Capital Punishment

- An atternpt topeolor modify the Vermont law of last year. virtually aboljshiner capitnl punisliment, was made end defeated nt the late session of tho Legïslature ofthat State. It terminnted in the passage of an amendment which m;ikes the Taw Btill more nenrly ar. entire abolition of th.it mode of pnnishmenf - the convict mnrdcrcr beingf required to be kppt in prison 15 years instead of one, before the Governor can order him to be exccated. Of conree, no such order w 11 be issued. aftersuch a lapse of tim, and practical]y thereforc, capituT pumehment no longer ex iste in Vermont. Tbere is, perhaps, no Stata moro favorably situateS for trjin the exper iment with comparatWe safety. Other States shüuld carefülly, but as we think, quietly watcW Ha progresa and result.- Jldvcrtiser. The population of Montrea], by tho r.pnsi,. of last year, U forty thausand bohïs, of whom twenty-tbreethousandare EngVish, Trish, and Scotch, a;id their decendcnts, and 17,000 ai Frëncb Caoadians.