Our system of executing criminals must be changed, or the
punishment of death will be abolished. The unutterable horror -of the scene at Dublin, on the execution of Andrew Carr, will be too much for the popular imagination, as, indeed, it is for the imagination of the educated. Andrew Carr had been sentenced for the murder of his paramour, and was ordered to be hung on 'Thursday, in Richmond Bridewell. The wretched man was pinioned in the usual way, but the drop had been made too Tong-14 feet—the man was large and heavy, there was a tremendous jerk, and a headless body fell to the ground spouting blood. The head had been literally torn from the body. Such a catastrophe is entirely without precedent, and had it occurred at a public execution, nothing could have saved the lives of the officials. If Mr. Bruce could ever be induced to do anything, the mitrailleuse would replace the scaffold this session. Horrors of this kind oppress human nature and " demoralize the guillo- tine."
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