The Sun. — 1862-11-29 (London, England)

VICTOR. HUGO ON CAPITAL PuNISMIENTS. tioo, Republic of Geneva is about to revise its local cot:06,11100 The principal question to be decided will be with relef rho to the abolition of capital punishment. A member civorV church of Geneva, M. Bost, the author of severs]. ref 010 able works, lately wrote to M. Victor Hugo, aeltil3lo ae for his influence in the debate. That writer, Wllc't 100 ardent advocate of the abolition of capital puniston° oftl now replied in a letter which occupies several columns iota. Belgian press. Victor Hugo eloquently and even 11_,,°3sin01' ately denounces the prevailing system. He mentios' 001 dentally that his having at a very early age seen ti 11004 branded in Paris first drew his attention to the fact th'' pet can be brutal as well as lawlessness. He deplores te, 3 and that capital punishment, condemned by so manYo',; 0,114 influential minds, should still prevail. " In Engisilitg jo` Victor Hugo, " where a woman reigns, a woman been hanged." He earnestly urges the Republic of to condemn the system of punishment by death. Av....A INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WAN as helit general court of the governors of this institution Wis ot 0 at the London Tavern yesterday, to elect 25 infanre ids the of 114 candidates ; the Rev. H. kJ P;00 it! The asylum now contains 600 children, and it halvan s pl/ establishment received no less a number than 1,84 pleal, navY,ts oaa orphans of clergymen, officers in the army hers of the medical and legal professions, merella_n_:frooi. others, have found a refuge within its every part of the empire are eligible. The boy's are rears until they are 14, and the girls until they ire 15 )_a n age. They receive a sound and useful education4o rei" walls. Childrre:Lioe: ft religious instruction is anxiously attended to. worth'', chairman opened the proceedings in a few appropriaws otatl after which the polling was proceeded with. It that at the next half-yearly elections, in May and .I.` infants would be elected. 011 0 We have received a letter from a lady 054 Rome, complaining of the uncourteous and rigoron3 slOO, she met with from the custom-house officers ocB fr` t the examination of her luggage, when passing fro— 00 to Piedmont. The contents of her trunks were tal'e„.ool' and thrown about in all directions, and, when notlllll7lroP traband was discovered, she was told, while the rileaill:t bell had just rung, that she might pack them uPti,p'ellci,7 That, she adds, was no easy matter, and she was 00 -in to take off her shawl and tie up some of the tbn On reaching Turin she found herself minus of e g°l let, a lace shawl, a mosaic brooch, and other small 01`liirscl' which she had seen when her luggage was being lei' THE ALLEGED SUICIDE OF AN ACROBAT: it'l; terday Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, 0.11 tuo desal 0 quiry at the St. Martin's Vestry Hall, touellin, of Frederick Carini, a tight-rope dancer at the -r-4`tue Music-hall, Leicester.squa,e. It appeared f_ dence that the deceased, woo while following_ 11113 frora.oll,o of a rope dam el, met with an accident by fallt_ rope about four months ago and hurt hiniselef,_(;ivg 0 1; that time he has been in a very low and hide _Potio of mind, being haunted with the idea that.lo:ol eventol7o to poverty. He was last seen alive 0, .INI „1 IV °,l i° last by Mr. Peter Oven Ilamnaa, prote..„-siboe was foui,l evi oce establishment ; and on Tuesday mornin,, e the Thames near Hungerford-bridge. The miresca, jou. went to show that death was caused by su e % deceased was sober in his habit. The jury r t .TOPc, to 011°" Thames, but there was he came there. diet to the effect that tlneodtescuefilasceiteln\tVeavSiafeOrtUened d 110 f