The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-17 00:00:00

1841 1842 1843

Transportation for Life ... 156 191 225
, t above 15 years
ip, 15 years, and above 10 709 726 641
” 10 years, and above 7 1,240 1,402 1,471
19 7 years . .... ......
Imprisonment above 3 years ••• 1 ...
” 3 years, and above 2
f, 2 years, and above 1 465 464 464
2 V 1 yr, and above 6 mnths 2,060 2,594 2,332
11. 6 months and under 13,212 14,799 13,477
Whipped, Fined, and Discharged

The capital sentences for elevengreat crimes (mur-
der, attempts at murder, treason, arson, cutting and
maiming, riot, &c. &c.) passed in the three years
1841, 1842, and 1843, were respectively for each
year, 80, 57, 97. We are grieved to add this illus-
tration of the remarks which we have hazarded above
as to the hitherto unsatisfactory working of the last
Act for abolishing the penalty of death in various
cases. But we should observe that so noble an expe-
-1 riment—that a principle which we believe to be so
sound in the abstract—ought not to be condemned,
eveir on this sort of constructive evidence, without
further and more prolonged inquiry.
In 1838, by the Acts of the Ist Victoria, a further and
more important amelioration was effected in the Criminal
Laws, and the penalty of death removed from several of
the•largest classes of offences for which up to that time,
executions had not been unfrequent. With reference to
these offences, a similar comparison to the foregoing is
made, excel ting only such as from their numbers were
too unimpo.tant to afford any useful results.
Average of
1835-6-7. 1843.
Attempts to Murder and Maim 124 254
Burglary
Robbery
Arson
On each of these offences there has been a very consi-
derable increase, which on the aggregate reaches 109 per
cent., the commitments generally increasing only 26'4
per cent, in the same time. The convictions have been
slightly affected by the removal of the extreme penalty,
the proportion acquitted having decreased from I in
2'26 to 1 in 2'73.

AN ORDER FOR Two:—The late Andrew Ducrow,
the equestrian, invited his friends, Mr. and Mrs. T. P.
C , to visit the mausoleum which he had erected.
for the reception of himself and his family at liensal-
green. His visitors having eicpressed their satisfaction
at its external beauties, and the conveniency of its
interior arrangements, Ducrow, kindly shaking his
friend by the hand, exclaimed, in the fulness of his
liberality—" Well, my dear fellow, you see there's
plenty of room ; so I shall be happy at any time to give
a couple of places to you and Mrs. T. P." This, in its
way, an offer of an order for two to the pit, was not
immediately accepted.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Vabitt Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

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On Monday evening the King and Queen of the Drench
entertained at dinner the Pope's Nuncio, the Turkish Am-
bassador, the Baden, Portuguese, And Swedish Ministers,
Marshal Soult, Marquises d'Escayrac, de Lauture, and d'Ara-
mon, Generals Baron de Lascours and Janin. •

The ebnamittee, charged with the examination of the Bill
relating to the Paris and Lyons Railroad hai determined; by.
six xotes to three, to recommend to the Chamber to adopt
the line'rUnning by the Yonne, 'the Arniattqon, the Brenne,
and the Loze, on the ground that it shortens the distance,
between Paris and Dijon, by 32 kilometres. The Council-
General of the Ponts-et-Chaus.sees had previously adopted
the same line, by a majority of 12 to 4.
The 'National states :—" Ile Government is about to con-
ciliate the priesthood by a new concession, it being intended
that the Pantheon is again to be converted to religious pur-
poses, by celebrating in it, on the next anniversary of the
days of July, a funeral service in honour of the victims of
that glorious'week."
_ _ _

M. Thiers has concluded his " History of the Empire," and
was to deliver the manuscript on TueSday to the publisher,
who is to pay him 500,000 f. (20,000/.) for the work.
The first year since the opening of the Paris and Rouen
railway having_ elapsed without any accident occurring
through the fault or neglect of the locomotive branch of the
service, the Company, to testily their general satisfaction, re
solved to give, at the Batignolles station, a grand feast to all
the engineers and their men. From the necessity of not in-
terrupting the service of the road, this was divided into two
parties' lon different days.
Theliraldo, of Madrid, states that the Spanish capital
'will soon be lighted with gas by the Company which has
erected gas works at BarcelonA. and Valencia.
A letter from Leipsic, in the Courrier de la Moselle, relates
that at a grand concert and supper, in the evening.Of Sunday,
the 21st ult., at the Intel de Boulogne (the casino of Leipsic),
at which about 400 persons, were assembled, the inhabitants
of the Rhenish Provinces, who,are still attached to the French,
called for the" Marseillaise" in honour of their Gallic guests.
Upon this, a number of persons from Berlin who were preSent
opposed the call by a violent hissing. A row ensued, and
soon beCame general, and as bottles, plates, chairs, and other
missiles.fiew in every direction, many serious wounds and
contusions were given aid received before the tumult could
be allayed.

The French Ambassador in Switzerland has addressed to

the Vorort a series of questions, relating to the statistics of
the periodical press in that country. lie has requested an
account of the charges laid upon the Swiss journals. in the
shape of stamps, postage, :duties upon advertisements, &c.,
with the amounts of these impoSts, and the number of the
journals and other periodicals published in Switzerland, and
their respective circulation. This inquiry is made, no doubt,
with a view to a due consideration of the proposition made
by M. Chapuys Montlaville, for the abolition of the stamp-
duty on journals in. France. The Yorort . has transmitted
these inquiries to all Cantonal Goveinments, desiring them
to return answers. •