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      spoken the truth , which was mnro ' ti .., 7 , ' , lin- police had done . rSS ^ f ? chuck-HoWs evidence , who said Z -f , iI < mor standing at the gate a & f V" * otbers was liandedlna pknollhe estatf tV *™ ' ' ^ > out the localities , and 152 * th J "T' f l s other parties mwiu *" s mn that , as she and the Jort m thf ^ * r - S ° ne after hearing the relame ou ^ fe ? Mch the man ' ^ nt who iwSwSl a ? haUj *¦ * was k *•>» h 'S hest degree im-SeSin ^ iyi- that ^ ncoml frZ iiieaau in that direction would go bv the snnrJhZ six young people were ku .-hin * and tal ^ JJlth ppawti-KS S ^^ w ^ ass was no time for Harvey to go . as he said he did . ^ | f LL W polic e had ' done . IS S lSl ? ( l

      hucklorry-nve yards . He alluded to the cook ' s eridence , who talked of the time that ' -intervened '' between the lust and second report ; and contended that the witnesses had all been brought to depose pretty well to the same thing , and to a gree before the jury . After alluding to the papers dropped in the hall , one Of which in his opinion , was inside the passage , and complaining that a certain witness was not called on this point , he adverted to the evidence about the hanging tothe door , whichhe disbelieved - and againasked why Blanchflower was not examined . They had seen witnesses put into the box , and not asked a single question . Why did not Mr . Evans call a witness so important to him ( the prisoner ) as that witness was I If Mr . Evans had acted as an honourable man , he would have called her , that he ( Rush ) might have had the opportunitv of brinsnn " out evidence in his favour . With regard to the

      threatening expressions attributed to him , after what had been said by the witnesses whom he had examined , could they believe that he ever used those expressions ? Then , said he , there is the evidence of Emily 8 andford . There is every excuse for her , poor girl , God Almighty knows ! But Shall be able to produce further evidence on this point . I have a letter from Mr . Cann . Can anything be more unfair than the wav in which her evidence was taken ? When preparing for her examination in Bridewell , she was with the magistrates at the Hall at twelve o ' clock In the morning , and did not leave until twelve at night . What do vou think she was doing aU that tune ? Whv , she was examined over and over again . If I had " been able to examine her free from the influence of the magistrates , I should have been able to have believed Jaer , for I believe she is honest enough to tell the truth . But what can I do under the circumstances ?

      It was understood when Clarke was examined that I was to have Iradan oppportunity of cross-examining liim . —Thejndgesaid the pri- ^ onercould examine him : —The prisoner remarked on the evidence of Fuller : As to the trunk of a tree , -which Pulter said was laid over a . ditch between Potash and Stanfield Hall , he should show , by evidence , that , when he had two farms , it was a gap ; and the tree ivas only laid over ; but it was a most absurd thing to suppose that any person would . venture over this at night . It struck him , too , that Tic should be able to prove that the murder was committed later than stated by Stanley , who said that he was the first person in the ha ' lL and that it was then half-past eight . He noticed the statement of Watson and another

      witness , to show that it was more likely to have been nine o clock ; and said from the way in which the policemen gave their evidence , it always appeared io him , that it was apreyiously concerted story . He noticed some discrepancies in the evidence of the police who apprehended him , as to what was said at the time ; and also to what he sa * : d was contradictory evidence , by Pont , about the boots found in his room ; he saying before the coroner that they were wet , but appeared dry on the side which had i > een next the fire , but before the magistrates that ihey appeared to have been wiped . All these discrepancies the jury will be kind enough to take into their consideration ; but that there may be no doubt on the subject , he would produce the boots

      he wore on the night in question . Why had not the prosecution called Savory ? Why , because they were afraid he would have told the truth , as they had failed to tamper with him . After undergoing iwenry examinations , and remaining in Bridewell a considerable lime , they had refused to call him . He would produce Savory to" prove that he ( Rush ) Lad taken the greatest pains to preserve the game ; that there had been a great quantity of game on the farm , and that there was still , notwithstanding the depredations of the poachers . If Savory was so dishonest as not io acknowledge that , nothing could exceed him for lying . —With respect to the direction he was said to have taken on the night of tho murder , Air . Drane , the surveyor of Norwich , had

      stated that the river along which he was supposed to have walked , was ten or twelve feet , and eight or nine feet wide . It was not likely that he should nave attempted in the darkness of the night , to walk along that river , much less to jump across it . The prisoner then adverted to the secret manner in which the witnesses underwent their first examination in the brown parlour in Stanfield Hall , and expressed his conviction , that Emily Sandford and Watson , tho butler , gave true evidence oh that occasion , and testimony that did not do him the slightest damage ; but that , from the undue influence exercised over them , their evidence was -warped and twisted ; and he should show before he Lad done , that that was the case ; and that Mr .

      Cann knew very well the gross injustice he was dolus * him . After detailing some previous business transaction with Mr . Cann , the prisoner directed tie attenrion of the jury to the statements of those servants who had spoken to have seen him so often at Stanfield Hall . On one day mentioned , the 21 st of November , no one had seen him , not even Watson . Mr . Jermy wished him to go directly through the front door , " and when he had any business to transact to call about ei ght o ' clock in the evening , as being the most convenient time . The statements of these servants were all false ; he firml y believed that not one of them had seen kiin half a dozen times in their lives . He again declared his belief that Mr . Cann had tampered with the witnesses ; more

      especially with Emily Sandford , than whom no one in the world had more grossly perjured herself . —The prisoner airain reverted to Watson ' s evidence , and said it was clear Mr . John Cann was in the butler ' s pantry , although the witness said he was not ; that the cloaks taken from Potash were shown at the hall ; and that the witnesses gave their evidence relating to them from what they had seen after the murder . He again referred to Blanchflower ' s evidence , contrasting it with Read's ; and Observing that he had put on the wi g , and the witnesses who pretended to have seen a man with a

      wis , said that he did not resemble lum . Chestney s evidence , he said , was the most extr aordinary upon the face of the earth , after what she had stated the first time . There was no secret about the wigs ; a few years ago he was losing his hair , and he had a vis made , but- his hair growing again it became of EO use . He returned it to the maker , who would not take it , and there was an action about it at the county court . He again attempted to weaken the testimony of the witnesses as to his identiiv bv statins that he lived more at Felmingham than at Potash , and was seldom at Stanficld ; the witnesses therefore had not such a knowledge of liim at to warrant the minute description they had

      given . The jury now retired for refreshment ; and on their return the trial proceeded . The prisoner commenced by referring to Eliza Chcstncv ' s evidence , adverting to alleged discreliancies and contradict ions , and contending that she could not possibly have had time to identify the man in the passage , of to speak with any certainty as to lis manner and dress . His remarks were long , and ofa most rambling nature . On the subject of disguises , he contended , that it was preposterous to think that , if Be had gone out in them , as stated , lie Should have kept them in the house , and repeated that , thoug h he and Mr . Jermy had been on very had tcrmsfhe never had any ill-feeling towards him . not been

      Tho evidence of Emily Sandford had given in court so consistently with truth as it was before the magistrates ; from beginning to end , he was sorrv to sav , it had no foundation in truth . He referred to passages of the evidence , to show discrepancies which he contended proved this assertion . Her not recollecting when he named his mother that he also named his children ; her not knowing on the night of the 28 th of November whether her watch was going or not , were instances adduced why her testimony was not to be credited . The prisoner , addressing the counsel for the prosecution , said , " I wish to know whether a letter addressed to Mr . Jermy , and another addressed to Mr . Clarke , will be produced ?"—Sergeant Byles said : Yes .

      Hut no such letters were read in evidence . —The Prisoner : Those letters were from his children . He then again reverted to the abstraction of papers from ins carpet bag , contending that many of then ? were of importance for Ms defence , and others for the pecuniary interests of his children . He said in Hubberstv ' s evidence were the grossest falsehoods ; and once more adverting to what Emily Sandford had deposed , he said her evidence was influenced by what she had heard from Savory . He should show that Others had watched for poachers as well as himself ; and on the nig ht tf d » ^^ Wwa » Wi-y t ^^^^^ S com ? , m compliance witn nis wifcii . * - __ , __ ,, * .

      Sfnrmed , recollect many things sue J ™ - « £ forget , and said he knew it would not do foi them to Eve as they had been doing ; and , fere forc , it -was agreed that she should be his housekeeper , both from respect to her family and his own . ine jury could see that when she gave her evidence she was anything but friendly to him , whatever she had been before . " Having again referred to , and remarked on , Harvey ' s evidence , and to that of the servants , le observed that the mVn who fired the first gun or pistol would not have gone round the haU and entered at another doorf just where all the servants ? ere to be found , for the purpose ofshootmgyomg ib * . Jenny , a man knowing the hall as well as he did must hWe Wmadto hive attempted such a ttins . It wasSh more probable that be would

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      have turned in at the porch doou to carry oub his horrible purposes . Recurring to Miss Sandford ' s evidence , he said that the paper J ) was prepared for the purpose of being signed by Mr . Jcrmy , when he ( Rush ) found him desirous to sanction the terms ; and Emily Sandford ' s determination to go with him to the hall on the evening mentioned in her evidence was a proceeding fraught with much mischief , was most extraordinary , and one which he could never understand . The prisoner , hi the course of his remarks , insisted that the witnesses were taken and kept by the prosecutors in order to enable them to substantiate the case for the prosecution . He reverted to the evidence previously given about the have turned in at the imnih . lAhi . to t *™ ™ v . v »

      hall . He then entered upon the evidence of the medical gentlemen and disputed the correctness of the conclusion at which those gentlemen had arrived in reference to some foreign material in the cartridge the fragments of which were found at Stanfield Hall ' The prisoner , after having for a short time dwelt upon this part of the evidence , directed his observations to the proofs of the handwriting the documents were in ; with regard to Howe ' s evidence he said he never spoke to him for five minutes in Ins life , and he believed God Almi ghty put it in his mouth that Howe was a big villain . After some further remarks the court broke up at ei * ht o ' closk . He had been addressing the court sinco ten o'clock .

      Wedxesdat , April 4 . THE VERDICT . This protracted and extraordinary trial was resumed this morning before Baron Rolfe , at nine o ' clock . Upon the learned baron taking his seat , the prisoner was conducted into the dock . He appeared little affected by his extraordinary exertions of yesterday . The prisoner referred to the evidence of Emily Sandford . Let the jury _ consider how this witness had given her evidence in that court , and how she Lad given it before the coroner and magistrates previously . Her evidence would not have been of the slightest consequence , had she not been

      tampered with . The prisoner then referred to the evidence of Howe , and said—If Howe had been a respectable man , his evidence would have been of the greatest consequence ; but of course after what they had heard they would not place any credit upon his testimony , as he was one of the worst of characters . He ( the prisoner ) had that morning received a letter , signed bv several persons , saying that they had heard Howe state that he would give his evidence on either side for £ 20 . He hoped the jury would pay attention to the depositions taken before the coroner and those before the magistrates ; the cross-examination showed some most extraordinary facts . Fulter , for instance , said he could not say that the straw was there a fortnight .

      —ihe Judge said , that Howe ' s evidence was of no consequence , and that the question as to how long the straw had been down , had not been asked of the last-mentioned witness . —The prisoner then complained bitterly of the manner In which the prosecution had been got up by Mr . Cann ; of the keeping his papers by the prosecution ; and of several witnesses having been examined by the magistrates who had not been brought before the jury . -Now , with respect to the documents which had been brought forward , bearing Mr . Jermy ' s name , it was preposterous to suppose that it was ever intended to make use of them . Mr . Jermv ' s name was so well known that nobody would have taken the one . on the document for his . A document had been taken

      from his papers which would have shown that it was to his interest that Mr . Jermy should live . The prisoner then proceeded-. Gentlemen of the jury ; I think I can show you that the evidence is all false from beginning to end . Consider the situation I am placed in , and consider also how manv things which might not otherwise be mentioned or thought of , have been turned and twisted against me . Bear that in mind , gentlemen , and as God Almighty knows all that is going on here , I trust he will enable you to come to a right conclusion . Emily Sandford ' s evidence was all false . Was it at all likely that I should have asked a well-educated woman like her to be a party to such forgeries , which were utterlv useless , and which

      the commonest observer must have detected ? Poor thing , she said things , I have no doubt to the best of her knowledge , but then she was tampered with , and her mind was corrupted by those who ought to have known better , and who ought to have striven to do me justice . Why did not the counsel for the prosecution call Savory ? Wh y because they knew perfectly we ll that a ll lus evidence weuld be in my favour . But I shall show before I have done that his evidence goes to establish my innocence , and also that of Mrs . Jermy , whose depositions will be read to you . Why , Mrs . Jermy says that she saw the man ' s coat , arid that she is not perfectly sure whether it was a great coat or otherwise . She knows nothing about disguises or anything of that

      sort . Why , then , I ask again , was she not called , in order that I might cross-examine her ? Upon my honour , it is a case of false swearing from beginning to end ; and his lordship and the counsel for the prosecution know it very well . If I had committed these horrible murders I could never have looked anybody in the face ; and God Almighty knows that if 1 were guilty I could not stand here so long to plead my innocence . Now , is not all the evidence in my favour ? I am sure , gentlemen of the jury , that you will acknowledge that it is . Gentlemen of the jury , I trust to you now , as I leave the case in your hands . May God Almighty give you wise heads and understanding hearts , so that you may see through the evidence clearly , and acquit me of the horrible charge imputed to me . The prisoner then sat down .

      The defence , which lasted so many hours , was delivered throughout in a mumbling tone , which was , during nine-tenths of the time , inaudible by the reporters . The address of the prisoner is not , therefore , fully reported , the points of it only being g iven . The prisoner then handed to his lordship the letter he had read in his defence , which was addressed to his solicitor . Mr . Jones , tho crier , read the letter , and some other documents having been put in and proved , the prisoner proceeded to call his witnesses . The first was

      Mr . George Waugh , solicitor , from London . This witness said—I was at Wymondham on the 1 st December . Mrs . Bryant delivered a message to me to the effect that you would be glad to see mo , but not professionally . An inspector of police was present , and Mr . John Cann . The policeman retired when Mr . Cann came , and the door was shut , I went out of the room leaving you and Mr . Cann together . I afterwards returned , and said I could not wait . I said you had better have a solicitor , and 1 thought you could not have a better than Mi-. Cann , The next witness was Arthur Walker Htde . — The prisoner having asked several irrelevant questions respecting the witness Howe , his lordship said that Howe should be re-called . The witness then stood down , to wait until Howe had been further examined .

      The next witness was Maiua . Blaxchfloweh . She said—I was nurserymaid at Stanfield Hall , and was in the nursery on the night of the murder , when I heard the first report . I heard three more reports before I came down . I came down the back stairs , and went very fast to the servants' hall and back kitchen . I heard a female bustling in the passage . I looked back , and saw a low stout man with no hat on . He was near the back staircase coming towards the side door . Had no time to see if it was a person I knew . The colour of his dress was dark . Had been at the Hall twenty-four days before the murder . Never saw the prisoner before .

      The next witness was the boy Savory . I lived with ' the prisoner ' s son at Potash . There is a great deal of . straw at Potash , at Seven Acres . I got the light boots from the prisoner : the light pair were wet and the heavy pair were dry ; tney had been left at the fire that night by me . 1 sat up one ni g ht at the beginning of the shooting season watching for game : one man was taken up for poaching " . 1 was examined . at Stanfield Hall the day after the murder . I told them you went out between seven and eight o ' clock , or between seven and half-past . That was the latest -time 1 saw the p risoner . I swear it was not eight o ' clock . The court then adjourned for ten minutes .

      On the court re-assembling , the prisoner wished Mr . Howe to be re-called . Howe was then placed in the witness box . He said I do not know John Tinceht , George Blane , James Huskey , I . T . Smith , or Mr . Frederick Braine . I never stated that I would go to Norwich and swear against Rush for £ 20 . Some jokes were passed about £ 100 being got for coming down here , but I never said anything about anv money . In fact , I never thought of getting anv . I tried to remain away , and was most anxious to do so , but my surgeou would not give me a certificate because he did not think I was sufficiently ill . Iloiow nobody in Norwich . I made the remark to the witness Hy de . It was thoughtlessly made . Hn > E was re-called and examined by Mr . Prcndergast—1 heard Howe say he would come down

      here and give evidence , either way , for £ 20 , on the 4 th of December . I live in Edward-street , Newroad , at the top of Baker-street . I made a memorand um of Howe ' s statement . I will not swear that I did , i committed an error . I made a mistake , lam an accountant , carrying on business at 39 , Lamb s Conduit-street . No name of any kind is on the door . Miss Smith keeps the ground floor . I went there at Christmas , 184 S . I pay £ 25 per year . I have had a clerk ( Williamson ) a long time . He stays in the front room . I only knew Howe on the nig ht he made the statement at an Elocution Society . I was the chairman . I lived at a coffeehouse , and have been a public an once , and "I have been in the Metropolitan Police . I came from Ireland before that . A solicitor in London paid me £ 3 to come down here . The witness then retired . — Rush : It is no use calling -witnesses , and 1 shan't call any more , when this fellow ( Howe ) comes down at the last moment and swears all manner of things ,

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      what can I do ? It is shameful conduct ia ft , court 01 justice , but yoii may ^ o-hs ' -yjouliker '•"•"¦ ' . . The Prisoner then mad 6 application" for certain documents which " he requested might be put in , amongst others a lengthsne ' tl pamphlet which he wrote some years ago : •' - " '" The Judge : Docs that 'pamphlet tend to show your innocence ?—Rush : Why the police have taken possession of this pamphlet , and that is the thing . — The Judge : I don't understand what you mean . Do I understand that you wish to offer documentary evidence?—Rush : Yes , of course . I wish to show that what 1 stated to the jury was correct . A lengthened conversation took place between the judge and the prisoner . The judge stating that TZ , ,.. . .

      certain papers which he had called for from Mr . Cann were not admissible as evidence . This closing the case for > the prisoner . Sergeant Byles then rose" to reply , and after some remarks upon the delicacy of the duty ho had to perform , proceeded to comment upon the evidence which had been adduced by the various witnesses . The learned Sergeant concluded a very careful and lengthy address by remarking that the jury would do their duty towards the prisoner , and also to the prosecution . The learned Junes then proceeded to charge the jury . He said—Gentlemen of the jury , your decision in this case must be formed exclusively on the testimony which has been given in this court . We

      are inquiring into the death of Mr . Isaac Jermy , and under what circumstances he came by his death . It has been detailed by a number of witnesses , but as something may afterwards transpire as to the precise cause of death , I will read the testimony of several wiinesses . [ The learned Judge then read the evidence of Watson , Chestney , and Read , in which they speak to seeing ; the person in the hall shoot the two Mr . Jermys !] He then proceeded to say—that is the account sworn to by three witnessses on the part of the prosecution . It has b' on further confirmed by two pieces of evidence which have been put in by the prosecution—I mean the depositions of Mrs . Jermy and Maria Blanchflower . Mrs . Jcrmy said she" was the widow of Mr . Isaac

      Jermy Jermy .... On the night of the murder she was with her husband in the drawing-room . A report was heard ; and her husband hastened out of the room to learn the cause . A second report took place , when she left the apartment , and in the staircase hall ' she saw the body of her husband and a man attired in a disguise , who fired at and wounded her , as also her maid , Eliza Chestney . That is the account which Mrs . Jenny gave . You have , therefore , the testimony of five persons , in addition to which there is the evidence , which is not unimportant , of Edward Stanley , who was the first witness called on Friday , and of Honor Holmes , and although their account differs as to time , still the variation is so small that it is not important , and

      therefore makes no material difference . I may say , by way of anticipation , that only four shots were fired ; the testimony of the two witnesses proved that they couldnotbo expected to be exactly oorrectas toa moment ; God only knows , gentlemen , when his mind shallbe in such a horrible state of excitement , as those persons must have been , what he would do . When the body of Mr . Jermy was found in the porch , it was examined , and a number of pieces of lead were found , whether they are called slugs , or whatever they are called , does not matter . It seems to me , gentlemen , to be abundantly clear , that . the person who shot young Mr . Jermy shot Mr . Jcrmy , senior . There is no doubt that the person who was in the house on that night was guilty of the murder of Mr . Isaac Jenny , senior , and it that be the case , there remains only one thing for you to consider , and that is , who was the man who shot Mr . Jermy , senior , and tho other persons

      afterwards . The prosecutors say the prisoner is the man , and in order to establish the fact the first evidence on that point is the same as I have already read to you . Watson said , " I believe the prisoner to be the man it strnck mc at the time he was the man , " and then he pointed to the prisoner and said , ** That was the man . " Eliza Chestney , in speaking of the point , says , " She saw the head and shoulders , and she formed a belief at the time that he was the man , and that she bad no doubt he was the man . "—The prisoner here made some allusion to the depositions of Chestney endeavouring to show that they varied . —His Lordship said ¦ If you wish it they shall be read , but it docs not make the least difference , the slight variation is accounted for by the excited state they were in at the time . You have the testimony of four witnesses , who state that they are confident that the prisoner is the man , they saw in the house . You have also five witnesses who

      speak to seeing tho man ; one , however , did not know him , as she had never seen him before ; but the others said they were satisfied he was the man ; that is very conclusive evidence . But there are several objections to bo made , owing to the state of confusion , which I have previously mentioned , ¦ the witnesses were in at the time . And there is no sort of evidence to which so much attention ought to be directed , in order to ascertain its fair burden . There was a case the other day where a man was accused of a , brutal aud almost murdering attack upon a policeman . - He was proved not to have seen or been near : the * 'man .-It was a mistaken identity ; but at tho same time I must say that in this ease the parties had all

      seen the prisoner before , and they were ^ wcll ac--quaintcd with him , and the least sight might have been sufficient to recognise him . If , for- instance ; you saw one of your own children turning a corner , and you only got a sig ht of its . 'shoulder , it would be sufficient lor you to know it . - So it was with those witnesses , as they were-in- the habit of seeing the prisoner come to the Hall . Mrs . Jermy spoke positively to him ; she was in the habit of seeing him . —Hush : I never saw her in my life that I recollect . —The Judge : With regard to the disguise , if there is anything peculiar in a person ,

      it is not easy for them to disguise themselves . The four witnesses speak positively to him . They say they are confident Rush was the man . There is a most important thing in Mrs . Jenny ' s depositions . She says she thought so , and she mentioned it that night . Let us sec what the nurse says , " She saw a low stout man , without a hat , he had a pistol in each hand . "—The prisoner again interrupted his lordshi p concerning the depositions of the witnesses . The learned Judge then proceeded with his charge , which occupied about three hours . The jury then retired and were absent exactly seven minutes .

      On their return the most deathlike silence prevailed . The marshal of the court said , Gentlemen , how say you . Is the prisoner guilty or not g uilty ? The foreman of the jury . —Guilt ;/ . Rush—I am innocent for all that , thank God Almighty . The marshal of the court—Prisoner , you are indicted for the wilful murder of Isaac Jenny . You have pleaded " not guilty , " and put yourself on your country . Your country have found you Guilty . What have you to say ? The prisoner made no reply .

      Baron Rolfe then put on the black cap , and , amidst the entire silence of the court , spoke in the following terms : —James Bloomfield Rush , after a trial unusually protracted you have been found guilty of the crime of wilful murder , a crime the hig hest one human being can commit against another ; the deepest crime under any circumstances of extenuation ; but I regret to say that in your case there is every thing that could add a deeper dye to guilt the most horrible . It appears from letters which you yourself have put in , that to the father of the ' unfortunate victim of your malice you felt you owed a debt of deep gratitude . You commenced a system of fraud by endeavouring to cheat vour landlord , and you followed that system

      up by making that unfortunate girl , whom you had seduced , a tool whereby yon should commit forgery . And , having done that , you terminated your guilty career by , the murder of the son and grandson of your friend and benefactor . More cannot be said . It unfortunately happens that , great guilt is sometimes allied—in imagination at least—to heroism ; with something to dazzle the mind . Butfortu r nately , in your ease , you have made vice as loath ? some as it is ' abominable . No one who has witnessed your trial , and heard the evidence preferred against you , will fail to agree with me . when I tell you that you must quit this world by an ignominious death , the object of unmitigated abhorrence to every well-regulated mind . I do not make this

      statement for the purpose of upbraiding you , but for the purpose of pointing out to you the . dreadful situation in which you stand . To society it must be a matter of perfect indifference what shall be your conduct in the few remaining days that shall be allowed to you . No concealment of the truth , in which you may persist , will cast the slightest doubt on the propriety of the verdict which the jury have returned . Xo confession you can make will add a taper ' s light to the broad glare . of day which surrounds the evidence against you . So far as society is concerned , the conduct you may pursue during the few remaining days you have to live is a matter of perfect indifference , 'but to yourself , it must be most important . Let me conjure you by every consideration of interest , no less than duty , to employ the short space of time that yet remains

      to you , in endeavouring , by re pentance and prayer , as far as may be , to reconcile yourself to that offended God , before whom you must shortly appear . In the-mysierious dispensations of the Almighty , not only is much evil permitted , but much < m 3 t is allo wed to go unpunished . Perhaps it may be presumptuous , therefore , to trace , in any particular crime the avenging hand of God . But sometimes one docs delight in an investigation into such a case , and I must observe what I would willingly omit that if you bad made that unfortunate girl your ' wife , the policy of the law would have disposed of that link of evidence , which is . so conclusive against you You have been convicted by testimony so clear , that it is perfectly unnecessary for mc to dwell upon it . Having said so much , I will only add my earnest hope , that you will pass that short space of life allowed to you with propriety , and that

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      the only social right ' which -now remains to vou , ^ tLt ^ r- ^ T } ' ^ world , may ' raise in the minds of the vulgar a factitious interest which may be baneful to societ y , but may be employed by yourself m penitence and pravcr , and that you may thus be prepared to meet that awful doom to which in the discharge of my solemn dutv I am now about to sentence you . I hare only to sav this-that you be taken to tho place from whence you came and thence to a place of execution , and that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead , and may the Lord Almighty have mercy on your guilty soul . . ' ' During tho delivery of this address , the maioritv of the persons present were moved to tears ' The solemnity and earnestness of manner in which the learned baron delivered his address had a perceptible effect on the minds of the audience . Six days incessant labour have fallen to the lot of the learned baron ; and it may be safely affirmed that on no

      previous occasion has a judge displayed more patience or moro discriminating judgment than Baron Rolfe has exhibited in this case of the Stanfield Hall murders . Rush was then removed , and , contrary to general expectation , he said not a single word . The court then broke up ,

      The Bristol Murder-Trialofsarah Thomas. ...

      THE BRISTOL MURDER-TRIALOFSARAH THOMAS . Tomday , April 3 rd .-The trial of Sarah Thomas for the murder of her mistress , Miss Elizabeth Jeffenes , commenced at tha Gloucestershire assizes , held in the Slnrehall , m Gloucester , at nine o ' clock this morning . Mr . Whitmore and Mr . Skinner were counsel for the prosecution , and Mr . Sergeant Allen for the prisoner Mr , WhITMSRh having opened the ca ? e , Mrs . W heeler , charwoman , of Bristol , deposed that she sometimes went of errands for the deceased , who was occasionally without a servant . She was a woman of violent temp v . The last servant was the prisoner . Lucy Chad preceded her . Witness called on her on the Friday , March 2 nd , and was to call again next day . Did call in the afternoon of that dav , aud found the house closed .

      Ann Ham stated that she lived with her husband at No . 6 . Trenchard-street , Bristol , next door to Miss Jefferies . On the morning of Saturday , the 3 rd of March , about five o ' clock , witness was awoke by a screaming in Miss Jefferies' bedroom , which adjoined her own , being divide ! by a party wall . Witness being alarmed , went to the bedroom of Mrs Fry , in whose house she lodged , and found thatslie , too , had been awoke by the noise . Witness , at Mrs . Fry ' s suggestion , knocked at the wall of the bedroom , and about a minute afterwards the screaming ceased . At about sevea o ' clock the same morning , the prisoner came to her house , and said her mistress had sent her to say she hoped Mrs . Fry would not be alarmed at what she had heard that morning , for that the cat bad got on her mistress ' s bed and frightened her , and she said that she was going to leave her service , f > r that her mistress was a bad mistress

      Mrs . Fry corroborated the testimony of the last witness . Mr . Henry Jefferies , formerly a surgeon , and brother to the deceased , deposed that she was sixty-one years of age , and had been estranged from the family . ' On Wednesday , March 7 , the witness accompanied some policemen to the house of his slater , M \ d o * pvoceedvng up-stairs fonntl the body lying on the bed partially covered with the bedclothes . Witness described the horrible spectacle presented by theenrpse , the state of the room , which streamed with blood y and other appeavances presented . Witness missed several articles of jewellery , of which the majority were afterwards produced in court , having been found on the prisoner and in her boxes , the whole of which he identified as the property of his eccentric and murdered sister .

      M , Bernard , surgeon , of Bristol , who was called In to . inspect the body , more particularised the nature of the wounds which had been inflicted . They were exclusively upon the head . There were seven wounds on the head , three of which , in his opinion at least , had been caused by a blow from a large stone found on the hob by the side of the fire , in the bedroom , and which stone had been kept in the house for the purpose of keeping open the kitchen door . [ Tlris stone , produced in court , was a very heavy one , and would be a murderous instrument in ths hands of a determined assailant . ] Mr . Bernard described the appearance of the body from memoranda taken at . the time . His opinion was , that death had been caused by concussion of the brain , produced by the blows on the head . In cases of concussion the sufferers usual ! - / were incapable of crying out , but he had known cases wheii parties so suffering had been able to c > y out .

      A number of policeman were then examined to state the proceedings which had been taken on the discovery of the murder to detect the perpetrators . These witnesses made the discovery of the stone on the hob of the grate , and which was produced in " court and bore marks of blood , having also one or two grey hairs upon it . The production of the murderous weapon excited great sensation in the court . Four or five policemen were called , each of whom produced some portions of the property stolen from the house of the murdered woman , and a'l of which were found in the house of the prisoner ' s mother , where she had taken refuge , and where she was apprehenJed in a coalhole , half dressed . This property consisted of rings , brooches , and other

      jewellery , clothes , and numerous other articles , all of which were fully and very satisfactorily identified by Mr . Henry JefTeries , the brother of the deceased . In the pocket of tlm prisoner were found between thirty and forty sovereigns . The prisoner was traced home with a number of boxes , which were removed from Trencliard-street , partly by herself and partly by a' man whom she engaged . She left her boxes for a short time ( or a portion of them ) at a confectioner ' s , and called fu-them afterwards in a fly . This was on Saturday evening , and it was proved that she bad stated to one person that she had left Miss Jefferies' service ou Thursday , and to another on Saturday , white it was clear that she had not left there until the Saturday , the morning of the murder , when she was seen by the next-door neighbour .

      Mr . Webb , a neighbour of the deceased , proved that on the morning of the murder he saw a man removing a box from Miss'Jefferies' front door with the aid of a female , who was in the doorway . The woman had a bundle under her arm , aud was in the act of shutting the door when witness passed . Did not observe the features of either man or woman . This was about eleven o ' clock , a . m . Mrs . Ryan proved that a young woman left a bundle with her the same - afternoon , and fetched it away in the evening . Did not know her . John K . OWXKY , flyman , proved that the prisoner hired his fly on Saturday evening to take her to Horfiehl . They called at the last witness ' s house and took up a bundle on the way . The prisoner had also a small mahogany box , a trunk , and a bag .

      As ** Thomas , the mother of the prisoner , who it will be remembered was at first charged with a participation in the crime of her daughter , was then examined . She appeared quite unmoved , and did not look' towards her unhappy child . She stated that the prisoner came home to Horfield on the Saturday afternoon between four and five o ' clock ' , and brought her boxes with her . She represented that her mistress used her very ill , and that she had , therefore , left her . The prisoner went to Bristol again that evening , and also on the Monday ,

      Tuesday , and Wednesday evenings following . The police came on the Wednesday night , and , at her daughter ' s request , she told them she was not there . When the police came , the prisoner , who was in bed , ran down stairs ; and hid herself in the coal hole . The prisoner w ' as eighteen years of age . . . ' Several witnesses were then examined to trace the keys , of Mrs . Jefferies' front door . These keys , on the Wednesday after the murder , were found in a groove in the shutters at the Flitch of Bacon public - house in Host-street . They were found to be the door and latch key ' of tho front door of Miss

      Jefteries'house . Mrs . Sollis proved that , on that Wednesday night , the prisoner was at her house for a short time , and said she had left Miss Jefferies' house on the previous Thursday .. When she left witness ' s house she proceeded in the direction of Host-street , which was within three minutes ' walk of witness ' s house . The next class of evidence was that given upon the prisoner ' s extraordinary confession . This was proved by two witnesses , viz ., Policemen M'Clymont and O'Donneix . M'Clymont stated , that while the prisoner was in his custody at the Bristol city police-office , she made the following statement to him of her own free will , and without being questioned , except on one point . ' She said , On Saturday morning I was taking down the shutters , when the girl Lewis , who used to live there , came and told me that she had been there frequentl y to g et her character from the old woman , and she would not

      give her a character , so that she could not get a situation . She then said she would go up stairs and kill her . She went up stairs and killed her with a stone . She then opened the cupboard and took out a small box full of sovereigns , gave me part of them , and kept the rest herself , and also all the silver spoons and plate , and said it would be a long lime before it was found out . We then made some pancakes and eat them , and the stone which the old woman was killed with was put on the hob of the grate . " A very similar statement was made to O'Donnell at another time . Lucy Chad ; a former servant of Miss Jefferies , and Mr . Palmer , of Bath , was then examined , to provethat she had lived a vei-y short time with Miss Jeflenes , and had been ever since in Mr . Palmer ' s service , orat her own ' aunt ' s house . Charlotte Morgan , another of Miss J-dTeries ' s former servants ,, said she had lived with her only , two days . All the witnesses who knew the deceased spoke to her being , of a very violent temper , and to her re-

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      quiring the servants to rise very early iu the moi-nin < -. This the case for the crown . Mr . Serjeant Allks then addressed the jury for the prisoner , arguing that , although his learned friend forthe prosecution was qui ; e correct in his facts that the death of the ill-fated Miss Jefferies had been occasioned by the violence exercised towards her by the prisoner , he was wrong in his inference that that violence had been the result of premeditation . He was there to deny that this was a premeditated act of violence . He b ; lieved that after the untimely death of Miss Jefferies the sudden impulse arose in the mind of the prisoner , to steal her mistress's property . He believed that the girl , not knowing in her immature idea of things , that

      there was any difference between murder and manslaughter , and being desirous of escape , approprh ted the property as affording the ready means to effect that esc ipe . Ilia Lordship summed up , and r capitulated the facts of the case , giving a brief but succinct history of it , showing the parts where the evidence affected the prisoner . He read numerous extracts from the evidence of the witnesses , pointing out its application to the case as he proceeded ; and in his concluding remarks sud that if the jury were satisfied that the screams heard on the Saturday morning were those of the deceased , and that the prisoner had inflicted the wounds found on her mistress , wi ' . h the stone , as set forth in the indictment , they must do their duty , and return a verdict accordingly . The learned counsel for the prisoner had , in a very able address , urged the want of proof of premeditation ; but it did not appear that the prisoner might not have brought the stone , by which the death of

      the deceased was cauaed , from the kitchen on the the previous night , aud concealed it in the rooom . It was their duty deliberately to weigh the evidence on both sides . If they thought that the prisoner did inflict the wounds , which caused the death of Mi-s Jefferies , premeditatedly , they must in that case vindicate the law and find the prisoner guilty of murder . But if they thought that the prisoner had inflicted the wounds in her own defence against her mistress , and in resenting the attacks of her mistress , they would find the prisoner guilty of the lesser crime of mans aughter . He need not remind them that if they had any rational doubt upon the subject , they must give the prisoner the benefit of it . The Jur y then retired , and were absent about three-quarters of an hour . On their return they d Jivered a verdict of " Guilty of murder , " at the same time recommending the prisoner to mercy on account of her

      youth-His Lordship then passed sentence , during which the prisoner was dreadfully agitated , and at the termination moaned in deepest anguish of mind . She was conveyed from the dock by the officers in a most distressing condition .

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      Health of London During the Week . — The deaths registered in the week were 1 , 241 , or seventytwo more than tho weekly average of the season . But it must bo observed , that the excess in this return is not caused by sudden increase of mortality : it is due to an accumulation of coroners' cases , which occurred in previous weeks , though they were not registered till the end of the quarter . The cases on which inquests were held , and registered last week were 198 , and arc principally found amongst violent and sudden deaths . If sixty be taken as the number of inquests that on the average actually occur in a week , which is probably not far from the truth , 133 aro included in this return to account for the increase of deaths registered . Tho

      persons who died in the week were , therefore , about 1 , 100 , while the average is 1 , 109 . Small pox , measles , typhus , pneumonia , and p hthisis , all continue to be less fatal than usual ; hooping cough prevails to some extent . Cholera has nearl y disappeared from London , the deaths in last week being not more than four . Six deaths were caused by privation , most of them havin g occurred , probably ; in various weeks of the quarter . A cork-cutter , of thirty-five years , was found in Spur-street , Leicestersquare , and died in twelve hours afterwards , of " exhaustion from want of the common necessaries of life , arid general neglect "—( Inquest . ) The wife of a pensioner at Greenwich died of " serious apoplexy , hastened by the want of proper nourishment " —( Inquest . ) The whole number of deaths in the last three months by starvation , cither from poverty or self-neglect , or voluntary abstinence in lunacy ,

      is thirteen ; the number from want of breast-milk and inanition , in the same period , is twenty-ei g ht . A man died from injury , which he reccive d from falling in a state of intemperance . Two lads , respectively seventeen and eighteen years , died from excessive drinking ; one was found dead on board a ship ; in tho first quarter of this year , intemperance is reported as the immediate cause of twenty-one deaths ; in other cases persons died of injuries ' from falls , carriages , or otherwise , after excess in drinking ; also forty deaths arc ascribed to dcZtWum trc >« cns , a disease -which , in a majority of cases , is the effects of intemperance . A woman died in Thornhill-strcct , Islington , of fever after childbirth , in which the medical attendant certifies , that her illness was agravatcd , if not caused , by bad drainage . A girl ot six years also died in St . Giles-in-thc-Fields ( North ) , of " typhus ( five days ); and deficient drainage . " according to medical certificate .

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      r J : Suicide of a Clergyman * . — Wo ( Liverpool Jour- t : ud ) , deeply regret to say that the llcv . Mr . Chap- n nan committed suicide this " morning ( Saturday h ! ast ) , at Prescot . [ On reference to the clergy list , s ivn found that Mr . Chapman enjoyed the vicarage / sf Prescot , valued at £ 1 , 352 per annum . ] [ IIv-gclatiox or ttm-R . -uov . s' -s . — The magistrates t » f tho borough of Leeds have adopted a petition to the House of Commons , recommending a more - stringent system of licensing houses , for tliQ sale of beer than that which at present exists . ]

      LOSS OF THE & TEAM-S 1 UP Forth . —An liivestiga- tion into the circumstances attending the loss of the steam-ship Forth , on the Alacranes reef , was held at Southampton on Saturday last . The tribunal was composed of the following gentlemen , who constituted an inquiry committee of the com- pany : —Captain Shepherd , of the East India Company , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house , Chairman ; Captain Mangles , a managing director , Vice-Chair- man ; Captain Nelson , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house ; Captain Barton , lt . X ., tho com- pany ' s superintendent at Southampton ; Captain E . N " . Chappcll , R . N ., secretary of the company ; Captain Wish . 11 . X ., auditor of the company ; likewise the commanders of three of the company ' s ships in port , Lieutenant P . Hast , U . 1 S ., of the Avon ( the senior officer and commodore of the company ' s fleet ); Captain'William Allen , of the Dec ; and Captain W . Vincent , of the Severn . The whole tenourof tho evidence ( to which a patient and careful hearing of four hours was given by the committee ) demon- strated that the loss of this fine steamer arose from—1 , an error in the reckoning ; which , how- ever , ought to have been counteracted by different observations and attention to the sounding lead ; 2 , a violation of the company's regulations in regard to frequent soundings , as before alluded to ; and 3 , by the taking from his post of one of the lookout men . As the most explicit instructions on these heads are laid il own in the eompanj- 's volume of re- gulations published for the information and guidance of their officers , the resolution arrived at , after delibration , was , that a laxity of discipline in relation to the duties of the navigation of tho ship j aused her position to be wrongly computed , and lei- total destruction consequently followed . The lecision arrived at by the committee was — that it vould bo their painful duty to recommend to the 3 ourt of Directors the dismissal of Captain Stunlce ind the chief officer from the company ' s service ; hat the second officer should be reduced to the ; radc of third officer for one voyage , and . that the ¦ bird officer should be reduced to the grade of " ourth officer for one year .

      Lord J . Manners for South Nottinghamshire , t -There is every probability of Lord J . Manners ; icing induced to oner himself as a candidate for the 1 representation of South Nottinghamshire , in which ' the resignation of Colonel Rolleston will shortly i Ji'cate a vacancy . A requisition is in course of 1 signature , inviting Lord J . Manners to allow him- i self to be put in nomination . Mr . lkomley , son - ) f Sir Robert Howe Bromley , Hart ., of Stoke , Hall , has also been requested to offer himself * as a * candidate , and has acceded to the request . —Derby- i iltire Courier . J Distress warrants

      ¦ JHURCH-UAT 15 seizures . — were issued ' on Tuesday by the Southampton magistrates against a great number of persons in the Earl of Guilford ' s parish for church rates . The church- warden has applied to the earl to repair the church himself , and render tho enforcement of the distress warrants unnecessary ; but the rev . earl is inoxora- blc , and has ordered the churchwarden to enforce the law . He declares that if tho latter falters in the least , lie will call on the archdeacon to prose- eutc him . Tub Mail Robberies . —The Convict Poole . — We hoar that Poole is nothing daunted by his sen- tence . He was heard to say , " I played for a hi gh stake , and I have lost , but I am not such a fool as to re « rct it . If I had the same opportunity I should do tile same again . " He paid great attention to the witnesses on the trial , and wrote notes to his solicitor , suggesting questions , incessantly . A quire of paper , we should say , at least , was consumed in thi 6 way . His wife was not affected on hearing the sentence . She was in court the whole day . —Dewn \ - shii-e Chronicle , The Murders in Livbrpool . —Mrs . Henrichson , mother of the two children murdered in Liverpool , expired on Friday night week . The unfortunate lady remained in a state of insensibility from'the time she was attacked by the assassin . On the forenoon of this day the prisoner , John Gleeson "Wilson ,

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      was taken up to the Southern Hospital , in r-rde that the servant gir ! might have an opportunity of civiii " her evidence as ta his identit y . II , w . is broughti > to aeroom with six w seven others , wh-n the girl imme . uilely pointed bun out as the man who lodccd at her mistress s house , and made the brutal attack upon them . The following i s tlw stntement of rli * cirl ( Mary Ptt-r ) , which was reduce . ! to writin---She said she lived servant with M » . Henrichson , whoso husband was at sea . WYSO n , who was present , took lodgings at _ their bouse for a month . He came on Tuesday night . Her mistress went out the next morning to market between nine and ten o ' clock , and she was cleaning the front parlour ; Her mistress hud two children—the elder , George , five years old , anil the younger , John Alfred , three years old . The children were left in the house with her when her mistress went to market . They were in the front

      parlour and the prisoner in the bach . In a few minutes after , he came from the back parlour , with a newspaper in his hand and asked her the price of a set of fireirons , and the fenffer and card tables . He struck the children on the head with ihe newspaper in fun . and sent them out of the room , but the oldest opened the door again , The prisoner had the t < mgs in his hand , and asked her the price of them , and she was at the time cleaning the shovel . She did not remember his saying anything , but he then 'truck her with the tongs somewhere on the head , and knocke-. l her down , and she did not remember anything more except lying there . The children were in the room when lie struck her , but where they went afterwards she did not know . She never saw " hr-r mistress after that . She was near the flic side when he struck her , and remembered nothing afterwards . She had lived nearly five years with her mistress . Had been to

      Mr . Arkin ' sofhce lately , where she received £ 10 for her mistress . Her mistress had a green purse , also a watch and chain , which were those shown to her . [ These articles were found on the prisoner when he was detained at the police-office . ] The prisoner had no luggage with him , but said he was expecting It . A note came to him that morning , which he said was from Ins governor , telling him he need not be in a hurry to come to work . He said he must wait for his clothes . She did not know that her mistress wove her watch that morning . The prisoner bad no money , and borrowed sixpence from her mistress . When the lad brought the note , the prisoner had but throe halfpence out of the sixpence ,-and her mistress lent him three halfpence more to give the lad . The prisoner only slept in the house one night . —The prisoner , on being asked , declined to' put any questions and did not betray any sympt ins of emcti-vn , hia conduct being similar to that he exhibited on the previous evening at the police-office .

      The Lnqukst . —On Monday , an inquest on the bod es of the sufferers by the late murders in Liverpool was held before Mr . 1 ' . F . Curry , the borough coroner , and a jury . The jury proceeded in the first instance to view the bod y of Mrs . Henrichson , at the Southern Hospital , and the inquest commenced at the police court , ab mt half-past eleven o ' clock . — Daniel Roebuck , a boy , was the first witness called . lie said that on \ Vednesdav he took some china to . Mrs . Henrichson . I rang ' at the bell , but got no answer . I then looked through the keyhole , and saw the legs or feet of some female lying in the lobby . Could not sec her bead . When first he looked he hoard several deep groans . Concluding that she must have fainted , he called a , bov anil told

      him to look through the key-bole . Then went to the cellar door and shouted . Got upon the window sill and saw the servant and eMU \ vi »§ in t \> e front parlour , lie then fetched a policeman . —John Hughes , the young man who first broke the window aud entered the house , repeated the evidence he had given before Mr . Rushton . When it was finished the priso 1 er said , I ' ve no questions to put to that chap . "—James Wilson , po ! i < : e-constablc , 023 , produced the knife with which the youngest child ' s throat had been cut . Its production caused a shudder of horror in court , and the prisoner was apparently the only one unmoved . — Police-constable Hough produced the bent poker found near Mr .-. Ilenrichson's head . It was the head of the poker , it appeared , with which the blows had been inflicted , lie also produced the shattered bonnet ami v il that Mrs . Henrichson had worn . —Henry Pover , another officer , exhibited the broken tonss anil bloody

      shovel . The newspaper , it appeared , which the murderer had been reading just before the trag ' dy , was tip Eastern Counties Herald . The witne s went up stairs on the discovery of the murder , and found a box of jewellery that had been broken open . A chest of drawers had also been opened , and part of the clothes scattered upon the floor . ( The box of jewellery was produced ; it was in a very shattered condition ) . The box contained also several artie ' es of plate , apparently undisturbed . It had a clasp lock in front . —The prisoner at this stnge of the proceedings intimated to the turnkey adcsiie that witnesses should be called to prove an alibi . —The coroner sa'd , very well , it would be desirable to do so . lie meant to sit till twelve o ' clock at night , if necessary , to complete the inquest , and lie would rather iinisli it \ u owe day . He asked -whew , were the prisoner ' s witnesses 1—The prisoner : I gave timely notice that I wanted them . —The coroner ordered than to be sent for .- Mrs . Ilenrichson ' s death was

      communicated to the prisoner Wilson on Sunday , but the mtellgence had not the slightest effect on him . He has been rather sullen of late ; but on Sunday this gloominess gave way to a . fit of passion , during ivhich he vowed vengeance against Mr . Commi sioner Olough , and made au attempt to force a stick out of the hands of the turr . key who at ' ends him , designing , doubtless , to commitsome mischief ; but fortunately he wa « foiled . He afterwards became again meditative , and ejaculated something to himself . He then , after some preliminary remarks , declared that , if hung , he would , when at the gallows , come out with some revelations that would astonish everybody . After this he was again quiet . —The jury re-assembled on Tuesday , and after some further examination , the prisoner was fully committed .

      Vacancy in the Rkprksk . \ tation of Shkvfield . —On Monday meetings of both sections of the liberal party were held , to select a representative iu the oom of II . G- Ward , E-q ., who bus b ? en appointed Lord High Commissioner of the loivan Islands , and at each it was rc-olv . d to support John- Arthur Koebuck , Esq At a meeting of ' the ultra-Liberal party , which included many « f the Mends of Sir Culling Eardley , the support which it was agreed should be given to Mr . Roebuck was coupled with the . conditions laid down by the meeting of Normanton delegates , at the last eb ction of the West Hidingnamely , opposition to farther ^ religious endowment , support of free trade , economical reform , and a gradual and safe extension of the suffrage , to which was added , a new condition in favour of the ballot . ; j | ¦ j . ] , , .

      York . - Execution . —George Iiowc , _ condemned at York assizes for the murder < -f his child at Yarm , was executed on Saturday last at noon . He seemed to be penitent , but he denied firmly his commission of the deed of which he had been ound guilty . Kunt . —Execution- ron Murdku . —Millan , who was convicted fur the murder of an old man at Bethersden , in this county , was execut » d pursuant to his sentence , at the county gaol , on Wednesday week last . The culprit was brought out at twelve o ' vlock , and after praying for a short time the bolt was drawn , and he died without a struggle , lie was only 17 years of age , and appeared to meet his fate without regret . The prisoner Sheepwash was respited on account of his evident weakness of intellect . He will be placed in a lunatic asylum . KoiiFOLK . —Anothbr Murder . —A fish merchant named Prince , on Sunday , mortally stabbed a man at Ditchingbain , from motives of revenge . . . . i | ] \ ¦ ¦

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      Dublin-, Friday . —Distress in the West . —The accounts of the progress of destitution throughout certain portions of Connaught continue to be of a most deplorable description . The county of Mayo , as usual , takes the lead in the history of horrors . A gentleman named llillcs , writing from Kcwport , enumerates a fearful catalogue of deaths by starvation , and as the names of the unhappy people and all tho circumstances connected with the tragic scene are dulv set forth , there is no reason to suppose that the writer has been guilty of exaggeration . Mr . Hilles concludes his letter , by stating on the authority of a perso n officially connected with the district , a c n a 1 c t

      that fully 1 , 000 lives must be lost within the coming month , as many of those who are on the relivf list were getting only a few ounces of yellow meal daily . Equally miserable is the condition of Conncmnra , where , according to the testimony , of a Soman Catholicpriest , " thecountry appears as if it was after being ravaged by some . powerful enemy . Despair i s visible in every countenance ; industry of every kind is paralysed the field ' s lie waste , and every eye is turned to America . A few only are living ,, ar id fewer still are making aKv preparation for tillage . " LH-blin , Saturday liAncit 31 . —Mr-. C . G- Drcmr . —The Freeman s Journal of to-day has a column and a half occunied with some of the principal signatures i 1 i i ¦ i

      tothe memorial on behalf of Charles Gavau Duffy . It is stated that 10 , 0 * 11 ) signatures have been appended , the prayer of the memorial bemg that all further proceedings should be suspended against the prisoner . As he . is totally ruined , and would neverombark in politics again , and as his private life was excellent , there are many who consider that clemency may be justly exercised towards him with perfect safety to tho community . Several members of the Royal Irish Academy , and members of tho Faculty , besides most influential members of tho mercantile community , have signed the memorial . A good many barristers have also attached theiv names . It is a most respectable demonstration . 1 ' i ' i 1 < ] < ] .

      Clearances and Emigration . — . Between the evictions of . tenants and the tho lands of the southern thoroughly cleared out . is rapidly disappearing , ments by wholesale ; renters of the larger classes up to two hundred ^^

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07041849/page/7/