The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, DEC. 2.

.TRIAL of BISHOP, MA Y, and WILLIAMS,'
FOR THE MURDER OF THE" ITALIAN BOY. •

(coNcLuDPD PRO2if THE SUN OF YESTERDAY.) ,
Mary Paragurl, wife of the preceding witness, stated that on
Tuesday, November 1, she saw the deceased in Oxford-street,
near Hanover-square. He had'a cage like a squirrel cage, and
two white mice in it. ' She did not speak to him. He wore a
cap, but she could not tell what sort of one it was. She had seen
the body.of that boy at the station-house in Covent-garden.
Andrew Calla, of No. 4, 'Great Safft-on.lllll, bird-cage maker--
I knew the deceased boy, by Seeing him In the streets, and saw him
lately in Okford.street. I have seen the body at the station-
house, and believe it to be the body of the boy / have seen hi
the streets. When I saw him in Oxford-street, he had White
mice in a cage,-and a tortoise. The cap produced was similar to
that which he wore. He also wore a blue coat and grey trousers,
witlia large patch on the left knee of the latter.
(The trousers, which had been dug up in Bishop's garden,Were
here produced.)
The witness examined them, and stated he believed them to
be the same as those the deceased had worn, and he pointed our
the patch in the knee of them.
John King, a boy, sworn—l shall be ten years old next Christ-
mas. Igo to chapel, and know the consequences of telling a lie.
I live at No. 3, Crabtree-road,• lacing the Bird-cage public-
house, and near Nova Scotia.gardens. I remember one Jay
when my mother washed, seeing a boy near Nova Scotia-gar-
dens. 1 believe it was the Thursday before Guy Fawkes'-day. I
was looking out of the window, and the boy had something, but
my mother would not let, me go to see what it was. - I believe
it was a little cage that he had, and it was slung from his neck
by a string. He was standing still. •' He had a brown cap, with
the leaf or shade lined with green, exactly like this cap (the one
produced). I was looking at him for a few minutes.
Cross-examined—lt was the first floor window from which I
saw him, yeti could see the lining of his'cap shade.
Martha King, the sister to the last witness, aged eleven years,
sworn—On the Wednesday or Thursday before Guy Fawkes'-day
she saw the Italian boy, as described by her brother. He was not
one minute's walk from Bishop's house, and she had never seen
him since.
John Randall, a labourer, sworn—l live near Nova 'Scotia-
gardens. On Thursday morning, Nov. 3, I saw an Italian boy,
about nine or ten o'clock, near Nova Scotia-gardens. He was
standing under the window of the Bird-cage public-house, and
had a box or cage, with two white mice. He had on a blue
coarse jacket; a brown fur cap, but I did not notice his trousers.
The cap and jacket were similar to those produced.
Sarah Trueby, wife of John .Trueby, sworn—My husband is
landlord of Nos. 1; 2, and 3, Nova Scotia-gardens, and I have
been in the habit of letting the houses, and receiving the rents.
I let No. 3to Bishop's wife in June, 1830. Bishop and his wile
resided there until he was taken into custody. I have often seen
Bishop there. I let the house No. 2 last July to the prisoner
Williams, who then went by the name of Head. Williams oc-
cupied it six or seven weeks, and it was afterwards occupied by a
person named Woodcock. It • was a few weeks empty. There
arc gardens behind the houses, and low fences between, but
there is a communication from No. 1 and No. 2 to No. 3.
because there was a well for the use of the whole in Bishop's
house. There is a privy at the bottom of Bishop's garden. I
have seen 'Williams several times at No. 3, after he left No. 2.
I have also seen Williams's wife there.

William Woodcock, a boy, stated that he lived with his fa-
ther, at No. 2, Nova Scotia-gardens, next door to Bishop's house;
he knew Williams, and had seen him there several times, and had
also seen Williams's wife washing in Bishop's hoUse—saw WO-
hams there two or'three days before Guy Fawkes' day, walking,
in the garden smoking a pipe.
Abraham Keymer, landlord of the Feathers, Castle-street,
Bethnal-green, swornOn the night of Thursday, the 3d of
November, Bishop, and I believe Williams also, came to
my house. It was near twelve o'clock. My house is about 200
yards from Nova Scotia-gardens. They had a quartern of rum
and half a gallon of beer, and I lent them a can to carry it. The
can produced was that which I lent them.
Wm. Woodcock sworn—l went to reside at No. 2, Nova
Scotia-gardens on the 17th October, next door to Bishop. Wil-
liams, I have reason to believe, also lived with Bishop. I lived
in No. 2, until after the prisoners were apprehended. I know
Williams, but did not know Bishop until I saw him at Bow-
street. The first Sunday I lived there I was digging in my
garden, when Williams told me to dig in a certain spot,
where I would find some lillies. On Thursday, the
3d of November, I went to bed about half-past nine
o'clock. In the course of the night, probably about four
hours and a.half after I had gone to bed, I was awakened
by hearing footsteps, which I thought were at the back of my
premises, but I distinctly heard three men's footsteps in the
parlour of No. 3 (Bishop's house). I remained in bed and heard
a scuffle, which lasted for one or two minutes, at the furthest,
and then all was silent. The scuffling was in the same room in
which I heard the 'footsteps. Afterwards T heard Bishop's side
door open, and also heard the footsteps of two men. There is a
side door to Bishop's house. The persons after leaving
Bishop's house, I heard come round to the front, and pass
by my house. Atter they were gone,- I heard the footstep of
one person in the house. When those two persons returned to
the house, I distinctly heard the voices of three persons, one of
which I knew' to be that of Williams. After that all became
stilLigain, and I went to rest.
Cross-examined—l believe the wall between the two houses
are but four inches thick. The struggle that I heard I considered
at the time to be a family quarrel.
By Mr. Justice LUTLEDALE—Not .more than a minute
and a half elapsed from the time of the two men leaving until

their return.
Hannah Woodcock, wife of the last witness, sworn—She stated
that Bishop, his wife, and family, and Williams and his wife, oc-
cupied No. 3, Nova Scotia-gardens.
Joseph Higgins, • a New Police constable, sworn—On the 9th
of November, in consequence of some instructions, I went to
No. 3,,Nova Scotia-gardens; and on searching it, I found two
crooked chisels, a brad-awl, and a file. There appeared to be
blood on the brad-awl, which at that time looked fresh. I
searched May's premises, No. 4, Dorset-street, New Kent-road,
on the 11th, and found a pair of breeches, which had marks of
blood on the back part, which appeared to be fresh. There was
also a waistcoat with marks of clay on it. On the 19th, I went
again to Bishop's house.with James Wadey.
51r. Mills, the dentist, was recalled, and examined by Chief
Justice TINDAL—The -teeth had been forced out; I should
think the brad-awl now produced would afford great facility in
forcing out the teeth.
The evidence of Higgins was then continued—When we went
to Bishop's house on the 19th we searched the garden behind the
house; we first attempted it with an iron rod, but finding some-
thing impeding it I desired Wadey to dig, and a jacket, trow-
sers, and small shirt, were found; that was about five yards from'
the back door. In another part we dug up a blue coat, a pair of
trowsers with the braces attached to them, a striped waistcoat,
which appeared to be a man's, and taken in for a boy, With marks
of blood on the collar and shoulder, and a shirt that was torn up
the front.—(The witness here produced all those things.)_
The clothes are those'which would be useful to boys like the
deceased. There were ashes over the place where the clothes
had been buried.
James Wadey, also a constable, corroborated the last wit-
ness's testimony.
Edward Ward, a little boy, six and a half years' old, was next
examined—My father lives in Nova Scotia-gardens. I remember
last Guy Fawkes'-day, at which time I was in the habit of going
to school. I remember my mother giying me a half holiday, but
I don't know on what day it was. I went to Bishop's house.
Bishop has three children, two of them boys. On that day I saw
the children in the house, and they showed me a cage with two
little white mice; the cage turned round. I had often played
with Bishop's children before, but never saw them with a cage
or white mice before that.
John Ward, an elder brother of the preceding witness, stated
that what his brother had just related took place on Friday, 4th
November. His brother on that day told him what he had seen.
Mr. Corder, Vestry Clerk of St. Paul's Covent-garden, ex,
amined—A Coroner's inquest was held on the deceased on the
Bth November, and closed on Thursday, the 10th. In the course
of the examination Bishop was introduced, and after a suitable
caution, made a statement which the Coroner put down in writ-
ing. I also told Bishop before he said any thing that the in-
quiry mtlnt afibct his life. After that he made a voluntary de.
claration.—(The witness here read it, in which Bishop stated
tint be got the body from a grave; but the reason of not telling
where the grave was, was on account of two Watchmen who
knew of it, and had large families.) May was also produced,
and made a declaration, (which was read, and stated that he had
been to the country, and brought home two subjects, which he
took to Mr. Grainger's, and from thence to Guy's Hospital. He
also related the public-houses at which he had been, and of his
meeting with Bishop and May; that Bishop told him he had
got a good subject which he was offered eight guineas for, and
if he, May, could sell it he should have all above nine guineas
for himself: This he agreed to, and his account of the subse-
quent transactions was similar to that in the early part of the
evidence. The witness next read Williams's statement.
Mr. Wm. Burnaby, clerk of Bow-street Police-office sworn.—
When the brad-awl was produced at Bow-street. May said
" That is the instrument with which I punched the teeth out."
John Kirkham, police constable, stated that when theinquest
was sitting lie had charge of the. prisoners in the station-house;
behind where they sat there was a printed bill posted referring to
the reward; Bishop looked at the bill, and then leaned over
Williams to speak to May; he said to May " It was the blood
that sold us." Bishop then got up, and looked a second time at
the bill, and referring to the words " marks of violence," lie
said those marks were only breakings out in the skin.
Mr. Thomas, the superintendent, was recalled by Mr. BOD-
KIN-...When I first saw the body there were patches of dirt on
several parts. There were also marks on the left arm as though
they were the impression of fingers, and it appeared to me as if
the chest had been pressed in. There was a stream of blood
from the forehead down the face to the breast.
Mr. ADOLPHUS stated that this was the case for the prose-
cution.
Mr. Davies was recalled, and stated that he had the day before
purchased two bodies of the prisoner May.
The prisoners were then Severally called upon for their defence.
Bishop stated that he was 33 years old, and had a wife and
three children. He was formerly a carrier at Highgate, but for
the last twelve years he had obtained a living by supplying the
various hospitals and anatomical schools with dead bodies,
but he declared that he never was in any manner concerned
in improperly obtaining subjects. He had been in the titbit of
getting bodies from workhouses, and sometimes with the clothes
remaining on them. All the gardens about Nova Scotia-gardens
were easy of access, and were only divided by a low, dwarf rail-
- ing. As to the wearing-apparel found in the garden, he knew
nothing ; but, regarding the cap, he said he should prove that
his wife purchased it of Mrs. Dodswell, who kept a sale-shop in
• Hoxtou Old Town. As respected the prisoners Williams and May,
they knew nothing of the manner in which he got the body,
and he declared that he only got it in the way by which subjects
were usually obtained.
• Williams, in his defence, stated that he knew nothing of the
means ,by which the body was procured by Bishop, who invited
. him to go to the King's College. He, Williams, was not in the
habit of dealing with subjects, but got living by working as a
glass-blower.
May In his defence said, he was 30 years old and was married,
and formerly was a butcher, but for the last six years he had fol-
lowed 'the trade of dealing in subjects and supplying them to
hospitals. On the day when he met bishop at the 'Fortune of
War public-house, it was merely by accident, when Bishop asked
him where he could sell agood subject, stating that.he had-been
offered eight guineas for it. He (May) told him, as was the fact,

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. lkir fl t' guineas
that he had sohytwo to . ay.s; at ten each, the day
before, and he would try if Mr. Davis would buy that One
Bigiop told,hirn he should have all above nine guineas Air Mtn-
self; and then he agreed to endeavour to sell it. He assured the
Jury that he never asked., alai of course, he never knew, how
Bishop got possessioia_of the body.
'Rosina Carpenter 'stated that she lived in ra:rs Head-cdurt;
Oolden-lane. On- Thursday, Nov. 3, between
.four a:ld five
o'clock in the afternoon, May came to her house, and remained
with her until neatly tivelve o'clock the next day, not once going,
out during that tim.
Cross. examined— May has several times passed his nights with
her ; she did not know whether he Was married or not.
Sarah TroebY. who was examined for the prosddution; Was
called by , Mr. BARRY—She had never seen any white mice in
1314hop'sbouse. ' . A
• fiishop—Did you never ,see some white mice running out of
l'ut garden into Tours? • WitneSsllo: • .
sit seven or eight months ago ?—No. , • -
Did you never hear of your cat catching any of them ?---No;
not. I.
Mrs. Mary Dodswell ,deposed that her husband kept a shop
et No. 56, Hoxton 'Old Town: She sold clothes both new and
gee)ir-id-liaitd..ltnc* Bishpg'S wife; sold a cap to her about two
yea ago; that was a cloth • tar, With a . leather peak in the
frwit ; was sure it was cloth ; it had a blade front 1, did not
knCw the colour of the under part of the front ; sHotiid know
the cap that she sold in.a moment if she saw it. The cap pio;
duied was certainly not the one she sold. •
Bishop---But, Mrs. Dodswell, don't you recollect that my wife
bought twO daps of yoU at one time? Witness=No, only one,
and that *as a cloth cap.
Yon sold rriy Wife two Caps and a peak with them. Don't
you recollect that she gave yoti threepence for the peak sepa-
ratle,h?e-I,lsT,itol,imsffui nevretrhedridsta;
tledn e
thatv et
nothingsgholetikanoedwilk: of Bishop at
all, hut that she had often seen his wife, and that his girl had
lived servant vritlrher.: - She had ua.iutereskin saying any thing
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ill the truth.
'bur aviter a feedw sjeYtene jcl,4lli: was n-princtorifided%ggaTheug. V•athaVotitiev;
witness for the prisoners:
Mary Ann Hall, of No. 4, Dorset-street, Iletv
gent:road, then
stated that on the 30th of October May left her, and said. he
was going into the country.: Saw him no more till the folloWing
Wednesday night. He then was very wet and went to bed. lie
went out again, and witness did not see him again till the Friday
night fallowing, near the Alfred's Head, Newington, at half.past
eleven &Clock, He then went htnne with her, and on the
Saturday morning he Went Out. Witness called him to give her
some money;. he said he should return sOoft. Her landlady had
a jackdaw. • _ __

Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—Lived with May some-
times:but was not married to him. He had been more with
her than any other person for the last two years. During the
last two years she had been an unfortunate girl.
Charlotte Barry lived in the same house with the last witness.
Witness knew that her landlady had ajackdaw, the foot of which
witness pinched, by accident, With a door. The bird flew into
the room of the last witness, but Witness did not know that it had
blooded May's clothes.
Mr. Thomas Stated that he had thought that the marks of
blood which hksaw on May's clothes must have been, from their
freshness, made since the murder.
Chief-Justice TINDAL then procceded to sum up the evi-
dence. He observed that this was a prosecution against the three
prisoners for the crime of murder. The indictment charged them
with the murder of a boy, in the first place, who bore the name
of Charles or Carlo Ferrier ; and a second count charged them
with committing a murder upon a person whose name was to the
Jury unknown. This count had been added, in order that if
the Grand Jury, or this Jury, should_ lave been satisfied that a
murder had been • committed, or settle person whose name had
not, by some difficulty, been made out• to their satisfaction, that
the murderers merely on that account might not escape justice.
In that case, of course, the .offence was no less. At the same
time there were certain facts in this coupled with other parts of
the evidence, and the appearance of Carlo Ferrier, which they
would have to consider, and whether or not the crime was not
actually that of the murder of that boy. There was one thing
of great importance that he wished to mention to them, and
that was that, in deciding on the guilt or innocence of the pri-
soners at the bar, it became their solemn duty to discharge from
their minds every prejudice they had heard, and to decide merely
by the evidence that had been brought before them. The prisoners
were entitled to their acquittal if the evidence before the Jury
was not sufficient to convict them of the crime, or charge. They
had had ample opportunity of hearing the witnesses that had
been-brought forward ; and it was only on their evidence that
they must decide. There would be two principal parts that they
had to try, and those were—first, whether the body found was,
under the circumstances which the witnesses had disclosed, suf-
ficient to convince them that it had come to its death by violent
means—that was, whether it had been killed by guilty violence.
The next point was, whether the three prisoners, or any one of
them, had been guilty of committing that violence upon him. lf,
with regard to the first- point, they were satisfied that he had
not come to his death by violence, but by natural means, then,
of course, they must acquit the prisoners; but after they had
heard such evidence as had been adduced--after the testimony of
the medical men of such skill and experience, he did not think
they would feel any difficulty on that point. If they thought that
the death of this young person had been the effect of violence,
the next question, and the most difficult and important one, was
whether the three prisoners at the bar, or any of them, were
guilty of the violence. The case had been stated to the Court by one
of the Learned Counsel with great accuracy. The prisoners were
charged with all having been guilty of the murder; but to sustain
that charge it wasnot necessary to show that they were all actually
present at, and assisting in, the deed. It was enough to show that
they were constructively present. If, for instance, a man was
near enough to aid in any way, such as watching, or standing at
a door, he must be considered as guilty as those who struck the
blow. They would consider whether or not they were satisfied
that the evidenco before them brought home the guilt of the
transaction to the,prisoners, and if they were not. they were at
and those alone, against whom the evidence was strong enough
liberty to say so ivy their -verdict. They would find against those,
to prevent their entertaining a rational doubt of guilt. They
could never expect in these cases evidence of a positive nature,
as those deeds were almost always done at chosen times, when
there could be little chance of detection ; and if, therefore, the
circumstances that had been brought befete them
was sufficient to convince them that those circumstances could
evidence of
not have existed without the parties accused were guilty of the
murder, they would, of course, convict them. The Learned
Judge then proceeded. to comment on the evidence, and to
compare the different parts of the case, in the course of which
.
for his promptitude and y in detecting the prisoners
The Learned JUDGE remarked that the mere circumstance
he passed a high encomium on the conduct of Mr. Partridge
of the contents of the murdered boy's stomach being found to
smell of liquor (runs) was important, as part of the chain of cir-
cumstances, to show that lie had been treated with rum, or par-
taken of that liquor with some person. There appeared no doubt
that the boy Carlo Ferrier was alive on the day preceding the
offer of this body forsale. The death, therefore, must have hap..
pened in the interval; all the appearances are against the death
being a natural death, and strongly indicative of a violent and
speedy death, in the opinion ot• those qualified to judge. The
anxiety of May_ and Bishop to have the body carried away
secretly from Nova Scotia-gardens was not unimportant. The
share 'May took in the transaction will best appear from his
anxiety to secure to himself the possession of the teeth of the
boy, which he tooK care to extract himself. To this end, too, it
collar hitn
was fit the Jury should look even to the very loose and obscure
conversation about the new associate they had made being
a gwduih ?and
going well into him, and saying, " did he not
Was he not a game one ?" All this commen-
dation, however, of the new associate's spirit was scarcely
likely to be earned in the attack • on so youthful a subject.
It might refer to some other affray. The subsequent ob-
-Bervation of. Bishop—" You stick to me—l'll stick to you."
seemed, indeed, to have reference to some improper
confidence, if not confederacy. In whatever way they got
the tr.,dy, it must be observed that, even if disinterred, it would
be a possession illegal and criminal, which may serve to account,
under ordinary circumstances, for their manifest anxiety to con-
ceal what they were about. Their habit of living, too, being
very generally known to many, made them, although somewhat
inebriated, the more cautious ofdoiug it more openly. Williams,
however, was seen and observed, by a child, lifting in something
in .a sack; at six o'clock, with Bishop and another in a smock-
frock, into a yellow-bodied chariot. This would not be enough
to carry a conviction to your minds that this third person, in a
smock-frock, was May, although they had been seen in company
all together during that day. From the sack, however, whilst at
St. Thomai's Hospital, a foot was seen to protrude. It was said
to he that a a youth or a female, being in its proportions small.
May and Bishop addressed the porter, and said " Let the body
remain this night here, since you don't want it, and to-morrow
(Friday) we will call for it ; -but give it to no one but us."
Here was a joint assertion of a. property in the body sup-
posed to be murdered. May, too, it should be recollected-
by way of enhancing the price of the teeth offered to Mr.
Mills for sale, asserted that they were all from one head.
and that the body from whose head they were taken
had never been buried. This was a very important admission of
his knowing how the boy came by his death. Thebody of Carlo
Ferrier was, to a certain extent, recognised by the boy's former
employer, though he could not speak positively to his features.
Others, however, recognised the body as that of the boy Ferrier
as seen during the summer, in Regent-street and elsewhere,
showing white mice. The cage-maker deposes to the same effect,
and believes the torn cap found to be that of Carlo Ferrier, and
the trousers dug up in the gardens. This brings knoWledge .of
• various other important facts home to Bishop and Williams, as
to the boy's being in health the day before—the joint claim of a
property in his body—the boy's being, at twelve o'clock on Thurs.
day, at No. I, Nova Scotia-gardens—the marks of violence on the
body—the tearing and burying in the adjoining ground of this
boy's clbthes Must also, from this evidence, be within the know-
ognarsdideenrsedaboasuatnuiinemtaimteeofwthheenhothuseebo;
yas,disi:pdpeeeadmhde.
know-
ledge of these two men. From the next evidence given, it would
th(one Williams)ahiyiiebetniiiegch hadt allegedof t h
en hisof examination seem that-. Williams was so often with his wife at Bishop's, that
,memiztrionbeeHr eanad,asraucmtuaaltly
halt.
past eleven, was sent out of the neighbouring public!house to
Bishop's. About this time a scuffle is proved to have been heard
byWoodcock, in which three persons are said to have been en-
gaged. Williams was seen in the garden by Woodcock on the
Sunday before the boy disappeared, and was induced by him to
desist from digging in a part of the garden where afterwards
clothes were found. This witness said that on the night of the
supposed murder he was early in bed, and was awakened
thoroughly by noises in the adjoining parlour of the house
No. 3. He heard a scuffle and three men's footsteps. Two men's
footsteps, he added, passed my
windows; a third was still heard
in the room at Bishop's. This was important, for the publi-
can speaks to two men coming to his house for the beer and
rum, and returning about this very hour, as he supposed, to
Bishop's. This showed there were three persons at Bishop's
that night, and at that hour. The voice of 'Williams as being
then in the room, is spoken to distinctly by Woodcock. At
the tiPat he believed it to be a family quarrel; but that does
not ailtet .the imporLnee of the discovery that Williams was
there at this critical time. On boring the ground the discovery
of clothes, all of them serviceable to, a family, in the gar-
de" -13ishol), a family man himtelf, appears in itself
strange, and you must detenifinP whether such a concealment of
b ite having
d. t
Thisv • whiteocc u
valuable clothes can be traced to an innocent purpose. In this
part of the case a very small child becomes an important wit-
ness, who,
:playing with the children of Bishop, observed their
rmreinceeeinthaeccahgield, ssutacthesasvetryhe
distinctly
ih;ay
wase oni-
the sth, or Guy Fawkes' day. In this very connected statement
the little child too is corroborated by his elder brother. The
defence of Bishop is singular—namely, that the body was taken
from a church yard, and that Bishop was disinclined to betray
the two watchmen employed in keeping the burial-ground.—
Here was a case, not of stealing a body, where it is possible ft
person to reason of this sort might be considered satisfactory with such a
saevhoicsamtiooiti4thb,,,ltestathcaesdeisocforifrey
asnhdoudleclatitz and
injure
him
inyet
Bislittp persists in concealing two men's names now indifferent
to hinkcomparatively; with the risk he incurs of losing his own
life by .the concealment. May admits too, at the station-house,
that a brad-awl pioduced was the awl with which he punched the
teeth out of the boy's
head. It is deposed by an officer that on
the examination at the station-house Bishdp' stretched across -to

May_and whispered, €. It was the blood that did us." The at..
tempt to prove an alibi by May o'n the day in question when the
murder was Krpetrated, though supparted the woman with
he remained, is not so strong as to snake th' poltive tes-.
tinaony gifenirtiore particularly when his conduct osit Friday at
St., Thomas's Hoep:fal (next day) is recollected, when he as--
serted a property in the body'. The Learned Judge proceeded to
detail. various other points in which there was a difficulty to re.
eoncile he alleged defence of the prisonefi vr,th what had been
distinctly and positively sworn to, and indeed esfabiisheid beyond
doubt. He coiteleded by recommending the Jury, if they en-
tertained any well-founded doubts.of May's being no party to the
actual murder, they should give hlrn all the benefit of that doubt. •
Indeed, he would say the setae of eititet of the other two; but
!f, on the contrary, they were or opinion these three men were,
froni the:evidence detailed;. connected with, and Concerned to-
gether in putting this boy to death by the violent means proved
to be resorted to, it would be their duty, although a painful one,
to pronounce a verdict of guilty dpon them all.
The Learned JUDGE concluded his address at five minutes
to eight o'clock, employing nearly three tWittS in the task of
stifttoillg
The Jiffy rOired for about half an hour, when they returned
to Court, and pradirilinEed a verdict of Guilty against the three
prisoners.
Williams, on coming into Court, 15liked ghastly pale, and
anxious. May's eyes were fixed intehflely off he Jury, and
t'earn., ed ready to start from their deep socketi. WS face burned
with a hectic Complexion ; but Bishop maintained a sullen un-
shaken firmirds ;elitist thg verdict was pronounced.
No sooner had the resilt te4ched the crowd outside than the
welkin rung with shouts, huizai, mid every noisy demonstration
of,triumph. The pris,ners were obilcliCly, though differently
affected. All at first were startled; but WllliaMs's features were
sour collected-again into a ghastly smile of scorn.
The RECORDER, in 'a speech of much impressiven&l, and
Sortie length, reminded them of the shortness of life, and hoped
those days which Were aireed? numbered would be given to
prayer, pettitVriee, and a, humbie attempt to make their peace
with that Power :Toth Whorn alone they Could now hope to exile.
Tience mercy. lie then Vtdtiofniieed sentence af death. Me
execution to take place on Mondaf next, at'efght o'clock 'in the
morning, and their bodies to be delivered td the surgeons for
dissection—a part of the sentence which, our repoiler states, he
thotight was felt to be peculiarly repulsive and harroWitt td the
feelingi of hoth Williams and May.
During the Seliteride, the shouts of the people in the street
adjoining were again bead ,distinctly, notwithstanding, before
pronouncing sentence, the wiiiddWl had been closed by order of
the 'Recorder, and officers sent out to iFditCete people to order,
which was for a. time successful.
After the prisoners were ordered to be withdraWn May tinned
round to the Jury and said impressively,. I am a murdered man,
and all through that-man," pointing to Bishop. One, or both
the other prisoners, joined in the assertion of their being both
murdered'men, and Williams, leaning over the front of the
dock towards two of the Witnesses, said You, and that other
Italian, I hope may be somewhere else as well as us on Monday
morning." He then turned round, looked up to the gallery, and
raising up his hand towards some persons, as if taking leave,
said " Good bye, good bye," and disappeared in • the dense
crowd of gentlemen and well.dressed females thickly con-
gregated in the small space behind the dock, through which
these dangerous daring men, as if without contemplating the
possibility of escape, or the chances of effectual resistance to the
feeble.powcr by which they appeared to be guarded, slowly ;and
quietly threaded their way, and repaired to their cells.

The leaden trunk which a short time since
was dug op at the Tuileries, has just been opened, and
found to contain a Peer of France.--Figaro.

A dreadful fire broke out on. Thursday mornr
ing on the premises of Messrs. HEARS= and Hotraxosi
WORTH, builders, Ipswich. _ _

Incendiary fires are desolating, to a fearful ex-
tent, many counties, particularly Btlifordshire, where some
instances of signal atrocity have recently occurred.
We are sorry to hear that highway robberies
are taking place in this county. On Saturday last a lady
and gentleman travelling to Brighton by the Horsham road
were stopped and robbed of five guineas.—Brighton Gaz.
THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE.-The article
in this month's number of the "New Monthly Magazine,"
containing a sketch of Lord BROUGHAM'S career, from
his first entrance into the arena of public life, furnishes a
critical analysis of his literary labours, as well as of his
powers and influence in Parliament, in the several qualities
of an emendator of the laws, a promoter 'of general edu-
cation, an orator, and a politician. The distinctive ap-
pellation of " The Man of the People" is assigned to his
Lordship in this paper, which will probably be read with
interest even by those least disposed to admit the applica-
bility of the term in the sense intended.

" The present Government," says M.
THIERS, " is assailed with more violence by the Pres 4 than
that of CHARLES Yes," replies the Corsaire,
" and it is because one demands a debt soOnee.from a man
who owes it than from one who does not."

A horse which recently won several races has
been bought by M. Pm for 50,000 frames. We have
many men of Ipttors who scll themselves forhali that sum.
This is quite in proportion :-25,000 francs are to 60,000
francs as a biped to a quadruped !—Lc Corsaire.

MARY ANN MERRITT, the unfortunate
woman who destroyed her infant, and afterwards cut her
own tbroat, at Brixton, died on Saturday, in Guy's Hos-
pital, where an inquest was held, and a verdict returned,
" that she had committed the deed while labouring under
insanity."

THE DEVIL'S S T UPI DlTY.—Near Poynings,
in Sussex, is that remarkable chasm the " Devil's Dyke,"
so called, says tradition, because the Devil, envying the
numerous churches of the Weald, determined to form a
channel from the sea, and thus inundate the whole tract
and its pious inhabitants: This " devilish" plan was dis-
concerted by an old woman, who, being disturbed from her
sleep by the noise of the work, peeped out of her window,
and recognising the infernal agent, had the " presence of
mind" to hold up a candle, which he mistaking for the
rising sun, made a hasty retreat !—Family Topographer.
THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
ROBBERY..—It Will be recollected that about a fortnight
ago a female, named —, charged Mr. JAMES
GREEN, a young gentleman, connected with a highly-
respectable house in the City, with having robbed her,
about three years ago, of a gold watch, at her lodgings,
where she had taken him front the theatre. Mr. GREEN
was held to hail by Mr. Missuutt, on the uncorrobo-
rated testimony of the female, in the sum of 1,0001., and
tffo sureties in 5001. each, to appear to take his trial fur
the felony. The Grand Jury, discrediting the evidence
of the female accuser, as was generally anticipated, ignored
the bill.

We understand that it is in contemplation to
erect a new market, upon an extensive scale, upon a large
vacant piece of ground between the Obelisk, at the Surrey
Theatre, and the Elephant and Castle, for the sale of meat,
fruit, and vegetables; in addition to which there is to be
an extensive dairy, to supply the inhabitants of " South
London" with (what we only know by name in the metro-
polis) " pure milk." Public abattoirs and beast pounds
will likewise form part of the proposed undertaking. 'lt
is worthy of remark that " twelve markets supply the in-
habitants north of the Thames, and only two exist on the
south side of the river !"

L. E. L.—" The admirers of this lady's
poetry—and they are so numerous and ardent, that it may
truly be said she has funned a new school in our poetic
literature—are curious to see if the same genius will be
thrown over the pages of a novel—if it will possess the
same exquisite tenderness.-the same, warmth of feeling
combined with the same purity of female delicacy—the
same fine perieptions' of humanity, linked With the same
luxury of imagination--the seine descriptive power, nature,
and pathos, which have so greatly distinguished the fair
rmprovisatrice, and rendered her volumes the treasured
favourites of the youthful of both sexes, whose spirits the
world bath not deadened; while even those farther ad-
vanced in life have been charmed by their freshness and
fancy; awakening in them the happiest, and still more
frequently the most- touching, dreams of by-gone days.
This problem is now before the public for solution, ' Ro-
-1 mance and Reality' having just made its appearance—
Literary Gazette.
THE WAVERLEY SECRET.—On one oc-
casion Sir WALTER was very nearly driven off his guard
wth respect to the Waverley incognito. Mr. Scow (his
then name,) and Mr. (now Baron) Hums, the distin-
guished Professor of Scotch Law, were coaching it one
day to the Parliament House in company with a third
gentleman. All at once Mr. Hume, assuming a face of
utmost • gravity, addressed his companions...." There is
something, gentlemen, that has long weighed upon my
mind. Ido not think I have acted quite correctly in con-
cealing from such "old intimate friends a matterof con-
siderable interest -to myself. lam the author of the
Waverley novels." Mr. Sum sat for a moment like a
man about to swear or laugh, but checked himself with a
kind of convulsive grasp, and looked in silence out of the
coach window.
THE NORTH OF EUROPE.—Mr. ELLIOTT,
of Queen's College, Cambridge, appears to have explored
the vast forests of Sweden, the mountain-solitudes of
Norway, the frozen regions of Lapland and remotest Russia,
with more than usual enterprise and felicity of observa-
tion. His " Letters front the North," will take their
stand with MArrnswe's Diary of an Invalid in the South,
to which they bear resemblance in truth and vigour of
detail, while the subject is more novel and romantic.

CONsTANTINOPLE, OCT. 25.—According to repot tx
hich the Porte has received by five Tartan; despatched
by Ali Pacha, Governor of Aleppo, from Bagdad, that
city, after an obstinate defence by Thud Pacha, had been
at length taken by storm, and occupied by the Otton,lrt
army of 20 000 men. Daud Pacha and his son v.ire
taken prisoners and sent to Diarbeker, there to await tl,
Sultan's decision. Ali Pacha has interceded with th,
Sultan for Daud and his son, requesting that their lives
may be spared, and Brussa assigned them for their resi-
dence, The Sultan i 3 said to bare granted both requests.
Daud Pacha's troops have received the pardon they sought,
and permission to return to their homes. The Tartars
who brought the news of the victory were rewarded with
the usual pelisses of honour, and a sum of money amount-
inz to 30,000 piastres.
The details of the treachery of Dand Pacha, and of the
operations of Ali Pacha, of A'eppo, against him, are con-
tained in an official bulletin of the Porte, printed for the
first time in the. Turkish and French languages.
Accounts less favourable have been received by the P.,rte
from Damascus, where the newly-appointed Governor,
Itlehrmed Selim Pacha, had been compelled, in consc.
quence of an insurrection, and after several sanguinary en-
gagements in the city itself, to retreat with his troops
into the citadel.
Nothing pasitive has yet transpired respecting the mili-
tary operations in Albania. There are indeed various
reports of offers made by Mustapha to the Grand Vizier
to submit to the Sultan's clemency, also of an increase of
his troops in the citadel, and other conflicting accounts.
At all events the Grand Vizier seems to have greater diffi-
culties to' overcome there than might have'been expected
after the advantages which he obtained at the commence-
ment.

On the 12th inst. permission was at length given to
rebuild Pera. The firman issued on the subject only re-
commends to the rich the erection of good walls, and con-
tains some directions with respett to the height of the
houses, &c., without insisting on the widening of the 2
streets, and some other alterations, at first contemplated, ,rs
which on the ;whole-would indeed have- been useful, but~w
in detail difficult to execitte, taskd prejudicial to the poorer m
classes. :r1
Ali Aga, the well known Selictar of the Sultan, one-aasp.sperv.
the oldest officers of the Seraglio, who possessed
great influence in the time of Sultan Selim, but was in
the highest favour under Sultan Mahmoud, died on the
19th of October, after a tedious illness. By the Sultan's
express command, not only the officers of the Seraglio,
but the whole Ministry, attended the funeral: It is sup-
posed that this post will not be again filled tsp.
The Capitan Paeba, Hall Rifaot Pacha, returned to
this city on the 23d in the morning, from his voyage to
Mitylene, Scie, Rhodes, and Cyprus. (The cholera in
Egypt prevented him from visiting that country.) The
fleet which is at anchor before the Dardanelles will return
to
Tthbeeeasapniittaalr with istthattehoeffitrhset
cfaavpoituarlambleaysobutehcwaled
ilnd.satisfac-
tory, though there are now and then cases of plague.
Nearly 100 cases of cholera are said to occur daily in
Smyrna ; the disorder has greatly abated in Rodosto and
Gallipoli, and has wholly ceased at Adrianople.
FROM THE MAINE, Nov. 20.—There seems to be
good reason to hope that the Elector of Hesse will return
to these parts. He will probably fix his residence in
Frankfort, where the Red House, well known as a hotel,
has been purchased for 220,000 florins, in the name of
the Countess of Reltbenbacb. This old building being
by no means adapted ford princely residence, will be pulled
down to make room on its oeensivc site for a new building
which will be an ornament to Frankfort, for according to
the estimate that has been made the erection of the new
Palace will require a sum of several hundred thousand
florins.

POLICE INVELLIGENCE.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday James Fricker was brought np, charged
with assaulting Mary Morris at Rotherhithe.
The complainant said that the defendant %WA an
astrologer, that he had a kind of observatory, or
place on the top of the house, from which he pre-
tended to make celestial observations; that he kept
!line cats, and with their assistance and that of a
oair of globes, he made the credulous believe the
" moon was made of green cheese." In fact, he
was nothing more nor less than a regular fortune-
teller. She was in the act of crossing the street
where she resides, when she saw Fricker, and per-
ceiving that he looked spiteful, she hurried on to
avoid him. He ran after her, and when he came
up, he struck her on the back with his umbrella,
exclaiming, " You —, you may well run from me,
what have you to say about my cats ?" She turned
round to remonstrate, upon which he struck her
again, and her mother and father having. come to
her assistance, they werealso assaulted and threatened
by him.
Mr. MURRAY—Then it appears he has committed
triple assaults; he must be a little cracked, to attack
a girl in the manner he has done.
Fricker said, that the girl was always annoying
him about his cats, and be could not go out of doors
without either being called " There goes the wise
man," or, what was still worse, " There goes the
killer of cats." Now he was no killer of cats; for,
on the contrary, he was attached to those very useful
domestic animals, and he did not see why he should
be made the laughing-stock of a whole neighbour-
hood because be kept a few mousers.
Complainant—You know you keep the nine cats
to consult when you are visited by poor girls to have
their fortunes told. Every body knows you have
dealings with -- I'll not say who.—(Laughter.)
Fricker said, tlmt as he was the only literary cha-
racter in the Seven Islands, the rest of the com-
munity there looked upon him with jealous feelings,
and wanted to rout him out. He found the place,
however, answer his purposes well, and until he
finished the great work which he was writing, all
their efforts would be fruitless.

Mr. MURRAY—What is the subject of this great
work you say that you are about to enlighten this
and future generations with ?—Fricker said that he
was writing a History of the World, that he should
dedicate it to the King, and when finished he had
no doubt he should have plenty of subscribers; but
until then he should not leave the Seven Islands.
The complainant said that she did not care if
Frisker remained in the Seven Islands for the term
of his natural life, so that he kept his hands off her.
He took delight in attacking and striking young
women, if they only looked at him.
Fricker said that he was too fond of the sex to
strike them, if they did not well deserve it. " I
am," said he," occupied in my little domicile days
and nights together in stedy and the performance of
a great national work, which will be handed down to
posterity, and it is a hard case that I cannot get a
mouthful of air without being subject to insult. '
Some of the neighbours in the Seven Islands said
that the great work Fricker was engaged in was
telling people's fortunes.
He was fined 40s. and costs, and in default of
payment was committed for six weeks to gaol.

On. Thuisday evening, about half-past seven
a fire broke out on the premises of a Miss STAKEits, a;
Beinstead, near Arundel, which consumed a barn and out
houses, nearly a new wagon, two.dung carts, two rollers-
a plough, and two hay-r:cks, containing nearly twenty
tons .of bay; the whole of which was entirely destroyed,
with several other. husbandry utensils. Prompt assistance
was made by the inhabitants of Arundel, by whose exer-
tions one rick of hay was saved. It was evidently wilfully
set fire to by some incendiary, as Miss STAMMS bailiff
was round the premises at lialf-pa-t tire, and every thing
was then all quiet and safe. The cattle were previously
turned of gates by the person who committed the act, as
they were found grazing away from the premitke,. On,
man has been taken up on suspicion.

A new daily paper, to be called the East
Indian, is about to appear in Calcutta, under the manage-
ment of M. Diatom), a young poet of some fame.

THE BRAVO.--The scene of this story, by
one of the greatest novelists of the age, is laid at that
period when " the city of the isles," though no longer
mistress of the Mediterranean, nor even of the Adriatic,
was still rich and powerful, and a. most vivid picture is
drawn of the fearful system of espionnage, which ren-
dered Venice, while gaiety floated upon her canals, in heart
a prisoner and a crouching slave. Some of the characters
are admirably drawn; but there is none which excites
greater interest than the gentle Gelsomina—a lovely flower
blooming in the ungenial gloom of prison walls. fie in-
terview of this sweet girl with the Doge, and her inter-
cession for mercy to Jacopo, are fully equal to the cele-
brated scene in the Herta