The Sun. — 1851-03-10 (London, England)

LEFT SPEAKING.)  MARCH 10, 1851.  which an advoczte,coulci he placed; but, appearing ea  namely, to farther the tetereete of truth and justice, it became an imperative duty upon him to take care that the jury „ere not led owey by any eloquence or sophistry from the real question at issue, and that they should clearly understand what were the points of evidence upon which the prosecution relied for establishing the perpetration of an enormous crime against the prisoner; and if the evidence should be conclusive upon that point, that justice should not be defeated or a great criminal escape. The Learned Couniel then proceeded temprat-ly and clearl to bring b fore the iury the principal points in the overpowering evidence that had been given on behalf of the prosecution—the appointment to meet, the fact of the prisoner having left his house evidently with the intention of meeting his intended victim , the entire ebsenee of any evidence to account ler his time during !he eereid when the murder was no doubt committed; the Wool upon his clothes; his false representations with regerd to the deceased, and his conduct when he was informed of the discovery of the dead body of the murdered girl. He sail that it th. y could reconcile all these circumstances with the innocence of the prisoner, no one would be more gratified than himself at their coming to such a conclusion ; but, upon the other hand, if they should, as he teared, be satisfied that these circumstances clearly made out his guilt, their day to their country, and the solemn oath they had taken, demanded of them such a verdict as would alone be satisfactory to their own consciences, and the justice of the country. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE commenced summing up shortly before tour o'clock. He said that on the jury now devolved the solemn duty of saying by their verdict whether the prisoner was guilty of the crime laid to his charge; and it had been truly said that his fate was in !heir hands. Is was alleged on the part of the prosecution, that the prisoner, having had illicit connexion with this young woman, had formed a determination to destroy her, and in such a manner as that it should appear to be her own act, and that with this object he had wade the appointment with her on the evening of the 12th October. The first question they would then have to consider was. whether the deceased was murdered; and secondly, if she was, whether the prisoner's was the hand that destroyed her; and in coining to that conclusion they must not give any effect to suspicions or probabilities, but it was the they of the prosecution to satisfy them and to leave no moral doubt upon their winds th at he had committed the offence before they found him guilty of it. Ou the part or the prisoner it wascontended that the deceased might have destroyed herself, and it was, therefore, a very important cousideration for the jury whether the case was one of suicide or murder. His Lordship then proceeded most carefully and minute ly to go through the whole case, telling he jury in conclusion that if they should entertain any fair or reasonable doubt of the guilt of the prison. r they ought to give him the benefit of suet! a doubt, and acquit him. The jury did not deliberate more than ten minutes, when they returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Streight, the clerk of arraigns, then called upon the prisoner in the usual form to state whether he bad anything to urge why judgment should not be passed upon him according to law. The prisoner made no answer. He appeared very slightly affected when the verdict was pronounced. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE then put on the black cap and passed sentence of death in a most impressive man• ner upon the prisoner. He said that atter a very long and anxious trial the prisoner had been convicted by a jury of his country of the crime of murder, and he must say the.t he entirely concurred in that verdict. His guilt had been brought to summary punishment, and his oftence had been accompanied by such circumstances of aggravation that he could not trust himself to comment upon them. His Lordship concluded by telling him that his days were numbered, and he conjured him to endeavour, by penitence and prayer, to obtain pardon from above, as in this world no mercy could be expected by hima. He then passed sentence of death in the usual form.  The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the awful sentence. He was speedily removed from the duck, and on his being taken to the carriage to convey him to the gaol he was received with yells and hooting by the assembled crowd. (B, fore Mr. Baron