This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...young Denman, after leaving Mrs. Barhauld's school, went to Eton for many years. There is also a mistake in descrihing the ladies who married Sir Richard Croft and Dr. Baillie as the sisters of Or. Denman (the father of the Chief Justice). They were his daughters, sisters of Lord Denman. DISTRICT OP THREE RIVEHS. We ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...young Denman, after leaving Mrs. Barhauld's school, went to Eton for many years. There is also a mistake in descrihing the ladies who married Sir Richard Croft and Dr. Baillie as the sisters of Or. Denman (the father of the Chief Justice). They were his daughters, sisters of Lord Denman. DISTRICT OP THREE RIVEHS. We learn from the daily papers, that Three Rivers has had the honor of heing chosen as the scene of the first human sacrifice that has heen offered up to appease the outraged majesty of the law for the last fifteen years in Lower Canada. On Friday, the 3rd Fehruary, Theherge was executed for the murder of Madame Gauthier, and it must he gratifying to the eulogists of the death penalty to learn, that an immense concourse of people was assemhled on the occasion to proIk hy the moral lesson, which it is the principal ohject of this mode of chastisement, to inculcate. We cannot, however, hut laud the discretion of our daily contemporaries in not indulging the pmrient curiosity of, prohahly, a great portion of their readers in the fullest details of the confession, last speech and dying words of this criminal hero, according to the usual practice on such occasions. PERIODICALS. Since the appearaoce of our last numher, we have received several numhers of Livingston's Monthly Law Journal, New York, the last numher of which (No. xi.) contains a long article agamst the Usury Laws. It is the. opinion of the learned editor, that the operation of the Usnry Laws in the State of New York has had for many years a prejudicial effect upon its commercial movements; thus adding another testimony to th- had policy of keeping up this unnatural restriction on the circulation of money. We hope soon to see disappear the last shred of the Usury Laws with which we are ...
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