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meet that charge, and leave the stable. The Learned
Judge then recounted the circumstances, as stated by the
witnesses respecting the finding of the body, the giving of the
clothes to Susan Butcher, and the escape of the prisoner from
the harness.rocm, when he locked the door on the constable
and others engaged in making a search for the suposed stolen
prtyerty. It had been argued that the deceased had committed
suicide, and it would therefore be the duty of the Jury, on look-
ing at the probability of the case, whether they could believe
she had committed sudden violence on herself. The prisoner
would not have been alarmed ; and was it possible that he
could have seen such anittct committed without endeavouring
to obtain assistance ? And was it possible to suppose that
while the inquiry was going on—if such were the fact—that lie
would not have thrown out some hint as to the probability
that such might have been the way in which she had met her
death. Looking, however, at the facts as they stood, he
thought they must possess a very great share of credibility, if
they believed the unfortunate deceased had committed this act
herself. His Lordship then went over the whole of
the evidence in detail, and concluded by saying :
" You must now consider upon this evidence whether there is
enough proved to warrant you in finding the prisoner guilty.
If you have any doubt, you must give the benefit of that doubt
to the prisoner ; but mind, not that passing doubt which may
attach to any occasion where there is the least mystery, but
such a doubt as remains on your mind after due deliberation and
reflection upon the evidence which has been adduced. I now
leave the case in your hands."
The Jury retired, and after an abstt 'e of half an hour, on
their return _

The Clerk of the Arraigns said, " Genstemen of the Jury,
are you agreed?"
The Foreman said, " We find the prisoner GUILTY."
The prisoner, while the names were called over became ex-
ceedingly pale, and much agitated.
Lord DENIIAN then pronounced sentence of Death in the
following terms :—" Daniel Good, you have been convicted
upon clear evidence, of a most foul and wieleed murder—a case
more abhorrent to the feelings of human nature, perhaps
never was brought before human justice. You are a lament-
able example of the cruelties to which an indulgence in a
vicious course of life may lead. There can be no doubt that
in indulging your desires for one woman after another, when
you were tired of the unfortunate woman whom you so long
ta eated as your wife, and whom you were bound to treat as
such, you formed a new attachment, which could not have full
gratification, according to your view, without murdering
the unfortunate victim. Hardly any aggravation is wanted
in this deplorable case. We see the closest culti-
vation of gain, the most miserable attention to the
meanest profii s, and an utter disregard of the public
feeling of humanity towards this woman your companion, and
to whom you owed protection. Long before this act was done,
you planned the depriving her of a little property she had, and
you intended to make the new object of your affections con-
duct those concerns from which the deceased was deriving a
livelihood. Several weeks before you committed this act you
made the promise of even the clothes she wore, and
shortly before that you pledged yourself further to the
young person who has appeared as a witness against you.
There can be no doubt that on that Sunday night when you
allured her from her lodgings in London, and introduced her
into your harness-room, you inflicted death upon her, and in-
stantly conceived the design of concealing her altogether from
the examination of man. You thought that haring the entire
control of that room, in possession of the key, and with a fiee
at command, you might easily consume this body, but you
have found that though you possessed all those advantages, nn-
witnessed by no human eye. all your proceedings hare been
regarded and observed, and at length brought t r light.
in such a manner as to form a most powerful warning to all
other criminals, and show how the most secret deeds of
wickedness may be discovered. It is absolutely necessary that
your life should be forfeited to the laws of God and man, which
you have so grossly outraged. I can hold out no hopes of
mercy in this world. Your case will stand almost alone as the
case of a man who will leave the world without one to
pity his fate. I trust ne Englishman will so
far forget himself on that day which will be so
fatal to you as to indulge in the expression of that horror and
indignation which the calmest amongst us cannot fail to feel,
but it is no small aggravation of your punishment, and it is one
which all who may contemplate the commission of such crimes
as yours ought to feel, that there is not perhaps one single
creature you leave behind who will not think a good deed
is done when your life is taken. You are now on the verge
of another world. Make the most of the short time which
now remains to you, and prepare for that more dreadful
sentence that awaits you before a more dread judge, and, by
repentance and remorse, you may yet reconcile your Maker to
yourself. The only duty that remains for me to perform is to
pronounce the awful sentence of the law, which is, that you be
taken to the place whence you came, thence to a place of exe-
cution, that you be then banged by the net's till you be dead,
and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of
the prison, and may Almighty God have mercy upon your soul."
Good then clasped his hands in the attitude of
prayer, and said, " I declare before Almighty God,
and you all, that I did not murder Jane—she killed herself.
When we caded and took tea with Mrs. Hester, and Mrs,
Hester spoke about Susan Butcher, she (the deceased) turned
very angry, and appeared much hurt, and she said she would
make away with herself; and I declare to Almighty God, that
Susan Butcher is the cause of that woman making away with her-
self. I very much regret she is gone. I got Susan Butcher a situa-
tion at the Rose and Crown, Wellington, and when there, she
got drunk a great many times. After that she used to come
to my master's place, and make me take her to a public-house,
and give her chops and rum and water. She used often to get
drunk, and if I married her and had 5001. a-year she would
ruin me. Susan Butcher slept with me in my master's stables
ever since Christmas last, and I concealed there the mattress
and blankets for her bed. It was all through her that Jane
destroyed herself. I left Jane in the stable on Sunday even-
ing. When she threatened to make away with herself.
I said " Jane, don't do that ; it is very wicked to think
of such things." She had a penknife of her own, and
when I went back I found her hanging, with her head hang-
ing down, and her throat cut, like Lord Castlereagh. The
knife I threw over Hammersmith-bridge oa Monday morning.
The man who used to supply me with blacking came to the
stables. I told him the affair, and said I should run away.
He said, Well I'll tell you what you will do. You will try to
conceal the body." I told him I would give him a sovereign if
he could do so, and asked him to come on Tuesday. He came
on Tuesday morning a little after, seven o'clock. He had
a bag with him. I gave him the axe and the knife. I put
two trusses of straw against the window to prevent old Houghton
looking in. I then left him. He took the head away with
him, and he came back again about half-past one. He recom-
mended that we should make a fire, which he did, and he burnt
the legs. He destroyed the body, and not I, so help my Al-
mighty God, and I gave him a golden sovereign for
it. He said that he would come again, and that he
would tie a fourteen pound to the body and sink it in the river.
but he never came. I never was married to Jane, but I gave
her a ring. The bonnet, cap, boots, gown, and ring I gave
to Susan Butcher, at Woolwich, and I :old her what had hap-
pened. She said she was glad to hear it, arid she would come
and take care of my boy and all the things. I said I would
take my boy home; but she said she would act as a mother
to him."
The prisoner, then, putting his hand to his head, as if to
raise his hat, said, " Ladies and gentlemen, I wish you all
good night. I have got a good deal more to say, but lam so
bad." Then turning to the Jury, he said, " 1 don't say but you
have all done your duties very well."
Lord DEN:war: at the conclusion of these strange state-
' ments, said they only confirmed him in the opinion which he
before entertained of the correctness of the verdict which the
jury had returned.
The prisoner was then removed. The trial did not terminate
till near nine o'clock, at which hour the street was densely
crowded, and as soon as the verdict was =cie known, a univer-
sal and loud shout waa raised by the assembled multitude.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 13.
WALTON v. BATEMAN AND OTHERS.
This case, which has now occupied the Court four days,
was decided to-day.
The Learned Judge having concluded, the SOLICITOR-,
GENERAL tendered a bill of exceptions to the direction; and
the Jury ret red shortly after four o'clock, and at seven o'clock
returned a verdict for the plaintiff on all the issues.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Francis Copping, an important-looking person, very fashi-
onably dressed, and who, it. appears, is possessed of an indepen-
dent property, and resides at Notting-hill, was charged with
being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting the pollee.
Police constable No. 179 of the C division, stated that,
about two yesterday morning, the defendant was wrangling
with a man of bad character in Oxford-street, and
wanted to fight him. Witness interfered to prevent a
I breach of the peace, and also the defendant, from being robbed,
which he no doubt would have been, when he struck him
(complainant) a violent blow on the mouth, and cut his lip
severely. Complainant then took him into custody, and con-
veyed him to the station-house. He was excessively intoxi-
cated as the time.
The defendant said he was very sorry for what had happened,
but he certainly did not strike the constable intentionally—he
had been dining out and was certainly the worse for the wine
he had drank. He was fined 205., which was immediately paid. '
FALACAS AT THE GUAItDS CLUE HOUSE.—Yesterday a
respectably dressed young man, who gave his name as John
Lawrence, and described himself as a linen-draper, residing at
No. ';IO, Wilsread-street, Somers•town, was charged before
Mr. Hardwick, with violently assaulting Sir Frederick
Bathurst. About half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night
the defendant and two of his friends, who were out on the
"spree" together, and had each more or less taken a greater
portion of strong drink than proper discretion would have
sanctioned, were passing up St. James's-street. and on reach-
ing opposite to the Guards Club House, one of the defendants
friends rushed up the steps, and forcing his way by the hall
porter, intruded himself into one of the apartments where
several Members of the Club were assembled, and commenced
loudly vociferating his orders for gin and water and a pipe of
tobacco ; he was remonstrated with by the attendants and
begged to retire, but this he obstinately refused to
do, and eventually he was thrust forth into the street,
which so excited the ire of the defendant, that he rushed forward
in aid of his ejected companion and commenced laying about
him in good earnest with his fists ; in fact, indiscriminately
striking at every person that came within his reach. In the
melee, Sir Frederick Bathurst, who was passing into the club,
was struck by the defendant a severe blow on the eye, which
slightly blackened it. The Gallant Officer, however, turned
to, and repaid the indignity with interest, greatly to the dis-
comfiture of the defendant. The police coming up at the
instant, and finding the defendant was the aggressor, took him
to the station-house, his two friends having in the interim ran
away.
Before the case was called for hearing, the defendant ex-
pressed to Sir Frederick Bathurst his regret at what had
occurred; and on naming his station in life, Sir Frederick
consented not to press the charge, on condition of hi, giving
ss. to the office poor-box, which, in addition to the thrash*
he got, was thought a sufficient punishment for his drunken
freak. The defendant willingly complied with this proposition,
and was of course discharged. He stated, on leaving the office,
that his companion, who forced his way into the Club-house,
had his shoulder dislocated in the scuffle.

LADY I3LESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL.—The forth-
coming novel of the Countess of Blessington, bearing the
piquant, but rather mysterious title of " The Lottery ofiLife,"
is looked for with unusual curiosity and interest, and the more
so from the dearth of good works of fiction during the present
season. " The Lottery of Life" is, as we understand, strictly
answerable to that part of its title which indicates its reality;
it is a tale busyir.g itself with the actual " Life" of our own
day and country—in the knowledge of which this popular writer
is so richly stored, and the many-coloured chances and changes
of which she has so successfully depicted in her previous works.
The present volumes, if report speak truly of them, contain
not a few portraits of characters in the higher grades of Eng-
lish life, which, whether so intended or not, will doubtless be
assigned to existing " originals' whether justly or no, remains
to be judged of when the work makes its appearance—which it
is, we believe, on the point of doing immediately.
The Earl of A nekland, accompanied by his sisters,
the lion. Alis•es Eden, and his nephew and Aid-de-camp, the
Hon. Capt. W. Godolphin Osborne,
is expected to arrive in
town the first week in the ensuing month, from the late seat of
his Government at Calcutta. His Lordship went
,out • the
spring of 1835.