The Sun. — 1844-12-27 (London, England)

MARY GALLOP. Among these are to be found the Bishop of CHESTER, the Chancellor RAMIS, and a great body of the clergy and gentry. The reasons which these sentimentalists allege in justification of a commutation of punishment are some of them of the most unaccountable character it is possible to conceive. First, we are told that previously to the commission of parricide, the prisoner " had conducted herself as a teacher in a Wesleyan Methodist school with strict propriety." Now, to our thinking, the circumstance of MARY GALLOP having been a teacher of children aggravates rather than extenuates her guilt, for it proves that if she sinned it was not at any rate from brute ignorance, or from any unacquaintance with the rules of virtue and morality. Secondly, the petition states "that the dreadful crime which she confesses of causing the death of her father does not appear to have been long premeditated, but to have been accidentally suggested to her mind by a person in her company." Why, this circumstance, too, which the petitioners allege in her favour, tells most decidedly against her. 'What sort of a mind must that have been which could have been urged to the commission of the most awful of all crimes, from the mere casual small talk of a neighbour ? But the fourth reason stated by the petitioners is the most extraordinary—" That should the QUEEN'S mercy be extended• to this miserable woman, she might prove of great use in being employed in teaching young persons in one of the schools in any place to which she may be transported." Truly, the woman of mature age and decent education who could commit parricide from no stronger motive than that-to quote her own words—" I should be at liberty to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased "—is admirably qualified for the sacred and responsible office of an instructress of childood ! With what earnestness and sincerity of heart must she impress on her young pupils the commandment which says, " Thou shalt do no murder." Children brought up at the feet of such a mistress cannot but turn out exemplary members of society ! But the whole affair is of so repulsive a character, that we have no wish to pursue it further. Enough, therefore, to state that the Bishop of CHESTER, and all who have had a share in recommending MARY GALLOP to mercy for the reasons we have just specified, have not evinced a healthy spirit of humanity, hut, on the contrary, a maudlin, dangerous sensibility, that cannot be too severely reprobated.  The last accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst. The Chamber of Deputies had commenced the debate upon M. MON'S project of law for the conversion of the outstanding debts of the Government into Three per Cent. Stock. Several members spoke in opposition to M. MoN's plan, and M. MoN replied, after which the debate was adjourned..  The Paris journals of Tuesday, in the absence of any stirring aspects to break the monotony of their political horizon, are unusually grave and didactic. The Debats, alone, devotes its columns to miscellaneous features of foreign news, such as that news is. On the subject of Turkish affairs, we find this paragraph :—" The Morning Chronicle, for some days past, recurs with affectation to a pretended collision of influences, a rivalry of direction which is said to have recently developed itself at Constantinople between Sir STRATFORD CANNING and our Ambassador, immediately prior to the departure of the Baron DE