Show PUBLIC I 1 execl TION r I 1 ci t nt lit public to execution in ill lond londen of if five anit a ats caused much newspaper discus gion as to the policy of executing n crim jails ill public po here ero are arc two opposite views expressed on oil una this subject tiler kliore c is ia nothing awful in tile the krpec ocie the mob ivi wait ait f for or it makin making abid rabid jests icsis and laughing at every nonsense or brutality and they go away ili in the same mood the col common lillion reflection lection ef after witnessing the last short struggle is well it is not much after all and the dread of a bifilar fate upon which tile home secretary reckons so much is mole moie diminished than increased in ill dis posed minds by the grotesque view of death that has been presented it is soon over says bays a brutal fellow and goes away i ather comforted if it should come to tile worst with him london examiner I 1 am not ashamed to avow that I 1 went this mornin morning to the hanging of tile the five pirates at the old bailey and carlil I 1 am concerned to state my impressions at thi this s public spectacle because they were so utterly different from all which I 1 have heard or lead or which it is the current fashion or folly to express at such exhibitions it was to me tile the most solemn sight I 1 ever witnessed an instance of tile the punishment which awaits a bloody clime whole mercy is not prostituted prostitutes or justice defrauded by the mi litigation without reason of a salutary doom As I 1 watched from a commanding 0 position an all enormous crowd of spectators which I 1 should riot not hesitate to compute at as many as or chiefly men and surveyed the sea of faces at the fatal instant when the drop fell z and their expression was generalized by a sudden and common emotion I 1 should say that the pervading 0 fee feeling lill was wa S a cordial acceptance of the act then transacted before sherrii them ther rii and a complete recognition that it wa 1 t and inevitable I 1 am convinced that there wet acie c few persons who could have escaped this emotion and conviction from the sudden silence and entranced interest of this multitude of men and if there had been some levity on oil the part of the alic lowest who had waited for this tin s catastrophe I 1 arn am satisfied that at the last moment the better nature matuie of all responded in concert to the tei terrible appeal and that the sum bum total was a public good this is so different from the effect which others ascribe to such scenes that I 1 ask to state my own conviction vigil 19 tn tit the he london times have dic amed 11 ex CK lating claims bussot d War ville in liia his pan cinc N ile chii thi mils ians arable wanderer would become one olle ol 01 the legislator 0 of america tile ornament of tile the new the pride of modern model n philosophy and an all crebassa dor to one of tile richest mot most powerful and elila ned nations in hi the u universe lot let the young reader consider this well and attribute ilia his s to tile right cause frugality fiu lity temperance t P grance q a proper 1 r 0 p c r a f P p pi P att i i f i ii wa 4 ai ir and i an untiring industry which must eventually command corr mand success in almost any situation of life I 1 |