The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

CONVICTION FOR MURDER AFFIRMED..

TILE QUEEN Y. RAYNOR AND ANOTHER.—Tbc.: prisoners in
this case had been convicted of the murder of a man named
Gillott. They were tried before Mr, Justice Willes, at
the last assizes for the county of Derby. The evidence
rested chiefly on the declaration of the deceased some

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time previ-nts to his death, and at the trial an exception
was taken by counsel; on the part of the prisoners, as to
the admissibility of this evidence. The learned judge
reserved the point, and the appeal came before the Court
of Criminal Appeal on Saturday. Mr. Digby Sey-
mour, who appeared for the prisoners, contended that
the declaration in question was defieient in those
circumstances which rendered it according to law
admissible as conclusive. The authorities on the question
had laid it down as as a rule that it was indispensable
in such declarations, that the declarant should have a
'conviction of impending death. In this case, his words
to the constable who visited him, when he made the
declaration, were, that the doctor Lad given him some
hope, but that he himself believed that ultimately he
would not recover. The Lord Chief Baron I think
the judgment was right No doubt it is necessary that
the person making the declaration should be under the
apprehension of death, but there is no law laying down
the period that must elapse between the making of
that declaration and the decease of the party. Here
a man's spire is broken in such a manner, that
death must speedily have followed as it did. He
said : I make this statement, believing I shall not
recover. The statement of the doctor vas merely given
to encourage the pa ient, but he entertained no hope of
his recovery, which a post mortem examination showed to
be impossible from the extent of the injuries he had
received, In this case there was every requirement to
render the declaration admissible. It was perhaps one
of those cases in which the' patient knew his own state
better than the doctor who attended him, and there was
no doubt that the man was suffering under mortal inju—
ries. The other judges concurred in this opinion. and
the verdict was accordingly confirmed.

MR. H. DRUMMOND, M.P.—A rumour is in circulation
that Mr. Drummond, M P., one of the surviving apostles of
the Irvingites, bas just separated from that singular body,
and sold his " apostolic" chapel at Albury to the Roman
Cat :fits.
The 'Weekly Register and Catholic Standard announces
that the Irish Catholic Archbishops are summoned to Rome
and that it is expected that Dr. Cullen will be created a
Carein• I. The appointment is announced, by the same
paper, of the Hon. and Rev. W. Clifford, D.D., son of Lord
Clifford, to the Catholic See of Clifton, which has been
some time vacant.
OUR COUNTRY GETTING 13Errza.—It is clear that a great
reform is tilting place in our domestic manners, Onr
medical 'men, and our preachers, and our temporance mis-
sionaries, are weaning the public from that love of strong
drink which has ever been our bane. We find a comparison
has been prepared of the imports of wines and spirits in the
yofe a
the
h1e855,
year a
18p3u5b
showinged by
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othese
years. In 1835,
according to this statement, the total im-
portation of wine was 9,039,551 gallons, while that of 1865
was only 8,946,766, showing a decrease of 92,785 gallons.
The total quantity of spirits imported in 1835 was 7,980,717
bothgal
of
120,
7n6ws2,
,ntshe4as2t ofagre ldl
180505 b e
spiritse iTng 10,743,
hweat,o,tailna 11328503=9,
stshowingxo4fr revenue
oBn increase,paeni paid
oi4
u
1855, X 4,242,562, showing a decrease of X 492,319.