The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

trivances were resorted to, to surprise him into a con-
fession. One was, on the anniversary of the murder,
to produce suddenly the skull of the murdered woman.
Riembauer sprang up from his ckair, looked wildly at
the judge, but immediately resumed his composure and
fixed smile, placed himself so as to avoid looking at the
skull in front, and answered, " My conscience is at ease.
This day eight years, as I returned from Pirkwangg
found that skull, and the body of which it formed a part,
lying dead in my room. If it could speak, it would say,
Riembauer was my friend, not my murderer. You see
that I breathe freely in its presence. Lam not a crimi-
nal, but a victim." He did, however, at length confess,
and so satisfied the scrupulousness of the German law.
In England, as the Reviewer observes, " he would pro-
bably have been tried at the first assizes after Cath-
erine's information was laid; the proceedings could
scarcely have outlasted one day; and unless there were
some technical flaw, unless the copyist perhaps left out
in the indictment the words ' then and there,' or wrote
the murdered woman's name Hanna instead of Anna, or
Mary instead of Marie, the judge would have summed
up unfavourably, and the jury would have convicted him
without leaving the box."
A curious part of the case, however, remains to be
told, which forcibly illustrates the care which German
jurisprudence has of human life. Though Riembauer
confessed himself to be the murderer, yet another neces-
sity of German law had not been proved—the murder
itself. Nor could it be : for the skeleton bore no marks
of it—nobody living had witnessed the deed ; and both
these conditions are necessary to a sentence of death.
Riembauer, therefore, was only sentenced to indefinite
imprisonment.
If a review of the working of German law leaves us,
on the whole, well satisfied with our own system, it
certainly places in a strong light the absurdity of some
of our rules, which, by over nicety as to technicali-
ties and forms (such as discharging a prisoner if a
material witness be absent, or if a name be spelt wrongly
or if, as in Lord Cardigan's case, some witness re-
fuse to speak on the plea of committing himself) places
a criminal in a situation where, if he have the means of
putting into play all the tricks and contrivances of the
law, he may, as many notorious criminals have done,
set the law at defiance, and make that equal justice on
which we pride ourselves a mere mockery.

THE WEATHER.—THE POTATO CROP.—For some
days the atmosphere has been damp and heavy, and during
the night rain has fallen copiously. Potato-lifting is now
proceeding on all hands. We have made particular inquiry
respecting the condition of this crop, which we find is both
sound and abundant in our own locality ; in proof of which
we may remark, that the quantity of potatoes in yesterday's
market was greater than for two or three previous weeks,
and there was besides a reduction in price of 4s. per boll.
The market price of potatoes here, per boll of forty-eight
stenes, is about 12s. In the high districts there is still a
great deal of grain out, some even uncut, and we are afraid it
must have suffered materially from the boisterous and stormy
weather.—lnverness Courier.

GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN
RAILWAY. - .. _ .

At: a PUBLIC MEETING of the Iran-rasters, Landed Proprie-
tors, and others interested in the Mineral District of South Wales,
held at Tredegar, •n Monday, tho 20th inst., _ _ _

It was moved by Jon"( Rui.eaLL, Zsq.,. of Risoa, and seconded by

Jon; EvaNs, Esq., of Dowla is, and resolved—

That the thanks of this meeting are due and be given to the de-
putation of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company for
their attendance here to-day; and to Mr. Ward in particular, for his
very able statement of the views and intentions of that Company ;
and, that it is the opinion of this meeting, the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company, as the first to project and prove the
practicability of direct communication between Merthyr and Here-
ford, deserves the support of the Mineral Districts of South Wales.
October 24, 1845.

GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Office, 53, Charing-cross.
In consequence of the very numerous Applications for Shares in this
Company, the Allotment has been unavoidably delayed, but the
Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the Letters will be
issued in a few days.
By order,
Nov. 1, 1845.

HENRY 3fOREING, Secretary,

BARNET AND NORTH METROPOLITAN
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have much pleasure in announcing
that the Surveys and Sections of the Line are in a state of great for-
wardness, and that the engineer pledges himself to hare them ready
to deposit agreeably to the Act of Parliament.
By order,

H. PELLY HINDE, Secretary
26, New Broad-street, Oct. 31, 1845.

PRESTON AND WIRE RAILWAY HAR-
BOUR AND DOCK COMPANY.
Final notice of Registration of Scrip for the half-shares of 21. 10s.
each.

No Scrip can be received for Registration after MONDAY, the 10th
November, 1845.
Holders of Scrip are requested to forward the same without delay
to the Company's Offices, Flteewood, together with their names at
full length, and address.

By order,

B. BAZETT JONES, Secretary.
Company's Offices, Fleetwood, 31st October, 1845.

41Q TA FFORDSHIRE POTTERIES and LIVER-
-IJ' POOL and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY.
R. E. Heathcote, Esq. Chairman.
C. Randall, Esq. Deputy-Chairman.
.Notice is hereby given, that the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract of this Company will Lie for Execution by the
Sharebolders, in London, at the King's Head, Poultry, on Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, the I Rh, 12th and 13th days of November
next, instead of at the place and on the days originally fixed.
J. C. KEMP, Secretary.

1, Hope-street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
Oct. 28, 1845.