The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-07 00:00:00

CAPITAL SENTENCES.

Seven persons have been sentenced to death at
the Lent Assizes for murder. Of these three have
been executed—viz., William Charlton, at Carlisle,
for the murder of an aged female gatekeeper on
a line of railway, who was supposed to have
in her cottage a small sum of money, which it
was the object of the murderer, an enginedriver
on the same line of railway, to obtain ;
John Gould, at Reading, for the murder of his
own child by cutting her throat ; and RichaL-d Rrv-
lands, at Beaumaris, for the murder of his Vlfe's
father. Appeals were made in each of these tbree
cases to the mercy of the Crown ; but the offenceg
were of so shocking and aggravated a character as
to render any interference with the sentence alto-
gether inconsistent with the due administration of
justice. One other convict, Richard Thorley, re-
mains for execution at Derby on Friday next, the
11th inst. He was convicted of the murder of a
young woman who refused to receive his addresses
by cutting her throat in a most cruel and barbarous
manner, and, as no attempt has been made to pro-
cure a commutation of his sentence, it is all but cer-
tain, considering the nature of the offence, that the
law will be left to take its course. In the case of
George Clark, who was convicted at Newcastle-•
upon-Tyne of the murder of a tax-collector in that
town, it was found after his trial that he was in an
unsound state of mind ; and, upon medical certifi-
cates of that fact, his sentence has been respited,
in order that he may be placed under observation,
and dealt with as his mental condition may seem
to require. With respect to the two remain-
ing prisoners, John Hall and Ismael Jones,
the former convicted at Oxford of shooting a.gamkeeper in the service of Viscount Dillon, and the'
latter at Montgomery, of murdering his wife in a
paroxysm of jealousy, it appeared, upon inquiry,
that there were certain extenuating facts in the re-
spective cases; and that, under the circumstances, •
the ends of justice might be satisfied without the
that
other
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expected
infliction of the extreme penalty of the law. Their
sentences have, therefore, been Committed
an to y
penalh
servitude for life. It is not
capital convictions will take place at these assizes,
which have been heavy, and are now on the eve of
conclusion.

The Vocal Association having obtained the con-
sent of Miss Louisa Pyne, and W. Harrison, Esq., to give a
Selection from Mr. Benedict's Opera (The Lily of Killar-
ney) will introduce, for the first time in the Concert-roonlp
an entire Selection of the principal gems of this delightful
opera on Wednesday evening next, April 9th, at St. James's
Hall. Tho solo singers announced are Miss Banks, Miss
Augusta Thomson, Mr. Swift, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. Sant-
ley. The choir of 500 voices will sing the Boatmen,
Chorus. Mr. Benedict will conduct • the performance.

THE 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—The public must
not expect a very speedy promulgation of the finding of tha
court-martial in the 4th Dragoon Guards. The volumin-
ous proceedings will have to be examined by the Judge'
Advocate-General as regards their legal sufficiency, and by
the General Commanding with a view to their bearing on
the discipline of the army, before the result is known, and
it is not probable that it can be made public for some
weeks.—Army and Navy Gazette.
The execution of Gresse, alias Livache, condemned
to death at the late assizes of the Isere for pcisoning
13erthier, a farmer at Motte d'Aveillan, took place at,
Grenoble the day befiwe yesterday. The prisoner ever
since his trial had shown the utmost contrition fur his
crime, and when informed that his last day was come, re,-
intelligence with resignation. After hearing mass,
ceived the int el li
he was taken in a cart to the Champ-de-Mars, and on ar,
riving there, he ascended the scaffold unaided, rpeatcd
short prayer with the priest, and a moment after had ceased
to exist. A crowd of not less than 6,000 persons, more
than two-thirds females, had assend.led to witness the
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