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LITERATURE.

ON PUBLIC OPINION.—LoNnoN, 182 S.

This is a metaphysical Treatise on the tise, Pro-
gress, and present State of Public Opinion throughout
Europe, drawn up with much ingenuity, and if we ex-
cept a few occasional prejudices, with considerable ad-
herence to historical correctness. The author sets out
by defining public opinion as the sentiments of the
most intellectual and moral members of society, and
draws a neat line of distinction between it and popular
clamour. He asserts—and none will dispute his
axiom—that it is coeval with, and attendant on, the
formation and growth of the middling class ; and that
its influence will al ways bear an exact proportion to the
power and extension of that order. He then proceeds
to define the constituent parts of the middle class,which
he ranges under three different heads, each of which
he distinguishes by the number of hands it can com-
mand, t. e. by the proportion of its wealth—the only
criterion of power in a coitmercial country. Having
defined this class, the author enters into a detail of its
rise in England, in the course of which he gives a very•
ably abridged epitome of our history from the period
of the Norman Conquest to the present era. His
cursory remarks on the policy of Henry VII., with
respect to the , formation or improvement of a
middle class, deserve very respectful attention.—
When, however, he comes to the stormy times of
the Commonwealth, his prejudices interfere with 11
his better sense; he underrates the Cromwellian
dynasty, we think, unjustly, and gives it far too
much the appearance of a faction. When he adds
that Oliver never possessed the affections of his
army, he asserts what neither coternporary nor sub-
sequent history will corroborate. Our limits, unfor-
tunately, prevent us from doing the justice to this
book that its author's talents demand. We cannot,
however, conclude without expressing one high
sense of the discriminating style in which his details
".On. the State of Public Opinion in Spain and
Portugal," are managed. He seems quite at
home on this part of his subject. Should
his work reach a second edition, we would recom-
mend the author to expunge those passages
which convey an apprehension, and are to be taken
as an apology for tediousness. No man is tedious
who has any thing to say for himself, it is only a
prosing sentence-spinner, like the Member for So-
mersetshire, with whom words stand in the place of
ideas, that need apologise for occasioning ennui.

We nevor thought, a few months ago, that we
should ever have been called upon by a sense of justice to
eulogise tip:: conduct of our military Premier in a branch
of domestic policy :—but when we hear a Minister, in the
face ,t the House of Lords, advocate, in reference to the
repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, such sentiments
as that " he was not one of those who considered that the
best means of preserving the constitution of this country
was by adhering to measures, which had been called for by
particular circumstances, because they had been in exist-
ance for 200 years ; since the lapse of time might render
it proper to modify, if nut to remove them altogether ;" we
think no longer of what title he bears—nor to what party
he belongs, but at once recognise him by his opinions as a
brother liberal and a reformist.--Indeed we are much mis-
taken if the opposition which the Duke meets with from
the Ultras of his party, and the abuse which their hirelings
are now beginning to pour on his devoted head, for what
they call his apostacy, does not eventually make him a
complete radical. The barometer of public opinion is cer-
tainly rising in his favour ; and this in proportion to his
falling in the consideration of such as Lords ELnoN, KEN-
YON, BROWNLOW, Stc. &C.--•lNews.

BLACKFACED SHEEP.--It was formerly
mentioned that the blackfaced sheep were rising in the esti-
mation of the amateurs of goad living in London, and that
GO carcases had been sent off to one company of fleshers in
that city by the Soho. On Saturday last 101 carcases
were sent off by tie City of Edinburgh for the same Com-
pany. This growing tratfic is likely to be of some import-
ance to the proprietors of large sheep farms, both in the
North and West Highlands.— Caledonian Mercury.

Accordingly, between the hours of seven and
eight, he was handcuffed and placed in a post-chaise
under the charge of Lea. Prior to leaving tile
Finall upper room in which he had been detained
through the day, he requested to have a glass of rum,
which was supplied to him, and appeared to give a
momentary excitation to his spirits, which by this
time were reduced to the extreme of depression.
It was anticipated that the peasantry would have
immediately dispersed after the verdict was an-
nounced, especially as it had been purposely given
out that the removal of the prisoner would not take
place until the following day, but the contrary proved
to be the case. On the prisoner being brought

out, the concourse of the peasantry was: so great
around the chaise, that it was with difficulty a way
could be made for him. No officer besides Lea ac-
companied him,—a circumstance at which he
seemed pleased, probably from a desire to avoid
the gaze and the inquiries of the officers of
the village, to whom he had been known under
far different circumstances. The curtains of the

chaise were drawn down immediately, yet still they
were followed for a considerable distance by crowds
of curious people. On passing the residence of his
mother, the prisoner heaved a deep sigh, and in a
half suppressed voice exclaimed, " Oh my poor
mother !" On passing through Boxford, the public
curiosity was very great, the prisoner being known
to most of the towns-people, who surrounded the
chaise, and impeded its progress. At Layenham
they stopped at the request of the prisoner, and had
some ale and a slice of bread and butter. Although
this place is distant near twenty miles from the scene
of the murder, the chaise was beset on all sides
during the few minutes they stayed. The house
thew stopped at was kept by a Mr. Gooch. The
landlord himself supplied the refreshments, and
addressing the prisoner, with whose father it ap-
pears he was intimately acquainted, said, " lam
much distressed at seeing you in this situation—
shake hands. God bless you." A number of other
persons pressed forward to take farewell of the
accused, but the officer very properly ordered the
postillion to proceed.

As the chaise was approaching the town of Bury,
the prisoner observed that he had been far differently
situated in that town a year and a half ago; for he
then attended to prosecute a man for stealing his
mother's corn, and who was convicted and sentenced
to a year's imprisonment. After a pause, the prisoner
said there were two things he wished for—that was
a Bible and a Prayer-book. Lea told him he would
be provided with them in the gaol. He said the
world was now nothing to him, but still he wished
his wife could be with him in the gaol, as no person
could more contribute to his comfort, for she was a
truly pious woman, and would do more for him than
a Minister of the Gospel. Lea told him he did not
know what the regulations of the gaol might be,
but he would inquire, and if it were consistent with
them, he had no doubt it would be granted. The
prisoner replied, if it could, he would take private
lodgings for her in the town.
At 11 o'clock at night the chaise arrived at the
gaol, when the prisoner was taken out, and deli-
vered over to Mr. Orridge, the governor. The pri-
soner, on taking leave of Lea, thanked him for the
kind manner in which he had performed his duty,
and presented him with an embroidered purse, which
he said had been worked by his wife, and which he
hoped be would keep for his sake; at the same
time expressing his regret that he had not his watch
about him to offer as a more substantial proof of his
gratitude. Lea asked the governor if the favour
requested by the prisoner could be granted ; to which
he replied that it was out of the question, and that
he could only be seen, as in the case of other pri•
soners, through the grating.
Before leaving Polstead, the prisoner pointed out
to Lea a number of fields which he said had been
farmed by his poor father. After an interval, in
which he appeared to be buried in thought, he said,
" Mr. Lea, what verdict have the Jury returned ? I
have not yet heard it." Lea replied, "a verdict
of wilful murder against William Corder." The
prisoner said nothing, nor did he appear much sur-
prised at the announcement. Several of the Jurors,
to whom he had been long personally known, came
afterwards into the room, to take a last farewell of
him. Their presence appeared to affect him deeply,
and he hid his head under the bed-clothes. Mr.
Pryke, his mother's steward, also had an interview
with him, together with Founs, an old and faithful
servant of his mother, who, with much appearance
of feeling, on shaking hands pith the unhappy man,
said, "Oh, Master William, I ara sorry it is
come to this," and then entreated him to seek
consolation in the Scriptures. He added, " I
am sorry to have been obliged to be a witness
against you, as you were always a good master
to me." Before reaching Lavenham, the pri-
soner said, lie believed there was some truth
in dreams. " I had," he said, " two fright-
ful dreams on the Friday night before•vou took me.
I dreamed that I saw my deceased brothers and sister
dressed in white. I had a kind of presentiment that
something was to occur, and I told my wife of the
dream the following morning. She answered, " To
dream of the dead is a sign you will hear from the
living." Of the nature of the other dream he made
no mention. He afterwards observed that he be-
lieved there was some dependence to be placed on
the predictions of fortune-tellers; for that about 12
years since his fate had been foretold by an old wo-
man, who declared that he had a great number of
misfortunes and troubles to undergo, and that in ally
undertakings in which he might be engaged he
would be unsuccessful. Her prophecy he had found
to be true, for in every speculation in which he had
engaged he had been unsuccessful. Some time after
be observed that there were several untruths in the
depositions he had heard read, and he was sorry be
had not heard the whole of them. He particularly
alluded to the evidence of Mrs. Marten, as to his
bringing a loaded gun to her house on the night in
question. He admitted he had frequently taken a
gun there before, but denied that he had done so oa
that night. He also declared that he was not
questioned by her on the Sunday following the 18th
of May, about being seen going from the barn with a
pick-axe on his shoulder, as stated by her. The
prisoner asked Lea if be had heard any thing about
the child. Lea said, " Yes, Mrs. Marten stated in
her evidence that it was extremely sickly; that it
had been taken suddenly ill, and was brought to her
bedside, where it expired, and that it was taken by
the deceased and him (Corder) at a late hour of the
night to Sudbury, and there buried." The prisoner
replied, " Aye, that is right, for it was at Sudbury
that it was born." He afterwards went on to give
an account of his earlier years, and said he had not
received a gentleman's education, but that he had
received a good plain one, and had been five years
at a respectable boarding school, where he was fully
instructed in the principles of religion ; that he at
one time used to attend to them, and that he might
have done as well as any young man in Suffolk. He
inquired if Lea bad heard any thing about the 5/.
note sent by Mr. Matthews. Lea said he had, ana

William Corder is a .slight made young man, of
fair complexion. His age is stated to be not more
than twenty-four years. His character in the neigh-
bourhood of his mother's farm was never very good,
and his conduct has been the cause of considerable
grief to his respected mother and other relatives. On
his removal on the stage coach from London to Col-
chester, he had the heartlessness to utter low jokes
and obscene ribaldry during the journey, and his
conduct excited disgust among the passengers who
witnessed his extraordinary levity. He appeared to
think that there could not he sufficient evidence to

bring home to him his treacherous and cold-blooded
crime. The Red Barn was the constant place of as-
signation between Wm. Corder and Maria Marten,
and in the upper lay they had spent many hours to-
gether, and there he had made professions to her of
never-ceasing love. Of all the inhuman acts ever
perpetrated, perhaps to no one could the language
of that poet who was a great master of nature, be
more correctly applied,
" Murder most foul, as at the best it is;
But this, most foul, strange, and unnatural."
It was stated by the mother of the deceased, that
when Corder left her house with the deceased, the
latter had several pounds of money in her rrticule—
which reticule was found by Lea, the officer, in Cor-
der's house, at Ealing. After Corder had com-
mitted the murder, he must have carried off the suit
of men's clothes which he had lent to her; and also
her bundle. A gown, which was in the bundle,
was not found in the grave of the deceased. The
writer of this article accompanied Mrs. Marten, the
mother of the deceased, who went by the direction
of the Coroner, to the house of Bailam, a constable,
at Polstead, on Friday, to view the articles found
in the grave of the deceased. The constable pro-
duced the skull of the deceased, as well as the bon-
net, handkerchief, stays, &c. of the unfortunate young
woman. Mrs. Marten instantly identified all the
articles of apparel. The skull was divided, and ap-
peared to be cut through in that part of the
bone near the right eye leading to the nose, with
some sharp instrument. It was stated on the Co-
roner's Inquest (the evidence of which we should
have given in detail, if the Coroner had not pre-
vented our taking notes, and compelled us to give a
report from memory) that after the lath of May
last, the floor of the barn was observed to be un-
usually thickly littered with straw; and two wit-
nesses proved that Corder himself, last harvest,laid
down the first load of corn over the floor where the
body was interred. Corder was very feverish on
Friday night, and slept little.
It would be impossible to describe the extraordi-
nary interest which the inquiry touching this myste-
rious and atrocious murder excited for miles round.
Business was suspended for the whole of Friday ;
and the village, notwithstanding its secluded situa-
tion, and the fewness of its inhabitants, presented
the appearance of a large fair. The inn was so
crowded that no accommodation could be obtained
after noon, and the village green was thronged by
dense crowds, who had collected from all parts of
the adjacent country, and who did not disperse until
late at night.
The manners of many of the rustics were far from
creditable to their feelings, and one unacquainted.
with the fact would rather suppose they had con-
gregated for purposes of hilarity and mirth, than for
the purpose of witnessing a judicial inquiry affecting
the life of a human being. In one of the rooms of
the inn situate below that in which the prisoner was
placed, towards the afternoon a large party assembled
and amused themselves by singing light songs, and
exhibited other symptoms of boisterous mirth. On
Friday morning, Corder received a letter from his
wife, in reply to one he had written to her at Col-
chester ; she declined coming to see him, but ex-
pressed herself in a most feeling manner, and urged
him to apply to the God of Mercy, who would not
reject the petitions of the repentant murderer.
—When Corder found that his wife would
not come, his dejection increased and he fre-
quently groaned, wrung his hands, threw him-
self upon the bed in a state of extreme agony,
and avoided taking the least refreshment. The al-
teration in his appearance, when he was at Lam-
beth-street Office, and when he was placed in a
chaise to be sent off to gaol, was very remarkable—
he appeared to be more dead than alive.
It is considered very strange th it the murder should
have been concealed for the space of eleven months,
but that is easily accounted for.. The parents cre-
dited the statements of Corder as to their daughter
being in a comfortable situation at Yarmouth, and
they received remittances occasionally from Corder,
who informed them that he sent the money by the
direction of their daughter, and made some excuses
that the girl did not write to them herself. It was
not till Corder had ceased to remit money to the old
people that they began to dream about the murder
of their child. It was shortly before last Christmas
when the old couple began seriously to consider the
absence of their daughter, or, more properly speak-
ing, her silence after so long a period of absence, as
remarkable; and they had frequent conversations
about Corder and the girl having had meetings in
the Red Barn, and also as to that place being the
spot where she went to take off her male attire, pre-
vious to her accompanying him to be married.—
It was after a discussion one night between
the old people upon this subject, when the old
woman had the dream which she related. It is,
however, a singular thing—though not the only one
in the eventful history of this mysterious affair, that if
she did dream,andshe says that she twice dreamt,and
before last Christmas too, that her daughter was mur-
dered, and buried in the barn, that she and her hus-
band, to whom she communicated her dreams, should
suffer four mouths to elapse without having the barn
examined ! the corpse of the child, which Corder
carried from the house of old Marten after midnight,
which died suddenly, and under suspicious circum-
stances, and was disposed of in a manner not at all
calculated to decrease the suspicions which are en-
tertained on the subject, has been sought after in the
barn and other places, but has not yet been discovered.
During the whole of Friday, with the exception
of a few intervals, when he appeared to sink into a
kind of lethargic despondency, the prisoner appeare.o
to be ans;ous to know what was going forward in
the Jury-room, and repeatedly asked questions to
that effect of Lea and the three other constables, by
whom he war guarded. 'ln particular, he asked, it
any thing was said respecting the death of the 'Le-
gitimate child of Maria Marten, of which he was the
father. This child, it appears, died very suddenly,
aSnudd Sudbury, s,byThildinit hienr e
a buried.b
At intervals Corder employed himself to
ars),distance immediatelyoaf
niner t taken
in making
• extracts from a collection of hymns, winch were fur-
chester.
nished to him by the Rev. Mr. Searman, of Col-
The brother-in-law of the deceased remained with
Corder on Friday, and endeavoured to calm hi,
mind. In the course of the morning a letter wa,
conveyed to him from his aged and respected mother,
on reading which he became dreadfully agitated. I.
was expected that the wife of the prisoner woulc
have arrived during the day, but it appears, that act.
ing under the advice of her family, she spared her-
self and husband a shock which both were little ably

Mr. Taylor, the clerk of the Manningtree Bank,
was in attendance at the Inquest, and expressed a
wish to prefer his charge of forgery against Corder ;
but Sir William Rowley said it was unnecessary,
as Corder would be committed on the charge of
murder, and the bankers might prefer an indictment
at the Assizes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.—On Saturday, G. Indes, ,

man of most respectable appearance, and apparently i)e:
twcen fifty and sixty years of age, was charged with firing
a loaded pistol at his brother, Mr. W. Bullock Watts, a
gentlea►an residing at No. 20, Chapel-street, Pentonville.
The prosecutor stated, that about eight o'clock on
Saturday morning, the prisoner, who is his brother, and
with whom he was on the best terms, called, and was

shown into the parlour. In a few seconds the prosecutor
joined him, and fancied there was something uncommon
in his appearance ; but of this he took no notice at the