The Sun. — 1841-04-12 (London, England)

SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he should conclude his address on Monday.  49 -I 1 er , t  - • b• g  to “ir •e i At that ig in ca 'e f on tier d said h. o,iugh she should oo arre her hisband. fur :he thought him long away; and then, turning abruptly 'Lind she added '' toe shod is dead " S!ie went on ti, ay she did it, and c•i d excee tingly. Her sister-in. tw eat into her house, a•,d there saw the bed% f •he babe nicely covered up and lying in the cradle; othirg was visible but its face bu' by that she saw it ,as di a]. She fled in great alarm, arid called a neightour to her ai t, arid they uncovered the chill and Ruud it dead and quite cold. It appeared ,hat i pdoner's yard there was a p ind of fi:thy water, shallow and nuddy, and cover,cl with a green slime; and at th gate ceding from the street into this yard the prisoner wan seen standing by a man named Carter, at seven in the morning which the &slid mi t ci h its death She had the Aild in her arms, dressed in its bed-clothes, and appeared to be " hu,bifig" it. The dew], of the unfor_ unate infant having been noised abroad, its mother, %lvy K•Trison, came to the prisoner's house before noon, and the prisoner no sooner saw her than she threw nFr arms round her neck turd cried bitterly, observing to her Oh, Mary I I did i,, I did it ; but your poor ehild is happy now." The mother asked her why she did it, and she said " She would till her by and by," adding, that " the child was weil at seven, and dead at a quarter past." Upon her house being searched on the folloeilg day, the night-clothes of the poor babe were found concealed under the prisoner's bed. They were rolled up together, and were even then thoroughly wet in every part. They had, however, ben wetted with perfectly clean w4.2r, and could not possiAy have been immersed in the dirty pond in her yard which has ben already mentioned. Indeed, to this very hour the place where the poor child was drowned is quite unknown, except to her who perpetrate.] the crime ; but the probability is, that she must have immersed i! in a pail of water. She told the constable sl e did nit fear to die, she was so unhappy; and she did i to get rid of her own life ; but she would not say where she did it till the hour of h r death. These were the leading teatires of this mel,richoly and mysterious case. No motive, except possibly that which she assigned to the constable, could be suggested for the commission of this murder Dislike to the ehild did not appear to have infheaced her, as she was invariaoly fond of and kind to it ; and she had even Muted her husband to allow a shillii.g a week to its mother out of his own scanty earnings for its support. Th Jury dr'i ,eratJd half air hour, aid thee tound a verdict of G. The prisoner, who during the trial bad been in tears and in great di.tress, appeared to be utterly subdue. and prostra,ed by this awful announcement. After a pause of intense interest,  Ttie LEARNED JUDGE said, under all the ri”cumstancei of her case, he iihould order the sentence of deith t r be recorded, and should recommend to her Majesty to spare her life, but it would be an condition of ter being transported for life from her naive country. The ri ioner was then removed, crying, from the bar,  CENTRAL Cal