The Sun. — 1851-02-11 (London, England)

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The undernamed Bills are appointed to be read a second time on Wednesday, Feb. 12:— London and Blackwall Railway (Branch to Haydon-square,  . • Whitechapel, &c.) Birmingham Improvement. London and Blackwall Railway (Extension of Time for the Widening, &c.) South Staffordshire Railway (Branches to join the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway, &c.) South Wales Railway (No. 2). Killarney Junction Railway. Ulster Canal and Union Railway. Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway. East Lancashire Railway. Perth Petty and Market Customs Amendment. Wicklow Harbour. Liverpool Docks (Alteration of Management, &c.) St. Helen's Improvement.  B,,cond reading for Thursday, Feb. 13:— South Staffordshire Railway (Extension to Burton-uponTrent, &c.)  THE THURGOLAND MURDER•  This inquiry, extending over three days, was brought to a close on Saturday evening. The only additional facts were the finding of some bullets, which formed part of a number which a man named Simpson had cast for the prisoner in December last, and which he had received as the reward for his trouble for so doing; these, on being compared with the slug found in the head of the deceased, were found to be similar in size and weight. constable named White, of Barnsley, also stated the suh• stance of a conversation which ensued between the. prisoner and himself on Thursday last. Thoe, Boner at that time made various inquiries _gisinwe't constable as to the nature of the evidencesuppossng him, and whether the constable thought,eld be hung. he was committed to York, be d death without He further inquired if the constable ever remembered a case of persons having adduced of persons having sufficient evidence being !lecher he had ever known seen them do the deed; of a similar charge getting off with transportation; oforne brother shooting another; whether any person charged with wilful murder and, further, if be eve who were transported for _ w life usually sent O. These singular queries evidently that the and, if so, where were person show mind of the Frisian r when he put there was balancing the possible tic quelice of the charge. A the concluficin of the evidence the prisz ncr was brought into the room and the whole of the evidence read over in his presence. Ile appeared to pay great a! tendon to the evidence of eireh witness, and at its termination remarked that, rasny of the statements therein o,intained were wrong. He entered into a variety of explanations of a miner chlracter respecting the poesession of the gun and its being stolen out of the engine-house on the night of the murder; but he studiously avoided any mention of his own movements after leavieg work at six o'clock up to his return home early on the f Mowing Liaoning. Neither did he give any explanation of his singular dialogue with the constable. The coroner having summed up, the jury were locked up to consider their verdict, Bud after cieliberatirg for three-quarters of an -hour made the following return:—" We find a verdict of wilful 'murder. against some person or persons unknown. Vre, twiner, con eider that there is much in the evidenee to throw suspicion on the prisoner John Firth, but not sufficient to warrant us in returning a verdict of wilful :tinder against him." As soon as i:ie verdict of acquittal had b::,en returned the prisoner Ras Lpptehendeo, Defore leaving the room, by Mr. Green, the superintendent constable at Barnsley, at the innarce of the magistrates.