Star. — 1828-08-09 (London, England)

THE TRIAL OP CORDER.  . , ..410RFOLK CIRCUIT. • IN CONTINUATION 110 W TUN :MAR TESTARDAT.  BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Avuusr 8. This morning, at nine o'clock, the Lord Chief Baron arrived at the Shire Hall, and having taken his seat on the Bench, William Corder was placed at the bar. The immense pressure and confusion of yesterday was, in a great degree, avoided by the Sheriff having made arrangements to admit the Gentlemen of the Bar and the Reporters an hour before the Court opened for public business; still the same eagerness was manifested to witness the termination of this interesting trial. It was observed, that after the close of the business on Thursday, when Corder returned to the gaol, he was very much depressed in spirits. If ever he exhibited any thing like feeling in the Court, it was at the time the Clerk of the Arraigns read the two letters which he had written to Marten, the father of Maria; ter she was murdered, in which he hypocritically pretended that Maria was then living with him, in good health, and inl which letters he also censured old Marten for having neglected to answer a letter which he pretended Maria had written to him, but which in the second letter he states he supposed had miscarried, and he would indict the post-office for the neglect, were it not for the pub licity be should be exposed to by attending a " Court Marshalro—for so he termed a proceeding against that establishment.  At a quarter before•nine o'clock, Corder was put to the bar. He was dressed the same as yesterday. On inquiry, it is understood his age is not 40, but about 30 or 32. He rose early in the prison, and was, during the whole of the morning before he was brought to Court, engaged in introducing some alterations in his written de/fence, which were suggested to him late last night by his counsel. His manner was collected, his complexion fresh, and he looked around him at times with seeming cheerfulness He was nor, however, so entirely at his ease as he appeared to be early on the previous day; his head was not snerect, and he repeatedly heaved deep sighs. Immediately on being put to the bar, he put on his spectacles, folded his arms, and displayed an oscillating and swinging motion cif his body, while he leaned his back against the pillar of the dock. He hung down his head frequently during the examination of the witnesses.  During the re-examitratlon of -Mr. Lawton, the surgeon, this morning, who produced the skull of the deceased, which was handed from the Counsel to the Jury, aad exhibited so as to be observable in its fractured conditicin to whole Court, the prisoner, who had just taken off his spectacles, replaced them, and beheld attentively tbis•painful spectacle—he inclined his body forward so as to command a full view of the skull; but as if the effort to sustain this attitude, and evince this expression, had become too great for his nerves, he suddenly lung his back against the pillar, hastily dress' off hit spectacles,aud evidently laboured under the strongest emotion. In a few minutes, however, he rallied, replaced his glasses, took out his pocket-book. and quickly wrote a memorandum to his leading Counsel, Mr. Basmatce, who at once wrote a •reply, which the prisoner read with close attention, and on the signification of a movementsfrom the Learned Counsel tore it into the smallest fragments. His Solicitor, at the same time, went to the front of the dock, and had a long'consultation with him.  The Jury having answered to their nomer, John Charles Nairn was called, and examined by Mr.