The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-19 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The executiLM of John Tawell, for the murder o,
Sarah Hart, is expected to take place in front of the
County.hall, at Aylesbury, on the morning of Tuesday,
the 25th instant. The whole of the property possessed
by the prisoner was assigned over to trustees, for the
benefit of his wife, for some time previous to the trial ;
but, we understand, without any provision having been
made for the two children (a boy and a girl), borne him
by the murdered woman, and who are now of the ages of
four and five years. The expenses of the prosecution
amounted to nearly 4001. The number of witnesses sum-
moned to attend on the part of the Crown were thirty-
three ; the whole of whom had to travel between thirty
and forty miles (and many a much greater distance), and
to be kept at Aylesbury for four days, from Tuesday
morning, when they went before the grand jury, until
the conclusion of the trial on Friday.
It will be remembered that the parochial authorities
of Farnham (the parish in which the murder was com-
mitted), were bound over by the coroner, at the conclu-
sion of the inquest, at Salt-hill, to prosecute. As a great
portion of the expenses (the whole of which were strictly
necessary and legal) which have been incurred in bring-
ing the delinquent to trial and punishment will not be
allowed to be paid by the county, a question is expected
to arise whether the difference will have to be paid by
the parish or from out of the pockets of the parties who
were bound over to prosecute. If the difference to which
we allude were to be paid out of the money raised for the
relief of the poor of the parish of Farnham, it is stated
by a high legal authority tqat the Poor-law Commis-
sioners would not be legally justified in suffering such an
item to be passed in their accounts.
The expenses incurred by the prisoner for his defence,
including his outlay from the period of his apprehension,
on the 2d of January, are stated to amount to upwards
of 700 L

Two female members of the Society of Friends, of
highly respectable connexions, arrived at Aylesbury,
from Devonshire, on Friday evening. The culprit
having been locked up in his cell before they reached
the prison, they called upon him early next morning,
and had a lengthened interview with him in the con-
demned cell. The Quakeresses are expected to remain
for some days at Aylesbury, it having been stated that
the object of their long journey is to afford the prisoner
spiritual consolation during the now brief period of his
sojourn in this world.

The miserable culprit (who has two men constantly
watching him by night and day) maintains the same
taciturnity which he evinced from the first moment of
his apprehension. His appetite has greatly failed him
since Friday. He is now, however, restricted to the
prison allowance—a species of diet not of that character
to which he had been accustomed up to the period of his
conviction, he having, previously to Friday, been sup.
plied with his meals from a neighbouring hotel. He is
now attired in the prison dress.
In deference to the wishes of the members of the So-
ciety of Friends, he will not be executed in the garb of
a Quaker.

The repeal of the coal duty came into operation on
Wednesday last. The good effect of this measure has, we
understand, already been felt, both by the shipowners and
those engaged in the coal trade. Freights to foreign ports
are both better and more plentiful at all the neighbouring
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