The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-05 00:00:00

nate girl whom you had seduced the tool whereby
you shoyki.commit fergery ; ar.rl ha,ine.: done that, you
terminated yonr guilty career by the murder of the son
and grandson of your friend and benefactor. More can-
not be said. It unfortunately sometimes happens that
great guilt is too nearly connected with something that
is calculated to dazzle the mind; but, fortunately, in
your case you have made vice as loathsome as it is ter-
rible. There is no one who witnessed your conduct
during the trial, and who heard the evidence produced,
who will not feel as the result of that evidence that you
must quit this world by an ignominious death, an object
of unmitigated abhorrence to every well-regulated mind.
I shrink not from making this statement, in order to
point out to you the position in which you now stand.
To society it must be a matter of perfect indifference
what your conduct may be during the few remain-
ing days of life that remain to you. No conceal
went of the truth in which you may continue to
persevere willful cast the slightest doubt upon the pro-
priety of the verdict. No confession you can make
can add a taper light to the broad glare of daylight guilt
disclosed against you. So far, therefore, as society is
concerned, the conduct you may pursue is matter of
indifference; but to yourself it may be all-important,
and I can only conjure you by every consideration of
interest that you employ the short space of life that yet
remains to you in endeavouring by penitence and prayer
to reconcile yourself to that offended God before whom
you are shortly to appear. In the mysterious dispensa-
tions of the Almighty, not only is much evil permitted,
but much guilt is allowed to go unpunished. It is per-
haps presumptuous therefore to attempt to trace the
finger of God in the development of any particular crime,
but one has felt at times a satisfaction in making such
investigations, and I cannot but remark that if you had
performed to that unhappy girl the promise you had
made to her, the policy of the law, which seals the lips of
a wife in any proceeding against her husband, might
perhaps have allowed your guilt to go unpunished.
The Prisoner—l did not make that promise.
The JUDGE—You have been convicted on testimony so
clear, that observation and comment are unnecessary.
Having conjured you to employ the small portion of life
which remains to you in that which can alone interest
you now, I have to remind you that human interests are
for you at an end. I will only add myfearnest hope that
the only social right that remains to you—that of entire
seclusion--may be granted, and that no morbid sensi-
bility to guilt, nor any idle curiosity of the vulgar, may
be suffered to pry into the secrets of the murderer's cell,
or to raise a factitious interest in that in which you are
alone concerned. It remains for me to pronounce upon
you the awful sentence of the law—that you be taken
from hence to the place from which you came, and thence
to the place of execution; that you be there hanged by
the neck until you are dead, and afterwards that your
body be buried within the precincts of the gaol in which
you are confined, and may the Almighty have mercy on
your soul!
The prisoner at the close of the sentence was- imme-
diately removed. He preserved his firmness to the last,
and as he passed out of the dock, closely guarded by
turnkeys, was observed by several gentlemen who stood
near him to smile.

[HE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(1-royisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share.
Prospectuses and flull information may be obtained at the Tempo-
*a:7 OCces of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap-
ilcatiiss to

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem.

HEIR, MAJESTY'S THEATRE
MDLLE. LIND.
.

It is respectfully announced that a Series of SIX CONCERTS
sill be given at Her Majesty's Theatre, comprising the following
Dperas :—The Flauto Magico of Mozart; Oberon, Der Freyschutz,
and Euryanthe, of weber; La Nectate and Fernand Cortez of
Spontini ; and Fidello of Beethoven; which will be sung by 3ldlle.
Lind and the principal Singers of the Establishment, accompanied by
a full Orchestra and Chorus. The dates and particulars will be duly
announced.

The Subscribers are respectfully informed that they will have the
option of including any number of these Concerts in their Season's
Subscription.

The First Concert will take place on Thursday, April 12.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHRA TRE,
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
uder the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
THIS EVENING,
GRAND EQUESTRIAN FETES, when the Theatre will close for
the production of a Grand Equestrian Spectacle, by Fitzball, entitled
THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFORNIA; or, the Horse of
tne Ocean, on Easter Monday.
Hoz-office open from Eleven till Five.
stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless authenti
sated by the name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be returned.

TIIE WEATHER.—Suw OFFICE, APRIL 5.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51; Noon, 50,

BAROMETER, 29.49.

The Barometer has risen eleven points since the morning
WIND S.S.W.—fine breeze, with sunshine and clouds.

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