The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-12 00:00:00

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BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.
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1840.

November 11,

YORK HOUSE, BATH.
3 OHN EMERY, late of the Bath Hotel, Clif-
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Families visiting Bath, that having completed the extensive
alterations and improvements in the above Establishment, it
will now be found to contain every comfort, elegance, and con-
venience that can be desired. J. E. takes this opportunity of
returning his most sincere thanks to the many distinguished
Families who honoured him during a residence of fourteen
years at the Bath Hotel, and hopes, by the strictest attention
and moderate charges, to merit a continuance of their kind pa-
tronage. Families supplied with Wines of the first quality.
Orders received at the bar of the York House.

TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.
GROUND TO LET, for the Erection of
Third-rate Houses, in an improving neighbourhood,
fronting the main road. Also, Third-rate Carca,es, at a Rental.
Money will be advanced, if required.
Apply to J. 11. Const and Co., Auctioneers, Estate and
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110 BE LET a most Respectable HOUSE
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The coming in will be easy, and a bill taken in part for the
money agreed on.
For cards to view apply to Y. Z., at Mr. Larter's, 175, Tot-
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GL AMOR G AN SHIRE.
ADAM MURRAY and SONS are instructed
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of Swansea, and the opposite coast of Somerset and Devon,
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Printed particulars and plans will be ready for delivery in
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Sons, land agents, 47, Parliament-street.
THE VESTA PATENT STOVE,

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and the part containing the fire is not open during the time it
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the Stove without being seen, preventing entirely any escape
of the noxious vapours, and that annoyance from dust which,
in feeding•_other stoves, arises from tae fuel being removed
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causing any dirt or dust ; no raking out with portable rakers,
or the hands, being necessary ; tnd during their removal from
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twenty-four hours, during which time the stove will not require
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The VESTA STOVES are perfectly free from all liability
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The Stoves may be seen in use at RIPPON and BURTON'S
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and a number of references and testimonials will be sent in
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--..mummodefflrlatiEMANlCAWOsV

CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—The subject of criminal jurisprudence is at present
peculiarly important and attractive from the admitted
fact that all the new-fangled methods of punishment—
solitary confinement, the silent system, transportation,
the tread-wheel, have as completely failed to check the
commission of crime as the older practices of mutilation
and putting to death. I trust, therefore, that you will
allow me to request public attention, through your jour-
nal, to a somewhat novel doctrine put forth in some re-
cent numbers of the Spectator. A 'writer in that
journal, which is publishing a series of his letters,
proceeding on the phrenological principle that the
brain is the organ of the mind, asserts that every
kind of crime, like insanity, is only a disease of
that organ, to be cured, if possible, like'other diseases,
by moral or medical treatment, and like insanity should
be exempted from punishment. To treat criminals
with care and caution, to lay them under restraint, such
as madmen are subjected to, is required on this system,
but punishment is repudiated. The arguments in favour
of this view are stated in the Spectator at: considerable
length, and with considerable force ; and without the
smallest intention of puffing the writer, of whom I know
nothing whatever, I hope I may be allowed to say that
in the present state of criminal jurisprudence they are
worthy of being studied and sifted. _

I am not about to undertake any such task, but I
wish to call attention to one passage in the Spectator of
last Saturday. The writer alluded to says—
" Between man and man, however different their relative
situations may be, nothing but love should ever subsist. He
who lives in the practice of religion and virtue should not
look even upon one who is staggering in the wild intoxica-
tion of crime with any other feelings than the love and
pi y which the sad fate of a brother should awaken—love
icr him as a fellow man possessing the same capabilities of
an eternal destiny, liable to the same sulictierW and shar-
ing all, misused, neglected, conflicting though they be,
the same inherent feelings. If we could cure the evil dis-
positions of men without the infliction of any pain what-
ever, it would be our duty to hail the opportunity of doing
so, instead of looking out eagerly, as we now do, for the
means of inflicting punishment long before we have satis-
fied ourselves that the punishment will produce improve-
ment. As the Creator has established a system whereby
pain must be suffered as the consequence of disobedience of
his laws, he has not left this penalty to be inflicted by the
ignorant hand of men, but has provided that in the natural
order of things it shall inevitably.
.follow, and in fact arise
out of the offence itself: Man, therefore, has nothing to do
with punishnient—this has been provided for by his Crea-
tor ; but although it cannot be averted after an act of dis-
obedience, we may lessen the future weight of human
misery by arresting the offender in his wrongful career,
and preventing him from adding, by the commission of new
offences, to the amount of pain which he is already destined
to endure."

Without questioning the truth of this passage, for

the same conclusion has been dravtf from other prin-
ciples than those of phrenology, and before that science,
if it be a science, was framed, I wish to ask through
your Pages e•lietlier .the writer and whether the editor
of the Spectator be aware of all its vast and important
bearings? If it be true that the Creator has provided
pain as a punishment for disobedience to his laws ; that
it invariably follows every disobedience ; that his laws
regulate everything material and immaterial ; and that
punishment is not left to be inflicted by the ignorant
hand, or the instrumentality of man ; if punishment in-
variably follows every offence, and arises out of it, then
the whole fabric of criminal jurisprudence must fall at
once to the ground. It is based on the theory that the
Creator bas not provided for every offence of which man
may be guilty, an appropriate punishMent, and according
to the theory in the Spectator, must he wholly unnecessary.
The assertion I have quoted roots out and scatters
to the wind every vestige of a foundation for crimi-
nal jurisprudence. Are the writer and the editor
of the Spectator prepared to adopt that conclus-
sion ? If not, why does one write, and the other
publish without a warning or an expression of dissent,
doe
withifdttah.b
ei prsiupTcncohiowosenhfetmrrriaogerihny. ttt —h oteori
politicalpf
aris-
tocracy, hoo
suchlr amsawneiejapvinegndoothetinrignet.o
toc' inflicting
o ltnh met vugh teuy,
cplwmaieeurttssyyt
o—wfn not tthl ael
esnaofls
Creator—thei
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er
the existence .of the State Church, the whole
of the taxes, are all based on the right of the State to
enforce its will by inflicting punishment, and on its actual
infliction. No taxes would be paid, no Church, such as ours,
would be supported, no aristocracy would be honoured,

no such right of property as we have, with the mil•
lions starving and a few enriched, could exist except by
terror, and could not holdfor a single day after the aboli-
tion of all human punishment. Political society is de-
pendent on criminal jurisprudence, and to abolish
punishment is to abolish political society; Has the
writer, and has the editor ever contemplated this cer-
tain consequence of his doctrine.
These may be said to be its worldly effects; but
would it not be equally fatal to oar religion ? Tliat is
founded on the supposition that men aro not properly
and adequately punished and rewarded in this world; it
supposes and declares that here everything is imperfect,
and requires another life to make it perfect ; that here
everything is crooked, and there will be set straight.
According to the writer in the Spectator•, every action
is here properly rewarded and punished by the laws of
the Creator, and the whole fabric of the Christian reli-

gion, as well of political society, fails before the asser-
tion I have quoted. I repeat, that I do not call
in question its truth, but I think the editor of
the respectable and careful Journal which publishes
it should be required to state whether be be

aware of the important bearings of the doctrines he
publishes, and whether he be ready to stand by them.
At present they have his silent sanction, which may
lead other men the more readily to embrace them. I
beg, Sir, through your pages, to call on the writer and
the editor to speak out. Are they ignorant of the
logical consequences of what they teach, or arc they
Fifth-monarchy men, who believe in the all-pervading,
all-sufficient, unceasingly active government of the world
by its Creator, which makes all human government
unnecessary, and convinces us that it is futile and absurd?
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

AN OBSERVER.

TEETOTALIsx_GRosS MISRE-
PRESENTATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir—My attention has just been called to a paragraph
in your paper of Monday evening, in which I am the
any man to
p
subject of as vile a calumny as ever was fabricated. I
had a continuation of a debate on that evening, with the
teetotallers, at Circus-street, Marylebone, by whom I
was challenged, and I was represented in this paragraph
as " recommending the oppressed people to rise In
terms as strong as language will furnish, I assert, that
this is as wicked, false, and malicious a misrepresenta-
tionrns
eas
thatev
eithere r was p
nunt
that,in
print—and
nr 0 n
o u
yI
otherde occasion I
defy
have ever recommended such vague, vapouring, and wild
nonsense, which could come only from the lips of a mad-
man. On the contrary, my writings prove, and my lee-
all attempts
at '° rising
Ipur or evse
,fotrhaytealrs,natovewnhnicth
nnllyhadveonopulenneteyd of witnesses,
expression,'" as it is called, which is a very vague
in which there is room almost for the world
to turn about in ; but that, on the contrary, I have
denounced all such things, and not only denounced but
held them up to ridicule. This gross and scandalous
misrepresentation, I have no doubt, is the work of the
defeated Teetotallers. Of late
theirl
aitneliave so beat black
and blue their phrensy and nonsense, that I have pro-
voked their exasperated enmity beyond measure. At
Theobald's-road, the other week, after a discussion with
them, to which I was challenged, I was
obliged to be
protected by my friends,
g
" rising" to do
under the protection of the
police. That they w
innbeligseodmetngrii,lenvcoe myself
uus bodily harm ; and ultimately I was
I have no doubt,
on the occasion alluded to at Circus-street, being
utterly unable to meet the facts adduced in refu-
-1 tion of their phren .
they
sy and nonsense, they thought
proper to retreat, as theysay did ; and after they
they could, I have no doouldbt ;do
and me all the injury
had done so, a paragraph--an
behind which they skulk and are screened—is concocted
to calumniate and injure the man, before whose face
and speech they deemed it prudent to retire, while
' nearly the whole of the meeting remained. I had al-
mostotice another gross falsehood .
forgot to n
' rigraph, and that is the lollowi ng—.... He then proposed
a:-Lis new and infallible project, the kicking off at once
of the national debt." I never proposed any such thing.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
THOMAS NIACCONNELL.

Tuesday Evening'
rt,inwthhnisgalevtetehr,
isname,
and those furnished
by i
are at utter
variance, and
sumo explanation, therefore, should be
given,—ED, Sun
Tuesday, at, inquest was held before Mr. Baker,
at the Black Horse, KinVand-road, on the body of Ann
ir hCeorres statementspend cn
Itio,t;gi, aged 25. It, will be recollected that a young
man named Nast, was held to hail by Mr. Broughton, on
suspicion of being accessory to the death of the deceased.
and that the •cridence of a surgeon, before a Coroner's
jury, was to decide the matter. Yesterday Mr. Car-
ter, a surgeon, who had opened the body of deceased,
said he had found all the internal organs healthy, with the
exception of the vessels of the brain, all of which were
gorged with blood, and one of which was ruptured. Three
ounces of coagulated blood were found extravasated on
the brain, the result of extreme excitement. Iu the sur-
geon's opinion death resulted from natural causes. Ver-
dict—Died by the visitation of God. The Coroner com-
municated the verdict to Mr. Broughton, in order that
East might be relieved from his recognizances.