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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1844.

The Anti-Corn-law League ;till continues to hold
its weekly meetings at Covent-garden Theatre, and
the crowds who flock to hear its speeches.still continue
as numerous as ever. What stronger proof than this
could be adduced of the justice, the common sense,
and the policy of the principles which it advocates?
Had the League appealed merely to the passions and
prejudices of the people, instead of grounding ifs,
claims to consideration, on their \ calm, unbiassed
itulgment,• it would long ere this have lost its
prestige, and sunk, like :other ephemeral clap-
traps, into insignificance : but it has preferred
rather to appeal to the intelligence and interests
of the community, and its appeal has been
triumphantly answered. The very opposition
that it has encountered has tended only to increase '
i ts influence, and stimulate its energies; and perhaps
the very best thing that could have happened for the
cams is the astablistunent of the Protection Society,
whose, altrlgi out gp--1-pnisra9, by coming into direct
ccintrast• with ire strong, clenching arguments of the
free-traders, hey. euithied even the most thoughtless

and superficial to see the immense superiority of the
latter, in point of reasoning. At last night's
meeting of the League, Mr. 'WARBURTON de-
livered one of those plain, emphatic, hard-hitting
speeches for which he is so remarkable, and, alluding
to the progress of free trade, said :—" There was
another instance which there was cause to con-
gratulate them on, not only in having their prin-
ciples acknowledged, but also in having, in the reduc-
tion of the price of sugar to the consumer, a prospect of
reaping the benefit. He said that, because he thought
considering all the opposition that the landlords and
the West India proprietors gave to the principles of
free trade, they ought not to bear too hard upon a
Minister who had even but partially carried the princi-
ples of free trade into effect." We cannot agree with
Mr. WARBURTON that it is inexpedient to " bear too
hard" upon Sir ROBERT PEEL, merely because he
has from time to time given a cold, reluctant, hesitat-
ing support to the doctrines espoused by the League.
On the contrary, we think that a constant pressure
should be kept up against him ? he should be squeezed
without mercy, for it is thus only—as he has himself
I hinted in no very ambiguous terms—that anything is
to be got out of him ; and in exact proportion to the
vigour of the squeeze will be the extent of the conces-
sion. If forbearance is exercised towards him, he will
immediately, with his usual tact, allege that forbearance
as a proof that the public interest in favour of free trade
is on the decline, and adhere with more tenacity than
ever to the RICHMONDS, the BUCKINGHAMS, and the
rest of that amiable, intelligent, and most disinterested
squad ; but if he be urged and remonstrated with in a
bold, downright spirit of perseverance on every suit-
able occasion, the chances are that in time he may be
brought to make those concessions which it is in-
finitely to his discredit as a sagacious statesman that
he has so long withheld. To appeal merely
to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sense of justice is
perfectly hopeless ; the thing has been tried a
dozen times already, and has failed as often ; he is
accessible only through his apprehensions and his no-
tions of expediency, and these can only be roused by
the League's boldly resolving, and persevering iri its
resolution, to give him no respite, but beset him in-
cessantly with its vigorous importunities, which it is
bound to do, representing, as it does, such vast masses
of the intelligent and industrious portions of the eom-
munity. We are glad to learn, on the authority of Mr.
VILLIERS, who briefly but significantly alluded to
the subject last night, that it is the intention of the
League to make every effort in its power to procure
the return of a free trader for South Lancashire.
This is a struggle well worth making—as much, per-
haps even more so, than the late triumphant struggle
for the representation of London ; and should its issue
be fortunate—and we see no reason why it should
not be, if the advocates of free trade exert
themselves with becoming vigour—an immense im-
pulse will have been given to the League; the sphere
of its influence will have been widened tenfold; and
the crazy, unwieldy fabric of Monopoly will have
received a shock, the decisive effects of which not all
the Protection Societies in the world will enable it to
overcome.

The approaching contest in South Lancashire is a
subject of such interest and importance at the present
crisis, that it behoves all free-traders, not only in that
electoral district, but throughout England, to spare
no pains to ensure success, for they may be assured
that, to a considerable extent, the great question
between Monopoly and Free Trade is staked upon
the issue. A sudden vacancy in the representation
of such a constituency must, under any circumstances,
create considerable difficulties in all parties; there
are rival claims to be adjusted, family interests to be
considered, private jealousies to be conciliated, and
inveterate prejudices to be respected. If the League
were regarded as an ordinary political party, these
circumstances would create perplexities which might
seriously impede its course; but now the League
stands before the world as a national association
formed for national purposes, and, therefore, all that
is merely local must be placed out of sight on the
present occasion. The free-traders of South Lan-
cashire must not look so much to what would please
themselves, as to what they have led the nation to
expect at their hands. England looks not to them
fur a man of any particular family, or connected with
any particular interest ; the general body of free-
traders, which has come forward at their summons
throughout the country has little knowledge and less
care about local connections, prejudices, and asso-
ciations ; they look to see a great principle asserted,
and they care as little about the name, family, local
influence, or conventional position of the person
chosen to represent that principle, as they do about
the colour of his hair or the cut of his coat; they ask
for "free trade," not this or that free-trader.

Under ordinary circumstances such a wealthy and
numerous constituency as that of South Lancashire
would have a right to require a combination of varied
qualifications in the candidate offering himself for
their representation. But they have themselves ap-
pealed to the constituencies throughout the empire to
merge all qualifications in the one great principle in-
volving not merely the prosperity, but this very
vitality of England's commerce and manufactures,
and they are bound to give an example of the ex-
clusive devotedness which they have so strenuously
recommended to others. We are glad to see that
the Council of the League has already addressed the
constituency in this spirit, putting forward not a man,
but a principle ; canvassing for a national object, not
for an individual or a party.
Many, we doubt not, are ambitious of the honour
of representing such a constituency as that which is
now vacant, and the task of selection may perhaps be
difficult and invidious; but the free-traders of South
Lancashire have so often given proof of the un-
bounded confidence which they repose in their
leaders that we believe they will not object to any
one who has satisfied those leaders of his steadfast-
ness in the cause of free trade, and his unflinching
determination to use every exertion to bring the war
against monopoly to a successful issue. Under such
circumstances the canvass should not be delayed until
the candidate is named, for the individual candidate
is about the least important person in the struggle ;
the free-traders of England are not so much in-
terested in procuring for any individual, however
worthy or exalted, a seat in Parliament, as they are
in obtaining a triumph over a system of ruinous mis-
government, pernicious in its present effects, and
threatening to be still more destructive in its future
consequences.

We never remember an election in which national
interests were more directly involved in a local con-
test, and we are therefore anxious to impress on the
constituency of South Lancashire, not merely the
importance, but the absolute necessity, of sinking
everything local in the great national object. The
electors must vote for free trade, and for nothing else ;
attention to any other consideration is a breach of
confidence to the thousands and tens of thousands, who,
at their call, have come forward to aid them in the
great struggle against monopoly. When the Lom-
bard cities, in the olden time, took up arms to defend
their liberties, some dispute arose respecting the
choice of a standard-bearer, but the dissensions were
ended when the soldiers exclaimed with one accord,
"We will fight for our banner by whomsoever
borne !" They marched forward to assured victory,
and so trifling did the dispute respecting the coveted
banner appear, that history has not recorded to whom
the standard was committed on the day of battle.
Such should be the policy of the electors of South
Lancashire ; they are to struggle for the success of a
cause, and not of an individual, and their battle-cry
should be "Fight for the banner of Free Trade by
whomsoever it may be borne 1"

At the Mansion-house,on Saturday last, one of
those cases occurred of heartless oppression on the
one hand, and domestic suffering on the other, which
painfully depict the penalties that social legislation, in
this as in every other European capital, visits upon
helpless poverty. That the rights of property should
be capable of prompt and easy vindication is one of
the first conditions, as well as most intelligible signs,
of that high civilization to which the community must
have attained where the processes for their vindication
are to be with so much facility invoked. It is lamentable
to think that the results of their exercise are perhaps
a daily source of incalculable misery to some of the
most forlorn and desolate of- our fellow.creatures,
struggling against the temptations to crime and dis-
honesty and violence, through the most bitter physical
privations, and under the keenest sense of mental an •
g• uish Surely such a
case as that to which we are
upon the Legislature to de-
referring imperatively calls

vise—if not some landlords' guarantee of less stringency
and peremptoriness, yet, at the least, some tenants'
protection'against its tyrannous abuse of its terrible
powers. It is instructive to observe, in the case of
the poor victim of such an abuse in this case, ELLEN
MYERS, how a failure of punctuality, which it is
scarcely within the pale of human possibility to avoid
at all times in the transaction of human business—a
delay of three minutes (!) in the payment of a week's
rent, may involve the hopeless and irretrievable ruin
of a poor, industrious, unprotected woman ; and how it
may give to some unfeeling ruffian, clothed with a
" little brief authority," an all but safe impunity in
enforcing, with savage pertinacity, against such a suf-
ferer, the inconceivably oppressive enactments of a
scandalous and atrocious law : for, taking the facts
as they appear in the report, we fearlessly apply
these epithets to a law which, it seems, from the
LORD MAYOR'S admission, may subject the pauper
debtor of four shillings, in three minutes after the
period has lapsed within which she might have re-
ceived a quittance upon that payment, to five shillings
and sixpence (nearly a hundred and fifty per cent.
additional) expenses 1 The most capricious savagery
of mob law, or revolutionary tribunals, never dictated
any principle of payment more despotically unreason-
able.

ELLEN MYERS is a shoe-binder, lodging in some
one of the miserable tenements which swarm in the
vicinity of Bishopsgate, and had contracted a debt of
4s. to her landlord. One of those people who earn a
hard-hearted livelihood by " collecting rents" and
distraining on the goods and chattels of needy tenants,
a species of legal scavengers who perfoim that work
which other men shrink from, under warrant of the
law, by wringing from the wretched the last rags and
shreds which have clung to them in the last stages of
their destitution—a broker, was sent by the landlord
of MrEas to distrain upon her goods. This man's
man—for the law will have deputies for its officers
down to the last and most. binding of them all (who
compels payment of the, last debt of our common
nature)—calls on the young woman, and tells her
that if she can contrive to pay the amount, 45., in
twenty minutes, no expenses will attach to the war-
rant. She runs off to some neighbours, and returns,
as she assures the LORD MAYOR, within the time
specified ; but then a demand of ss. 6d. additional is
made, and BROWN threatens to sell off all her goods if
she refuses to pay the whole sum of 9s. 6d. With
the utmost difficulty she raises the amount, and pays
it to BROWN, who refuses to deduct a farthing
from his demand. Under these circumstances she
appeals to the LORD MAYOR for redress. On inves-
tigating the case, the broker, one BROWN, impudently
pleads that as the young woman had returned too late
by nearly five minutes, it was proper to demand the
expenses. The wretched complainant solemnly af-
firms that far from being over, it was within the time
allowed to her by CAPEL, BROWN'S man, that she
brought the rent ; and she states that a little while
since BROWN " had threatened to be even with her,
and do for her; and she was afraid he would be."
CAPEL, examined by the LORD MAYOR, admitted
that the young woman was only three minutes over
the time ; and then BROWN, with the cowardly
instinct which always prompts such bullying and
cruel natures against those whom they have already
wronged, interposed that "the landlord wanted to get
rid of MYERS, for she was a bad 'un." The unhappy
girl, on this fresh outrage, referred the LORD MAYOR
for her character and good conduct to the respectable
employers whom she had served for four years ; adding
" that she had paid her landlady four shillings only
the night before, and had never experienced such
cruel treatment." We hope not. Such cases are
a disgrace to a Christian country—infamous to
those who countenance or direct such iniqui-
tous oppressions. After all, the LORD MAYOR
expressed his regret that he could not punish
the fellow BROWN, for his charge, but held
him to bail for twelve months for threatening the
poor complainant ; and he then gave her the amount
of the extra costs. Is such a landlord and tenant
law as this to be upheld in times like these of indus-
trial distress and penury ? And are such creatures
of an abominable law as BROWN and his man to be
permitted, on the wonderful security of their oaths,
forsooth (we presume that he is a "sworn broker"),
to be permitted any longer to administer it ?

Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re-
ceived, and fully confirm the accounts already
published of the alarming fall in Spanish Funds by
the change in the Ministry. A. Ministerial paper, the
Castellano, admits the fact.in these words, " The opera-
tions on the Bourse commenced to-day under the in-
fluence of the news that the whole Administration
was about to be changed. The Funds fell to 29, then
rallied to 291 for cash, and 30 at sixty days. After-
wards on the news spreading of the Cabinet's resig-
nation having been accepted, the Funds experienced
a disastrous full." In fact, they were offered as low
as 28i. They rallied a little, and on the Ist instant,
the Three per Cents. closed at 291 for cash, 30 at
sixty days, and the Fives 21 at sixty days.

The Paris papers in general simply announce the
formation of the NARVAEZ Cabinet. We are not
surprised at this. There have been so many new
Cabinets since the flight of ESPARTERO, and the people
of Spain have fallen so low in public estimation, that
any change of government hardly deserves notice.
The Government, the army, the church, and the
nobility, are evidently favourable to the old system of
despotism, and in a few months probably the Cortes
and the Constitution will be formally, as they are in
reality, thrown aside like old almanacs. The Con,sti-
tutionnel, almost the only journal that condescends to
make any remarks on the " Sabre" Ministry, evi-
dently anticipates such a result. " The accession of
NARVAEZ to power," it says, "maygive rise to various
conjectures, but whatever those surmises may be, the
political meaning of this Ministerial revolution is evi-
dent. It is no other than the result of a restoration.
In the time of ESPARTERO it was the reign of the
Exaltados. A defection of this party overthrew Es-
PAUTERO, although the OLOZAGA. Ministry was com-
posed only of Progressists. A fresh defection throws
the power into the hands of those who brought to the
moderate party the zeal of fresh converts. Now the
old Moderado party govern alone, and the new Cabinet
brings back Spain to the time of the ministries of the
Duke DE FRIAS, or of Count n'OrALIA. If this re-
trograde movement continue, it will bring into power
the authors or the partisans of the Estatuto Real, of en-
lightened despotism behind which Carlism can alone
be found."

Little has been published in these journals lately
about a commercial treaty between England and
France, but the exposition made by the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCIIEQUER has called new attention to the
subject. When France finds that England will make
no reduction of the duties on wines and brandies until
France exhibits more liberal commercial views, and
there is otherwise little chance of raising these articles
from their present state of depression, the Govern-
ment may deem it necessary to show something like
an intention to act on reciprocal principles.
The Globe, a Ministerial paper, throws out the fol-
lowing, probably as a feeler, on the question :
" It is known that the English Government intended to
take the initiative in the question of reducing the tariffs, and
that it was to commence by diminishing the duties on wines
and brandies. The budget, presented by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has disappointed those hopes. It would ap-
pear that the British Cabinet refrained from adopting a mea •
sure so important until the Customs Bill, now before the
French Chambers, should have been discussed, and that the
question relative to foreign threads and linens should have
been definitively solved. Notwithstanding this adjournment,
negotiations respecting the reduction of the tariffs of the two
countries have been opened by the English and French Go-
vernments, and will be prosecuted with greater activity dur-
ing the interval of the session. Persons engaged in the wine
and brandy trade must not, accordingly, lose all hope. The
question is adjourned, and not decided, and sooner or later it
must be settled in the interest of the extension of the com-
mercial relations of the two kingdoms."

It is stated in some of the journals that negotiations
for a commercial treaty between England and Naples
have been again renewed, and that the conditions will
prove highly favourable to British interests.

The French Funds continued to advance. On Tues•
day the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 65c., and the
Fives at 122 f. 40c.
THE BOURSE—TuEsDAY, MAY 7.

First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French:l'lve perCente. .
Three per Centa B4 60 • • 84 65 .. 84 55 .. 84 60
Bank of France....... 3lOO • • 3100 • 311/0 .•3100

Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sliai•esii6i. so .•

..1167 50 .•1170

5,000 f. Sharessl62 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50 ..5162 50
Belgian Bank..•.•.
Belgian Flees, 1831..

-1840 • • • • • .• • 106 .. 106 • • 106 • • 106
1842 •••• . • • • 1081 .. 1081 • • 1081 1081
Spanish Active
Threes .......
Passive 6 .. 6 .. 6 .. 6
Neapolitan ..... . ...... 102 . • 102 05 • • 102
Portuguese Five per Cents • . 46i • • 46f . 46 . • 461
• • 102 05
UAW, ei 4iY ..... .• ••• • • 104 104 ' t:/4 !. 104

RAILWAY' SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.• •••••. • . • • • 375 .. 380 • • 373 • . 380
L.B. ..
Rouen • .
Rouen to Havre.. •• •• •• •• •• 737 50 .. 737 50 .. 735 735
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• 275 .. 277 50 .. 275 .. 275
Avignoalto Marseilles.. •• •• 770 .. 770 768 75 .. 768 75

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Veraffles, R. 8.. . 375 .. 380 .. 375 .. 380
L.B. ..... 252 50 .. 260 .. 252 50 .. 260
Rouen

Rouen to Havre.• •••• • • • • • 737 50 .. 738 75 .. 736 25 .. 736 25
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 277 50 • • 277 50 .• 275 .. 275
Avignon to Marseilles—. • • 770 • • 770 . 768 75 .. 768

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—During the
week ending Saturday, 4th May, the number of
deaths was 877, the average being 883. In a num-
ber of cases there has been a decrease ; and the in-
crease has occurred chiefly in deaths caused by small-
pox, croup, and consumption. The number of deaths
from small-pox was 31, and of these 20 had not been
vaccinated, average 12 ; from croup 13, average 8 ;
consumption 168, average 155. The number of vio-
lent deaths was 17, of which I was from murder,
2 from suicide, 3 from burns and scalds, and 2
from falls caused by intoxication. The thermometer
was highest on Thursday, the 2d of May, 67.3 deg. ;
and lowest on Monday, April 29, 35.9 deg. The fall
of rain fur the week is marked 0.02 of an inch, which
nearly approaches to nil.

THIS DAY'S. NEWS.

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY).

(Sittings in Banco.)
This was the first day of the sittings in banco after term,
and the Court took cases in the special and the new trial
papers. No case of any public interest came on up to the
hoar of our going to press.

EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Baron GURNEY and Common
Juries.)
STEVENS V. MAGUIRE.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Messrs.
Stevens and Fearon, solicitors, carrying on business in Gray's
Inn, to recover of the defendant, who is a solicitor, in Dublin,
a certain amount, as charges for conducting through a com-
mittee of the House of Commons a petition having refer-
ence to the election for the borough of Athlone, in Ire-
land, in 1842, when Major Beresford was the unsuc-
cessful candidate. There were two petitions from a
Captain Kelly and another person, members of the borough
constituency, against the successful candidate, and Mr.
Maguire was employed by them as the solicitor to conduct
the affair. On the 20th of March, 1843, the defendant, who
had engaged the plaintiffs to act as his agents in the matter,
signed an undertaking to give them 50/. if they con-
tinued to conduct the petition, and in two days afterwards the
Committee concluded its inquiry, up to the 20th of March,
when that undertaking had been signed by the defendant.
The plaintiff's expenses were, he alleged, upwards of 90/., and
for the continuance of the agency to the rising of the Com-
mittee, he brought a charge .which increased that sum to
1401., and for this amount the present action was brought.
Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiffs, Mr. Petersdorff for
the defendant.

The following witnesses were called.
James Lennox examined—ls a solicitor. Knows the
plaintiffs and the defendant. Saw the memorandum now
handed in signed by the defendant Mr. Maguire, on the 20th
March, 1843. (The memorandum was here read. It was
an undertaking on the part of the defendant to pay the
plaintiffs 50/. for acting as his agent in conducting the peti-
tion through the Committee of the House of Commons.)
Mr. Bramble examined—ls a solicitor, carrying on busi-
ness in Verulam-buildings. Was formerly in the plaintiffs'
office. Has looked through the plaintiffs' bill, and examined
the charges made in it. Its amount is 140/. 4s. 6d. ; the
amount of the bill to the 19th of March, 1843, is 97/. Con-
siders the charges very reasonable.
Cross-examined—Is not sufficiently acquainted with
Parliamentary business to state with certainty that the
charges are reasonable. Had attended one Parliamentary
Committee previous to that which was the subject of the pre-
sent action. Does not think that there is a difference made
between the charges of a solicitor, when acting as agent, and
when acting as principal in the conduct of a petition, through
a Committee of the House of Commons.
These were the only witnesses• called.
Mr. Baron GURNEY suggested that the better course would
be to take a verdict for fifteen guineas, with liberty to the
plaintiff to move to have the verdict increased to 50/. if the
Court should think proper so to direct.
This arrangement was ultimately agreed to by the parties,
and the jury, by the direction of the Learned Judge, returned
a verdict to that effect.

There being no other cases to come before his Lordship, the
Court then rose at half-past twelve o'clock.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT
THE MARYLEI3OSE MURDER.

At ten minutes after ten o'clock Mr. Justice Coltman took
his seat on the bench. Immediately afterwards William
Crouch was placed at the bar.
The jury, who had been in deliberation during the night,
then entered the Court, and having answered to their names,
The Clerk of the Court asked them if they had agreed on
their verdict?

The Foreman said that his brother jurors and himself were
desirous of having those portions of the evidence read over
which related to the prisoner's sanity or insanity.
The Learned JUDGE said he would dispatch a special mes-
senger to Mr. Baron Alderson, before whom the prisoner was
tried, and who was then engaged at Westminster. The jury
would therefore retire until his Learned Brother arrived.
The jury then withdrew.

Shortly afterwards, it having been represented to the Judge
that some of the jury were in a faint and exhausted state,
from their long confinement, Dr. 11‘Murdo, the physician to
the prison, was directed to see the gentlemen of the jury, and
report to the Court on their condition.
Dr. M'Murdo entered the Court, and said that the whole
of the jurymen were much exhausted, but more particularly
seven of them—they had all been used to stimulants. lie
thought them unfit to exercise their mental powers.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN—Do you think they are in danger,
if not immediately discharged? Mr. M`Murdo—No so as to
destroy life, my Lord.
Mr. Justice COLTM.AN—IS there a probability, unless they
are immediately discharged, of their health being injured?
Mr. M'Murdo—l think so, my Lord.

The Learned JUDGE directed the jury to be brought into
Court. On their entrance he said he had received a commu-
nication from Mr. Baron Alderson, in ivhich he stated that
he would be there directly, or in half an hour ; and if he did
not arrive in that time, he would send for them again.
Shortly after twelve o'clock Mr. Baron Alderson arrived,
readan over the id
and
thejury
evidence, entered the box, the Learned Judge
ce, minutely detailing the circumstances
of the case, and, in fact, charged the Jury a second time,
who retired at a quarter past twelve o'cock, again to consi-
der their verdict.
THE LATE ABDUCTION CASE.—On the application of Mr.
Wilkins the tiial of William Burton Newenham, charged with
the abduction of Miss `Northam, was postponed until the next
session.
At half-past one o'clock the jury returned to the Court,
the prisoner was again placed at the bar, and the names
having been called over, the Clerk of the Court asked them
if they had agreed on their verdict, and whether they found
the prisoner guilty or not guilty.
The Foreman—"- Guilty, my Lord."
Baron ALDERSON—" Let the prisoner be brought up again
on Saturday."
The prisoner was again removed, but in a few minutes
Baron Alderson desired that he might be again placed in the
dock. . _

He was accordingly brought forward, and silence having
been proclaimed, the Learned JUDGE proceeded to pass sen-
tence of death upon the prisoner in the most impressive
manner. Having put on the black cap, he said :—William
Crouch, the jury, after a long and painful consideration, have
come to the conclusion that you were in a responsible state of
mind at the time when the act was done with which you
stand charged—that you were not in a state of
you irresponsible for your actions.
(
orende could entertain the slightest doubt ;
imt)fiwntdahsecwfiloaleriti el
tlmiistetrlefe no rendered
the open day, in the presence of others,
and committed towards one to whom you were bound in all
the ties of love and duty, and at a time when the unfortunate
female was administering, from her own bosom, nourishment to
your unfortunate child. All that now remains for me to do is
to tell you the fate which awaits you. The end of these
things is death—death which. will be eternal. Throw your-
self on the mercies of Christ, and employ the short time you
have to live in seeking pardon from the Almighty.
The sentence of this Court is, and I am but the minister of
the law in that respect, " that you be hanged by the neck
until you are dead, and that after your death your body be
buried within the precincts of the prison."
During the delivery of the sentence of the Learned Judge
the prisoner was unmoved, but listened with great attention.
At its conclusion he bowed slightly to the Bench, and was
understood to say, " I am an innocent man." He walked from
the dock with a firm step.