The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-03 00:00:00

that extraordinary gales may seriou sly affect it, an d
Fort Monckton, on the Gosport shore, has beet t in-
stanced as a case in point where the natural bt:..ach
is the boundary. However, upon this subject •it is
not our intention to enter at present, and we con-
clude our brief summary of this important addition
to the sea defences of Portsmouth with the tsing
task of praising the admirable manner in which
the earthworks, the masonry, and the men's quar-
ters are constructed.— rmy and Navy Gazette.

TILE Tit ALWO.RTB MURDERER.

William Godfrey Youngman appears to have ex-
hibited during the whole of the pat week the same
indifference of demean our that has characterised lira
since his conviction, and until within the last le w
hours he has not betrayed any apparent dre ad of
his impending fate. It has already been stateel that
1 since his conviction he has continued to assort his
innocence of the crime and persisted. in the almost
absurd story he told at the first, that his poor old
emaciated mother had committed the murders, and
that he had killed herin self-defence upon her mak-
ing an attack on him. The prisoner appeared to be
very anxious that a petition should be sent to the
Secretary of State, praying for a commutation of
the sentence, on the ground, as he stated, that he
was innocent of the crime of wilful murder, and
when his brother John saw him on Thursday he
pressed him to have such a memorial drawn up,
and he promised to do so, and the prisoner wished
him to let him have it to sign on the following day.
A memorial or petition to the Home Secretary was
accordingly drawn up, which contained a statement
to the effect suggested by the prisoner, that 'his mo-
ther had committed the murders while in a state of
temporary frenzy, and that she attacked him with
the same weapon with which she had killed his bro-
thers and sweetheart, and that it was to nave his
own life that he destroyed hers. This memorial
was shown to the prisoner on Friday, and he read
it and said it would do and affixed his signatrire to
it. The document was also signed by several per-
sons acquainted with the prisoner and his family,
and in the course of the day it was transmitted to
the Home Secretary. The nature of the reply to
such a memorial may very well be imagined. It was
to the effect that upon a careful consideration of all
the facts of the case the Home Secretary felt it his
duty to allow the law to take its course. The
prisoner evidently buoyed himself up with an idea
that his life would be spared, and he appeared quite
firm until Saturday ; but when he was informed of
the result of the application to the Secretary of
State, and felt aware at the same time that the
period for him to suffer was fast approaching, a
great deal of his confidence appeared to forsake him.
He evidently felt that all hope was over, and there
was a great change apparent in him►, and the im-
pression of those about him was that he would make
a full statement of all the circumstances connected
with the dreadful crime before he suffered. A good
many of the statements relative to the prisouer's
levity of conduct and his want of religious feeling
that have appeared within the last two or three
days are entirely without foundation, The prisoner
seems all along to have listened attentively to the
exhortations of the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Jessopp,
and he has attended chapel every day, and also de-
' votes a good deal of time to reading religious books.
The prisoner wrote a long letter to his brother John
[ on Saturday, in which he bade him farewell for the
last time.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

STAMFORD-SEPT. 1.

An improvement in the weather this week has caused field
labourers to be in active request. Large breadths of oats
and barley and several fields of wheat have been cut within
the last few days.
Wheat ....59s to 65s I Oats.. 26s to 32s
White do 64s to 69s I Beans 46s to sOrs
Barley 34s to 33s I Ditto, old ........46s to Ma