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  2. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

    At the Middlesex Sessions, on the 7th Janauary last, the Grand Jury having concluded their labours, the foreman, addressing the learned Judge (Mr Serjeant Adams), said that they were unanimously of ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  3. DEATH PUNISHMENT.

    "There are two sorts of national corruption," says Montesquieu: "one when the people do not observe the laws; the other when they are corrupted by the laws an incurable evil, because it ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  4. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.

    The whole of the newspaper press of Great Britain, than which none in die now civilised world is more respectable or influential, has, unanimously, condemned the Draconian barbarity of the sanguinary ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. CAPITAL AND SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS.

    We have before alluded to the "Mark" system proposed by Captain Maconochie, to be introduced into transportation, imprisonment, and other secondary punishments. The suggestions made by that ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. PRINCIPLES OF TOE MARK SYSTEM.

    The constituent elements in secondary punishments are time and labour. Men are sentenced to hard labour for a given time—but the time is here made to measure the labour: the first proposal of the Mark system is, ...

    Article : 526 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "TIMES."

    Sir— I was very much surprised and shocked by rending to the Times of to-day an account of a little boy, only eight years of age, being sentenced to transportation for seven years. I was not aware ...

    Article : 446 words
  8. PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.

    But it will be permitted me to say, and you to hear, that the peace and tranquillity of the county is best attained and secured by the gentry of the county sedulously performing the several duties attached to ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. SEASON'S WHICH SEEM SPECIALLY TO RECOMMEND THE MASK SYSTEM FOR ADOPTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 634 words
  10. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS IN DENMARK.

    A letter from Copenhagen of the 23rd October, says that in Denmark for several centuries capital punishments were executed in the following manner: "The culprit knelt down before a block, on which ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. PENAL LAWS CONSIDERED BY A PRINCE.

    The Atlas thus notices a work on Punishments and Prisons, by the King of Sweden. Either this work was published by the King when he was only Prince Oscar, or it is a further contribution ...

    Article : 675 words
  12. CRIME AND EDUCATION.

    The criminal returns of Great Britain and Ireland for the last twenty years, demonstrate that the uneducated criminals are about a third of die whole; in other words, the educated criminals are to the ...

    Article : 360 words
  13. TRANSPORTATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

    Thomas Miller, aged eight years, and Henry Rawley, aged fifteen, were convicted, upon the clearest testimony, at the Middlesex Sessions, on the 6th January, of having stolen a wooden till ...

    Article : 561 words
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