The Sun. — 1849-04-05 (London, England)

BULLOCK, R.N., a copy of whose letter to the First Lord of the Admiralty we insert with Much pleasure in another column. Of late years, many plans for saving life have been submitted to the public ; but like many clever systems of short-hand, which, looking well on paper, nobody can read, so the neat life-preservers are found in a storm to be not only worse than useless, by adding to the danger of the waves, as clumsy stirrups, put to poise the rider, serve but to drag him under the horse when his feet get entangled in the confusion of falling. "Captain BULLOCK'S safety raft," by which denomination he modestly hopes to attach his name to the cause of humanity, is free from all these objections. It can be readily constructed—easily launched—is cheap and valuable as it is simple. As those who run may read when time presses, so in moments of awful emergency those who sail may swim, and swim safely, in BULLOCK'S buoyant raft. All honour he to the gallant inventor ! for if he who makes a blade of grass grow, where none flourished before, surely he who contrives to save life is at least as worthy as he who destroys it, whether on land or water. " The path of glory leads but to the grave". while  " The proper study of mankind is man." And that Captain BULLOCK proves to have very much at heart.  The laborious and protracted investigation into the wholesale butcheries known by the name of " the Stanfield hall murders," has at length been brought to a conclusion. After a trial which lasted six entire days, during which the prisoner was allowed every possible advantage of which he would accept, the jury without hesitation recorded the only verdict consistent with the solemn obligations they bad undertaken—a verdict which consigns the wretched criminal to an ignominious death upon the scaffold.  It would be impossible to overrate the intense anxiety felt by the public generally in relation to this extraordinary outrage. Every detail of the trial was sought after with the utmost avidity. We at least discharged our duty in this respect. Notwithstanding the pressure of Parliamentary matter, and the important debates that took place in both Houses, we gave each day a full and detailed account of the pro ceedings, together with a summary of what had taken place to within a few minutes before-our usual hours of publication, which bad been received by electric telegraph; and last night we published an Extraordinary Edition within a quarter of an hour after the verdict of the jury was delivered, and even while the Learned Judge was passing the dread sentence of the law, announcing the result of the trial. Whatever doubts or difficulties might have been entertained in the earlier stages of the inquiry were completely dispersed after the examination of the unfortunate woman who was residing at Potash- fe.rm with her seducer at the time of the perpetration of the double assassination. The train of presumptive evidence was indeed complete ; no link in the chain nal had vainly was wanting. Although the crimiimagined that his concealment was perfect, that no one living could speak to his identity, the combination of circumstances, each, perhaps, minute and insignificant in itself, produced a moral certainty not inferior to that which would have been attained had the blood of the victims been abed in the broad light of day, and in the presence of many unimpeachable witnesses, by whom the murderer had been seized "red-handed," surrounded with all the evidences of his awful guilt. Every additional fact only served to render assurance doubly sure, to force conviction upon every unprejudiced mind. The bloodstained criminal himself was, perhaps, the only one who entertained any doubt as to the result. He, indeed, appeared to underrate the force and power of the vast body of evidence that was accumulated against him, and, with a blind perversity, to ht :pe even against hope, and to suppose that he could sue teed in deceiving the arbiters of his future fate. With. that same perversity he declined availing  * " Tho E astern Empire. Crown Colonies. (First Series.) Ce; lon. By Charles Wynn Payne, Esq." 8 vo. pp. 20. 184.7. G. Odell: London. f " Canada in 1848, being an Examination of the Existing Resources of British North America, &c. By Millington Henry Synge, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers," Byo. pp. 32. 1848: Affinghttna Wilson; London.