The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-18 00:00:00

quarters. By universal consent th. se millelene tent
In the person of Profi Igor WIDSTEI us s 4tomnisei
centre. He was a man of great self-indulasoce, sad
of I.rated meass. He was known to have borrowed
snooty of the missing man alder circumstances not
very creditable to him. At first, however, Willa=
appears only to haws been sespestad becalm there
was no other person to whom sespieles could by pos-
sibility attack itself.
Bose statements, however, made by the janitor et
the oder soon imported more coefkloeco to the MI,
parties. The man spoke of an la
PAItiMAN sad WEBSTER to whisk=
bees e witness, is which their mistimes* bike ad
medium had bees discussed with mesh litesruees.
We added that he had seen PAPJUIAN egproachiug
the soilage a short time after mid-day at the day on
whisk he was last seen. He added eirlinastances• in
She eebsogesat waded of the professor, all tending
mina the isferenoes to which these facts seemed
naturally to lead. Inquiry in the neighbourhood
elicited that several jargon had NMI Pates ILAN
ping in the direction of the college at the time sass-
Honed by the janitor; that at least one permit hod
moo him enter; and no oce could be found who had
saes him afterwards.

A search was accordingly instituted in the 031-
lege buildings. The janitor, in consequace of in-
structions to that effect, taroks through • wall into
a vault which communicated with a privy in the
professois apartments. There, among the soil, were
found parts of a human body. In a furnace in the
apartment other fragments were found in • pattielly
consumed state. In • box, under a heap of tau bark,
wu found another portion of a human body. On
arranging the fragments, medical men, who were
called in, expressed a decided opinion that they were
all parts of the same body. Gentlemen intimately
acquinted with Dr. PARKIIAN were of opinion, from
the appearanse of the hair, &c., that they might be
parts of his body. The remains of some artificial
teeth, attached to a portion of a jaw found in the
furnace, were identified by the dentist who made
them ; who recognised them by their very peculiar
formation • who subsequently in court produced the
moulds from which they had been made and showed
that thi y fitted ; and who had seen them in
Dr. PARICHANII month the day before that on
which he had disappeared. No traces of blood, of
anything indicating a struggle, were observed in the
apartments ; but the dispersion of the fragments, and
the obvious attempt to destroy some of them, indi-
cated a desire of coccealment ; a knife bore marks of
recut cleansing ; and the command of chemical
agents which WEBSTIR bad, as professor of che-
mistry, accounted for the removal of stains.
The conduct of Professor Wasirrga throughout the
week during which these investigations were in pro-
gress, was subsequently ascertained to have been
remarkable. Toe rooms he occupied in the college
were only used by him in his prifeseorial capacity;
he resided with his family at some distance. Ile was
often shot up alone in these rooms and inaccessible.
He displayed a fidgetty, nervous anxiety to learn
from various persons whether anything tad been
heard of Dr. -PARICNAN, and what was thought of his
disappearance. He asserted to more than one that
be had seen him on the Friday, and paid him a sum
which he owed him on mortgage. He went so far as
to wait upon the doctor's brother; to state that he
had called on him at the college on the Friday, by
appointment; that he had received payment and
rushed off in a state of strange excitement, without
restoring or cancelling the deed of mirtgage.
When arrested and told it was on a charge of
having murdered Dr. PAREXAN, Professor WEB-
SIER evinced interse and unmeaning terror. That,
was compatible with innocence ; but he asked the ex-
traordinary question, when told that the body had
been fauna —" What pert of it r
All these eirciutstanoets, and many more, were
proved at the trial. Some additional fats. respecting
purchases of materials which might have been used
in removing the traces of the deed, were also proved.
Bankers and others were produced who gave such
accounts of the recent money transections of Pro-
fessor WEBSTER, as showed it to be all but impossible
that be could have paid PARE/lAN as alleged. The
witnessesspoke with singuler guardedness and candour.
The strictest era,s examination failed to involve them
in any contradictions. The circumstances explained,
or sought to be explained, by the wiin-s-es for the
defence were quite unimportant. Two or three per.
sons were produced who swore confidently that they
had seen PARIEMAN in the evening of the Friday on
which he was last seen ; tad an attempt was made
to establish an alibi; but, opposed to the cloud of evi-
dence on the other side, these testimonies produced no
effect. It was also remarked that the counsel for the
accused admitted throughout the possibility of the
killing, and argued, but without any attempt to pro-
duce evidence, that it might have occurred in circum-
stances which only warranted a ye rdictof manslaugh-
ter. Lastly, the prisoner himself, when asked at the
close of the prcosedings whether he had anything to
say for himself, briefly addreiaed the court, reflecting
pissionately on his counsel for not having adduced tes-
timony which be had placed in their hands, declaring
that be could explain every suspicious circumstance,
but failing to do so. Everything in thew remark-
able
and protracted pr3oeedings concurred to produce'
an indelible conviction of the guilt of the accused.
The character of Prole:sir WEBSTER and his
crime, as they are revealed by the judicial investiga-
time, have many striking features of resemblance to
earlier rouses Mara. In the cool premeditation of
the murder, and the means resorted to for the pur-
pose of averting detection, the coaled of the learned,
accomplished, and pleasing professor, bears a striking
resemblance to that of the untaught brute DANIEL
GOOD. The peulleseor's character, his uncontrollable
appetite for the elegant luxuries of life, his pleasing
and engaging exterior, his limited means and
embarrassments, and the callous mintier in %bleb
he sacrificed the life of another to ensure the
means of enjoyment, made some alight approach
to the demoniacal WAINWRIGHT. The overween-
ing confidence displayed by WEBSTER in his own
nerve and resources, and the fact that his ambi-
tion to make an ingenious defence contributed in
no slight degree to rivet the conviction of
his guilt, reminds one of his brother pedagogue,'
Evans Arun. Even in purely fortuitous end un-
important incidents the trial recals some that have
preceded it. As in the case of the Meammos, the
false teeth of the deceased became important advin-
calm of evidence.

Mach of the borroe excited by this narrative I.
owing to the startlirg contrast between the atrocity
of the deed and the tranquil common-place character
of the social relations out of which it originated. In
an intellectual, decorous, well-reiulated circle, one of
its least suspected members is suddenly discovered
to have perpetrated an atrocious and revolting murder.
The deed is committed apparently under the influence
of no overpowering, excited The object is
simply to remove a somewhat aissious troubler of
a course of indolent self-sojoyment. The murder
is accomplished with the most perfect self-
possession, calculation of means to ends, and as if
it were a mere common matter of bogus& The
irresistible power of seemingly weak motives, the utter'
absence of any compunctious inciting. to oppose them,
the short-sightedness to the innunterabLe hazards of
discovery, are shocking by their intense placidity.
What terrible suggestions does sack an occurrence
whisper respecting the untameable ferocity of the
human heart, and the merely superficial character of
that sivilisation en which we are acoostamed to place
eo much reliance ! Bootees in oar erderly, regulated,
social int/moans, to-day is as yesterday—bemuse
every man has learned to restrain the expression of
his more ungovernable emotions—because fear of the
law or public opinion deters many from selfish irre-
gularities, we flatter ourselves that the natures of men
have been chatted. Yet ever and anon some domes-
tic convulsion, liiketbatof WEBSTER, Oe WAINWEIGHT,
or FAUSTLEROT, reminds us that this shallow civili-
sation is after all no more than the thin cake of con-
gealed lava, beneath which the volcanic elements of
human pike° glow as fiercely and destructively as
ever, waiting but the visitation of some wandering
breath of air to fan them into destructive intensity.

PARISH EMIGRATION FROM

the 11th intent • large party ef emigrants, searhttag of 128
pengs, proceeded by pasty of c&gra.ts, so.ehtiui of 128
p.ilu. prc.ed.d by epselal train frog the Ni,. lilets
Station of the Lagos and Stuth-Western Railway to
Southantrmr. Thin body was Joined by other parties at
Woking, Basiogstoke, sad AnOover, bringing additions
from various places, from °wigging. Walliagford, Yarning-
don, Andover. AL Those emigrants were of the agricul-
tural clam, sent oat by their respective parishes—they were
geserally stout sountwnen, and of a class to make good
beeltwoudamen in the critatries to which airy acre Ironed—
Cs., Canada sad the Western 8 atm. The Bouttt•WesAra
Railway Creapasy, we viaders'and, convey such emigrants
ia bodies at 6a a