The Sun. — 1862-09-20 (London, England)

REPRESENTATION OF STOR. E-UPON RENT.--T The writ of election arrived on Tuesday, and was proclaimed the same evening.• The nomination is fixed for Monday next, and the polling for Tuesday. Both in Denierara and Antigua the question of introducing black and coloured labourers from the United Steles is serimely under consideration. A great Orange demonstration took place on Wedtlesday at Belfast, the object being to protest against the alleged partiality of the Government in forbidding the displays of the Orangemen, while the Roman Catholics are permitted to walk in procession. The number of persons present at the demonstration is estimated at 60,000. Our Princess Royal, the Crown Princess of Prussia, is understood to have been the chief mover in bringing together her brother and the daughter of the future King of Denmark. To most people's minds this is delightful. It shows that the private happiness of the young people is the first consideration ; and, if we are to look at the matter in a political light, it certainly appears to reasonable peopl that the best chance of a pacific arrangement arises from the knitting of a family bond between the Royal houses of Prussia and Denmark. It is impossible to help thinking that the next heir to the Prussian throne must be kindly disposed towards the Danish house, while desiring a marriage between that and the Englisa, ramily.—Once TVee k. THE .t-üBLIo ExEcuzioNEß.—The executioner is the product of strugglieuwct etnh civilisation,nte custom o '.'ig civilisation, and will be alioe the bal iuescthuaesdfetresrbwtyoa repdxeser gnh ege d thei nR spite Romans allowingnosf e w existed The ea bauon alsiaos their disdala for human life, they shared our sentiments of repulsion towards those who had to fulfil the melancholy task. Besides being guards and messengers of the consuls, the lictors executed their decrees. The very name lictor is derived from the verb ligare, to bind, because they bound the feet of criminals. But other persons, as soldiers, were often employed at executions, not only in camp, but also in town. The assistance required was regarded as a public) service, and as no more a cause of dishonour than the death of a condemned soldier, with us, is thought to dishonour his comrades who shoot him. In Germany, before the executioner's function was raised to the condition of an office, the youngest member of the community or of the body corporate was compelled to undertake it; and as it happened that those so designated showed disinclination to obey the laws, heavy fines were inflicted on refractory subjects. In Franconia a new-married man was obliged to discharge this terrible duty by way of payment for the debt he had contracted with society. In Thuringia the inhabitant who had last settled in the district where an execution was to take place was charged with the performance of it. The College of Echevina, or sheriffs, of the town of Antwerp, selected a butcher out of the oldest members of the corporation to wield the sword of the law. In the Crimea, when the Crimea was a kingdom, the king deputed the complaining party to put the condemned person to death. A woman would thus have to stab her husband's murderer, and she would carry out this Lynch law with its utmost rigour. The English and American laws do not condescend to trouble themselves with a hangman. By a fiction which is not without its grandeur, they seem to disdain recognising the instrument of capital punishment. Sentence of death once pronounced, the sheriff has to see, at his risk and peril and on his responsibility, that the sentence is executed. Tho " hangman" is a person in the pay of the sheriff, and he hangs for a price agreed upon.— .Dickens's "All the Year Round." It has been a great misfortune to Denmark that there has been a repeated failure of male heirs to the throne. There was no male heir for a century after the death of Christopher 111., in 1448 ; and for some time past there has again been difficulty and danger to the State from the same cause. It is not to wondered at; for marriages of consanguinity have been far too common in the Royal house of Denmark ; and deterioration of the quality of families, and troubles about succession, are the proper consequences of such marriages. One of the best features of the proposed connection is, there being no relationship in the case; and where the choice is so restricted as that of Royal children is by our Royal Marriage Act, and by State religion and policy all over Europe, it is a great blessing that our Prince will marry a Protestant Princess out of a fresh family, who will blood into our Royal bring new huuse.--Once a Week.