The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

SEWERS BILL.

On the motion of Mr. BI4:THEL the Sewers Bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL.

The Report on the Administration of Justice Bill ( Re-
tired Annuity to Vic;-Chancellor) was brought up and
agreed to.

-The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjournel at Nine o'Clock.

THE PRESIDENT STEAMSHIP.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING, QUARTER PAST TEN.—
We are still without any tidings of this steamer.

DIMENSIONS OF THE PRESIDENT AND BRITISH
QUEEN.

The British Queen and the President were both built at
Limehouse. The President is larger than the British Queen.
The former is 2,366 tons and the latter 2,016 tons burden.
The other particulars are as follow :7

British Queen. President.
feet. in. feet. in.

----- ____
Leng:h extreme, from figure-head to
taffrait...• •
Ditto on upr,,-r deck 245 243
Ditto on main nCek
Ditto of keel 223 220
Breadth within paddle-boxes
Ditto over bends
Ditto over all
Depth .... 27
Ditto from spar deck
Ditto from main deck — 23 6
Power of engine= 5OO horses 600 horses
Diameter of cylinders 77iiii. 80 in.
Length of stroke
Diameter of paddle-wheels .....

COURT OF JUSTICIARY.
THE BESHOPBRIDGE MURDER.

GLASGOW, APRIL 23.—The doors of the Court were
this morning besieged by crowds of people anxious to ob-
tain admission to hear the trial of Dennis Doolan and
others, accused of murder. At ten o'clock their Lord-
ships took their seats on the bench.
The case having been called, the prisoners, Dennis
Hart or Doolan, Pat or Patrick Reddan or Redding, or
Redden Eagan, or Aitken, and James Hickie, were placed
at the bar, and the Clerk of Court read the indictment,
which had been served upon them, and which charged
them with having, on Thursday, the 10th of December,
ou a wooden bridge erected over that portion of the line
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, near to Cross-
bill, near Bishopbridge, assaulted John Green, then a
ganger or superintendent over the labourers employed on
the said line, and with an iron poker, and an iron bar or
rod,inflictcd several blows on his head and other parts of his
body, and felled him to the ground, and repeatedly jumped
upon him, and kicked hin;, and otherwise maltreated and
abused him, by which his skill: was fractured, and he soon
thereafter died, and was thus muidered by the prisoners.
The case was fully reported at the time, and created a
strong sensation in that part of Scotland. The evidence
was very conclusive against the prisoners.
The following evidence of the Superintendent of the
Railway works, gives a full account of the murder. Two
accomplices gave evidence, and a man, in whose house one
of the prisoners had been sheltered for three weeks.
Francis Rooney, Superintendent of the railway at Cross-
remember John Green; he was a ganger at Cross-
hill, and came abort the 7th or Bth of December last. I
never hearl of any complaints against Green by the men.
I heard Green complain of Doolan th 3 night before• and
he desired me to dismiss him. He said the reason wi;v
he wanted him dismissed was, that on being complained
of for not working, he gave some saucy answers. I live
Bishopbridge ; I went home at night, and was
at my work about seven in the morning. I
went by the line of the railway to Crosshill ; I

heard a-noise and bustle among the men about the
bridge, and I heard a sort of moan. I ran up to the
top of the bridge, to the end next the smithy, and
called out " Murder " several times ; it was dark at this
time. I saw two men heating another. When I got on
th,: bridge he was on the ground. I continued to call
m.„,!er." One of them had a weapon of some kind.
He was str:.king with that. I saw the other man once or
twice leaping o.: the body of the man that was down. This
beating and I:aping' continued fur two or three minutes. I
was exhausted by the s„,-niting, and terrified. A man came
and took me away to the sn.2 thy. There was no one on
t,':e one that was killed and
the bridge but the three men,
the other two. The name of the tn." who took me away
was Mungo Vane. I did not see the met. leave e..e bridge.
I went back to the bridge iii h a man calk° Montgomery,
and found a man lying, whom I knew to be Omen, rather
to the south side. He was insensible. He never' spoke
at all. We carried him into the smithy. He was alive
at that time. There were marks of injury about his
person. He was all bloody about the head and breast.
We sent for a cart to get him taken to the Royal la-
firmary ; and I went with him myself. He died about
three-quarters of a mile from the spot on which he got
the beating. I brought the body back to a little store
near the smithy. After bringing him back his guar6-
chain was seen hanging out, but no watch, I could not
speak to the appearance of the men on the bridge, farther
than I saw one with a white slop on the outs d !--the ore
that was wielding the weapon. I caul(' not say whether
he had a hat on, as I was not thinking of th. it dress at
the time. The other had a darkish dress, and the one
with the white slop was the tallest. It was the man with
the dark dress that was jumping. I could not swear that
the prisoners were any of the men, tl ere being more than
a hundred employed there, all much like each other in ge.- '
neral appearance. I am sure there was no more than three
men on the bridge. I heard Cie cry of " mtuder" in a faint
voice, as if coming from ti,e man that was moaning. I did
not sec any other men near the bridge, but there were mot e
than thirty between the bridge and the smithy. There
acre about.twenty or thirty men on the bridge as I want
up. I did not see any men running away, but there were
not so many there when I went up as there were when I
was coming. There were some men on the s.;uth side of
the bridge also; I did not see them going away. Before
I came Lack to the smithy for assistance I had been actu-
ally upon the bridge at the north end, and then I was
s -vcn or e'ght yards from the three men. I then saw no
men on the south end ; I was about twenty-five yards
from the bridge when I heard the first cry of murder and
moaning.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, said he had to bring the pain-
ful business with which he had been trusted to a close, and
felt that he could not du so without asking at their hands a
verdict of guilty against all the prisoners ; and as his
Learned Friends on the other side of the bee had stated
that they did not intend to address them, he felt that he
would be discharging his duty by leaving the case entirely
in the bands of the Court. _

Mr. P. ROBERTSON said, on the part of the prisoners,
he felt, however painful it was t him, that he discharged
his duty, and his Learned Friend concurred with him, by
leaving their case with the Court. It would not be of ad-
vantage to the- prisoners to enter into any analysis of the
evidence. It would be for the Court to examine th it evi-
dence, and see whether there was my doubt in
favour of
any of the prisoners, and give e prisoners entitled to it
the benefit of that doubt,
Lord INIONCREIFF then charged the Jury. They all, he
said, must see that this wes a very serious case, and in
all its features a most remarkable cam—few such had
occurred during his experience; and the course which
the public prosecutor had taken, and the course which
had been taken by the Counsel fcr the prisoners,
had imposed on him a very serious and important
duty in summing up the evidence on wilielt they, were
to return a verdict. On the ono hand, there was
a very important interest. to the public, considerirg
the nature of the ca..e, that Justice might be administered
according to the truth; on the Other, he need not tell
them that in a charge of murder, such as stated in the in-
dictment, and in the mariner in which it had been en-
deavoured to be supported, they must see that there was a