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avi s 1 0 • 1 Win Do. foe Para hi g with oul die li B cos la a ; bleb ins 0 kin ht ,u 11 nal deer Li ,g at- Poi r Eta Cap 4a rIV 4 Dn wtal t bitib "Ow ocrs• trr m g far s and *I lonia% sr . to am , ICAO" le h ha e+, Coe. ha s a i d al tiraftlo oina o . r, whb as into it 'idol!. I N iptain la :tea 03 ITICO P.l ,I 4 ha 0, EXECL;IION OF THOMAS NORTON. This morning this unhappy matt was executed before ,haver. io the Old Bailey, fir the robb ry of Mr. Ful lee. at Bethnal-green. the third or fourth who hare suffered death fnr this ffence. The cr wd assembled was not so unusually great as have assembled upon other similarly sad occasions. Th.y appeared to be mostly from the vicinity where IOW)" lived, and which was the scene of his crime. Norton constantly declared his innocence, and that Mr. Fuller was mistaken and on Saturday last that Gentleman atterhici at Newgre, and gave- him as surance that although he was not mistaken as to his iJewity, he had made every effort to save his life, but he was assured that the sentence would be cart iei into effect. N rton ezpres ed his full belief that he would suffer, and afterwards admitted his guilty participation in the attack upon that Gentleman. Since his condemnation he h 45 behaved very quietly, and appeared resigned to his fate. Mr. Corrom, the Ordinary, assisted by one or two other religious individuals, has made every effort to s'take the obduracy of the wretched man, but without effect; his mind was wrapped completely in darkness, and he saw Vie sad approach of his destiny with un equalled hardiness and calm fortitude. Yest4rday the pints. efforts were renewed with un ceasing petse., twice, but the consolatory voice of reli tion was raised in vain, and he became boisterous and violent when pi essed to turn his thoughts to futurity.— In this st.ste the unhappy mats took a long farewell of his relations, and retired to bed. He s'ept sdundly, and this morning took some breakfast with an appearance of appetite. Mr. Sheriff Winchester .was at the Pi ison by six o'clock,. and humanely jo ned in the effort to •arouse him to a sense of a future state, but without 'success. About ten minutes before eight o'clock I.e Was I.d into the Press.roont ; he bowed as he entered. He walked firmly and looked coolly around, an.' in answer to a question, said he was repared and satisfied to die. He was then pinioned; he a;rpe•ied per. tectly tractable and quiet. The clock not having chimed the hour of eight, he was directed to sit down, arid at this moment probably recollecting tha but one mote ceremony interfered between . him and the wave, re turned ghastly pale, moved his lips, and raised his hands •s if iii the ejaculation of prayer; but the effort was momtintarv, as he seemed to relapse into his former obduracy. While the clock was striking eight, he was let out ; he bowed as he passed the group of silent spectators pre:.ent, and walked firmly to the s:af fold. As fie took his position under the fatal beam, he bowed to the mul:itude, which upon his presence w•s hushed into saltness. The Ordinary continued the burial service, and Norton stood almost inanimate, like the breathing fi 4 nre of despair; anti a few minutes after eißlit o'clock the drop fell, and the existence of this obdurate man was terminated. • GLASGOW, Aucurr 25. hfonday, several fishing boats came into Stranraer, haring each from forty to fitty maize of herrings, which were immediately sold at Ss. per 100, realizing to each boat, for one night's fishing, up. ward. of .00. Thursday night about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in a braes toendry in Old Wyatt, belonging so Messrs. Brodie and Co. which was burned to the ground. Tuesd.y last a distressing accident occurred on the quay at Greenock. The master of a coasting V!SSA happened to be avowing to a friend, a fine percussion fowHng piece be was possessed of, and io order to explain to hint the action of the lock, placed one of the caps on the touch hole, and snapped the gun, not supposing it to ►e Idled, when to his horror it went off with a lood repoet, and the crmts.nts or a fall charge of shut were lodged in the hmhs of his Itimf• slaughter who stood by his bide, and who Instantly fell, op- Nually lifeless- Medical assistance was 'eructated, and the poor girl Wood to have at leas* 100 drops of a large size in her limbs, 40/11t of them lodged sleep its the hone. We.ittee.iry morning, between the hours of one and two o'clock, a meletiihuly acci rut happened on the river, between Duntbanon sod Molls's. The Fingal stero-boat, in coming up, by some ac cident, ran oti hoard the Favourite, going down the river, with a small sloop in tow.' The shock carried away the Favourite's paddle, and, running un, the Fingal ran down the sloop, when a woman and three child, en, who were A.lrrp below, were unfortunately drowned. how the accident took place is not stated. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE., MARK-LANK, Atreus? $7. We had a large shear of sample, anew Wheat, Batley, Pees, and Beans at market tbii morning, and being prime in quality, and beau Wel In condition, soon tuund buyers. Fine Wheat fully obtained the prices of this day se'nnight ; but fur the middling sorts there were so buyers. Fine malting Barley sold for 34'. per quarter, the qua lity being really superb. Beans were full 21. per quarter dearer, and much sought atter. the quantity at market being rather li mited. Peas are dull sale, and must be quoted a trifle lower. Oats are Is. per quarter cheaper than en last Slunday, the market being glutted with them. lo other articles there is no alteration. Wheat, Kent & Rutz, 50s as Suffolk, 50s Gigs Norfolk, 50s 62., Rye gee 3s u Barley Ms 314 halt 60a 64► Peas, Wbite 361 38, Boilers 40$ 44s Pees, Grey 40. 44s 4 Deans, Small 44s 44. I Tick 40s Os Oats, Potato, itos 54s relasad 241 50s Feed 20s 2,5 s Floor, per sack, Ws. SSs. Rapeseed 201 114 s per last: TONS Lin WERE. AU rafts') 1A: neat, English fleas ters 4,417 Foreign Oats 15,71* )a. Foreign 6,576 Brans, qrs. 94 Barley, British 54 Foreign Beans 105 Vertigo Barley, 9.999 Peas 1,456 emu , British 1,540 English Floor. subs 7,833 1,494 Feteign do. barrels SMITHFIELD MARKET. ASCU.? 27. Beef looks sp. and indeed the coolness of the weather has caused ii Advance of every description of Meat. Prime Stots and other Pm* then reach as high as Si. 4d. per stone; and for the Luger 14 0 Here la a good demand at 58.4 d. to 4s. 4d. per stone. In the Mateo trade prime young Downs are as high as 4s. Id. to ss. per " 14 ; and prose young Calves have gone off at sa. 10d. and Is.— Lamb bald, a trifle dearer. so will be seen by the annexed list; and Putt tally maintains its improvement of Friday.--Beasts. 4,544; *.liiir7. MAI) ; ply,a4fi; Caters, 459. 11 "te Yet Kane, :es. Id. to is. 4d. Mutton, ss. 6d. to Se. Vela. SLIM. to 61. rook, 4s. to Ss. id. Lamb, 4e. 4d. to Si. 9d.—flay, Per load, 4.3 I St. to Ai 10a. Clover, ,C 4 1516 to dll 10a. Straw, oit to A 261. LIVERPOOL, Auisesr 25. COTIO/L—The Import of all kinds of foreign produce has been 4lu nitany light this week—that of Cotton not exceeding 2740 bp. The demand has aim been limited, the sales reaching only 7660 14 1 6 ,at a redacta of id. on the low American description.—There or as later adees tram New York than those of fist July, "kb emote Upland at to lid. and Premium of Exchange at Sid : is ltd. .2 144 ' atr--Tbc demand for Sugar was very languid until yes. *lra there was more enquiry for brown—about 500 bbds. —" bits sold without alteration in piers. Of lidolasees a few 4441 al Antigua hare been disposed of at 29a. in Cocoa, Ginger, AN Pismo ther e h ave b een no sa l es . Th e trattoktioos in Coffee .asted to sm a ll parcels .t inr quotations, sad in like to a kw 4 —o iddtiug quality at a (naive decline. ft A I"4 "hi &e.--Beet and Pork are without alteration this week, "' i f twilled botany,' doing. demand for Butter has been wry lsod for borne consumption, and prime may be considered is. P h :! .l Meier. Ihe quanta , . yor Cori and Pickled Witt' at mar 1, moldy small, and the loiltirta are demanding higher rates. Tuesday I •.t. dui iiix ►Le ti►,lerrt storm, a fine wot king belonging is tii. Majesty, running loose in the Gird' reik, w•s st uck by lightning and killed on the spot. `hi a• intesior tz..n.ieution of the animal, the heart wa, dad tosssidawbly affected. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, Meese 24. Willies* Miller, aned thirty.five years, stood indicted forthe wilfel murder of Mary Ann Lane, on the night of the 26th of May last, by casting her into a pond, at Harbury, in this county. In a second count he stood charged with the murder of Maly Ann Greenway; and he also stood charged, on the Coroner's Inquisition, with the like murder. He pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS (with whom was Mr. Gout. susses), said, it was his duty, as Counsel, conducting this very important prosecution, to lay the facts before the Jury. He should not animadvert upon the nature of the atrocious crimes imputed to the prisoner, but he should confine himself to a brief outline of the evidence which he should al terwards bring before them, to satisfy their minds that the prisoner at the bar was guilty of the murder of the female, who, in one count, was called by the name of Mary Ann Lane, and in another count,' Mary Ann Gteenway. A chain of circumstantial evi dence would be brought before them, all tending to one point—the guilt of the prisoner ; and in confirmation of his guilt, Witnesses would be called, to whom he had, since his arrival in gaol, confessed the crime. The' brief statement which he was about to make, might materially assist them in the inquiry, and better enable them to understand and apply the evidence. The pri soner was a labourer in the employment of a Mr. Heath, a farmer at Harbury, and the deceased woman, Mary Ann Lane, bad been living in the same family as a wet muse. On the 26th May last, Mr. Heath gave an enter. tainment to all the servants, labourers, &c. who were at that time, and had been previously,employed by hi noand Mary Ann L was invited. The prisoner and Lane . were at the entertainment, and some conversation took place between her and the prisoner, in the kit chen. which would be stated by a witness to the Jury, from which conversation they would drag slid) conclusions as they thought the facts warranted. At a gum ter before eight o'clock at night, the dece.o.td, Ma r y Ann Lane, who was said to he a married woman, residing at Bishop's littchinten, left Mt. Heath's hou.e, in a direction to go towards her residence. Tne dis-, tance was more than two miles. The prisoner followed. soon afterwards along a road, though shorter, yet .ead-. ing in the same direction in which Lane had gone. The prisoner was not seen again till near ten o'clock the same night, and then he gas near his on n residence at Harbury. Had he gone in a direct way to his own home, he must have taken a oifferesit road to that which he took, wong a foot-path leading to Bi.hop's Hitchin ton. It would be proved that the prisoner pas-ed through the second gate—(Here the Counsel directed the Jury to examine a map which he wife. d in their hands, and he pointed cut the gate and road in tines , tion,)—and made a short cut t • overtake the deceased. On the following turning a Mr. Plat, who lives at Harbury Field, was passing by a pond (eating towards Harbury Heath, and he saw something black, and an umbrella was sticking up above the sitiface of the wa ter. Oa apptoaching closer to the pond the body of the deceased was discovered wi h marks of violence thereon; there were narks f struggling near the vide of the pond, and the ground had been torn up in diffe rent places; these were deep font m , rks, and masks on the clay, which had been caused by a f erson kneeling thereon, with corduroy breeches. The body of the de ceased was removed from the pond. and it was clearly ascertained that she h.d d ed a violent death; no su pi cion at first existed against the prisoner, and he assisted in removing the body to the place where the Corot'. l'a quest sat upon it; the prisoner was dirrwards taken into custody. and the Jury would ►ay it the manner in which he had subsequently conducted himself, and n.t accounting for the period between eight and ten o'clock, did not tend to confirm his guilt. Edward - Bentley cumin:el by Mr. GOIABLIANE—In May last I was waggoner to Mr. Heath, r I Haibury Field ; I remember an enterta nment given by Mr. Heath to hi, servants on Saturday, the 26th May; I knew the &ceased, Mary Ann Lane, by sight; I knew the prisoner, who was a day labourer in Mr. Heath's service ; the prisoner and Mary Ann Lane wrre both at this entertainment ; I reniemb r some conversation taking place between Mary Ann Lane and the prisoner, Sn .he kitchen, in the presence of the company; the pri soner said to her," Lane, shall you go home to-night?" she made him no answer; I heard nothi g further pass between them at that time; the labourers left about seven o'clock, except Miller (the ',rivulet) and Shaw ; I went into the stable, and Miller continued talking to me till the young woman (Mary Ann Lane) gas going home; it wanted 25 minutes to eight o'clock when Mary Ann Lane set out to go home; wen she got out of the yard, she turned to the left hand ; one the servant girls came out with her; i.e (the prisoner) asked me, " Who are they?" I replied, .4 They are the ser vant girls;" he said," Nn, it's old Janie Lane, and I'll go home with her, I'll be curst it I don't ;" I said," No, you'd better go home to your wife;" he made no air swer, but staid with me, in the stable, about five mimics after this; the woman went across one field and turned again to the left, towards the Hitchinton road; in about five minutes the prisoner left the stable; I saw him afterwards, running towards the gate which led to the Hitchinton road ; I saw him open that gate, and go into the road ; I had seen Many Ann Lane pass that gate two or three minutes before; the prisoner had on this evening a short smock frock and worsted cord small clothes, and high-tcpped shoes. Cross-examined by Mr. Huz—The deceased was a married woman, for what I know ; she passed as a married woman; she heed with her husband, I believe, when she was at home. Henry Beasley—l am a labour ei, living at Half:my; the prisoner lives in the same street wi h rue at Harbury ; 1 know him; I remember the night of the 26th May ; 1 saw the prisoner about a quarter past ten that night; he was coming towards home; he was 6J or 70 yards from his own door when I saw him; be was coming the pad-road, but whether from the Pool's Pleck or not I can't tell, for there are two roads meet there, but if he had come from the Pool's Pleck, he must have passed along the road I saw him on to get home; the pond where the body was found is in the Pooes Pleck. Abraham Pratt—l know that part of Harburpheath which is called the Yew's Pleck ; I was passing by the pond in the Pleck on the as rning of Sunday the 27th of May ; my brother George was with me ; he picked up a pair of pattens about a yard and a half Iron' the pond.; he saw an umbrella floating on the water, and somqtring dark in the water, on the opposite side of the pond ; we got it out, and found it was the dead body of :Try Ant Lane ; there is a ditch opposite tve mou h of art pond; it Foe , along both sides of the pond; I observed -ome marks of struggling, as they seemed to me, in the ditch ; it seemed to me as if a female had been rubbing against the side of the bank, near to the ditch; the bank goes up quite close to the ditch ; there appeared to be some finger-marks in the' ditch; there also appeared the :nark of a man's foots, in the impression of the sole there were nail.matks ; these marks were in tl , e ditch; on the outside r f the' pond I observed the marks cf pattens ; I should have said, that just at the mouth of the ditch I saw the mark of small clothes, and ;he mark of a female's arm near the ditch ; I remained with the body whilst my brother went for aconstable. John Heath said—l live at Mallory ;on the evening of the 26th of May last, I gave my servants an enter. tainment ; it was on Saturday o I went, in consequence of what 1 heard, the next morning, to the pond in P co's Pleck ; at that time the body was on the bier ; the pri soner was there, standing beside the bier: the body was taken to the New Inn at Harbury; the prisoner assisted in carrying it ; I followed the body to Harbury ; the body was put in an outhouse at the New Inn; I got tt the pond about hall after eleven in the forenoon ; I called the prisoner from the outhouse when he had set the body down ; I likewise called out Sprawson, the head borough, at the same time; I said to Sprawson, 4. You'll take this man into your custody; "tire prisoner heard me, and I said to him, 44 William, I feel justified in doing this, you being the last person seen with the deceased ; " upon that Spra ws o n an d t h e pr i soner went into th.- house, and I accompanied them; before I went into the house I said nothing to him to induce him to confess. either in the way of expressing that it would be better for him. to confess, or worse for him if he did not, nor diJ any other person to my knowledge. I said to the prisoner, " William, you know that you met this woman last night at a gate at the top of my field, leading to the Warwick road." He male me no answer, and I said, (-Through the Bridle gate to the Witidmill-hill." He said, " Yes, I did." I said, 4 4 And kept the hedge side down the Lodge-ground stile?" Prisoner replied, " Yes, I did." I then said, " How far might you walk with her?" H e sa id, "T o H ar b u ry-heath . ' I said, "The Poor's Pleck, where the body was found?" He slid," No, to the Wheelwright's." I their said," Which way might you come home?" He said, " Across the fislds by the foot-road, home." I was present at the Inquest; the prisoner was asked some questions there ithout the Poor's Pleck ; what the prisoner then said was taketi down in writing ; when I was interrogating the prisoner as to where he had parted from the deceased, Spr•ws , n, the headbritough was present; Sprawson then asked him if he had met any One as he came home? he said, -4 No ;" he asked the prisoner if he had seen any one as he came into the village? prisoner ',id, 4 4 No, I did not see any one." I then left the New Inn with ' Sprawson, and went to the prisoner's house; I there saw the prisoner's wife ; I saw the prisoner's wife take some small clothes nut of a tub; Sprawson took possession of these small.clothes; I returned to the prisoner; I had seen the prisoner the day before in one of my fields; I said to him, " Where are the shoes that you had on yesterday when you came to me in the field ?" he said, " Tracy are in the kiln mouth;" I said, " Then you changed your shoes before you came down to my house ?" he said, " Yes;" I said, 4' The shoes you have 'on are the shoes you had on yesterday, when you came to my house to dinner ;" he said, 44 Yes;" I then said, " Take them off ;" he did so, and Sprawson took them up; Sprawson and I went to the pond, and comp - wed tl e shoes with the fm [-marks about i:, and found they fitted the marks in the ditch about a foot and a halt from the pond; the nail marks exactly corresponded with the nails in the sole of the right, and in the heel of the left ; when he took off his shies they were very wet, and the stockings were wet also; on the morning of the 29th of May (Tuesday), ent to the prisoner, by his desire ; he was then in a Mm of the New Inn, in cus tody ; it was in the morning part of the day, between 11 and 12 o'clock ; there was a long conversation about his family, and I said to him, 44 William,.how came you to do such a tbing ?" or do it, or words to that effect ; I had made no promise to him, nor bad 1 threatened him or field out hopes to him, and to my question he replied, " I don't know ;" I said, " How did you do it ?" he said, "I don't know how 1 did it ;" I said," Did she resist you?" he said, " I don't recollect any thing about it;" I said, " What might become of the bonnet ?" he slid, "I don't recollect her having one on ;" I said, " What might become of the sun-dial which the deceased used to carry with her, as witness knew?" Prisoner replied, 44 I don't recollect seeing of it ;" Sprawson was at the pond when I got there. Thomas Sprawson said, he remembered on the morn ing of the 27th of May (Sunday) he was sent for to Poors' Peck Pond; I ordered some men to follow me, with a bier ; the prisoner was one of those I asked to help to convey the corpse to Harbury; I got to the pond first ; it was about half-past nine, when I got there; the prisoner came there about ten minutes after ! reached the pond ; I did not remain all the time with the prisoner at the pond ; I remember Mr. Heath coming; I think I left the pond before the prisoner ; the pisoner did not go , to the ditch from the time I came until I left; I never saw him there; I was near the ditch; before the psi. sorter came down 1 observed the foot-malls in the ditch; I observed Mr. Heath compare the foot-marks with the :toes; with those marks, I mean, which weie in the ditch before the prisoner came. I have no doubt brit that tone marks were made by the shoes; 1 also compared the breeches which I got out of a tub of slater in the prisoner's house with an impression in the clay; it exactly c.oresponded ; I had observed the mark before the prisoner came; witness produced the breeches and the clay, which was in the same condition he bad found it ; the shoes he also produced. Johannah Linell.-1 am t'.e wife of William Linell, who keeps the New Inn, at Harbury. The prisoner was in custody on the 28th of May, at my husband's house; 1 was in the same room with him ; he looked hard at me, and I asked him what was the matter ? He burst into tears, and I said, " You best know whether you are guilty or not ; and I would recommend you to make your peace with Goo." The pi isoner said, 44 Mrs. Linell, I have never denied it ; I wonder, if I pleaded guilty, whether I could get off for tran-portation ; it I could get. off for transportation for life I should not maid, for another land would be as well for me as this;" he said no more that night. It chard Smith—l am one of the turnkeys of War wick gaol; I knew the poisoner very well before he came to prison ; I also knew Mary Ann Lane, though I was not aware that I knew her at the time of the con versation of which lam about to speak. On the day the prisoner came to prison, I had some eonver-ation with him ; I had used no threat, nor made any promise to induce him to confess; 1 said, " Miller, these ate bad things which are charged against you, what could have induced you to do them?" He said, "It was the drink that was the instigation of it." I told him that I had heard they had not above two or three pints each ; the prisoner replied, 44 we had a great deal more than master or mistress knew of; we were awry in the . afternoon, aid joking. and I told the woman, that 1 would go home with her at night; I went to the stable for my basket, to get away from the other men. and I wai ed there till the woman was gone out; and I went nut the other way, aad met her at the Bridle-gate that leads to Chesterton Windmill-hill." I asked him if .he objected to his going with her ? and he said. No;" I asked him if be met any body on the road? he said " tfo"—he said, " we went together to Has. bury's Poor Pleck, and I wanted to become familiar with her there, but she was very awkward, and would not let me, on account of being so drunk r I said, had you intimacy wit:r her, and he said, " That I had."— I as‘ed him if he had intimacy more than once th ? He replied, 6. Not that night, but a vest many times previous." I said, " Miller, you never could throw her into the pit after that—you must have been so drunk, ihat a; you lay on the bank you rolled in." He raid "No; I don't think we did—l think I ,brew her in." I asked him a second time if he bad not laid on the bank? and he said, " I think I threw her in ;I am almost sure I threw her in." 1 asked him at he had taken her round the middle and carried her backwards into the pit ? He said, " N.,, I don't think I did; I ant almost certain I threw her in," I said. .how deep were you in the pit? He said," Up to here." pointing to his arm-pi•s. I said, I understand she was robbed, do you know any thing about h., money? He said, " Ido not." I asked him what time be got to Harbury ? He said," it was nearly ten o'clock." I said, Miller, you could not be so drunk as you say, else you could not remember all these things ; he said, " 'You must think I was drunk, or I should not have done so." Richard Bullock—l am a prisoner in Warwick gaol on a charge of felony ; I was in gaol when the prisoner was brought in, and I had a conversation with him the following day ; after all the men were taken out of the hall I was let wilt James Butler to.clean it, and Miller was also left in ; Miller was crying, and after we had doge I said to him, " How critic you to do it r He said, "My master had a christening ; and he gave us some drink, and alter we broke up the young woman went out of the house, and I followed her r I use, took her in the lane, and as we were going across the fields I wat.ted to be familiar with her; the said I should not, and with that I caught hold of her and threw her down, and she began to wake a noise; I put my hand upon her neck to prevent her from hooting, and scratched it, and she tainted away ; I was frighten ed, and I tock her up and carried her down to the pit, and threw her into it; I tumbled down u,. on my knees and went upon my side, and she came to herself and came to the edge of the pit ; I caught hold of her and threw her in again, and she took hold of me and held me, and pulled me in ; I was up to my middle in the water, and I held her head under the water till she was dead; 1 came out of the pit and was very much fright ened." I asked him what they had sworn to him by he said, " When I fell down I left the marks of the 'cords on my breeches on the d•rt, and there were four or five hobnails knocked in the heels of my boots, which had made marks near the pond." William Beazley-1 am the father of Mary Ann Lane; I re• member her going to Mr. Heath's feast ; I expected her home at eight o'clock at night ; I ,at up with her husband till ten o'clock. but ale did not come home. Mr. Thomas Hiroo—l alit a surgeon residing at Warwick; I examined the deceased en the Witth of May last ; front the appear. once of the body, the cause of her death was drowning; the coon. tension- was bleated, and a great deal of Mona) , froth issued from the nose and mouth ; I opened the body, and every part was in a healthy ; there were two lacerations on the body, one about half an inch, and the other an inch in length. This was the case on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Hill said that he had to submit an objection to the Cough as to a variance between the indictment and the evidence by which it was sustained. In both counts of the indictment, the death was ascribed to ti.e " casting and throwing" of the dec, aced into the pond. Now, if the evidence proved anything, it distinctly mega. Used such an effect from such a cause; for it was stated by the witness whe last spoke to the declaration of the prisoner, that the death arose from his holding the woman wider water Mr. Justice Houturn.-Yo u are perfectly right, In a ease of this serious importance, to take advantage of ally apparent abjection, but the mode by which the death was Catritti, I ant of opinion, is perfectly immaterial. Had, for instance, the death been caused by a stick, and the indictment charged it to have arisen from a sharp instrument, that would not be a %wiper available to ro. Nor, had it been caused by a poison, and instead of the cue. e t pawn, you attributed it to a different poison, would that br it smilaxes that would serve you. Mr. ant satisfied. One objection more. 11 e witness has described the parish by two names. lam prepared to sheer, from a book of very high authority-of mean Ilatidialis Merrick- Alr. Justice HoLanna—A book of no authority in a Court of Justice. Air. Hill—Well, my Lgrd, I am prepared to sheer, by evidence, that this parish is called differently tram the w.,y in whial it is de scribed in the indictment. Mr. Justice Moseeseuew.The par!sh ckrk has told yea tb it it bears in women periettoe the name given to it in the indictment. I am of opinion, that unleaa it does not, it is well described. Mr. Hill said, he certainly could out shew that in ordinary Una guage it was not called as the witness had described it. Mr. Justice lioctiovo—P, honer, now is tb- time for you to wake your defence: have you any thing to say Prisoner—Yes, my Lord t that wt tam who said that I told her Ishould be glad to get off for , ransponati, a, spoke falsely; never said so to her; William Smith and Hupu k have stated that which I never said to them ; I sever said to .11 the prisoners io the gaol half so much as Smith as stated; he and Itutloak have made sas a story between them, awl probab'y Smith thinks he shall get something by it; and 13u1Inck, I dare say, believes he will save himself by giving this evidence against use. Mr. Ju•tice HOLROYD summed up the case wici great minuteness and impartiality. • And the 'Jury, with. art a minute's hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty—Deeik. The prisoner, who during the eight hours which he bad stood at the bar, but once oily raised h s eyes from the ground, now became extremely agitateu, and the tears tolled down his cheeks. He was di es•ed in a shabby green frock coaffsickli gilt buttons. His fe antes were small, and di I not indicate the postesion of strong passions. - Mr. Justice HOLROTD proceeded to pass sentence in au awful and impres•ive manner, and addressing the pri soner, he said, Upon an occasion of fest. vit y and merri. went, you and other servants were civet tained by your master, and you met the deceased at his boo e. You then contemplated the gratification of your wi k•d desires, and you followed her, and because si e resisted y our lust ful designs, you determined to destroy hr r. You first com mitted a rap:, and then you murdered your extent. Du ring the trial scime allusion has been made to a robbery, but no proof has been adduced of yr ur having added rob bery to your other clime. ; plc however, know w! e.hee you are justly chargeable with that offence. It is fortunate that an all-wise Providence has directed that deeds of this cruel and inhuman description, done in the dark, shall be brought to light, and proved as clearly as if there had been an eye-witness to the murder. It is im possible you can remain many hours longer in this world, and I advise you seriously, as ore of the wit nesses advised you, to ask for mercy where it can only be found—at the hand s o f th e gr eat Judge of all."— fhe sentence was then passed in the usual form, and the primer was ordered to be hanged on „r i Iklenday I the meld foe on ; aril with ttri ars the