Glasgow Courier. — 1853-07-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LOAD JUSTICE-GENERAL then summed up the evidence. He was afraid he must tell the jury that throwing a man over a window of such a height, when death followed, was an act of murder. As to the discrepancies he did not attach much weight to them. It was impossible to expect, in such a case, that there would not be minor discrepancies, but it appeared to him that the witnesses gave their evidence clearly and distinctly. That a murder had been committed there could be no doubt of, and he left It to the jury to say who were the parties who had committed it. The jury then retired, and, after a short absence, reterned into Court at twenty minutes to seven o'clock, with the following verdict :---i The jury unanimously find Macfarlane and Blackwood guilty as libelled, Maralien also guilty, but recommend her to mercy, and Hamilton not proven.' The LORD JUSTICE•GESERAL then addressed the prisoners Macfarlane, Blackwood, and Marshall. He said you have heard the verdict which has been returned in your case, and which convicts you all of the crime of murder. That verdict in this country admits of but one sentence from the Court, and that sentence it is now my painful duty, as the instrument of the Court, to prononnce. It is a sentence which fixes the limit of your earthly existence; the period which is allowed you to remain is but short; and it behoves you all to improve it as you best can. There is too much reason to fear, from what has been disclosed in the evidence, that the life you have been leading is one that requires from you much preparation in the view of the awful change that awaits you. If anything that I could say to you could aid you in that task, I would be glad to say it to you ; and if I thought there were no means of attaining more effectual advice and counsel, I would endeavour to give it to you; but knowbig that you will have opportunities of receiving proper advice and proper counsel from those whose province and whose abilities better become them to give it, I shall abstain from any observations of my own, and shall merely counsel you earnestly to listen-to the advice which you will receive. I have only farther to say to you Marshall, that as the jury have in sour case accompanied their verdict with a recommendation to the Sovereign, I have no power to deal with that recommendation farther than to forwardit. Icon express no opiuion as to the result of it; but I would advise you not to indulge hopes which may be disappointed. Any exertions that you may make to prepare yourself under the impression that no pardon will reach you will not be lost, and you will find the benefit of it should the mercy of the Sovereign be extended to you. In regard to all of you I have only to pronounce the sentence of the law. His Lordship then assumed the black cap, and in an impressive tone sentenced the prisoners to be executed at Glasgow on Thursday, the 11th of August, between eight and ten in the morning. Macfarlane, on being led out of the dock, made an attempt to address the Court, but his articulation appeared to fail him. Blackwood also preserved her entire composure during the proceedings, and exclaimed in a saucy tone of voice, 'We have not got justice; there lea higher Judge for us. We are innocent, and the guilty has got free.' In the progress of the trial Macfarlane was the only one of the prisoners who betrayed any concern when the evidence was being led. He appeared occasionally good deal Agitated, and frequently leaned his head on his ban& The female prisoners, one and all, maintained the most =mond sad &ion demeanour.