The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-08 00:00:00

WILLIAM DOVE.

The execution of this murderer is appointed
.to take
place on the drop at the Castle, York, to-morrow, at 12
o'clock at noon the Home Secretary (Sir George Grey)
having deciiad to recommend the convict to the mercy
of her 11-jesty. Great. efforts have been made by the
friends of the convict, and several memorials have been
preomted in favour of the Royal clemency being granted,
on the alleged ground that the prisoner was of insane
mind, and that the jury who found kim guilty of murder
also recommended him to mercy on account of his de-
fective intelkct. Sir George Grey, however, on Wed-
nesday last, expressed to Mr. J. M: Barret, of Leeds,
whom was entrusted the getting up of
.the
defence of the prisoner, his final determination not to
interfere with the sentence of the judge (Mr. Baron
Bramwell). During the last kw dart the convict has.
diep ayed a very penitent feeling ; and, whatever may be
said about his sanity, he appears to be fully aware of his
impending doom. Mr. Wright, of Manchester, the well-
known prison philanthropist, says he has ha,: 12 inter-
views, with the prisioier, and that he " never n.et with a
mere sincere penitent under similar painful circutn
-lances;" nut he adis that he believes 13,3,e to be of
very defective intellect. The following is a copy of the
memorial from Mra. Dove, the mother of the convict:—
" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,—The humble
petition of Mery Dove, the mother of William Dove, now
in York Castle, under sentence of death, having been pro-
nounced guilt- of the charge for which he was imprisoned
is March last, by a most respectable and respected jury,
which jury, from the mass of evidence adduced, proving
him to be of unsound intellect, recommended him to mercy
on that ground. Your petitioner begs to state that, al7
though the development of his defective intellect iu many
of his eccentricities was not personally known to herself,
Is3.muse of her 8004 frequent absence from home, yet many
of them were practised under her own eye, and others of
an equally conclusive character which have no record in
public print, Permit, then, the afflicted mother of William
Dove to entreat your Majesty to cause the recommenda-
tion of the jury to be carried ont, and the lit: of her son to
be spared. Your Majesty will easily understand th.it a
mother, so circumstanced, can say but a few words. Your
petitiouer humbly requests that it may please your Ma-
jesty to spare the prisoner's life. And your Majesty's
humble petitioner, as in affection and duty bonito, will
ever pray. MARY DOVE."

Besides the above memorial, one was presented from the
jury who tried Dove, and two or three others from per-
sons who have long known him, or have examined into
the state of his mind. Dr. Forbes Winslow has written
a letter to Mr. Barret, the convict's soliciVr, in which
,be gives various reasons for believing that Dave was not
responsible for his actions. Dr. F. Winslow says that
the words, "defective intellect," embodied by the jury
in their verdict, are to his apprehension not accurately
expressive of Dove's mental condition. The case is one
of imbecility ; and he has, therefore, no hesitation in
giving his opinion, "that it would be a great and fatal
mistake, and a grave act of inhumanity, to hang the
wretched man."

NEW LINE TO THE CAPE.—DART3IOIITH, August 5.
—The new auxiliary screw steam-ship England, Captain
Dundas, with mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Mauri-
tius, Point de Galle, Madras, and Calcutta, took her
departure from this port at 11 o'clock this day, weather
fine and clear. This ship is the first of a new line of
steam-ships to the Cape and Calcutta, touching at the
Mauritius and Point de Galle, to sail on the let from
L melon, and oii the morning of the 6th of each month
from Dartmouth. This line has been selected for the
conveyance of her Mijesty's Mails to the Cape, monthly,
sitin
ofsteam-shipAugust outwardsha Bl e f left theanport o I and
onthe
Ist of November homewards,' with Dartmouth as the
ccommencing
on
which
on
a the
m Istai i
port of arrival and departure. This being the first oc-
aDarttnouth, a public dinner was given on Tuesday last
in commerunration of the event, to which Mr. W. S.
Lindsay, M.P., the owner of this fine line of ships, was
invited, together with Captain Dundas a'id the officers
of the troops on board, of which she conveys 300 to
the Cape. The England received stores and was coaled
with the greatest despatch, sailing at the time appointed.
SALE OF LAND.—An allotment of ninetein
plots on the Relied-hill-park estate, Brighton, to-k p'ace
on Thursday, the 7th inst., at the offices of the Convr-
yative Land Society. The plots are leased at the yearly
rent of 7/. each Lot four of the hits, and 101 10s. each
for the remaining fifteen lots, for the term of 99 years ;
and the prices fixed were 84/. each for the former, and
1261. for the latter. The coinp4ition was animated. and
the whole of the lea-ed plots were taken by mew erg
holding rights of choice within the first bundled numb, r_
on the register, 201. premium for each right being paid
in many instances. Other plots were sold onttyeo
Margaret's, Richmond, Malden, South Essex, and
West Kent—the hale alto-
gether dethury-park, Tuni-ridge
idge Wells,
.wnearly 3 1 The
plots reaching 5Oll.
Rev. Dr. Worthington, the Rev. Mr. Rige, the Rev.
Mr. Stanley, the Rev. Mr. Goodchild, Messrs, Anson
i angstsr, u J dkii s Shadwell, Brown, end other chart-
holders, were present. It was mentioned by the secre-
tary, who presided at the allotment, that great improve-
ment bad been recently manifested in the buil ling trade.
En reply to questions from a member, Mr. Gruneisen
stated that there was every reasonable expectation that
the Kentish-town estate would be allotted in the autumn,