skeleton to be prepared, and placed in the Old
Toarer, where it is now found. From the form of the jasys,
as they at present are enclosed, the species is conjectured
to be the Great Spermaceti Whale, which has seldom been
')bserved on the British shores, only one, taken in the
Frith of Forth, in 1769, being distinctly recorded.—
n e Mercury.

A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE FOR NEW-
CASTLE.—The Council having decided that a stipendiary
Magistrate shall be appointed for Newcastle, will proceed,
•at their next meeting, on Wednesday first, the 3d of July,
to consider by whom this important office shall be filled,
and what stipend shall be attached to it. On principle
we approve decidedly of a stipendiary Magistrate ; the
duties of such a person in a town like Newcastle, daily in-
creasing in population, in commerce, and in consequence,
will require not on.y great application, but unquestionable
talent, and we think experience also. The Corporation,
therefore, we trust, if they proceed to the appointment on
Wednesday, or whenever they may make it, will
choose a
gentleman w!io, from his ability, his disposition, his sound
sense. his temper, and his impartiality, is eminently fit for
the of ice, and will command the respect of the inhabitants.
—Tyne Mercury.
GENOA.—A new and extraordinary exhibition
has taken glace here, at the theatre Gagedetti.
The
principal pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Institution repre-
sented Monti's tragedy, Aristodemo, with the greatest suc-
cess 1 When will wonders cease? The representation
was for the benefit of the poor.--Foreign Quarter y
Review.
Wm. M'Elrov, his wife, and daughter, were
drowned at LowThbrickland, on Monday, the father and
mother in striving to save the chill—Limerick Chronicle.
The showers during the past week have retarded
the hay-making, but in no instance in this neighbourhood
have they been enough to spoil any ; that which had
been cut some time, was stacked on Tuesday and yester-
day in good order ; and the shoot of the young clover is
extraordinary, promising, at present, that the second crop
will quite make up the deficiency of the first. The
wheat continues to improve, where it was not injured by
the high winds we noticed last week, and we believe
that there was not a great deal forward enough to be
injured by it. The barley and oats arc improving very
much since the rain ; and we hear the turnips are
growing very fast, and tolerably free from the fly. The
pastures are very much improved ; and the beasts in the
marshes are doing well, though beef comes very short to
market.—Brighton Gazette.