The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

ments, and the sweets, on a crockery saucer or
dish, were sent to the officers • also an intimation
that the Emperor had ordered presents for each
officer of the squadron, which came on board yes-
terday. The admirai has; several handsome boxes,
specimens of silk, and good china ; other officers,
according to rank, have received small assorted
boxes of china; surgeons have five cups and saucers
of blue china, of tolerable quality; juniors get
plates. _ _

I may tell you that the treaty has been signed,
giving us certain accommodation, and promising
much. At any rate, it is something to renew
friendly intercourse with the most extraordinary of
our race.

To-day our screw steam-frigate wont out with a
party of the Japanese mechanics, who, by the way,
are not in high esteem, as the military class is most
honoured.

We expect to move off to Hong Kong in a few
days, and then get our six mails, and thus rejoin
the world and hear of the progress of the war.
Oct. 19.—Some ♦ery handsome presents were
made to the admiral—a Japan cabinet, silver-
mounted, a cardbox, some bowls, dishes, and vases
of fine porcelain.
Oct. 20.—W0 have started for Hong Kong and
may touch at the Loo Choo Islands. A steamer
takes the mail.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Jan. 4.

OLD COURT.

;Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell aid Mr. Justice
Crowder.)

THE DOUBLE MURDER IN WARREN-STREET.
( Continued from our Third Edition of Yesterday.)
The case for the prosecution having closed,

Mr. Collyer then proceeded to address the jury for the
defence. He said that in every case of this kind a pre-
judice was very naturally excited against the individual
who Was charged with having wilfully deprived a fellow-
creature of existence, but in the present instance there
were many other circumstances calculated to increase
that prejudice, and he felt that the jury could only come
to a conscientious decision by resolutely determining not
to allow anything to operate upon their minds but the
sworn evidence laid before them in support of the specific
charge which they were called upon to dispose of. He
thought that the prisoner had a right to complain of the
course that had been taken in trying him upon the pre-
sent indictment for killing the unfortunate man Collard,
when it was perfectly clear that the original and main
charge against him was that of killing Mr. Moore ; and
he said that if that had been gone into be felt some con-
fidence that he should have been able to satisfy the jury
that in that case he had not committed the crime of wil-
ful and deliberate murder, and that at most he was only
amenable to a charge of manslaughter. With reference
to this charge he should submit to the jury that there was
no evidence of any motive for the commission of such a
barbarous crime, that it was admitted the prisoner and
Mr. Moore were on friendly terms, and he asked whether
it was probable that if such a crime had been in con-
templation the prisoner would have gone to the house
accompanied by a female. He urged that it was ex-
tremely probable that sone quarrel had suddenly risen,
and that under the impulse of passion the prisoner had
committed the dreadful act of killing Mr. Moore. For
that act, which would undoubtedly amount to the offence
of manslaughter, th 3 prisoner was liable to very severe
Punishment, and he said it appeared to him that the
jury would he justified in acquitting the prisoner upon
the present charge and leaving him to be dealt with upon
the original one, from which he admitted he could not
hope to escape so far as regarded a conviction for man-
slaughter. The learned counsel then proceeded to argue
that there was nothing to show that the prisoner had de-
liberately fired at the unfortunate man Collard, and said
the jury would bear in mind that the moment he dropped
from the paling into the road he was laid hold of by three
or four men, and that the' e was nothing more likely
than that the pistol went off by accident. With regard
to the fact of the prisoner carrying arms about him such
as had been described, he said that it was the custom
among foreigners to do so, and he observed that if the
prisoner had really been actuated by the murderous in-
tention imputed to him, the dagger that was found upon
him was a much more ready and deadly weapon than
even a pistol. He concluded an eloquent speech by
earnestly entreating the jury not to return a verdict the
inevitable effect of which would be to sacrifice the life of
the prisoner, but that they would take a course which
would give him, during a long period of misery and de-
gradation, an opportunity for repenting of the crimes
he had committed.