The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-22 00:00:00

MURDER.

A ;.'2yI'FIER AND MOTHER C,HAROBD WITH
I'C!SONING THEIR DA LIGHTE/1.
• (F, om the Stochport Advertiser.)
In our last we alluded to a contemplated exhumation of the
body of a female, aged 17, named Elizabeth Standring, which
was to have taken place that day at the New Burial Ground
of the Parish Church, for the purpose of undergoing post-
mortem examination, It appeared that the deceased was the
eldest daughter of Robert a;-?d Martha Sfindring, then living
in the Bird-In!hand Ei.try. ,:bout six weeks ago, On the
Thuriday, the girl was seized wit:: a violent vomiting, which
continued throughout the day, terminai.;ng with her death, in
the course of the same afternoon. The in.`sabitants in the im-
mediate vicinity having 'learned the other day that the father
of the girl had arsenic in the house, about the time of her
death, became dissatisfied, and they expressed tht.‘r suspicions
as to the real cause of the young woman's death. These ru-
mours appeared so rife and spread so quickly, that the father
deemed it 'prudent, for some cause, to remove his family into
Lancashire, Whither they arrived about three
.weeks ago,
still following his work as a batter. The effect of this was
to increase the flame of suspicion in the neighbourhood, and
at length some tangible report of the matter, in which
the purchase of arsenic •by Standriog, formed a chief
feature, having reached the cars cf the Constables un-
der the Court Lect, they waited upon Mr. Saddler, the
Superintendent of Police, at his office, on Tuesday night
week, and stated to him the rumours which had gained cur-
rency, founded on the statement of, a boy named Royle, who
. had overheard a conversation bet Ween James Byrom, (at the
.time of the oeetirrence in Standring's employ), and his ;po-
tter, imputing by inference an unfair participation on the part
of the parents in 'the Premature death of their daughter Eliza-
beth. The boy; moreocs,r' stated to anoiher lad that she bad
been absolutely poiscined. Means were, however, used to bring
forward the boy Royle; and he v7as speedily sent for, and fulls,
interrogated, the result.of which was Teemed of such import-
ance that hia mother, Mrs. Whitehead, Woo also brought down.
She also underwent a long inquiry as to ;ter conversation with
Byron), and other circumstances connected w.,;th the deceased,
who, when suffering, immediately before her de,,!h, said that
her fater had`given her something that morning ;treacle.
Mrs. W. alluded, in particular, to the violent thirst and vomit-
ing; and, tilthrnigh the matter had ben eliiCharged by a Co-
roner's Jury, Mr. Sadler felt it to be his duty to lay the,liar-
ticularvirefore Town-Cle'rk Intbe course of the suc-
,soi
tweding: day, a ;Tartlet examination of Other Witneises took
,place, and, P. E. Marsland, Esq , having read' them over,
issued his warrant-for the exhuniation of the body 'of Elizabiith
Standring„ in order. that a post-raortem examination might
take place io discorur,villether 'poison had. real/y•been•the
(ease of
'Thedisititerment of the, body having been fixed for three on
Thirriday afternoon, several medical gentlemen attendee to
assist in the inspection. At six o'clock the same evening the
analyzation' of the contents of 'the stomach took, place, and a
considerable portion of .arsehie 'fiavine.' been discovered, the
,Nlaeistrate's , Warrant , for. -the 'iipprelension of Robert and
Mu the Standrinv (the parents af-The deCeased) waiinstantly
out, and- Mr. Sadler; accompanied by James' Byron),
were dtapptched to -Oldham for. the apprehension of the' 0.-
et,e,i whither they were supposed to have fled. The super-
•intendei,t F9yglit roc theliaetles in vain at Oldham. He then
vr,,,rit' to Rochdale with no better success; but, having ob-
tained a cluo, i.c w,tiebadt again. to Oldham, and, fortunately,
just before crieontinuing an inquiry, which threatened to be
in ‘ain,,ByrOm Went up a dirty passage into a yard, at, the end
.of•which there were some low dismal looking houses; and weds
proceeding weal! at one of them. when he saw Mrs. Standring'
near the door. Mr. Sadler and he then entered, when they
observed Standring sitting plea chair.. He first appeared eon-
leundi d. at the uncap' teed visit ;. but soon recovered himself,
and spoke with the utmost composure. The wife, on the
contrary, was from the first dejected, and betrayed symptoms
of tuisgitilqt,-s. The prisorers were then ironed ; and brought
eer to Stocknert the s ime evening, and placed in the New
Bailey. •
Oa the following afternoon (Saturday) Standring and his
wife, it was andtriitood, were to be examined at the Police
Court, at.thrueo'clock. on the charge of murdte, and the sub-
jeet haaing caused very great excitement,. a large 'influx cif
perseni at:ended ; 'but, in consequence of the length -of the'
depositions to be taken, they were not completed before about'
four o'clock, at which hour the prisoners were brought into
Court, and the inquiry commenced. The 'husband only was
placed in the dock, the ToWn-clerk giving it as his opinion
that at pre sent there wa not anything to criminate the wife,
who was allowed to sit so near the table as to be able to hew
the evidence given.
Standring sore the blue apron in which he usually followed
his employ ment, and looked somewhat indiffeient as to what
was gciing forward. The wile, with a small child in' her
arms; appeared excea dinghy pale and low in spirits. -
Sir Salisbury Davenport, K C. H., P. E. Marsland; and '
Jonathan Thornhlli, Esqs , having taken their seats, the
Town clerk read the v arrant of apprehension to the pri-
soner,, ehargin2; them with having on the 2d of August fe-
loniously administered trio drachms of arsenic to Elizabeth
Standring, their (laughter, whereby her death bad been ,
caused.
A.:trr a mass of inculpatory evidence had teen given the
Magis,ra•es committed tile prisoner, in order that he might be
tried at the Chester Ass'zts. His wife was remanded till
Monday, on which day, there being no evidence against her,
her own bail in 50/. was taken to appear when called upon to
al:slyer this charge of murder.

On Thursday last a lad was proceeding with a don- -
key and c-irt along the road from North %Vtogfield to Clay-
crozs., and being oveiladen, was unable to asend a hill near
to Wingfield. A waggoncr comilig by at the time with a team,
kindly undertook to assist the poor 111 treated animal with
o; le of his horses ; as be was aAjusting, the chain for the
purpose the hook caught his hand, and the horse at the
moment began to draw, and could not be stopped till he
had forced the hook completely through the poor fellow's
hsnd, which immediately bTan bleeding so profusely, that,
LiAting from the loss of Wool, he exclaimed, " Oh, I an
bleeding to death !" Fortunately', Mr. Brown, surgeon (a
getitleman whose skill and humane conduct hays made him
very popular in the neighbourhood), happened to come up,
when he immediately slot ped the bleeing. and dressed tb e
would. Had it tot been for his tin e'y assisAnce, the. con-
sequence to the sufftr:r must have been t ery serious.—
rhy Reporter. _ _ _

o,t l'ilurserty last, about half-Past four o'clock, as
John Foster, coachman to Mrs. Laws, of,Braywielt,
Maidenhead, wrs 'hiving a gig down the town, when nearlyd
opposite the Lion lan, the horse started and ran acp,e6p,d
cow, which, in a roost extraordinary manrer, compleedrealym
most
UP-
set the gig, throwi :g out the driver, who received
and the
dreadful wound en the head.
,The gig then righted,
It was at
horse started wish it in a most fearful manner. It near
mischief:
I.tigth fortunately stopped without doing
by Mr. Clark,
close at hand,
the landlord of the Lion,, to a friend's
woe.
The coachman was rark.fully raised, and earned by
where he now lies in a most precarieus,s
Au inquest was he'd yesbteodrdaoyf
y Hannah Putt, aged
St. Gt orge's- in-the - East, in Church-road,
1 h until within the last two
age, in the cujoyment of
the
h
I mother of twenty-two children.
months. She had beens,bn
getting her breakfast, she was ob-
-76. - The deceased had been. on
_ .hnotwithstandinga t
°a
T"esdav
marainT fender, and was taken .up insensible, her
served to fall on the :11.
She lingered till the evening, when
nf who attended the deceased, said that he
- died from some rupture of a blood-vessel. believed she
~
Ver-
dict—" N Natural death."
eyel died.
cuAt
PIiEJUDIcEs AGA! NST Til S. 1 LOTT EN TOTS
inie:Oilig to remain there ev
A miS,ionary told me that he h el haltd at a farm-house en a
simnrtgeo ,
er Sur,d :y, so as not
to he on -the road on the -d .y of r,,st. • On the Sabbath morn-
ing he proposed t-ythe farmer to assemble the people and hold
service, which he assented to, and called h's :vire and children.
Saturday,
" Where are the ll.otentots ?'' asked the z•ndeling. " The
li•Atentots l" cried the farm .r, " von would nnt have them
with us also? We ate thi in the flit•le that the sheep are to
be separated from the goats, and I c,,,1,,,q therefore admit the
fluttentots." " `'ray well," said the missionary, "asl am
ant to teach all mankiacl the way of salv.tion, I cannot con-
sent to hold worildp unless white and black both join in it."...
Sic James AlexcL:det's Expedition qf Di.tcovery into 4frica.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

A small tract, entitled " The Political Aspect end
Statis•ical Account of Popery, by the Editor of the Church
of England Quarterly Re%iew," has recently boen trans-
mitted to us by the publisher, with the liavv, we presume,
of obtsining our humble opinion of it. The perio.licsl,
-which the respectable writer superintends, occups74l-
important place am mg Church publications, Is conducted
both with spirit and judgment. Oftener than once we
Lave had occasion to speak of its earlier numbers with rip-
Trobation ; and although our notices were necessarily con-
fined to such of its discussions as harmonize wore immedi-
ately with our own labours, its superiority on other topics
is, we think, of a still higher grade, especially on theology,
cclesiastical antiquities, end general criticism, in all of
'which departments it. has presented articles that force it
into stAvai.tageons csmparison with the oldest anal ablest el
us ...ompetitors. Nor has our original estimate of its in; ri!s
Is"en otherwise than ratified and raised by each of its sus-
cessive appearances. With respect to the present pamphl,t,
notwithstanding the haste and heat with which it hag
evidently been written, it exhibits within the compass
of sixteen small pages a sketch of all the legislative conces-
sions that have been made to the Papists from 177 S down-
wards—shows, that instead of producing tranquillity in
Ireland, these eancePssons have only occationed an increase
of insolent demao•',s, and an almost universal infraction of
existing laws- -quotes Lord Grey's memorable ackncw-
ledgment, t'uat the effects of the Emancipation Act had
utterly t'ssappointed him—subjoins a tabular detail of the
compe rative state of crime in Ireland under Tory and Whig
Adrainistrations—proves that in 1830 the committals this
drsr a Conservative Government were only 15,749, whereas
in 1837, a period of Alulgrave tranquillity, they amounted
to '27,396—exposes the machinations of O'Connell and the
Priests, not only for the entire subversion of Pratestaini-m
in their own country, but for this extension of the l'o-
pish superstition on this side of the Channel, and winds
up all with a stirring apreul to the Church of England to
maintain hes ground and resist the incursion; of the ad
•ersary. Ot cuur:se, drugged as we daily are with the cvi
'knees of Ptivish rapacity and bad faith, it is not to
he expectsA that the preceding topics can present to
ouir ere any very novel charms, or afford much room
for qsriginality in the mode of treating them. But, to
Protestant and patriotic readers less familiar with such
'matters than ourselves, they cannot fail to be deeply in-
teresting both in a religious and in a political point of view.
The pamphlet; we own, might have been more to our taste
than it actually is. With greater precision and consecu-
tiveness, and with somewhat of less declamatory invective,
it would have commanded a heartiness of assent which in
its present form it may probably fail to obtain, but which
it really does not deserve to como short of, Its usefulness,
too, may peshaps be injured by one or two statements
about " kietermined Jesuits," the " destinies of empires,"
and the power of the Radical " Press," which appear to
be extravagant, if not unintelligible. The worthy writer's
generous and well-founded enthusiasm has hurried him
into a warmth of expression which, amidst the rapidity of
his transitions, the unexcited reader is not always prepared
for. Notwithstanding these abatements, however, the tract
has many redeeming points. It is written in a truly
British spirit—ardent, frank, honest, and fearless. The
following facts are per:laps not generally known. At the
formation of the " Roman Catholic Institute of Great
Britain," which took place in London last February, the
subjoined resolutions, moved by Mr. O'Connell, were una-
nimously adopted
" 1. The creation of a fund by means of small contribu-
tions, collected generally from the (Roman) Catholics of
Great Britain.

" 2. The fund to be applied, by the management, and un-
der the direction and complete control of the said Prelates, to
the erection of Chapels, wherever they may judge such edifices
to be necessary.
" 3. The fund to be 'used also in printing and cirenlating
throughout the country, in a cheap form, ( Roman) Catholic
publications of P.. 1 approved and authorized character.
". 4. In f;rming local societies for the purpose of dist' i-
buttng sn,all tracts, and of lending religious books to all per-
sons.w'do may feel a desire to become acquainted with ( Ro-
mar ) Catholic doctrines.
"5. In encountering, expeditiously, through the medium
of the political press, hostile attacks of every description, from
whatever quarter they may emanate.
14 6. In securing to (Roman) Catholic sailors, soldiers,
prisoners, invalids in hospitals, and to the poor in the work-
houses, the religious right to which they are by law entitled,
and the consolations which they can derive from well-selected
books.

" 7. In establi:.saing, if the (Roman) Catholic Prelates
should deem it expedient, provision for (Roman) Catholic
lectures, to be delivered in the Metropolis, by Clergymen ex-
pressly appointed for that purpose.
" 8. In affording all possible aid to the (Roman) Catholic
charity schools throughout the country."
Viere we have a new college " De propaganda," ori-
ginated at our very doors, on behalf of which we should
la ot be at all surprised to see a grant of money issuing from
her Majesty's Treasury. The Popish Bishops of Ireland
have lately applied for an additional endowment towards
supplying an alleged deficiency in their means of eccle-
siastical education. Will the Whigs appoint a Commis-
sion to inquire into the reality and extent of that defi-
ciency, as they did in the case of the Church of Scotland ?
Will the Scotch Seceders and Independents petition
against it, or instruct Dr. Wardlaw to oppose it, when he
comes to town to deliver his promised lectures condem-
natory of Government grants in favour of religion ? Will
the United Burghers send Mr. Adam Thomson on an-
other of his fav ourite trips, to deprecate that State-encou-
ragement iss-the case of Papists which they have striven to
withhold from their own Protestant Establishment? Come,
Reverend Sirs, no wincing here ! You shall drink the cup
of gall which yourselves have mingled. Despatch your
petitions and deputations immediately, or prepare to be
universally scorned for your hypocritical rottenness and
infamy. A perusal of the pamphlet before us would do
these people a world of good. We need scarcely add,
that we cordially recommend it to general attention.

In the concluding part of Mr. O'Connell's third letter
to the people of Ireland, which we this day publish, the
part more immediate!), interesting to Englishmen is the
strong advice which he gives to his countrymen to avoid,
for the present, all connection with the English Radicals
now agitating for Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, An-
nual Parliaments, no Property Qualification, and Payment
of Members. Mr. O'Conncll will be allowed, even by his
enemies, to be a man of great quickness in reading the
signs of the times. Our readers may be assured that he
would not cast off the English Radicals if he thought the
objects which he has at heart would be promoted by an
alliance with them. But he sees distinctly that the al-
liance of the Engii,h Radicals would be a sourc.i of weak.
tiess End not of s• rr neah to the Irish, and he assigns
his reasons for having arrived at that conclusion.
Mr. O'Coon-11 has not been slow to perceive
that, whatever the improvement in the working classes of
late years may have been (and we are far from denying any
improvement), the conceit of most of those who take upon
themselves the character of leaders of their classes is the
most marked feature in their character. He says the
English Radicals have no fixed plan, and have no skilful or
well-trained leaders, men in whom the Irish could have any
confidence ; and, alluling to Oasller anti his associates
(the only persons who seem to have any weight with the
universal suffrage men), he says, " Oastler and his men we
wi I have nothing to do with, nor shall we ever combine
kith those who talk of arming end of using physical force,
or of sheddin; human blood." He speaks with kindness of
Mr. Alticood of Birmingham, but does not think Lim a
safe political guide. It were easy to discover in the cir-
cum tances of this country sufficient reasons for the
failure of all the plans of the British Radicals. No change
was ever effected in the institutions of any country
by the mere maws. Whoa changes are called for,
the in tinct of persons possessed of property (and
the
,presumption is that intelligence is on the side of
property) leads them to place themselves at the head of
the movement to direst it to a safe eed. The Reform
Bill wag carried, and only carried, because the persons of
property rallied round the Reform Ministry, The English
Radicals are not aware that mere numbers, without the
count trance of men of property and intelligence, ere a
mer.: rape of sand. As Mr. O'Connell says, "they meet
in large masses one day, and the next they dissolve into
individual weakness." Insteed of endeavouring to per-
suade the influential classes that ao extensien of the
suffrage might be sanely conecded, the weak and con-
ceited men who figure as their leaders, seem to wish to
drive from them by their conduct and language all who
any claim to respectability. Ileece, most persons
will (Link that Mr. O'Connell has good reivon for being
"dts=atisficcl with the temper in which the
English Radicals have c,:nri octc,l their own cause, end also
with the manner in;t
-1 e h they Lave managed that cause,
injaring s e 1 of serving
thei qacetion of peace-
and increasin7
Mr. O'Connt-11 think;
and strongaletjog
t.s,tring nor numerous when
the Eng!ish Radic.:ltsbenireit''n ter
and be'icvcs that many of
ccmpared with their ePron'-'n
t.,,n
of, the Tories. In-
them are actin under the stigg'
,u
O'Connor recog-
deed Mr. Oaatler, whom Mr.
tiied as or.e of their comn:itt goodnote-
-I.l..tub4ilni(a:v:afn'eotv
cats came
;:e'gsina; tYith threats
a" of blond-
d cdu:stion.
shed, and seeks o off men 0; priopr?"_
The fir n.reatirnoniber of
by way of (is"
the working c—bses keep aloof
from those who easel. to call themselves,
tinctioe, the working elas.ses. The system of the aii,tl_.t r.s
is to Gprate a delosion as to their number. The , p
yard meeting was a failure in every other retpect than dint
of opering the eyes of reflectiee men to tke desiges of tie
leadera of the agitation. The numbers assembled were
really nothing in a metropolis of two millions, Not-

withstanding the poreiree.3 statements of Messrs.
Flaser and Pe!lean, at Polace-yard, of the num-
bers is Mcoiland (and, to hear them, one vveuFl. sul;poSe
that all the Se( tchmen horn the vita-+..0; ting Fergus to the
present day, had risen fr`r.', their graves to swell the ranks
of the Sentla adicals) the Scotsman of Welnest;aov last
telf3 %,;5 that the mission last autumn, hy Messrs.
Attwood, Muntz, and nthee,r; propagate the doctrines of
the sect, proved tiThiplete failure :
" Whq!i2Ver success," says the Scotsman, " might else-
wtere attend the labours of these apostles of the new faith,
their reception here was a complete failure. They profess to
appeal to the knowledge of the working classes; and as those
of Edinburgh are confessedly among the most intelligent in
the kingdom, they no doubt entertained hopes of achieving
something great here, and these hopes must have been strength-
ened by the vapentino Statements or m, sirs. Fraser and
Duncan, and probably by their priVate communications.
fellure in LiinLttrgh toitttt, therefore, hay._• been double incr.
tifying, and hat, Wt suspect, gone pretty far to tn.tre NI S3l S.
A ttwnotl, Mon' z, and Co., of their tiAlsslonary zeal."
Our northern ContPeapl-itry adds that not one man of
the smallest er,l'priy, station, tale: t, or weight of character
countenrnced them ; that Messrs. Ayton, Tait, Jamieson,
Icept aloof from all comninniewiln with them. As to
the qualifications of the men who have been selected as
delegates from Scotland, sem, Mort rnav be formed from a
fetter from Mr. Duncan pul,lish-d verbatim ct literatim in
the Scotsman (which our readers ,ill find in anoiher
column). Yet this man Duncan is to enlighten the country
by the estab:ishment of a newspaper to be conducted by
himself and Mr. Fraser. We trust we shall never be
found discouraging any plans for the improvement of the
great mass of the people, or abetting any attempts to pre-
vent talent and virtue in any rank or condition from ham tog
its due influenco ; but we must distinguish between real
merit and the impudent pretensions to dictation put forth
by penons who have no other claim to be leaders of the
people than the presumption derived from their not being

aware of their own deplorable ignorance.—Morn. Chronicle.
Our readers will see by our report of the trials at the
Old Bailey this day that the unfortunate young men,
Webber and Young—who were sn foolish as to allow them-

selves to be drawn in to assist at the fatal and disgraeef

duel at Wimbledon—have been found guilty qf the wilful
murder qf Alir. Mitfin. This is a sad situation, for young
men particularly, to bring themselves into, by their impru-
dently associating with tavern-hunting and shooting-gallery
practitioners. They have, we regret to say, brought them-
selves into the situation of convicted felons—they have for-
feited all claim to property and civil rights, and might, if
the law remained in the unmitigated ferocity which charac-
terised it until lately, have been exposed to an ignominious
death on the gallows ; but we thank God that such extreme
severity cannot now reach their offence, although it is
one of a very grave nature ; nevertheless their punish-
ment will be severe, we understand, as the dignity of
the laws which protect human life must be vindicated.
We deeply pity these misled young men, and still more
their families, who must feel the most poignant anguish
et the very distressing circumstances in which they are now
placed ; for they, though of what is called respectable con-
nections and tolerable means, cannot claim, nor will they
be allowed, any indulgence different from the most common
incarcerated convict ; and it would be considered injustice
to the latter if it were othenvise. Yet there were lately
coxcombs in the world, who would try to persuade the
public that affairs of this kind were honourable, they were
indeed called " affairs of honour." Alas ! what a profana-
tion of that high moral principle. We think, after this
exposure and condemnation, that it will be difficult to get
any agent foolish enough to attempt a defence of such prac-
tices, which, in fact, have been of late years confined,
with, perhaps, one or two exceptions, to black legs,
drunkards, and libertines of various descriptions, but
mostly vulgar, underbred men—mere bragadocios, without
education, manners, or discretion, a sort of mock gentle-
men, a species of swaggerers, who, as Swift says,
often go fine and brave only to play the knave. These
sort of folks will now have to calculate upon the chances
of being placed amongst the poorer felons upon a chain
gang, or road party, as a wind-up to their aspirations after
the honourable distinction of having " shot their man" in a
duello. All this species of the mock-fashionable practice
alluded to will now, no doubt, be looked after with consi-
derable vigilance by the police and the magistracy. If
the thing were connected with manly courage in any way,
even that would not be an excuse for breaking through the
laws of the country ; but such is far from being the case.
The bravest officers in the British service have been most
remarkable for never having put their own lives or those of
others in jeopardy by their private brawls. We may re-
turn to this subject again, but at present we must close by
expressing our commiseration for the unhappy young
men who are the victims of parties with whom they never
should have formed an intimacy.—Morning Herald.
Out of evil sometimes cometh good. We have reason
to hope that the execution, some ten or twelve days since,
of the unfortunate man named Maslyn, will prove a case
in which the remark will be verified. The Devizes Ga-
zette, the local paper of the place in which the appalling
drama was enacted, states, that on the day of the execution
upwards of 1,000 persons who had come in from the vici-
nity to witness the execution, were found to be in a state of
beastly intoxication in the various public-houses in the
town. Here then is demonstration of the strongest kind
of all that we have on various occasions advanced rela-
tive to the brutalizing effect of public executions on the
minds of those who witness such revolting spectacles.
With so stubborn a fact staring us in the face, let us be no
more told that death-punishments operate as an example
to the spectators. Should such an assumption be ever
again made, we will not condescend to meet it by
argument, but will at once point to the simple fact, that
upwards of 1,000 of those who came from the sur-
rounding country to witness the judicial butchery of Mas-
lyn by the hands of the public executioner, proceeded from
the foot of the gallows to the gin and beer-shops, and
there drank until they got themselves into a state of ine-
briety, which rendered them a disgrace to human nature.
The stern logic of so plain a fact is not to be resisted ; it
is worth a whole volume of philosophical argument. But
the advocates of the gallows will hardly, we think, be again
in haste to urge, in defence of their principles, the salutary
effect produced by executions on the minds of the spec-
tators. If they do, we shall then be compelled to doubt
their honesty as much as we now quarrel with the sound-
ness of their philosophy. It is a question of serious, nay,
of awful importance, whether the Legislature, in addition
to the guilt of taking away, in the case of malefactors, that
life which he only who gave it had a right to withdraw,
are not chargeable with being indirectly the authors
of many of tose murders, and others atrocities, which
have from time to time been committed in this country.
It is proved beyond all question by the criminal re-
turns which have been made by Parliament, that most
of the murders which have been perpetrated have occurred
immediately, or soon after public executions. Nor need
we feel surprised, with such an appalling fact before our eyes
as that of the 1,000 people in Devizes getting dead drunk
immediately after witnessing the execution of Maslyn. We
put it to the advocates of capital punishments whether the
men who could get intoxicated in such circumstances are
not, of all others, the most likely to commit any atrocity
that might suegest itself to their minds ? Had there been
no such execution these men would have remained at their
respective homes, or with their respective employers, at-
tending their usual avocations, instead of spending their
money end wasting their time in the alehouse. It is to he
hoped that none of their number will ever commit any
cr:rue which will bring them to a disgraceful end ; but
such a contingency as just remarked, is much more uro-
h .ble now than it was before witne:sing the execution
of a fellow-being, and then spending the day in scenes of
drunkenneFs and debauchery. This much we bold to be
cs•rtain—i hat such persons must be much worse mem.
hers of society than they ever were before.-111Jrniej
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and the various breed of birds. Ii happened one year that one
of his cropper pigeons, during incuba,ion, rejected one of its
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progeny of his favourite Fanny should be frustrated, resolved
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fdl pNied arrived when the Lathery wonder was to be ushered
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of which the temperature was equally maintained; but care
; or the vitality of
the oven he depended on as
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