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very lowest clasit, will so far degrade himself as to think of deriving gain from the exhibition of. this melancholy transaction. Another circumstance, to which the - prisoner has alluded in his defence, and which I trust, for the sake of religion itself, is a mistake—another circumstance which I feel myself bound. to notice, is the assertion that a minister of the gospel, quitting the place where he usually per formed divine worship, and erecting his' pulpit near the very scene of this melancholy tragedy, had there endeavoured to enflame the passions and to excite the resentment of the populace against the prisoner, when he knew nothing of his having bad any share in it except from rumour, thus inflaming them against a crime which was not then known to have been . committed, and exciting their resentment against an individual who was not proved to have committed it. I cannot conceive any act more contrary to that spirit and the principles of the religion of which he professes himself a minister ; and if we have been rightly informed of his conduct, the man who could commit such an act deserves the most severe repro bation. I do not not know who the isdividual is who is stated to have misconducted himself so much. I hope we are all labouring under some mistake 'on this point, and that this outrage upon decency has not been committed. I mention it merely to re quest you to tear from your bosoms every impression, which may have been made in them from such a source. I call upon you to dismiss from your con sideration every impression of this case which you may have derived, either from seeing the statements in the newspapers, or the drawings or placards in the streets, or from hearing the sermon—if I may dignify it by that name—pronounced in the place where, and on the occasion when, this murder was discovered. It is for you to decide entirely upon the evidence which has been adduced before you, giving to the case for the prosecution that weight which public justice demands that it should receive at your hands, and to the case of the prisoner that weight which a .tlue regard for his life and interests equally demands from you. That is my most earnest recommendation to you, Gentlemen of the Jury ; and I trust—indeed I am certain—that you will pay to it requisite attention. The course which has just been taken by the prisoner, who has been very ably advised, as we all know, ren ders it unnecessary for me to s t a t e much of the evi dence which we have now been engaged two days in, receiving. If the defenee had taken a different turf from that it has taken, I should have thought it my duty to ask you, first of all, whether you were con -.sawed that Maria Martin had been destroyed at all, either by the prisoner at the bar or by any one else ; and then, whether you were convinced that the body .discovered in the barn was her body or not. In that e ve I should have pointed out to you how uncertain the identification of the body was from the state of decomposition in which it was found; and yet I eliduld have stated to you that there were strong eircumstances tending to prove its identity with Maria Martin—as, for instance, the excrescence or wen on the neck, and the different articles of dress which had been spoken to as hers from their not basing undergone so much decomposition as the hu man substance. All these remarks, however, are now rendered unnecessary—for the prisoner avows to us in his defence that the body discovered in the aern is the body of Maria Martin. I am therefore welieved from the necessity of addressing you upon that part of the case, as it is admitted to you by the prisoner himself that the body, of which the disco sery has given rise to this trial, is the body of Maria Martin, for whose murder he is indicted. The pri soner admits that he buried her in the barn, and we aca therefore relieved from one of the difficulties of this case. The next part of the evidence to which I shall call your attention is, that which regards the different accounts the prisoner gave after the disap pearance of Maria Martin, of the various places at which she was living ; for those accounts have some 'hearing upon his defence. I might, perhaps, be re sieved from the necessity of atieding to that part 'of the evidence altogether, but the manner of the pri soner's avowal may, when closely considered, be of some avail in enabling us to diseoeer the truth of his statement, that her death was occasioned by a voluntary act of suicide on 'her part. I shall not omit reading any of the evidence which has reference to this point, unless you, gentle men, crate to me that in your opinion it is unneces sary for me to readrit." The Learned Judge then poceeded to read the evidence of Mrs. Martin ; when he came to that part of it in which Mrs. Martin swaTe that Corder said, " Mrs. Martin, the reason I go eo Ipswich to-day is because John Belem, the constab;e, came into the stable this morning and in formed me that he had got a letter from Mr. Whit more, of London, and that in that letter there was a warrant to have Maria taken up to be prosecuted for her bastard children," the Learned Judge observed that this was very important evidence, as it bore di- rectly upon the prisoner's defence; it showed that he was endeavouring to seduce her away from her home by holding out to her a terror which had no existence in reality. The Jury would consider how far this was or was not evidence to contradict the statement of the prisoner. It appeared also from the evidence of Mrs. Martin, that Maria Martin was very low spirited on setting out for the Red Barn, and had been so for some time previously. That circumstance ought by no means to be forgotten by the Jury in considering this case. He likewise called their attention to the circumstance of Mrs. Martin's having deposed that Corder snapped his pistols, be s-fore he set out for the Red Barn, twice or threee by the fire-side, in the presence of her whole family —e circumstance which proved that at that time the pistols were rather in the possession of the prisoner than of Maria Martin. The Learned Judge . then proceeded to read and comment upon the evidence of Thomas Martin, the father, and particularly on that part of it, in which the old man said that in seeking for the body, he put in a spike about her hip, hut that the smallest end of it was about the size of the end of his little finger, and that it grew broader as it went upwards. The Learned Judge, after commenting on the evidence given by the ether witnesses, till he came to that of Lee, the Police officer, said that he was glad to find from his testi mony that the depositions were read over to the pri soner in his presence by the Coroner after the in quest, a u s i observed, that that was a point on sini.ch he would mike a few remarks before he closed his address to then?. He likewise observe.d, that it was very extraordinary , if the statement which the pri soner had that day n ode were true, that he had not raid a syllable about it to Lee at the time when he was apprehended; but that he had repeatedly as .' serted, that he never knew any thing of any ,ouch person as Maria Martin, thou ,he was then formally informed that he was accused of having murdered her. The Learned Judge agAin re peated that he was glad that the depositions had been read over to the prisoner by the Co fever in the jury-room at Polstead after the inquest, ; Is it took away the sting of the accusation which fie had made against the Coroner. On coming to t h e eviden e - ce h Mr. Lawton, the surgeon, he par ticularly called the attention of the jury to the evi dence which that gentleman had given respecting the fracture of the skull of Maria Martin by a pistol ball, respecting the w oands in her neck, heart, and rites, by a sharp instrument, and respecting the possibility of her having dißd teny strangulation from the tightness of the handkereseq round her neck. asserted, that . this poor They had hear d it that day wom an had commit ted suicide; but even according to the story whi ch the y had heard, it was very. strange that immediately on being left al one she should use such various instruments to destroy her self ; for it appeared, in the first place, th at she must have fired a pistol at her and theneeith er before or after fi ring it, have given herself sundry stabs in very different parts of her body. It would be for the jury to consider what credit they would give to the statements made by the medical wit nesses about the stabs in the neck and infoe he art; and then, if they gave credit to them, consider what inferences they ought to draw from them, as to the story which had that day been told to them by the prisoner at the bar. The jury had heard the potence, hi which the prisoner Admitted the body discovered in the barn to be the body of Maria Martin, and to have been buried by himself. - He admitted that the representations which he had made to several persons of her being alive, after her disappearance from her father's cottage, were un true; but he said that he had found it necessary to make them in consequence Of ilie alarm which he necessarily felt from a catastrophe of the following nature : He said that on the 18th of May he and Maria set out from old Martin's cottage for the Red Barn, in order to go to Ipswich to get married. That they had quarrelled at that barn. That she used very violent language to him. That he told her that if she used such language to him before moulage, he could not expect to be happy with her after mar riage. That he had told her that he would not marry her. That he then left her. That hearing the report of a pistol in the barn, lie returned to it, Aid that he then found her there mortally wounded. He likewise said, that being alarmed at the extraor dinary catastrophe which he :saw before him, he buried her, and in this manner he attempted to ac count for the representations which he afterwards made about her being alive. Now, it was upon the truth of his representations of to-day that they had to decide; and he would therefore give no opinion of his own upon the point. The Learned Judge then read the evidence given on the part of the de fence in support of the mild and humane temper of the prisoner.. On closing the evidence as to cha racter, he observed that he had only one remark to make upon it; and that was, that in opposition to direct evidence as to facts, it was of no avail ; it was only when The balance of evidence was equal that it proved of service to the accused. He would not trouble them with many further observations upon this case, because he was sure that their own good sense, after the patient attention which they had paid to the evidence, would furnish them with all the observations that were necessary. A com plaint, however, had been made with respect to the conduct of the Coroner, which it was requisite for him to notice. He was of opinion, that when the depositions taken before the Coroner were read over by the Coroner to the prisoner after the in quest, the prisoner had received all the advantage to which he was entitled as a matter of right.— The object of the Coroner's inquest was not to charge any person with the murder, its object was to ascertain how the death had happened. The inquest was conducted by the Crown as the guardian of the lives of all the subjects of the country, and, strictly speaking, a person accused had no right to be pre sent at it. If a man were found guilty -of murder on the Coroner's inquest, it would be hard if he were not allowed to know the evidence on which he was declared to be so ; but when that evidence was communicated to him, he had no right to complain. Now it appeared from the evidence of Lee, that in this particular case the depositions had been read over to the prisoner Corder by the Coroner. The prisoner had, therefore, ail the information necessary for him to shape his defence on this trial, so as to meet the evidence to be produced against him. It was, he believed, usual at Coroner's inquests to allow the parties likely to be implicated by them to be present, if they desired it; but not, he repeated, as a matter of right. The real question for the de cision in this case was this—" Are the representa tions made this day by the prisoner true or false ?" If the Jury should be of opinion that they were true, then the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal. His representation was, that the deceased had shot herself with his pistols, si hich she had got into her possession ; and the evidence showed that they were on one occasion in her possession at Sudbury; but there was no evidence to show that she had continued in separate possession of the pistols, but much to show that she had not. The prisoner wished to have it supposed that she had car ried these pistols in her pocket to the Red Barn. Now, the prisoner had seen the mother and sister of Maria Martin, in the witness tax? and he might have cross-examined them wpm. that point_ But not one question had been 'put to them to show tirat Maria Mar tin had those pistols previously to leaving her father's cottage. So far as they had any evidence at all respecting the pistols, they appear to have been in the prisoner's possession, and not in her's— for he had been seen snapping them before the fire. What had struck him from the beginning of the de fence to the end as the most extraordinary feature in it vhs.3, the manner in which this alleged suicide was committed. It often happened that these poor girls, when disappointed in their expectations, did lay rash hands on themselves; hut then the mode of their death was in general very simple. In this case, if they were to credit the evidence of the slageons, the wounds ;Pgicted on the body of Maria Martin were of a double aescription. There were, first, the wounds in the eye, ; and in the cheek, inflicted by a ball ; and then the wounds, inflicted by a sharp in streirsent, that was broader 641 one side than the other, or the heart and ribs, and the wosind inflicted with a similar instrument on the vertebras of the neck behind the okell. It was extraordinary that, instead of hanging hsese i lf upon a tree, as poor girls usually did in such circumstances, she should have used two different means to i:4l herself,—the one by shootin herself with a pistol, wkch was a very unusual weapon for a woman to kill her; elf with,—and the other by stabbing herself with a sharp instrument. The Jury must decide on the credibility of the medical witnesses, who ventured to speak'as to these two distinct amaze of Maria Martin's death, independently of the third made of death by strangulation, to which one of them had spoken ; and then, if they decided that the wounds had been inflicted in the manner in which the sur geons described, they must decide is ow far it was possible that such multifarious wounds were .i,Dflicted by herself. These wee the facts of the case as , proved in evidence, and he trusted in God that they would lead them to a proper decision upon it. If they had any doubt upon it, they would give the prisoner the benefit of it ; but if they were satisfied shot his r epresentations were false, and that the crime ,of murder on Maria Martin had been commit ted by him, then it would be their duty, serving their country manfully and discharging faithfully the solemn oath which they ;sad sworn, to bring in a verdict of guilty against the priaoner, regardless of the conseinences by which it might be &lowed. The . Foreman' of the Jury then addressed the Court on behalf of his fellow-jurors, and said that they wished to retire, as the case required some time to he spent upon it. The LORD CHIEF BARON immeseately or d ere d a bailiff ee be sworn to attend to them, arid et 25 mi nutes to two The Jury retired. At ten minutes past two, they came back into Court, and their Foremen returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner. At this moment, and in the short interval which elapsed between the declaration of the verdict and the declaration of the sentence of the Court, a slight confusion arose before the bar where the prisoner was standing relative to the possession of the pistols by which the murder was committed. Lee, the property, in consequence (Aker, claimed them as his of a pro m i se which he had received from the pr d iso ( e i n th it e e m li a rs s t t aPPreh e nd e d hi m; Mr. Or. rg he {property of th e Sh er if, i n _ . . h consequence of the verdict wie n c e i r ai s in vl e i ;eh had just been re cordsid against the prisoner. Mr. Orridg e remained . in posseseictt of them! as the contest s il en ce, as thew Las stowesil 1 by the crier's procaitning the L ord Chief sentence on prisoner. Baron was going to pass , . • The prisoner was then asked ;n the usual form, thing why he should not whether:be had to say any. die according w law. On his saying nothing, .. The LORD CHIEF BARON addressed him in the following terms :—" William Corder, it is now my painful duty to announce to you the near approach of the close of your mortal career. You have been accused of murder, which is almost the hi g hest I offence that can be found in the whole of the long catalogue of crime. You denied your guilt, and put yourself on your deliverance to the country. After a long, a patient, and an impartial trial, the coun tr y has decided against you, and most justly. You stand convicted of an aggravated breach of the great prolaition of the Almighty Creator of mankind, ' Thou shalt do no murder.' The law of this country, in concurrence with the law of all civilized countries, enforces this prohibition of God by exacting from the criminal who has violated it, the forfeiture of his own life. And as this offence indi cates the highest degree of cruelty to its unfortunate victim, and as it is dangerous to the peace, the order and the security of society,justice assumes upon it her severest aspect, and allows no emotion of pity to shield the criminal from the punishment awarded to it both by the laws of God and by the laws of man. I advise you not to flatter yourself with any hopes of mercy upon earth. You sent this unfortunate woman to her account without giving her any time for preparation. She had no time to turn her eyes to the Throne of Grace for mercy and forgiveness. She had no time given her to repent of her many transgressions : she had no time to•throw herself on her knees and to implore for pardon at the Eternal Throne. The same measure is not meted out to you ; a small interval is allowed you for preparation. Use it well ; for the scene of this world- closes upon you; but another and, I hope, a better world is opening for you. Remember the lessons of religion which you received in the early years of your childhood : consider the effects that may be produced by a sincere repentance ; listen to the advice of the ministers of your religion, who will, I trust, console and advise you how best to meet the sharp ordeal which you must presently un dergo. Nothing remains for me now to do, but to pass upon you the awful sentence of the law. That sentence is, that you be taken back to the prison from which you came, and that you be taken thence on Monday next, to the place of execution, and there lse hanged by the neck till you are dead, and that your body shall afterwards be dissected and anato mised, and the Lord God Almighty have mercy on yeur soul!" The LORD CHIEF BARON, who was evidently much affected, then retired from the Court. DEMEANOUR OF THE PRISONER DURING THE SUMMING UP OF THF. LEARNED JUDGE, AND THE SENTENCE. To prevent breaking too much in upon the uni formity of our narrative; we have deemed it right to subjoin to the trial itself an account of his behaviour during the latter part of it. The prisoner paid the most eager attention to the earlier part of the summing up, in which his Lord ship stated the indictment, and the necessity the law has imposed, of proving, to the satisfaction of the Jury, that the death of the person has been occa sioned by one of the means laid in the indictment; but when the Chief Baron told the Jury that if they were satisfied that the death arose from any one, two, or more of the wounds inflicted on the body, and that those wounds were inflicted by the pri soner, they should find him guilty, his countenance fell, and he was apparently for some time in a state of stupor. He repeatedly bowed during the time the Judge besought the Jury to forget ail the ru mours and reports they had heard, and net to alloW themselves to be influenced by the atrocious fact, if true, of a clergyman having preached to 5,000 per sons in the immediate neighbourhood of the scene, a sermon, in which the prisoner was treated as the mur derer. The Chief Baron's observations respecting the probable motive of the prisoner in enticing the deceased from her mother's house under the false statement that the constable had a warrant against her for a bastard child, made the strongest impres sion on the prisoner, whose countenance underwent several changes during the time. At one period, during the statement of the extraordinary conversa tion of Corder with Mrs. Stow, as to the number of children Maria had, her having brought forth her fated number, and his observation that " she was where he could go any day or hour he pleased, and that when he was not present with her nobody else was," the prisoner appeared almost in a fainting state, a tran sient paleness was visible in his countenance, his eyes rolled rapidly in their sockets, he heaved very seep sighs, uud Laa hi. head on the bar against which he had been previously leaning. In a few minutes, however, be had recovered his self-pos session, and resumed his former position, which was leaning against the upright post, placing both hands' on the spiked boarding before him, and fixing his eyes 011 the ground, raising them only when the Judge made remarks on the evidence. The mention of the letters seemed to agitate him considerably, and he sighed heavily; but the feel ing quickly passed away, and he seemed to be relieved greatly by the learned Judge not reading them. He was also much agitated when the evi dence of Lee was read, as to his denying knowledge of such a person as Maria Martin ; and the remarks of the Chief Baron that he did not at once, on being told that her body was found in his barn, acknow ledge that he knew her, and that she had destroyed herself and been buried there, instead of denying any knowledge of her, caused a momentary faintness and swimming of his eyes. He again recovered him self, but almost immediately, on the allusion to his getting the sword sharpened, he was near falling, but was upheld by the gaoler. He, however, from this time, evidently grew gradually weaker and less composed. During the reading the important evi dence of the surgeons, he moved uneasily from side to side, seemingly unable to maintain his self-posses sion without continual change of position. He more than once drank cold water, given to him by the gaoler. He evidently felt that the whole of his de fence was overturned by the evidence of the sur geons of the various wounds found on the person of the deceased, and large drops of perspiration started from his forehead. The next remarkable change the prisoner underwent was, to a state of stupor, which continued for some length of time, his eyes remaining perfectly fixed and immoveable, and his arms crossed. After remaining some time in this state, he again laid his left cheek on the post, and appeared to he faipti, Recovering from this syn cope, he laid his head upon his hands, and seemed dreadfully agitated tor some minutes; but from the beginning of the last surgeon's evidence to its con clusion, e scarcely continued a minute in any one position, perpetually shifting from side to side, his head generally lying either very much on one side, or on his breast. From first to last, however, it was observed that he never shed a tear; but this may of course be attributed to his anxious attention to the investigation. One of the witnesses called by the prisoner, Nrs. pavers, a very pretty young wo man, was frequently in teas during the detail of the evidence. He seemed to think the Learned Judge would dwell at length upon his defence; and pre pared himself, by a vigorous effort, to attend to the remarks he expected to hear on the subject. When, however, the piii,efßaron passed over his story, by a bare statement nt its principal points, and made not a single remark on it, but proceeded to read the evidence of his own witnesses, he relapsed into his former state of stupor and faintness, and so conti nued til; the end of the charge. On the jury retiring to consider of his fate, he sat down on the bar in the dock, and leant hi : : head against the beam on which he had previously rested his back. As each of the jurymen passed him, he cast upon them a piercing glance pf the most intense interest. thiring the time of their absence; nothing could be more dis aonsolate and . desponding than his appearance. On khe J,Lns , ssliming into Court, he once more resumed his standing position. On hearing the Foreman pronounce the' fatal w9r4 " Guilty," he raised his hand slowly to his forehead, pressed it for a moment, and then dropped it most dejectedly. His head imr mediately afterwards fell drooping upon his bosom. During the passing of the sentence his firmness still continued in some degree, but at the dose - of it, he would have supk to the ground, had he not been prevented by the compassionate attention of the go vernor of the gaol. He then sobbed loudly and convulsively for some moments, and was almost carried out of Court by Mr. Orridgel and one of his attendants. Indeed, it was evident to all that at this moment his faculties, both mental and bodily, were completely paralyzed. It was said that imme diately after be quitted the dock, he fainted away; but we were given to understand that this was not the case. Shortly afterwards 14 was seen in the lock-up near to the Court with his head buried in his hands, which rested on his knees, and labouring acutely under severe mental emotions. After the Court was cleared, he was removed to the county gaol. The culprit, on his removal from Court, made a great effort to rally, even after the palpable extinc tion of his self-possession at the breaking up of the Court—so much so, indeed, that even some of those about his person imagined his emotion had been as sumed, for the purpose of exciting a sympathy from superficial observers, which even he, degraded as he was, must have known would be denied to him by every well-constituted mind. It is even said that some unfortunate females of his family had been so deluded by representations similar to the pitiful fic tion of his defence, that they were even preparing for his return to that decent condition of society, which he had with such unparalleled atrocity dis graced and dishonoured by the flagrant violation of all those household duties, which reflect a peculiar character upon the middle classes of society in this country. But the attempts to sustain this mere physical insensibility, evidently required a forced excitement—he jumbled himself into the cart on his return from the Court to the prison, which is half a mile distant, more like a man who wanted to escape from the public gaze, than to- invite its attention by any assumption of bravado. The crowd, who in their eagerness to catch a glimpse at every character, notorious for good or bad, oppose every obstacle which impedes the gra tification of this curiosity, had broken the steps of the cart, in their efforts to get a peep at the criminal, so that when he returned to the gaol, he had either to jump to the ground, or be assisted in his descent. He preferred the former, and alight ed upon his legs on the threshold of the prison, with some appearance of alacrity. He had returned, how ever, to the gaol in a different character from that in which he had left it. All the presumptions and reservations which the humane policy of our law sometimes throws around a prisoner whose life is at stake were removed, and he had yesterday evening to re-enter the walls of his prison, for the few hours which, were counted to him in this world, as a per son who was no longer to be mentioned among his species, and whose annihilation was doomed by the common injunction of every civilized community.-- This retributive change of circumstances removed him from a convenient apartment in the front of the prison to a cell in the rear, and exchanged a dress of fashionable attire for the common gaol apparel. The Governor of the prison (who is represented to be a humane and considerate man) led him, first upon his return as a condemned criminal, into his private apartment, where he (probably fresh with the re collection of the suicide of a recent convict) plainly, but mildly, informed the prisoner, he must forth with exchange the whole of his apparel, because his (the Governor's) situation with reference to him, had now become one of great responsibility, and he had a serious duty to discharge, which he was, however, ready to perform with every attention to the rational wants of a prisoner in his awful situation. Corder immediately exchanged his clothes for those which were supplied to him from the prison stock, having previously given to his solicitor from his pocket his written defence, and some other papers. His penknife the Governor took charge of, and a gentleman present remarked to Corder, that the evidence against him was too conclusive to be parried by any external appearances of evasion, and that it was due to his family and so ciety to deliver his mind of the facts. To this pro vident suggestion the criminal gave no reply, and the only desire he. expressed was to be allowed the so ciety of his wife, who has been for a short time in lodgings in the town. The Governor repeated i ho him that he should have every consolation which Fits, ` situation and the rules of the prison permitted; but that henceforth he could see nobody except in his presence or that of one of his officers,, and that his own clothes should be at his disposal in exchange for those which he was at present under the necessity of sulistituting for them, on the day when he was to be brought out to die. At four o'clock Corder received some dinner from the Governor's table, and a clergy man was sent for to afford him the solace (should he prove susceptible of it) of spiritual consolation. His mother and sister were said to be in the im mediate neighbourhood of the town, anxious to wait the result of the trial, and his wife was, as we have already said, on the spot, under the expectation, as it was publicly said, of his deliverance, to which, in pity for the feelings of others, it is no longer season able more particularly to allude. When some allusion was made to the impropriety of allowing him to retain his pen-knife, (which, how ever, the Governor took from him yesterday), he said there was no danger to be apprehended in that respect, for he had no desire to add one sin to an other. This was the only tendency towards any thing like confession which the prisoner disclosed yesterday evening. Two inmates of the prison, vi ho are represented as being of serious and prudent characters, are to remain in Corder's cell until the time of his execution. A passage is preparing through the wall immediately adjoining the cell to the open paddock behind the gaol, where execution will be done upon the prisoner at twelve o'clock on Monday. It is a singular feature in the origin a this in quiry, that Mrs. Martin, the step-mother of the de ceased,persisted before the Grand Jury, in the story of the dream which had two or three times haunted her, that Maria's body would be found buried in Corder's barn. The natural solution of this impres sion on the mind of the poor woman, may be traced to her anxiety about her daughter's mysterious and unaccountable disappearance, coupled with the con duct of the prisoner himself, which, preying upon the mind of a person in her situation, was calculated to inspire such apprehensions as are sometimes (beneficently in this instance) evoked through the medium of dreams of this kind. The Counsel at neither side alluded to the evidence of this singular operation of mind of the poor woman, not wishing to encourage what are commonly considered super stitious allusions, in a case too pregnant with strong facts and circumstances to admit of any doubt in arriving at a just and safe conclusion. At the close of the sentence the convict fell down into the arms of two persons who stood on each side of him, and he gave a sort of convulsive shriek. So confident was his sister of an acquittal, that she actually ordered a post-chaise at one of the Inns to take him home with her to Polstead this evening. I have just hiard, and believe the fact, that Ccirder's wife was cooking a dinner for him at the moment sentence of death was passing on him, so confident was she of his innocen6e. (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.) The Jury returned their verdict in twenty mi nutes, and the trial closed at ten minutes past two. Corder had undergone a great change, q 9 had been stated, since the previous day. Indeed his features were so much altered, particularly on the summing up of the Judge, that one could hardly have recog nized him as the same person. His cheeks sunk, his mouth in general remained open, and he occa sionally shut it for' a moment, heaving a deep sigh, as if suffering under the most ppignant but secret distress. He occasionally raised his eyes towards the Court and jury, but with a suspicious and guilty look, that was any thing but of service to him: His colour, which was naturally clear and good, changed most - remarkably on the sentence being passed. His face theri assumed 4 half livid, half-florid flUsh, and his whole body sunk down, somewhat resembling that of a dead body, when taken from the gallows. Before he began his defence, he seemed conscious of what the result was to be. He delivered it in a diffident manner, and with a whining tone, not unlike that of a canting Methodist prea c h er . H p at t em pt e d to recite it, but as it had not been decided on by his Counsel till the preceding evening,. he had not had time to prepare it for delivery, frequently forgot what he had to say, and was some time in finding the place. His air altogether on this occasion was that of a man who went through a pact which hr had resolved to per form, but which he knew could be of no service to him. . His unfortunate wife, it would appear, has been so much led astray by his statements, as to believe that he'would certainly be acquitted, and had even prepared a (limier for him on his leaving the Court. The feeling of every one that had seen him the first day, seemed considerably changed on his second ap pearance. This is not to be wondered at ; as the evidence drew to a close, it left not a doubt that he had been guilty of the most horrid and unprovoked cruelty towards a female with whom he had been on habits of the utmost intimacy. She was decoyed from her father's house under pre tence of marriage; and, after assenting to assume male attire, put to death for no possible reason that has yet been assigned. It is thought that he had shot at her first, and on finding that was not effec tual had stabbed her repeatedly, and afterwards consummated the murder by strangling her with the handkerchief about the neck. The character given of him at Bury St. Edmund's is not good. Even when a boy of ten years of age he was in the habit of pilfering from his schoolfellows; and at an aca demy had obtained false keys with which he could open every box belonging to his comrades. The execution will take place on Monday, at twelve, in a field close to the gaol. Observations having been made on the refusal of the Coroner to permit the prisoner to be present during the examination of the witnesses on the in quest, it seems but justice to state, that on an ap plication for that purpose by Mr. Humphreys, the prisoner's attorney, the Coroner inquired if there were any precedent or authority existing for such a course of proceeding. None being produced, and the Coroner still doubting, Mr. Humphreys said he would not press the application, provided the depo sitions should be afterwards read over in the presence of himself and the prisoner. To this the Coroner assented, and the depositions were accordingly read over in the presence of the prisoner and his solicitor, Mr. Humphreys expressing himself perfectly satis fied with the line of conduct pursued by the Coro ner, and thanking him for his attention and impar tiality. ANECDOTES OF CORDER AT EALING. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT, RECEIVED THIS DAY.) Throughout yesterday the greatest anxiety pervaded Ealing, Brentford, and the vicinity of those places, to learn the result of Corder's trial, as it was not anticipated that it would have extended to the second day. Our Reporter, who went there to learn some particulars of the wretched man, was beset with applications from almost every person he met in the roads and lanes in the vicinity, with:questions as to the verdict on the trial. For although Corder had come to reside at the Grove-house Academy, situate about half way hetween Ealing and Brentford, in Brentford-lane, only in December last, and could not consequently be gene rally known, yet what little was known of him had tended considerably to almost endear him to those residing in the neighbourhood. When he first came to the Grove-house to reside he kept very much within doors, scarcely ever going out of his own premises, not even to Church, although his wife was a con stant attendant at Divine service, and the pupils of the school which she conducted were regularly [nought to Ealing Church every Sunday, under her immediate superin. tendance. He seldom went to London, though on one or two occasions, about Christmas, he was obliged to go to town to meet the parents of some of his wife's pupils. But on these occasions he invariably went armed, and with those identical small pistols to which Lee, the Lambeth-street officer, depased on the trial as having been found in Corder's house at Ealing. Whatever was his real motive in these precautions it was not then even conjectured; he used to tell his wife it was done to guard against the pos sibility of an attack from footpads or other dangerous characters on his return from town, as he was accustomed to take on his way to and from London the long path which leads from the small lane off the Oxford-road, at Turnham green, by the W.olpack public-house, through the fields, to Ealing Church-yard . and Brentford-lane. But it may now be conjectured that he had other motives for these pre cautionary steps—motives which h 1 could not dare to divulge even to t"e wife of his bosom. And it was fortu nate that the capture was made so wisely and cautiously by Lea, as if he had endeavoured to arrest him on his way to or from the Grove-house, another murder might have stained the wretched man's hand. There was one peculiarity which he was fond of indulg ing in, whenever he walked out alone, and that was his most general practice, be seemed particularly pleased at meeting children, whom he used to pat on the head, apparently with the greatest affection and familiarity. It is not for us to ascribe motives, but there are perhaps reasonable grounds to suppose, that at these times recollections of his infant child and that of Maria Martin used to come over him, for it is more than suspected that bath the parents of that wretched offspring of vice and misery were equally guilty of hastening its life to a premature close, and this will easily and simply account for the expressions used by the victim of the murderer's hand, when he held out to her the threats of imprisonment by Balem, the overseer Cf Polstead, she declaring "that if she went to prison he (Corder) should accompany her thither." From the period that Corder came to reside at Ealing, Mrs. Moore, the mother of his wife, dwelt in their home and although at first they lived harmoniously together, three months had not elapsed before Corder's eccentricities, to use the mildest term, began to break out. He fancied, and mentioned it often to his wife, that his mother-in-law was using means to wean his wife's affections from him, and be was so earnest in his remonstrances on this head, that Mrs. Moore, from whom they bad expectations of deriving something considerable, frequently had determined to separate from her child and son-in-law, but the promises of areentiment on the part of the latter induced her to re linquish her determination and remain with them. The very day before Corder's apprehension he walked out towards Brentford, and brought some children whom he met into a small fruit-shop by the road-side, where he purchased some oranges, to be divided amongst them. girlt rda SINGU LAR y vith admitted the t to words s p " r , E i , v l4 N a private i‘ ol E eon exhibition ° E N ru o e f r W e t e r e , little eF in rrayetnehcseh-r legible letters, on her eye-balls. Her father and mother have been hired by Mr. HAMLET for, we understand, a considerable sum, to chew this little prodigy at his Bazaar, in Oxford-street, to attract the public to this new place of speculation. The French are well known to be a clever ingenious people, and John Bull is always ready to throw away his money on sights, no matter whether it 13e a live lion or one stuffed with straw, so long as the thou sands who daily visit this vast metropolis have something wonderful to talk about to their friends on their return to the cppOry. This little girl, however, who is about three years old, is very interesting, and whether the phenomenon og her eyes bo the effect of nature o r of art (the latter is scarcely prible), it is very extraordinary, and worthy of the attention of the curious. We announced some time si nce th a t th e B a nk of England had determin e d u p on carr yin g i n t o e xecu tion their project for establi s hi ng a b ranc h i n Hull, and that they had purchased the ',remises in Salt-house-lane, late the property of the Mechanics' Institute. We new learn that an architect has arrived from London for the purpose of rebuilding, or putting the present edifice in proper state for the commencement of business. It is very generally, and we believe correctly reported, that the management of the concern in question will devolve upon (iv:mac Seim.. wAtt, gsq, and that Mr. BFN,TANIN STPolz will be chief cashier. --Doncaster Gazette. A project is discussing for extending the Oak ham and Melton canal to Stamford, by following the course of the river Chater, which would not exceed three miles from Uppinghatn. We fear, however, a great difficulty would be found in raising . a sum sufficient for so expensive an under taking, the estimate being 144,5191. inclusive of the ex pense of reservoirs at Brooke. The length of the canal would be nearly sixteen miles, and the fall 282 feet. The plan is not popular at Stamford ; the connection desired by the trade here is with Market Harborough, which would open a line of good canals to all parts of England. —Not tingleam Reriew. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE: FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Constitutionnel.) " Several journals have prematurely announced the de parture of M. de la Ferronnays, Minister for Foreign Af fairs. The Monitenr announces this morning, that feeling it necessary to drink the waters, he has obtained leave of absence fi orn the King ; that he will set out on his road for Carlsbad in Bohemia, the day after to-morrow, the 7th, and that he will return towards the end of September. " It has not been forgotten, that quite , recently the newspapers and the correspondence from Germany have at different times spoken of a new Congress, at which the Ministers of the different Powers will again assemble toge ther. Laybach has been spoken of as the place of meeting, and latterly Carlsbad has been fixed upon. It is to Carls bad that Al. de la Ferronnays is going. We do not pre tend to say that he repairs thither for any other causes than those connected with the state of his health. We merely make a remark which we leave to our readers to appreciate." (From the Journal des Debats.) " The war of the East, the usurpation of Lisbon, the projects of Austria with respect to Italy, fix the attention of Europe, and especially of France. The King's speech on the prorogation of the English Parliament has not at all dissipated the clouds which obscured the political hori zon. The language of the English Government is pacific, and measured even to timidity : it betrays the embarrass ments of the Administration of the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Canning inspired England, not only with that confi dence which attaches to a superior man endowed with the most eminent talents, but also with that confi dence which results from a long career passed in high Civil Administration of the State. The people of England had no fear, that led OR by his taste and his habits, this Minister would undertake any other wars than those which the honour and the interest of the country might command. His illustrious successor belongs essentially, and almost exclusively, to a military career. His arrival at the direction of affairs was regarded as the signal of wars near at hand, and this very pre-occu pation of the public mind 'las imposed upon the Duke of Wellington a more circumspect course : it has given rise about him to embarrassments and obstacles difficult to sur mount. One of his first acts also, was an indirect dis avowal of the Treaty of the Gth of July, by the blame cast upon the battle of Navarin, and by the sort of disgrace with which one of the heroes of that day has been visited. Admiral Codrington, who had displayed as much talent in this glorious feat of arms as audacity in the execution of it,—.who, by unusual skilfulness, has been able to preserve the union and the confidence of the three allied squadrons,-- has been deprived of his command, and recalled to Eng land. Mr. Canning had lent the support of the British arms to the independence of Portugal; he had con strained the Unnatural son who had conspired against his father, and shortened the days of a virtuous Mo narch, to seek an asylum in Austria. The Duke of Wellington has brought back Don Miguel to Lisbon ! He appeals to the opportunities and to the wishes of Don Pedro, whose tribunal is at a distance of 2,000 leagues, for the reparation of an offence committed against legitimacy and public morality. The active intervention of England in the affairs of the East would have been able, with the con currence and support of the new French Cabinet, to have assured, several months ago, the independence of Greece, and by those means to have deprived Russia of the only motive which she could take advantage of for forcing the passage of the Pruth, and marching to Constantinople. Its uncertainties, Its delays, have obliged France to retard an expedition which would have already forced Ibrahim back into Egypt, and perhaps have extended the frontiers of Greece to the Lake of Livadia, and included in then Eubcea. If Russia, indemnified by the freedom of Greece, and by the address of the slight infractions o' the treaty of Ackerman, had pursued the course of her conquests, and marched upon Constantinople, in the then evident intention of establishing herself there, an English squadron of 25 yes' sels of the line might have entered the Mediterranean, de stroyed the fleets of Admirals Siniavin anti Heyden, forced , with the concurrence of the Turks, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, annihilated the naval armament of Sebastopol and the maritime establishments of the Black Sea. T 1" Russian armies of Asia and Europe, deprived by this opera' tion of all communication between each other, would have been forced to stop. This is what Mr. Canning would have been able to undertake—what he would have under taken; this is what the Duke of Wellington has not dared to conceive,—not, certainly, because he is deficient in talent and boldness in military combinations, but because political combinations are of another nature, and require boldness and talents of quite another description." PAR,. Auc . 6.—The police vi s it e d, y es t er d ay, Idit , office of the Gazette de France, to seize those numbers of our Paper which contained a review of the Session, hav ing previously repaired to the Post-office to detain those copies which were about to be sent off. We regret that this circumstance has interrupted the de livery which we always wish to make with the greates t exactness. We hope that the decision come to will enable us to send that very Gazelle to our provincial subscrihecs" Should our expectations in this respect be disappointed, 'r e will reprint the numbers, with the exception of the article objected to. (From the Messager des Chambres, dated Aug. 74 PARIS, Ann. 5.—A letter from Toulon of the end e' July gives the following details : We at length know what we are to think of the expe dition : positive orders have been received for the troops of every description to be ready to embark. Their force le to be increased by two regiments from Cadiz, which We re landed on the 26th, after performing five days' quarantine , by the 29th, which is in garrison at Avignon, and by th e 42d, which has just been in garrison in Corsica. The es pedition will sail in two divisions : the first, which will b e the strongest, is to be embarked on the 15th of Augllst the second, with which there will be a park of heavy artil lery, will be embarked on the 25th of the same month..- -- General Durieu, chief of the staff of the expedition, atpre sent commands in Corsica. One of his Majesty's ships is and g one to to hr c i o ng mm h u im nic t a o te To to ula h n i . m the All o th rd e e h rs ea o d f s a h f is ea ll e li se ni v s e trY rai departments of the service are appointed, and great activity prevails among the troops. " For these last ten or fifteen days we have been expect" ing something new ; for after orders were received to sell the provisions which were already collected, a counter order soon arrived; and then another to double these pro visions. " In the road there is only the fleet which has just brought the garrison of Cadiz. It will not suffice to con vey half the troops, but ships are coming front Brest and from the Levant, which will enable it to convey at once 5,000 or 6,000 men, with the necessary materiel." The Journal of the Upper Garonne contains the follow ing article :—" Numerous arrests took place at Madrid a few days ago, in consequence of the discovery of a con spiracy in favour of the Infante Don Carlos." The Moniteur of Wednesday contains the following paragraph :—" At the instance of the King's Attorney - General, the Gazette de France, which appeared on Mon day evening at Paris, with the date of Tuesday, Aug. 5, and the numbers of that Journal intended for the depart ments, bearing the date of Wednesday, Aug. 6, containing an article headed, The Session of 1826,' were seized at the Post-office." The Messager des Chambres, in a long article on the session, and the seizure of the Gazette de France, - has the following sentences Never were fewer sentences em• ployed to make so inculpatory a recapitulation." " Thirty lines have sufficed for the Government to predict the greatest misfortunes to the monarchy, and it declares, With an audacity which excites at the same time ridicule and indignation, that after what has been done this year, there will remain but little to do in the next session to consuny mate the re-establishment of the Republic." Three per Cents., 72f. 65 c . ; Bank Stock,FRENCH FUNDS. - -PARIS, Auc. 6.—Five per Cents ., Naples St oc k, 76f. 40 c . ; R o y a l Spanish 1 8 0: 2 f. f. 5 5 0 0 c. c. ; ; Loan, 72/; Haytian Loan, 62f. Exchange on London , one month, 25f. 25c. ; three months, 26f. 15c. —Cour' Authentique, The Earl of RoSSLYN Transacted business 0 the Colonial Office yesterday. The trade of the West-riding of Yorkshire, though not in a state of very high prosperity, is by 0 0 means in a state of extreme depression. The passing of the American Tariff Bill, and particularly the early period o‘ which that Bill came into operation, had doubtless an ow favourable effect on the woollen manufactures; an d tha t ; effect was felt with considerable severity at Rochdale, as s. in the baize and flannel district, of which it is the bes. 1n The resettled state of affairs in Portugal, the w ar. ,f south America, and the interruption of the commereei, the East, from the existing hostilities between the Tor and the Powers in the North of Europe, all prodoce, e a ss unfavourable effect on trade, but that effect is fe lt with _ severity than might be imagined from such a combinot".° of adverse circumstances; and if it should please Pr"..ld deuce to bless the country with a favourable harvest, an d thereby to keep up the demand at home, the prooP e ; t i s : o t the manufacturers, for the approaching winter, ol onraa, ft be less favourable than for some years pas t. —D Gazette. cro ss( liank 3 Per C 3 Pet,C 3,litta Pet .a 4 Pet C Ditto, Baok itdi a Ditto ••• lii *r. --.7.,......--- (14 s— : ~. s . -_ _ _ .- Tt have 6 re s f or tt be re; With o n tl neNt great Cove den, Trient Come vernri the F ante IT) ajes l i at doubt has 11 Peteu war, , 'lour kibec thi ng (lone imp o the 6 day. Nlar dent ult,