The Press. — London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

MAY 31, 1856. be taken from the bar at whioh you now stand hack to the gal of Newgate, trout whence you came, an d th at you be afterwards removed to the county gaol of Stafford, that b e i n g the county in which your offence was committed, and that you be there hanged by the neck until ou are d e ad, and your body be afterwards buried within the gaol, and may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul. The prisoner did not seem at all affected while s entence was being pronounced. The moment it w as passed he turned round and walked hastily away f ro m the dock and descended the staircase leading t o the prison, where directly he arrived h e was s tripped and dressed in convict's clothes. After the sentence was passed, no person was allowed to see him or to communicate with him except the under sheriff and the authorities of the prison. Imme dia'ely after the verdict was delivered a telegraphic despatch was forwarded to the governor of Stafford Gaol, requesting him to provide accommodation for prisoner that night. the Before the judges left the court they signed a warrant for the removal of the prisoner to Stafford Gaol, and an order to the sheriff of that county to carry out the sentence. At twenty minutes to eight o'clock two cabs drove up to Newgate, one of them entering the gaol gates, and the other remaining outside the governor's entrance. In a few minutes after Palmer was brought out of the governor's door, pieced in the cab with Mr. Weatherhead ( the governor), and two officers, and driven off as rapidly as possible. A great crowd, however, had collected round the gaol gates, and when, a few seconds afterwards, the second cab was brought out empty, they saw that they had been de ceived, and immediately ran afte► the first cab, which,• owing to the crowded state of the top of Newgaie-street at the time it started, they overtook opposite Hatton-garlen. Several hun dred persons collected here, and hooted the prisoner in the most excited manner. The cab arrived at the Euston station in time for the eight o'clock train. At the station, also, there was much excitement, Palmer (though envelo)ed in a cloak) having been recognised the instant he arrived on the platform, owing perhaps to his being handcuffed to one of the gaolers. He was thrust into the middle compartment of a first-class carriage, and the blinds at once drawn across the windows. At eleven p.m. the train reached Stafford, where a fly was in waiting, and Palmer was immediately conveyed to the gaol. Previous to leaving Newgate he had expressed a particular desire to be taken to Stafford by any other means than by the North-Western Railway, as he was so well known along the line, but the under sheriff informed him that his request could be eomplied with, and he submitted without any further rem ark. Notwithstanding the verdict, Palmer, immediately after the proceedings on Tuesday, complained to the under-sheriff that he had not received a fair trial. The under-sheriff observed, that he had no reason to complain, and reminded him that all the judges agreed in the finding of the jury. Palmer's reply was—" Well, sir, but that don't satisfy me." During the charge of Lord Campbell he repeatedly commu nicated verbally and by written messages with Mr. John Smith, his solicitor, and the counsel conducting his case. After the learned judge had concluded, he addressed a note to Mr. Smith, in which he stated that Lord Campbell's summing up was very unfair towards him, and that, consequently, the jury must be prejudiced against him. He added, however, the expression of his belief that they would find a ver dict of not guilty. Mr. John Smith and Mr. George Palmer, the pri soner's brother, are taking steps to lay before the Home Secretary a statement of facts, mainly in con nection with Vie medical evidence, which they hope will induce the right hon. gentleman to re' ommend ber Majest3 to exe rc i se th e p reroga ti ve o f merc y by mitigating the capital sentence. The grounds on which the appeal will be made are the conflict of medical evidence, and the absence cf any direct proof floe poison had been a lministered to the de ceased. Several communications have been for warded by various medical practitioners, detailing eases of tetanus from natural causes, accompanied by symptons similar to those spoken of in Cook's case ; and although some of those communications were not forwarded in time to be used at the trial, the prisoners friends are sanguine in the hope that they may have a favorable influence in the only quarter to which an appeal can now be made. The execution of Palmer is fixed for the morning of Saturday, the 14th of June, at eight o'clock. The scaffold will be erected on the flat roof of the building forming the entrance to the prison. Since arriving at Staff yd, Palmer's behaviour has been much the same as before his trial. Two of the prison officers are constantly in his cell, and when he does enter into conversation with them, the pnr port of his remarks has chiefly reference to a probe bility of his sentence bring remitted. He is as col lected and unmoved as t val., and evinces cheerfulness and serenity. Up to Tliur day none of his friends had applied for permission to see him. THE PRESS. THE CASE or ARCHDEACON DENISON did not come on at D snors' Commons as expected on Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury being ab.:eut. The Admiralty Advocate, who appeared in the case of " Ditcher v. Denison," on behalf of defendant, before retiring, addressed Mr. Bathurst, the proctor for the Archdeacon, and said that he presumed all the pro ceedings were abandoned. This was a highly cri minal suit, and he must act en tho legal presump tion that the proceedings against his venerable client were abandoned. APooa GIRL was deliberately incited to commit suicide, last Tuesday morning, by jumping off London•bridge, by a man named William May, who was brought before Sir William Carden, at the Man sion -house, in the course of the day. Several wit r esses depos.d to having seen the prisoner, about 3.30 a.m., deliberately help up the girl upon the parapet of the bridge, and heard him say, "Go on, jump in, and I'll follow you." The poor girl, either excited from drink, or insane, jumped off. How ever, tha moment she rose in the water, her senses appeared to have returned, for her cries to be saved were piteous. Boats put off at one'', but the tide was running strongly, and she sank before aqsistance could reach her. The prisoner was imme diately seized by persons on the bridge. He declared he waN trying to prevent the deceased from jumping in. Alderman Carden remanded him till Tuesday next. The body of the poor girl was recovered on Wednesday. MUTINY AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS was hitherto believed to be extinct among British merchant seamen, but a case brought before Mr. Yardley on Wednesday at the Thames Police Court disclosed how narrow was the escape from murder, and worse, of the passengers on board the ship Stebonheath, from Melbourne. The shit) sailed from Melbourne on the 17th February. She had several passengers on board, and 61,000 oz. of gold. Amo'ig the crew engaged at Melbourne was one William Lewis. The second day at sea, Lewis began to talk to another seaman, Boletho, about the diggings and California. One subject led to another, till Lewis recounted how, at Callao some time since, he and other men got a schooner and cruised off the Californian coast for some weeks on the look-out for a gold-ship. They caught one at last, threw the passengers and crew overboard, took out 7,000 oz. of gold, and scuttled the ship. Lewis then asked Boletho how he would like to be in a 7,000-oz. business, to which Boletho replied, Very well, if he could get clear." Lewis then touched upon the subject of seizing the Stebonheath, sailing for Peru, and disposing of her passengers much in the same manner as in the Callao case, except that the " young " women were to be kept till they reached the coast, and then left to sink with the scuttled ship. Bolethn appears to have entertained the proposal very kindly at first. The affair was talked over between these two men for some days. Kent and Whi' tington, two more mtn, were sounded and engaged. Lewis had come on board fully prepared. He had revolvers, powder and bullets, and two phials of laudanum, with a keg of brandy, with which he intended to dose the remainder of the crew until the seizure of the ship was accomplished. On the fourth day, however, and just as every arrangement was complete, the notion of murder in cold blood appears to have aroused some feelings of rem°• se among the three confede rates of Lewis, and two of them went honestly to the captain and informed against him. Luckily he was at the wheel at the time, and without difficulty was seized at once, and placed in irons, till the ship arrived safely home. The evidence against the poi soner on Wednesday was olear, and he was fully com mitted for trial. The passengers made up a hand some donation to the three men. sporting. EPSOM RACES. THE "great event" is at length over, and every Londoner can now rest quiet and easy in his mind for another twelvemonth. Whether the " heal ig" men are disposed to do the same is another ques tion, for nobody seems to have won any money, and everybody to have lost, by the result of the race. The winner, Ellington, was pooh-poohed by layer and taker alike, but there was what is called on the turf " a clever par:y," who backed the, horse thronA thick and thin. This "clever party" could possibly give good reasons why the horse's previous racing performances, at York awl Chester, were so remark ably " belond - -the mark; but "clever" training is an eAcellent thing in horseflesh. There was the usual rush and crush at the railway station, and down the road, both home and back ; and of course the usual amount of accident, more alarming than injurious ; though, at the London bridge station, one person, in his hurry to get into a carriage while the train was being rim up, missed his footing, fell between the atone coping and the eat riage, and, horribly mutilated, died a few #oure after his extrication. The Derby this year as honoured by tie pre sence of Prince Albert and his Royal guests. The Prince has not visited the Derby since Li:tle Won der's year, and as then, so on this occasitn., his Royal Highness brought a drenching rain-st. rm iu his train ; for no sooner was the race well over than it seemed as if the rain, so long held back, had determined to take it out of the people, and threat ened to wash awa not only Mr. Doriing and hi s cor rect cards, but vision, carriages, chicken pies, cham pagne, and all. Stilt the spirit of the people was not damped; though to say they enjoyed the remain ing races on the card as much as it it had been a tine warm day throughout, would be saying too much of human nature even on a Derby-day. The first race run wae— THE EPSOM Towx PLATE ( Handicap) of 50 sore. One mile. Weathercock, 6 pa. Sat 71b Vulcan, 4 yrs, 7st 61b Roving Betsey, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b Eight ran. Won by a neck THE DERBY' STAKES of 60 cove each for Sir olds. Ono mile and a half. 213 subs. Admiral Harcourt's Ellington, by Flying Dutchman, Aldcroft 1 Mr. Howard's Yellow Jack, by Birdcatcher, Wells 2 Lord J. Scott's Cannobie, by Melbourne, .. Sh.-rwood 3 Lord Derh's Fazzoletto, by Orlando, The following also ran :—Coroner, Bay Hilton, Fl,-by- Night, Wandering Willie. Leamington, Aleppo, Wentworth, Bird -in • Hand, Vontlermitlin, Forbidden Fruit, Puck, Newington, The Prince, Mr. Verdant Green, Cotswold, Artillery, Astrologus, Rogerthorpe, Pretty Boy, Dramatist. Betting at starting: 3 to 1 agst Fazzoletto (taken freely), 7 to 2 agst Wentworth, 11 to 2 agst Cannobie, 14 to 1 agst Yellow Jack, 2U to 1 agst Ellington. THE RACE. When the line was first formed, the competitors were thrown into disorder by a mounted policeman wl rode directly in front of them ; the horses brut,. away, but the start was declared to be " false," and they were recalled. At the second attempt the flags were lowered, and the twenty-four horses started in compact order. _ The first to show prominently in the front was Coroner. Behind him was Aleppo heading a ruck, which comprised Fazzoletto, Vandermulin, Cannobie, Artillery, Wentworth, Bird-in-Hand, Astrologus, Bay Hilton, and Ellington, who were eln,tering we 1 together in nearly the order named. At the top i f the hill Aleppo rushed up to Coroner and obtain. d the lead, Coroner falling back and Vandermulin goit on second, with Fazzoletto, Bay Hilton. Artil lery, Wentworth, Cannobie, Ellington, Bir L'et: Hand, and Astrologus showing well up in his wale, close together and pretty nearly in the order in which we have set down their names. Aleppo car ried on the running round Tattenham Corner, and Yellow Jack now began to di aw forward, and at the road he took second place, with Bay Hilton's head at his neck, and Fazzoletto and Cannobie lying close up. At the distance Aleppo disappeared from ins front, and left Vandermulin with a slight lead, Bay Hilton being second; Fazzaletto, Ellington, and Wentworth, the next thri-e ; Artillery being now beaten off. Soon afterwards Yellow Jack went up to Vandermulin, and raced with him head and head, Bay Hilton dropping back, and Ellington biding his time in close attendance on the first two. Half way up the distance, Vandermulin tired, and Ellington came out, with Yellow Jack in hot pursuit, and, after a most exciting race in, beat him easily by a good length, half a length separating the second from the third, and a length the third from the foartli. Van dermulin was fifth, and Aleppo sixth. Wentworth was forward in the next lot. Artillery broke down, and Wandering Willie was absolutely last in. Tel !UNTIE= PLATE ( FltlldiEllp) of 50 EOM One mile. Val Winkle 3 yrs, 7st t lb Tom Burke, 4 yrs, fist 121 b Englemere, 4 yrs, Tat 131 b Treachery, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b. Won in a canter. Tale EPSON Cue of 100 soya.. added to a Sweepstake of 10 sows each. Derby Conrse. Lord Chesterfield's Te pee, 8 yrs, Bst Alb Mr. T. Parr's Saneebox,4 yrs, Bat 71b Mr. Howard's Conner, 3 yrs, Bst 11Ib Won I, 40 lengths: very bad third. Tax Donnas Smuts a a ion. each, with 80 added Hal a mile. Mr. Dawson's Bohhy B 3 yrs (401.) 7st 3'h 1 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plauaible, 4 crs (401.), Tat Alb 2 Eleven ran. Won by a head. Thursday, the " off day," presented no remarkable features of interest, while Fliday's racing resulted Ike follows : Terz OARA. Mincepie M llama Victoria Ten ran. MIMBLas' PLATE. Alcyone !arida Seven ran. RAILWAY PLtTli. Dead heat with Knurl %dug. roAL ?!m. .01.. ate ran. 515 1 ff