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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17.

WHILE the murder of the poor child at Road,
and the infanticidal mania in Marylebone, baffle
and confound the common-place dexterity of our
Detectives, it is at least measuring to be able
to record the conviction and sentence to death
of as black-hearted a villain as ever stood
in the dock of the Central Criminal Court. We
feel a positive relief at this congenially dark and
gloomy season in announcing that this earth will
shortly be rid of one of the choicest specimens of
the desperate wickedness that lurks under its
fairest seeming, in the person of WILLIAM GODFaEY
YOUNGMAN, who has cast a lurid light of horror
even en Walworth—that chosen territory of vio-
lence and disaster. If crime has not diminished
in intensity of late years, it is a matter of con-
gratulation that the diseased tenderness for
criminals which disgraced this country a few
years ago has in a great degree gone out
of fashion. It is not that there is any
symptom of a relapse to a cruel and barbarous
penal code, or that punishment in a vindictive
sense is treated as the sole cure for crime. On
the contrary, the extension of the Reformatory
movement manifests a prevailing sense of the
paramount duty of prevention. But it is now
acknowledged that a human creature who com-
mits murder in cold blood, and with,careful preme-
ditation, is a wild beast that cannot too expedi-
tiously be put out of the way by the Law that
stands armed with GOD'S justice between the
living and the dead.
Day after day "The Walworth Murders " have
warned the most careless newspaper reader of the
fearful abysses which lie beneath the treacher-
ous crust of the most highly organised civilisation.
Churches, laws, police, education, all the decencies
and respectabilities of a well-regulated society, are
not, it seems, incompatible with atrocities which
we fondly imagine peculiar to fanatical races and
savage tribes. And when we reflect that this
group of murders which for the last three weeks
has set the mark of CAIN upon a whole district of
our metropolis, is but a paroxysm of the infernal
envies, cupidities, and cruelties that are ferment-
ing and festering in thousands of dark and sullen
human hearts around us, we may well be awe-
struck and amazed.

The case for the prosecution of Willman GOD-
FREY Yov:ecuss is almost unique in the annals of
crime for its terribly comprehensive and com-
pact simplicity. It would probably take half-a-
dozen of the most atrocious precedents in the
Neirgate Calendar to equal this single instance in
the combination of careful cunning and reckless
ferocity. For cold and calculated savagery it would
be difficult to surpass the wretch who deliberately
entices the affections of a poor girl, and insures her
life a week before her death by his hand for a
hundred pounds, and then rises in the early morn-
ing, just after his father has gone out to work,
to hack and stab through and through the brother
with whom he slept, a second brother, his mother,
and his "sweetheart "—not so much, it appears,
for the sake of destroying the witnesses of one
murder, as to enable himself to charge his
slaughtered mother with them all.

The culprit, it seems, was no novice in crime.
Be had been discharged from one situation as •
domestic servant, and convicted of theft, and
on discharge from prison had managed to get
another situation by a false character. Nor was
his attachment to the poor unhappy MAY
Fireurraa a sudden or recent affair : it had been
broken off and renewed, and for many weeks
before she came to town to marry him, or rather
to be murdered, he had written her repeated love
letters, the incessant burden of which was
that she should attend with him to assure
her life for 1001. The poor girl was of
course strongly advised by her own family
to do no such thing. Six days before she
left her home her lover told her to come to
him and bring all the money she could with her ;
adding that there was no necessity for her to get the
wedding things made up, as these could be had in
town. Perhaps the least unnatural part of this
tragedy is the infatuation of the girl. She loved
this villain, as faithless and cruel men have often
been loved before by weak women ; and the vision
of St. Martin's Church and • wedding trip to Kew-
gardens was enough to hurry her away to her
doom. The lover took her out for a day's plea-
suring, as if to prepare her for the sacrifice, and
they both returned in the evening looking very
happy. All this time WILLIAM GOOTRZY Yotrito-
MAN was engaged to be married to a girl in
Staffordshire, who actually came up to Lon-
don when she read of " The Walworth Murders"
to find her " Wim.tau GODMIT " the
murderer of another " sweetheart." The
fatal blindness in the act of murder which often
follows long premeditation and design is strikingly
shown in this hideous business. Witusit
Bonnet. YOVNOMAN had enough of the cunning
of the thief to lay snares for the hundred pounds
payable to him on the death of his sweet-
heart. But his furious greed will not allow him
to wait even for the marriage, so he
slaughters MAZY Smarm while she is only his
mother's guest ; and how does he think to mis-
lead justice and defy detection f By murdering
his two brothers and his mother, " that he might
" go to the police•otlice and represent that the
" girl had been murdered by her whom he had
" killed in salt-defence." His story was that

his moirer, in a it dinadness, had uturderettitar
two children, and poor obi, her son's inset-
heart, and " that *had* been ()hiked to ki* his
" mother in self-delenes." 3° wonder the only
defence the able Counsel for the prisoner conk' set
up was that the mother had commilled the murders
in a fit of temporary insanity. It was perilous
ground, with any jury of the commonest intel-
ligence to dilate on the evidences of the prisoner's
ardent attachment for his sweetheart ; for a key
had been found in the prisoner's posuention open-
ing a box in which was the policy of assuranoe,
dated July 25, on the life of MART
Warm filvazrrxx for 1001. Among the
love letters put in evidence by the father
of the poor girl there was one urging her to
burn all her letters and papers, another urging
her to burn all her lover's letters, and another
telling her—ominously enough—she "need only
" wear her Black Clothes at her wedding." The
plea of insanity, we are thankful to say, is losing
its efficacy with British juries, even when a whole-
sale murderer, who cuts his mother's throat from
end to end, and stabs his brothers to the very
vertebrae, and digs his knife into the breastbones
of his sweetheart, is the interesting patient.
In the present instance the Counsel for the de-
fence had not only to make out the poor dead
mother an insane murderess, but to make the
mother's hereditary insanity an argument for the
hereditary insanity of the son. We rejoice that
ten minutes were sufficient to convince the
jury that WILLIAM GODFREY YOUNGMAN was not
a proper candidate for an asylum.

'Ube Court.

BALMOItAL, Auccerr 14.

The Queen, accompanied by Pi-incest§ Helena,
and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng, drove ont in the
afternoon.

The Prince Consort, with Sir George Grey, went out
grouse shooting in the afternoon.
Her Majesty received the intelligence of the christening
of the infant princess, daughter of the Princes+ Royal and
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, who received the
names of Victoria Elizabeth Miguel& Charlotte, at 3 p.m. ;
the ceremony having taken place at the new palace at
Potsdam at half-part one o'clock.
Mr., Mrs. and Miss Farquhamoo, of Invereauld, had the
honour of being invited to dinner.
Lady Macdonald has relieved the Countess of Desert as
Lady-in-Waiting to her Majesty.

A deputation from the Society for the Formation of a
South London Museum, headed by Mr. W. Williams, M.P.,
and Mr. W. Roupell, M.P., bad an interview with Vbsouat
Palmerston yesterday. The deputation connoted of Xmas.
C. P. Murphy, I). Venn W. Cann, J. W. Willnms, T. S.
Davies, H. Rogers, Hugh Allen, Swell, J. W. Bider,
WConuell, J. T. Smith, G. C. Reline, C. Roes, J. C.
Coltran, W. H. Cox, J. 0. Howell, Edgar P. Brock, W.
Looney, J. Davidson, J. Burnett, J. Phillip., J. Victim,
J. Corderoy, B. Edwards, P. Mitchell, Barclay Brickbill,
H. White, A. Edwards, W. Wood, F. Childs, A. Langley,
and the Hon. A. Rintraird.
A deputation from the East Anglian Railway Company
laden interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gilman
yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputa-
tion consisted of Mr. Henry Bruce, chairman, Mr. Lightly
Simpson, depty-chairman, Mr. Henry Newbery, director,
and Mr. J. B. Bond, secretary.

On Tuesday the infant daughter of the Princess
Frederic William was baptised at the new palace at Pons
dam, by the court preacher, Heym, when the young prin.
cam received the names of Victoria Elizabeth Augusta
Charlotte. Amongst the distinguished persons preempt
were the Queen of Prussia, the members of the royal
family residing at Potsdam and Berlin, Prince Augustus
of Wurtemberg, the Duke of Brunswick, the Hereditary
Prince and Hereditary Princess of Dessau, the Princes Louis
and Henry of Rene, Field-Marshal von Wrangel, the
English Minister, Lord Bloomfield, lie. The baptism of
the daughter of the Princess Frederic Charles took place
two days prey:coyly.

Their Serene highnesses the Prince and Princess
Leiniegen have left Howehin's Hotel on a viait to the
Queen at Bahnoral.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer leave town today for New Lodge, Windsor
Forest.

His Excellency the American Minister and Mrs.
Dallas and family have left town for Upper Norwocd.
The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, has left Trentham on
a visit to Lord and Lady Blantyre at Erskine House, N.B.
At the close of their visit the noble duke vial embark on
board his yacht at Gimps', and sail to Loch Inver, whence
his grace will proceed to Dunrubin Castle, Sutheriaod•
shire.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left Hort-
fortstreet, for Pancarrow, Cornwall, on a vitit to Lady
lloletwortb.

Lord Hubert de Burgh, secretary of legation at
Turin, has arrived at the Marquis of Claaricarde's residence,
in Carlton Howe-terrace, from Italy, on leave of absence.

Sir Cornwallis and Lady Caroline Ricketts have
left Groevenor-place, for Penearrow, Cornwall, the meat of
Lady Molenworth.

The Right Hon. B. Diaraeli, M.P., and Mr&
Disraeli have left Grosvenor.gate, for Hughendee Manor,
Bucks.

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert will leave town
co Tuesday next, for Scotland.

The Bight Bon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have WI Oresvonor-pte for Hugheedsa Manor, Buck,.
We are requested to contradict the statement
that Dr. Vattern bee been appointed to the Chancellorship
of York Cathedra.

The Gibesliar, 101, was safely launched at
Devaaport at baltpast gee o'clock yesterday afternoon, by
Mr. hake, master builder, in the presence of Rear Admiral
Mr Thomas Pesky, the Preach Ambassador and the Coun-
tess de Persigny, Lard Chardon, and others. The eureasony
of christening was performed by Miss Ednecumbe, daughter
of the Hen. George Edgecumbe.

TER MLUTIA EfitlMATES.—YeSterdAy the select
committee appointed to prepare estim►tes of the charges of
the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland for the
year ending March 31,1861, agreed to their report. The num-
bers are 104,504, against 103,644 last year; but the charge is
higher, amounting to 520,1281., while last year the amount
was 462,8801. The increase is under the bead of charge
for the pay and allowances of inspectors of militia, and of
the permanent staff, including the charge for raising and
training the force.

TEN Hones Of LORDS AND TEN SAVINGS BANE
BILL—Mr. Heller has given notice in the House of Com.
mons "To cell attention to the refusal by the House of
Lords to entertain a bill sent up from this house, intituled,
' A Bill to make further Provision with respect to Moeda
received from Savings Bente and Friendly Societies; and to
the assumption by the House of Lords of the power of
limiting and prescribing the time for receiving and enter-
taining bills sent up from the House of Commons."
PRZACHINO AT MIBBINA. —lt is now two days
since Father Gavani began preaching in one of the public
squares of the city. Hisaddresses have by no mesas the
political fervour of those which he delivered in 1848.49,
1101 do they glow with the same fiery republicanism, but be
still holds very strong language, and he strongly inculcates
the necessity of forming a single and united kingdom, under
the sceptre of Victor Emmanuel. It in true that, for the
Sicilian population, a Peter the Hermit who preaches up a
great Italian craeade has to begin with the beginning,
and communicate to his hearers the most elementary geo-
graphical notions as to what Italy really means. But there
is not much time to carry on these preliminary studies.
To-day there begins to preach, in the cathedral church,
Father Giovanni da Cutelvetrano, the same warrior monk
who, ever since the battle of Calatallmi, has marched with
the Geribeldian troops—end who, with dauntless valour,
fought in the foremost ranks at Calatami, Palermo, and
34 elem. He is a good, honest friar, well calculated to address
the masses. He spade a spade, and he possesses the ad-
vantage of being able to address the people in the giCallin. dia-
lect; whilst
_preachers who discourse in good Tuscan er
Roman speech are almost unintelligible. Father Giovanni
is by no means mealy-mouthed respecting the abuses of the
Papacy and of the court of Rome. He preaches Christ's
free weed, and keeps repeating, " 1 shill be glad if I can
only reach Rome alive, in order to tell to the Pontiff that the
peat which he treads is no• the path trodden by Jesus
Christ.' Father Giovanni's virtues and straightforward
honesty can him to be loved and respected—l might even
my ,rounded—by the whole army—bettaftvet aispiss.