The news that tho plea of insanity set up in Deomiiig's caso has been rejected and the

inhuman monster sentenced to death will

not cause much surprise to anyone. We certainly think it would bo impossible for any Court to entertain the plea of inslinc-

tive criminality in extenuation of the horrible crimes of which the prisoner has been guilty. Such a plea in simply the old one of insanity under another naiuc, and the law, in such cases, with regard to the criminal , . , ' responsibility, is clear. The first lc-ral authorities in Eng land have decried that insanity does not

absolve the criminal from the punishment attaching to Imp act, if it can lie proved that, sit the time of lii.s committing it, he was conscious of a violation of the lawe of the land. In the ease of Deeming, the careful preparations he made before curry ing out his diiibolic intentions, and the })ains he took to conceal his act.-?, ufiord sullieient ovideuuo of his beintr aware of the penalties fchoir discovery would entail.
