Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-07-21 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THZ CRTMA OF MURAL'S.  The preacher took for bit text the 9th chapter Genet'. 6th verse—" When° shed,leth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of 004 'Tested ho man." We know that murder had not taken place bef or. the flood—be fact the fret rec rded crime we read rf is the B ble was the mnreer of Abel by his own brother: end up to that time God had reserved the power of life and death to himself ; fr ev. n Can the murderer was wit put to death, but God diaiin,tly &dared he should not Ise pot to death, and set a maik upon him that note might hurt him. But a. ter this a wonderful change takes pleca, and Almighty God delivers to man the w rd of public jos'ico, gives him Am power of life and death, and snakes his rorpossiblo for the general wslare and 'reed* Cl kb* mama amormato endorekety. But w• mat an for a mina. Mai imam Almighty Cied le mg ga kit 111111S11ball nil was mot  put to deatb, therefore C sin had nothing to remember in the way of punishment. His punishment must have been very s-vere, for he said dituself "My punishment 15 greater than I C• 111 bear." He was sent forth a vagabond and a fugitive, and we may truly say Gale, the first murderer, was gibbeted in the night of all mankind. 'I here are poisons who aritu,) that this commandment applies only to the Jews, but let us remember, at the particular time at which this command was given, the Jews were not in existence, and did not come into existence till about a tbi usand years titer; and besides are the Jews the only nation in the world who were created in Go re own imege I Therefore we here see it is the revealed will of Got that all over the world, in ve.y nation under heaven, murder, wilful violence, and bloodelied should, be puaished dy one uniform penalty— the death of the murderer. It has been much disputed whether capital punishment has a w holesorne effect upon mankind. Sine say it leads to the very crime, while others say it frightens and deters these who are witnesses of it. It is an inter-eating and intrortant question, but God's command deep tot look at it from that point of view at all, for in the fifth verse it is distinctly acid the came penalty should be inflicts I as henever mans blood be shed —whether by beast or by man. Therefore we c-nne to this point—there must be some di ep principle underlying the command which God gave. It w snot given to deter and frighten people from the commission of murder, but for some other reason. As far as we can see. God did nit reveal the prineinle on which it was founded to Noah; but in the Book of Numbers we find G,d there declares emphaticaly 'bat murder stains and defiles a land, and there is no way by which the stain can be washed out except by the bli ol of the murderer. Let us not listen to ansn's voice, for there is no reason why poor weak man should at empt to enlarge on the subject. Before I conclude, I should like to make one single ex !r ation. The text I have taken has long been in roy miud—l may say for year,, lone and 1 nt b fore it was possible to expvt that the will nf this sounty (wbkh, thank God, is generally so very fro, from violence, atrocity, and crime) should be stained by human blood, and that, alas I the inquisition for this shedding of human blood should take place at these Assizes.  The bugidess commenced on Wednesday, when the following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury : Sir John Michel, K.C.B. (Foreman.) Sir C. W. D'Oyley, Bart. IT. B. Middleton, J. C. Mensal - Pleydell, H. S. Bower, EN. E.g. W. A. Bankes, Eaq. Major-General Henning, T. Hussey, Esq. C.B. G. 0. Churchill, Esq. C. J. Parke. Ei .1. 0. C. F.rrer, Esq. J. W. T. Eyler, esq. G W. Flower. Esq. R. IT. Bingham, Esq. F. S. W. Webber, Esq. R. 0. F. S eward, Esq. C. E. Parke. Esq. E. Pearce, Esq. A. Martin, Esq. G. Bond, Eva. C. Powlett-Lane, Esq. C. Stewart Glyn, Esq. E. Pinney, Esq.