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Joseph Mullett was convicted at Dublin yesterday of complicity in an attempt on the life of a juror, and sentenced to penal servitude for life...
Dispatches from London state that the Prince of Wales has written a letter expressing the hope that the sentence of William Brookshaw to ten years penal servitude, for sending a threatening letter to his royal highness, will be reduced...
...thought that the sentence of death imposed upon the Nihilists will be commuted to penal servitude. The prisoners were ably defended in court...
...remark that after the Freshman year there was no discipline at Harvard, Dr. Peabody said that in a prehistoric term he had been a tutor at Harvard, and that then, with about 200 students under them, the Faculty spent the greater part of their time in administering penal discipline. Now, with the number of students largely increased, such a case of discipline happens not once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being. It is true, he remarked, that after the Freshman year there are no proscribed studies...