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Show The English pcstmaster-gcncral is making progress backwards. He is reviving old stage-coach days by putting on lines of coaches for the delivery of parcels sent by mall to various parts of England. These coaches were put on the lino between be-tween Manchester and I vcrpool two weeks ago, leaving Manchester at 10 o'clock at nlghi for Liverpool, and making tbe trip, r.5 mlUs, in fij hours.- The van constructed for this service is filled with parcels, and a guard in uniform, an old soldier, who takes bis seat inside, is'armcd with a revolver and a side sword. The departure of the coach is announced by the blowing of a born, That was a peculiar recommendation recommen-dation which the Home Secretary P to the Queen In tbecascof the two young men who were sentenced to death at Crewe fer tho premeditated, premedi-tated, murder of their father. Their guilt was Iwyond question, but it ras pleaded in extenuation that their faTlier was a brute, and that tbey killed bim to save theirmother from his cruelty. Hence half tho adult jnpulatiou of England rcsc as one man, and petitioned that they be reprieved. In forwarding these netitfon-s to the Onrtm -it AIy.Im. Bains, tbe Home Secretary recommended recom-mended that onecf tbem be hanged and tho other reprieved. This, considering con-sidering that they were equally guilty, and that they conspired to kill their father, strikes the English public as so monstrous that the Home Secretary is denounced as a "barbarlan'and may be forced to resign his office. |