procession left Newgate a few minutes after nine, and arrived at the place of execution about half-past ten. The cart was immediately driven under one part of the gallows, for there were two divisions, distinct and separate from each other, a circumstance never before remembered at Tyburn. As soon as the Jews were tied to the tree, a rabbi joined them in the cart, and prayed with them nearly up to the very moment that it was driven away. The othersthe highwayman and the coiners were then severally called for by the executioner, driven to their allotted stations, and placed where they were to undergo the last struggle. During this period, which might occupy about fifteen minutes, the two Perreaus remained in the coach with a clergyman. Daniel first entered the cart, and Robert immediately followed him. They were both attired in deep mourning. After the usual formalities of taking the cord away from the arms and waist, the executioner loosening Daniel's neckcloth, put the cord round his neck, and immediately tied it to the tree. He then proceeded in a similar manner with Robert.

These dread preliminaries over, the clergyman prayed with them. His devotions ended, he addressed himself to the two brothers, with whom he conversed for some time. He then asked them to acknowledge the justice of their sentence; upon which they each put a paper

into his hand.

Then, after praying a short time apart by themselves, each holding a prayer-book, the executioner put on their caps. The clergyman now took his leave, which Robert and Daniel acknowledged by bowing, and immediately embraced and saluted each other in a most tender and affectionate manner. They then took hold of each other's hand, the caps having been drawn over their eyes, and in this manner, the cart driving away, they were launched into eternity.

Their hands remained firmly clenched together for a brief period; when, by the motion of their bodies, they separated. They both behaved with a firmness, self-possession, and resolution rarely evidenced under such appalling circumstances; yet, with a humility, gravity, and devotion well befitting their unhappy situation. From the moment they entered the cart, to the moment of their dissolution, not the slightest dread of death was discernible in either of their countenances. They appeared thoughtful, patient, calm, and entirely resigned to their fate.

They were both handsome men, about five feet nine inches in height, were twins, very much alike in person, and about forty years of age. The number of spectators was immense: many estimated it at not less than 30,000.

The papers left with the chaplain of Newgate were published shortly afterward.

They contained the most solemn asseverations of the unhappy writers' innocence.

Their remains were privately interred on the Sunday evening following, in the family vault at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

And Mrs. Rudd?

She survived, the most guilty of the threeif Robert Perreau was guilty at all—she survived to boast of her acuteness and adroitness -survived to remark exultingly, as she frequently did afterward, that she "had carried her point: and hanged the Perreaus !" And to one of these men (Daniel), in what relation had she stood?

What misplaced affection, kindness, and indulgence had been lavished upon her! What in the shape of luxury had she been denied? What in the guise of extravagance had she been barred from? How had she been cherished, fondled, idolized!

In return she hangs her benefactor!

What marvel! Is it likely that she who has - renounced all allegiance to a Heavenly Master should be true or faithful to any earthly relationship?

Oh, there is a lesson-a common, trite, stale, but needful lesson, to be learned from this history. On a vicious connection sooner or later lights a desolating curse. Naught, save sorrow and ignominy, can result from it. It brings the

frown of Heaven in and upon that family where it is tolerated or connived at.

Credit any fallacy, young man! Believe any impossibility. Persuade yourself, if you can, that evil companionship can not corrupt; that pestilence can not kill; that extravagance will not beggar; that excess promotes health; that idleness leads to fame; but of this be sure, that an unhallowed and licentious attachment inevitably and invariably entails sorrow and shame, remorse and tears.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE SON AND THE MOTHER.

A Worcester Tragedy.

“The covering of sin is like keeping a serpent warm which will sting the more fiercely." HALIBURTON.

THERE are few natures, hardened as they may be, which do not bear in grateful recollection a mother's tenderness and a mother's love.

However degraded in the scale of society— however steeled against kindly and gentle impressions-however callous the oft-repeated maxims of depraved associates may have rendered him-still the simple word "mother" has been known to rouse in the most reckless a train of feelings attesting one and all that the appetites of the brute have not wholly mastered the affections of the man.

Where a contrary result has been arrived at the temptation has been gold, of this the following is an instance :

During the year 1707, two most atrocious murders were perpetrated in Worcestershire; the first, at the house of Mrs. Ann Cormel, of Bradforton, near Evesham, when the premises were fired to conceal the crime. The second,