The Sun. — 1829-04-11 (London, England)

BARRY...-.Dill you ever push the deceased down? Witness—l am sure I never did ; but I was told to do sr, but I would not.  The younger Hibner said the girls had not spoken the truth.  The prisoner, Robinson, also declared that she had never acted cruelly towards the deceased. :The father in-law of one of the children was the only witness examined on the part of the prisoners, and his evident.* was wholly unserviceable to them. Mr. Baron GARROW then proceeded-to sum up, the evidence with that eloquence and ability for whicli, his Lordship is so eminently distinguished. After.desesniint on the nature and importance of the case, and the heinousness of the crime by:which the prisoners stood charged-and he was happy to say, it was what was very-oneominon in this country—hie Lordship went on to explain the law upon the subject, for the instruction of the Jury. The , eldest of the prisoners, Esther Minter the elder,' was the mistress of the deceased, and in that character was bound to protect and supply -her with all neceseary food and raiment. In fact, no one else could have bad tiro slightest controul Of theamfortunate child, and although the other prisOnere might have prevent the melancholy :cardstrOphe if they had pleased; , tte' they were under no sort of obligation, -excepting that im posed by common humanity, they were not in the eye of the law, considered as culpable as she whose duty it was to succour and instruct the hapless victim. Should the Jury, therefore, be of opinion that the deceased came by her death in consequence of the treatment which, with her mistress's knowledge, she had received while residing under her roof, they were bound to find her guilty; and acquit her daughter and the other prisoner. But if, on the other hand, they should arrive at the conclusion that the child's death had been the result of her immersion in the water by Esther Hibner the younger, and the forewoman Robinson, in the absence of the prisoner, it would be equally their duty to pronounce them guilty, and acquit her. His Lordship then recapitulated the evidence of the different witnesses, and concluded by expressing the satisfaction which he felt in being under the correction of so able and sound a lawyer as tie Noble and Learned Judge who presided with him, and who, if he had stated any thing that he was not authorised in stating, with that independence and impartiality which had ever marked his judicial conduct, would not fail to mention the circumstance, and set the Jury right. Lord TENTERDEN said, that in a case of such high importance, he did not think that it would become him to remain silent, he therefore availed himself of that opportunity of expressing his full concurrence in the law as Lis Learned and eloquent Brother had laid it down, and in the other remarks which he had made.  The Jury then consulted for about five minutes, when their Foreman intimated that they wished to retire, which they did exactly' at half-past six o'clock, and at 25 minutes before eight returned into Court, finding Esther Hibner the elder Guilty of the Murder, and acquitting the other two prisoners. The prisoner, who heard her doom apparently unmoved, was called up for judgment, when she was addressed as follows by The