The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

some soot for manure from Chadwell, and I stopped at the
Sun beershop on my way back to Brentwood. This
was about two miles from the prisoner's farm. I saw the
prisoner near the Rising Sun. It was about half-past 7
o'clock. I saw hint again the neat morning on his way to
Mr. Moores. He told me where he was going, and I
afterwards directed the people who inquired for him where
he was to be found.

Jesse Bedell—l was near the Rising Sun beershop
nn the evening in question, and I saw the prisoner walk-
ing in the direction of Brentwood. 1 believe it was about
half=pant seven o'clock as near as 1 can say.
By Mr. James-1 heard no clock strike, and did not see
any clock.
By Mr. Bodkin—l did not look at any clock when I got
home.

Samuel Parker—l keep the King's Head public house at
Brentwood. The prisoner came to my house ou the night
of the 12th of October, about twenty minutes past eight.
Ile brought a basket with him. He had some half-and-
half anti oysters, and I did not observe anything unusual
in his appearance. I did not consider the prisoner
.* very bright," but always regarded him as a mild,
,inoffensive young man. I knew the deceased. Ido not
consider she was in the habit of dressing finely, but on the
contrary she always appeared very neatly dressed. She was
about Eye feet eight high.
Mr. Pound-1 am a butcher at Brentwood. I saw the
prisoner at the King's Head. He had his supper, and I did
not observe anything at all unusual in his appearance. I
lure known him front a child. Ile i 4 now about 24 years
old. Ile always bore the character of a mild, inoffensive
young man.
John Hudson also spoke to seeing the prisoner at Brent-
wood about half-pest eight o'clock.
Ilenry Lemon Raid—My father is a grocer at Brentwood.
I remember the prisoner coining to our shop between nine
and ten o'clock on the night of the 12th of October. lie
bought some sugar and took it away in his basket.
George Wheal—l am a labourer at Doddinghurst.
knew the deceased. She had lodgings in my house after
she left Airs. Twin's. She went on a visit to my wife's
mother, and after she returned I observed a great difference
in her demeanour and conduct. Sometime, she was in good
spirits and sometimes she was not. I have heard her say
that she had carries! a line about in her pocket to make
away with herself many a time.
By Mr. James—She said this abont ten days or a fort-
night after she came back from visiting my wife's mother.
she also said the KWIC thing to my wife and other persons.
I cannot recollect what brought up the conversation. I
think it was when she was talking about Thomas Won,.
I did not take any particular notice of what she said,
because 1 thought she was gammoning." The deceased
was busily engaged in making baby linen at my house.
By the Lord Chief Justice—l thought that what she said
was all " gammon," and I therefore took 110 notice of it.
Mary Wheal—l am the wife of the last witness. The
deceased left in last August. She was not very cheerful
when she lodged with us. I heard her once say that
she had a razor in one hand and the other round hi, neck,
and that she had attempted to cut his throat. I thought
that she alluded to the prisoner when she said this. I also
have heard her say that she had several tines attempted to
make away with herself, lint something had always pre-
vented her. She said she had tried to do it with a line and
also with n razor.

Ity Mr. James—l (lid not think sho was in earnest when
she (mule these *Laments. 1 thought that she was "gam.
moning" me.
:Several respectable witnesses, neighbours of the prisoner
and his family, were then called to speak to the prisoner's
character. 'they all described him as having the reputation
of being a mild inoffensive young man.
This closed the ease fur the prisoner. . .

Mr. James then made a most eloquent and convincing
reply, which was listened to with breathless attention bV a
crowded court. lie said that the position in which he stood*
at that moment was one of the most painful in which an
advocate could be placed, but appearing on behalf of the
crown, and having
only one object in view, namely,
to further the interests of truth and justice, it
became an imperative duty upon him to take care
that the jury were nut led away by any eloquence
or sophistry from the real question at issue, and that
they should clearly understand what were the points of evi-
deuce upon which the prosecution relied for establishing the
perpetration of an enormous crime upon the prisoner, and if
the evidence should be conclusive upon that point, that jua-
' lien should not be defeated, or a great criminal escape.
The learned counsel then proceeded, temperately and
clearly, to bring before the jury the principal
points. in the overpowering evidence that had been
given on behalf of the prosecution. The appointment to
inert—the fact of the prisoner leaving left his house evi-
dently with the intention of meeting his intended victim—
the entire absence of any evidence to account fOr his time
dnring the period when the murder was, no doubt, com-
mitted —the blood upon his clothes—his false representa-
thins with regard to the deceased—and his conduct when
he was informed of the discovery of the dead body of
the murdered girl. Ile said that if they could reconcile
all these circumstances with the innocence of the prisoner,
no one would be more gratified than himself at their
coming to such a conclusion ; but, upon the other
hand, if they should, us he feared, be satisfied
that these circumstances clearly made out his guilt,
their duty to their country and the solemn oath they had
taken, demanded of them ouch is verdict as would alone be
satisfactory to their own consciences and the justice of the
country.
The Lord Chief Justice commenced slimming up shortly
before four o'clock. Ile said that on the jury now devolved
the solem r, duty of saying by their serdict w het her the prisoner
was guilty of the crime laid to his charge, and it had
been truly said that his fate was in their hands. It
was alleged on the part of the prosecution that
the prisoner having had an illicit connexion with
this young woman, had formed a determination to
destroy her, and in such a manner as that it should
appear to he her own act, and that with this object he had
made the appointment with her on the evening of the 12th
of October. The first question they would then have to
consider was whether the dec...ased was murdered; and,
secondly, if she was, whether the prisoner's was the hand
that destroyed her; and in coming to that conclusion they
must not give any effect to suspicions or probabilities,
but it was the duty of the prosecution to satisfy
them, and to leave no moral doubt upon their
minds that he had committed the offence, before
they found him guilty of it. On the part of
the prisoner it was contended that the deceased
might have destroyed herself, and it was, therefore, a very
important consideration for the jury whether the case was
one of suicide or of murder. Ills lordship tken proceeded
meet carefully and minutely to go through the whole case,
telling the jury in conclusion that if they should entertain
any fair or reasonable doubt of the guilt of the prisoner
they ought to give him the benefit of such a doubt and
acquit him.
The jury did not deliberate more than ten minutes, when
they returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Streight, the clerk of arraigns, then called upon the
prisoner in the usual form to Mato whether he had anything
to urge why judgement should not be passed upon him to
die according to law.
The prisoner made no answer. Ile appeared very slightly
affected when the verdict was pronounced.

The Lord Chief Justice then put on the black cap,and passed
sentence of death in a most impressive manner upon the pri-
soner. He said, that otter a very long and anxious trial the
prisoner had been convicted by a jury of his country of the
crime of murder, and he must say that he entirely concurred
in that verdict. His guilt had been brought to summary
punishment, and his offence had lass/ accompanied by such
circumstances of aggravation that he could not trust him-
self to comment upon them. Ills lordship concluded by
telling him that his days were numbered, and he conjured
him to endeavour by penitence and prayer to obtain pardon
from above, as iu this world no mercy could be expected
by him. Ile then passed sentence of death in the usual
form.

The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the
awful senttnce. He was speedily removed from the dock ;
and, on his being taken to the carriage to convey him to the
gaol, he was received with yells and hooting by the assem-
bled crowd.

TILE TROOPS FOR TILE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-.-
On Saturday we intimated that the 74th Regiment is to
proceed to the Cape. The Vulcan, steamer, left Ports-
mouth on that day, and the above regiment will to-day em-
bark at Cork in the Vulcan for its destination. We have
further ascertained that detachments from the depiits of the
Gth, 45th, 73rd, and of the ht battalion 91st Regiment arc
also to proceed from England and Ireland to join the ser-
vice companies at the Cape. For this purpose it is under-
stood the lthadamanthus, steam transport, now at Sheerness,
will be employed. These re-inforcements will amount
altogether to about 900 men of all ranks. It is, however,
under consideration whether another regiment should

not be scat off, but on this point nothing has yet been
decided.

THE SPEAKER'S FOURTH PARLIAMENTARY DINNER
took place on Saturday. Present: Lord hfulgrave, Lord
Duncan, Lord James Stuart, Hon. Captain Howard, Hon.
Pelham Villiers, the Attorney-General (Ireland), Sir Geo.
Strickland, Mr. French, Mr. Rice, Mr. I'oulett Scrape, Mr.
James Wilson' Mr. Wm. Fagan, Mr. John Greene, Mr.
Alexander Hastie, Mr. Mowatt, Mr. I lullond, Mr. Kershaw,
Mr. Brotherton, The O'Gorman Mahon, Mr. Moffat, Mr.
Pew, Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Wm. Marshall, Mr. Headlum.
The following NI.P. s were unable to attend the dinner:—
Sir Wm. Molcsworth, Col. Thon,on Mr. Alderman Hum-
phery, Mr. Burke Roche, and Mr. drattan.
DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR B. It. CHAPMAN,
R.E.—On the 6th inst. Sir Stephen Chapman died, at his
residence near Taunton, aged 76. lie entered the Itoyal
Engineers.in 1793, as a second lieutenant, and served in
the campaign in Holland in 1799; Captain Chapman served
under Lord Cathcart at Copenhagen, in 1807, and from
1809 to 1811 was in the Peninsula; for his services at
Busaco, in 1810, he had received the Gold Medal. In 1815
he was nominated a Companion of the Bath, and in 1831
was knighted. The late Sir S. Chapman was several years
secretary to the first Earl of Mulgrave, when Master-
s General of the Ordnance, and had also held the appoint-
i meat of Military Governor of Bermuda. He was early
last year appointed a Colonel-Commandant of the Royal
Engineers.
SUICIDE OP A LADY UNKNOWN.—TeSterday morn-
ing • respectable female, apparently about fifty years of
age, was found lying insensible in Staithheld. She was
removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it having
been ascertained that she was labouring under some narcotic'
p riven, she expired soon after admission. The deceased
wore gold earrings, • brooch, with a portrait of female in
it, a black visite, and squirrel furs. the body lice at St.
Bartholomew's, to be identified and for an inquest.