The Sun. — 1850-07-19 (London, England)

PARK.MXN, and the subsequent proceedings of his murderer, but also of the motives and causes that produced that untoward result which involved several respectable families in the deepest misery and suffering. A strong moral may also be deduced, warning with a voice of thunder against the dangers of indulging in abusive language, or suffering the angry passions to obtain uncontrolled dominion, so that one hasty and ungoverned act may lead to a labyrinth of crime and mendacity, from which extrication is impracticable.  The entire circumstances of the case must be 110 fully in the recollection of our readers, that it is unnecessary to make more than a brief and passing allusion thereto. Dr. PaRKMAN, a highly respectable medical practitioner, was suddenly missing from his usual places of resort in the latter end of November last, and after his absence was unaccounted for a few days, the most gloomy anticipations were entertained as to his probable fate. Strict inquiries were instituted, and it was ascertained that the last time he was seen alive he was about visiting Professor WEBSTER, who was indebted to him in a considerable amount, the non-payment of which had excited Dr PARILMAN'S anger in no ordinary degree. He was traced to the lecture-room of Professor WEBsTER in the middle of the day, about half-past one, r.m., on Friday, the 23d of November. No tidings of him could be learned subsequently to that visit. He had unquestionably entered the fatal apartment, but it could not be discovered that he had ever emerged therefrom ; there were " Vestigia nulla retrorsuni."  It is almost unnecessary to say that the apartments of the Professor and all the places communicating therewith, in which the body, or even any portion of the property of Dr. PARKMAN could by any possibility be concealed, were subjected to the most stringent scrutiny, and at length the mutilated remains were discovered, partly concealed in a sink and partly buried in a cellar, to which there was means of access from the lecture-rooms of  the Professor, who was thereupon taken into cus  tody , and subsequently convicted of the murder ; a writ of error, which had been preferred on his behalf, being decided against him. There is now pending a petition for the commutation of the punishment, and the confession under notice, purporting to give an accurate account of the entire transaction, has been brought before the Council, whose decision will be conclusive as to the fate of the prisoner, by the Rev. Dr. PUTMAN, who is styled his " spiritual adviser." For these facts we refer to that extraordinary document which appeared in extenso in The Sun of Wednesday. It will he seen that the convict acknowledges the homicide, but positively asserts that it was wholly unpremeditated—that it arose, in fact, from the momentary impulse of passion, occasioned by the gross and unwarrantable language of the deceased. It is scarcely probable that if the murder had been planned with malice aforethought that Professor WEBSTER would have invited his intended victim some days previously to his own leeture•room, in the most public hour of the day, when the precincts of the place intended to be converted into a human shambles would most probably be crowded with students—and that by an unsealed note; and that he would have called at Dr.