The Express. — 1853-03-22 (London, England)

BAYRONNT." The following statement made by the prisoner Altaic was also put in I adhere to this declaration, and it is quite is coarottnity with my sentiments. Signed ALLatte." This closed the cam far the prmecutioa. Mr. M. Chambers than addressed the jury on behalf of Berroset.  Mr. ferry and Mr. Ballantist• also addressed the jury for their respective cheats. Some witnesses were then called to speak to the character of Alain and Barronet, and they described them as having been persons of honour and respectability in their own country. Mr. Josue. Coleridge, in summing up the cane, said he felt it right to remind the jury that he and they both sat there to administer the law under the obligation et an oath, and it was their duty to do so fearlessly and conscientiously. It was very painful for any judge to have to sit and dispose of so serious a case ; and he must confess that he was surprised to hear learned counsel of great experience and great talent tell a jury that the law was that which they knew it was not, and, to speak plain English, mislead them and endeavour to induce them to find a verdict which they knew could not be justified either by the facts or evidence. The four gentlemen at she bar were Frenchmen, but they resided in this country, and were therefore subjects of the Queen, and bound to obey the law, and he would tell them what the law was upon the subject of the present case, and he believed they would be of opinion that it was not only in accordance with law, but also with the dictates of common sense. The law was this—lf one or more persons went out to together armed with deadly weapons, for the purpose of committing an unlawful act—which fighting a duel undoubtedly was—and the death of one of the parties ensue, it was, in the eye of the law, murder on every person connected with the transaction, and this applied Equally to the seconds of the deceased, as to those of the survivor—in fact they were all held to be responsible for that which might be expected as the natural result of the act they were about to commit. If, therefore, the jury should believe that the prisoners or either of them were proved to have acted in this , they would be justified in finding them guilty of murder, but if the evidence was not malaisetory as to their identity, or upon any other point, thoywould then sad they were not godly. The jury retired ate quarter to 7 o'clock, and returned into wort in about an hour with a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter. . .  The learned Judge, addressing the prisoners, said they had been convicted, after a very long and patient inquiry, of the crime of manslaughter, and it was now his duty to pass sentence upon them for that offence. He observed that they had already been in prison more than five months, and he thought it also probable that, being foreigners, they were ignorant of the law of this country upon the subject of duellinc, and that, therefore, they might have been misled ; and, taking all the.e circumstances into consideration. the sentence would be mach learn than it otherwise would have , been. Ile then sentenced all the prisoners to be further imprisoned for the space of two months. 110DLAND ClRCUlT.—Wmtwicx,