The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-04-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE MURDERER PHENTII4.—After the sentence of death had been passed at the lute Kent assizes on this unhappy culprit, for the wilful murder of a young woman named Emma 'amino, at Queensborough, the judge (Mr. Damn Martin), who at the time commented on the apparent absence of motive in the case, communicak-d with the chaplain of the Maidstone prison (the Kett. Watson King), and made several inquiries respecting the prisoner, intimating that he should in 1110 way hinder A commutation of the sentence, &et he saw no end to be seaweed by the man's execution. In -0111110.litence a statement of the whole circumstances of the cane lia.; been forwarded to the Secretary of State, whose reply has not yet been teceived. The prisoner, who of course is kept in ignorance of what is going forward, apparently entertains no hope of his life being spared. For some time past, through the constant exhortations of the chaplain, he 1111/ been deeply penitent. When first admitted into the gaol he was unable to spell a single word, but he has since learnt to read, and now spends • large portion of his time in perusing the New Testament and other religious books, he is also frequently engaged in prayer, and sometimes in singing hymns. He Is supposed to be a native of Leicest,niltire, but refuses to disclose anything with respect to his friends, as he does not wish them to know the position in which he is placed. Should the sentence be carried into effect, the execution will take place on Thursday, the 7th of April.  Ssowsrronx.—The metropolis was on Wednesday visited by that unwelcome guest, a snowstorm ; and March, which came in like a lamb, and continued to behave with the proverbial mildness of that innocent little animal, goes out in the shape of • lion, and a white lion too, his inane all icicles, his hide all snow. Nothing can be conceived more comfortless than a fall of snow in London. It is hard even for that t hardened of all beings, a London boy, to extract any pleasure from melting snow; and we are happy to state, that though many attempts were made by divers of these urchins, to whom • London fog and town•inade snow-balls are the 'unlink* boniest, to get up snowballing matches, yet their devices were frustrated without the aid of the police, by the passive nature of the Allow itself, which melted in their wicked grasp, ran up their sleeves, wetted the arum of their shirts, where they had any, and so sent them home to their mothers, which, no doubt, brought down on their devoted hexds some of those vials of domestic wrath, which, like domestic medicine, all good housewives keep ready for naughty children. The London sparrow, too, that rival in audacity of the London boy, seemed quite put out by the aspect of the heavens, and sat and moped, his head probably full of home cares, and without • grain of oats in his beak, a sad and sober sparrow, reflecting that at that very moment his sparrow, with whom he had contracted an improvident and early marriage. MAS incubating on A future brood whose prospects in life and whose very existence might be seriously endangered by the untoward downfall. Such was the metropolis on Wednesday for little boys arid birds ; what it was for grown men and women, let i!very grown inan and woman who was out imagine for him or herself. Thrice hpppy those who were able to stay at home.