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      spoken the truth , which w > q _„„ _A 7 " lmg - police W douS £ K f ti < -- « " * - _Holmes evidence ** U * Xi - ref _? r ? : cd t 0 Uon 01 _Sending at the _4 te h ° _^/ ne _^ _th others , was handeuluapl _^ _ofj _^ _tf _^ _' _^ l _^ and hc out the loca £ ™ J J _^ £ fhe Jai _7 > P _^ _ting other _partSitha _^^^ _^ _V - heand thp POr t , iu the _dS f * - £ one ' aft € r hearin g the _reffiSit ofiteu _^ ln _^ the man went * - *> rm _^ _Jhu 5 r ? _" - _"V _* was in the h ghest de < _ree _imasss _y-ftsiS _?* * _sHtHl _K _as-is _rSvafrSrL _^ e second report was _immedi-^ ! _^> e ; and if this Was the case , there _fSLVJ _™/ 0 _*^™? to go , as he said he did , _SKSn _?*& aUuded _^ the cook ' s evidence , _™ o talked of the time that ' intervened" between _ttenrst and second report ; and contended that-the witnesses had all been broueht to _deoosem-Attv w _* u iLr -nalic _. W ZI _, _^ _more than those chuck-

      to the same thing , and to agree before the iury . After aliuding to the papers dropped in the hall , one ot wiuch , m his opmion , was inside the _passage , and comphining that a certain witness was not caned on this point , he adverted tothe evidence about the banging tothe door , which he disbelieved ; _anoagamasked why _Blanchflower was not examined _, _lheynad seen witnesses put into the box , aud not asKed a single question . Why did not Mr . Evans can a witness so important to him ( the prisoner ! as that witness was ? If Mr . Evans had acted as an honourable man , he would have called her , that he ( Rush ) might have had the opportunity of brin < _--injr out evidence in his favour . With regard to ° the threatening expressions attributed to Mmafter

      , what had been said by the witnesses whom he had _jammed , could they believe that he ever used those expressions ? Then , said he , there is the evidence ot Emily Sandford . There is every excuse for her , poor girl , God Almi ghtv knows ! But I snail be able to produce further evidence on this point I have a letter from Mr . Cann . Can anything be more unfair than the way in which her evidence was taken ? When preparing for her _exami"fii ? _^ _E _^ _ewell , she was with the magistrates at the Hall at twelve o ' clock in the morning , and did not leave until twelve at ni ght . What do you think she was doing all that time ? Why , she was examined over and over again . If I had been able to examine her free from the influence ofthe

      magistrates , I should have been able to have believed Iier , for I believe she is honest enough to tell the truthl Bat what can I do under thc circumstances ? It was understood when Clarke was examined that I was to have had an oppportunity of cross-examining him . —Tie judgesaid the pri * _-oner could examine him . —The prisoner remarked on the evidence of Fuller ; As to the trunk of a tree , which Putter said waslaid over a jliteh between Potash and Stanfield Hall , he should show , by evidence , that , when he had two farm ? , it was a gap ; and the tree was only laid over : but it was a most absurd thing to suppose that any person would venture over this at night . It struck him , too , that he should be able to prove that the murder was committed later than stated bv

      Stanley , who said that he was the first person iu the hall , aud that it was then half-past eight . He noticed the statement of Watson and another witness , to show that it was more likely to have been nine o ' clock : and said from the way in which the policemen gave their evidence , it always appeared to iiini / _ihat it was apreviously concerted story . He noticed some discrepancies in the evidence of the police who apprehended him , as to what was said at the time ; and also to what he said was contradictory e _\* iuence , by Pont , about the boots found in his room he saying before the coroner that they were wet , but appeared dry on the side which had been next thc fire , but before the magistrates that they appeared to have been wiped . All these discrepancies the jury will be kind enough to take into

      their consideration ; but that there may be no doubt on the subject , he would produce the boots he wore on the night in question . Why had not the prosecution called Savory ? Why , because they were afraid he would have told the truth , as they had failed io tamper with him . After undergoing twenty examinations , and remaining in Bridewell a considerable time , they had refused to call him . He would produce Savory to prove that he ( Rush ) had taken the greatest pains to preserve the game ; that there had been a great quantity of game on the farm , and that there was still , notwithstanding the depredations of the poachers . If Savory was so dishonest as not to acknowledge that , nothing could exceed him for _lvuur . —With respect to the

      direction he was said to have taken on the night of the murder , Mi * . Brane , the surveyor of Norwich , had -stated that the liver along which he was supposed to have walked , was ten or twelve feet , and eight or nine feet wide . It was not likely that he should have attempted in the-darkness of the night , to walk along that river , much less to jump across it . The prisoner then adverted to the secret manner in which the witnesses underwent their first examination in the brown parlour in Stanfield Hall , and expressed his conviction , that Emily Sandford and Watson , the butler , gave true , evidence on that occasion , and testimony that did not do him the slig htest damage ; but " that , from the undue influence exercised over them , their evidence was

      warped and twisted ; and he should show before he had done , that that was the case ; and that Mr . Cann knew very weU the gross injustice he was doing him . After detailing some previous business transaction with Mr . Cann , the prisoner directed the attention of the jury to the statements of those servants who had spoken to haye seen him so often " at Stanfield Hall . On one day mentioned , the 21 st--of _NovemltT , no one had seen him , not even Wat son . Mr . Jenny wished him to go directly through tie front door , and when he had any business to transact io call about eight o clock in thc evening , as being the most convenient- time . The statements of these servants were all false ; " he firmly believed that not one of them had seen htm half a dozen times

      in their lives . He again declared his belief that Mr . Cairn had tampered with the witnesses ; more especially with Emily Sandford , than whom no one in the world had more grossly perjured herself . —The prisoner again reverted to Watson ' s evidence , and sai-1 ii was clear Mr . 'John Cann . was in the butler ' s pantry , although the witness said he was not ; that thc cloaks taken from Potash were shown at the hail : and that the witnesses gave their evidence relating to them from what they had seen after . the murder . Hc again referred to Blanchfiower ' s evidence , contrasting it with Read ' s ; and observins : that he had put on the wig , and the

      witnesses who protended to have seen a man with a wis , said that he did not resemble him . Chestney ' a evidence , he said , was the most extraordinary upon the face of the earth , after what she had stated the first time . There was no secret about the wigs ; a few years ago be was losing his hah * , and he liad a wig made , Put his hair growing again it became of no use . He returned it to the maker , who would not take it , and there was an action about it at the county court . He again attempted to weaken the testimony of the witnesses as to his identity by stating that he lived more at Pelminghamthanat Potash , and was seldom at Stanfield ; the witnesses therefore had not such a knowled ge of him at to warrant the minute description they had

      given . _ The jury now retired for refreshment ; and on their return the trial proceeded . Thc prisoner commenced by referring to Eliza Chestney' : * evidence , adverting to alleged discrepancies and contradictions , and contending that she could not possibly have had time to identify the man in the passage , or to speak with any certainty as to bis manner and dress . His remarks were long , and ofa most rambling nature . On the subject of disguises , he contended , that it was preposterous to flunk that , if he had gone out in them , as stated , he Should have kept them in the house , and repeated that , though he and Mr . Jermy had been on very bad terms , he never had any ill-feeling towards him . Tho _ovidonce of Emilv Sandford had not been given

      in court so consistently with truth as it was before the _maaistrates ; from beginning to end , he was sorrv to sav , it had no foundation in truth . He referred to _passages of the evidence , to show discrepancies which ue contended proved this assertion . Her not recollecting when he named his mother that he also named his children ; her not knowing -On the _nisrht ofthe 23 th of _November whether her watch was going or not" were instances adduced -wh y her testimony was not to be credited . The p risoner , addressing the counsel for the prosecution , said , " I wish to know whether a letter addressed to Mr . _Jernrv , and another addressed to Mr . Clarke , -will be produced ?"—Sergeant Byles said : Yes . But no such letters were read in evidence . —The Prisoner : _* Thosc letters were from his children . He

      then again reverted to the abstraction of papers from his carpet bag , contending that many of them ¦ were of importance for bis . defence , and others for the pecuniary interests ofhis chuurcn . He said in _Hubbersty ' s evidence were the grossest falsehoods ; and once more adverting to what Emily Sandford had deposed , he said her evidence was influenced b y what she had heard from Savory . He should show that others had watched for poachers as well as himjf ; and on the nig ht of _^ _i _^ b _*™ affectedby the ready manner * _whichshelve up goin _" , in compliance with his wish . She must , ne fffirmed , recollect many things she _!«*«" _£ form * and said he knew it would not do for them

      io Uveas thev had been doing ; and , thertfore ,, « was agreed that she should be his nousekeeper , botn from respect to her family and his own . ine jury could see that when she gave her evidence she _ws anything but friendly to him , whatever shehadbeen before . Having again referred to , and remarked on , Harvey ' s evidence , and to that of _thejervant _^ he observed that th _« man who fired the first gun or pistol would not have gone round the haU and entered at another _doorfjust where j dl tie jservants were to be found , for the purpose of - _^ fL _^ f Mr . Jermv . A man knowing the hall as well as he did must have been mad to _bave attempted such a thing . It was much more probable that he _-ffould

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      have turned in at the porch door to carry out his horrible purposes . Recurring to Miss Sandford _' s evidence , he . said that the paper D was prepared for the purpose of being si ned by Mr . Jermy , when he ( Rush ) found him desirous to sanction the terms ; and Emily Sandford's determination to go with him to the hall on the evening mentioned hi her evidence was a proceeding fraught with much mischief , was most extraordinary , and one which he could never understand . The prisoner , in the course of his remarks , insisted that the witnesses were taken and kept by the _jrosecutors in order to enable them to substantiate the case for the prosecution . He reverted to the evidence previously given about the _„ _..- _:--, _„ _.-.,..

      hall . He then entered upon the evidence ofthe medical gentlemen and disputed the correctness of the conclusion at _wnieb those gentlemen had arrived in r eference to some foreign material in the cartridge Hie fr agments of which Were found at Stanfield Hall ' The prisoner , after having for a short time dwelt upon this p art" of the evidence , directed his observations to the proofs of the handwriting the documents were in ; with re gard to Howe ' s evidence Ue said he never spoke to him for five minutes in his life , and he believed God Almighty put it in his month that Howe was a big villain . After some iurther remarks the court broke up at eight o ' _closk . He had been addressing the court since ten o ' clock .

      Wedsesdat , April 4 . the verdict . This protracted and extraordinary trial was re--sumed this morning before Baron Rolfe , nt nine o clock . Upon the learned baron taking his seat , the prisoner was conducted into the dock . He appeared little affected by bis extraordinary exertions of yesterday . The prisoner referred to the evidence of Emily Sandford . Let the jury consider how this witness had giyen her evidence in thateourt , and how she had given it before the coroner and magistrates previously . Her evidence would not have been of the slightest consequence , had she not been

      tampered with . The pnsoser then referred to the evidence of Howe , and said—If Howe had been a respectable man , his evidence would have been ofthe greatest consequence ; but of course after what they had heard they would not place any credit upon his testimony , as he was one of the worst of characters . He ( the prisoner ) had that morning received a letter , signed by several persons , saying that they had heard Howe state that he would give his evidence on either side for £ 20 . He hoped the jury would pay attention to the depositions taken before the coroner and those before the magistrates ; the cross-examination showed some most extraordinary facts . Fulter , for instance , said he could not say that the straw was there a _fortnight .

      —Thc Judge said , that Howe ' s evidence was of no consequence , and that the question as to how long the straw had been down , had not been asked of the last-mentioned witness . —The prisoner then complained bitterly of the manner in which the prosecution had been got up by Mr Cann ; ofthe keeping his papers by the prosecution ; and of several witnesses having been examined by the _mawiutvates who had not been brought before the jury . Sow , with- respect to the documents which had been brought forward , bearing Mr . Jermy ' s name it was preposterous to suppose that it was ever intended to make use of them . Mr . Jermy ' s name was so well known that nobody would have taken the one on the document for his . A document had been taken

      from his papers which would have shown that it was to his interest that Mr . Jermy should live . The prisoner then proceeded : Gentlemen of the jury , I think I can show you that the evidence is ail false from beginning to end Consider the situation I an _^ pl aced in , and consider also how many things which might not otherwise be mentioned or thought of , haye been turned and twisted against me . Bear that in jnind , gentlemen , and as God Almi ghty knows all that is going on here , I trust he will enable you to come to a right conclusion . Emily Sandford ' s evidence was all false . Was it at all likely that I should have asked a well-educated woman like her to be a party to such forgeries , which were utterlv useless , and wliich

      the commonest observer must have detected ? Poor thing , she said things , I have no doubt to the best of her knowledge , but then she was tampered with , and her mind was corrupted by those who ought to have known better , and who ought to have striven to do me justice . Why did not the counsel for the prosecution call Savory ? Why because they knew perfectly well that all his evidence would be in my favour . But I shall show before I have done that his evidence goes to establish my innocence , and also that of Mrs . Jermy , whose depositions will be read to you . Why , Mrs . Jermy says that she saw the man ' s coat , and that she is not perfectly sure whether it was a great coat or otherwise . She knows nothing about disguises or anything of that

      sort . Why , then , I ask again , was she not called , in order that I might cross-examine her ? Upon my honour , it is a case of false swearing from beginning to end ; and his lordship and the counsel for the prosecution know it very well . If I had committed these horrible murders I could never have looked anybody in the face ; and God Almi g hty knows that if 1 were guilty I could not stand here so long to plead my innocence . Sew , is not all the evidence in my favour ? I am sure , gentlemen . of the jury , that you will acknowledge that it is . ' Gentlemen of the jury , I trust to you now , as I leave the case in your hands . May God Almighty give you wise heads and understanding hearts , so that you may see through the evidence clearly , and acquit me of the horrible charge imputed to me . The prisoner then sat down .

      The defence , which- lasted so many hours , was delivered throughout in a mumbling tone , which was , during nine-tenths of the time , inaudible by the reporters . The . address of-the prisoner is not , therefore , fully reported , the points of it only being given . The prisoner then handed to his lordship the letter hc had read in . his defence , which was addressed to his solicitor . Mi * . Joxes , the crier ; read the letter , and some other documents having been put in and proved , the prisoner proceeded to call his witnesses . The first was

      Mi * . George Waugh , solicitor , from London . This witness said—I was at Wymondham on the 1 st December . Mrs . Bryant delivered a message to me io the effect that you would be glad to see me , but not professionally . An inspector of police was present , and Mr . John Cann . The policeman retired when Mr . Cann came , and' the door was shut . . I went out ofthe room leaving you and Mr . Cann together . I afterwards returned , and said I could not wait . I said you had better have a solicitor , and J thought you could not have a better than Mi-. Cann . The next witness was _Arthuu Walker Hyde . — Thc prisoner ha vingasked several irrelevant questions respecting the witness Howe , his lordship said that Howe should be re-called . The witness then stood down , to wait- until Howe had been further examined . The next witness was Maria _BuixenFLOWEn . She

      said—I was nurserymaid at Stanfield Hall , and was in the nursery on the night of the murder , when I heard the first report . _~ I heard three more reports before I came down . I came down the back stairs , and went very fast to the servants' hall and back kitchen . I heard a female bustling in the passage . I looked back , and saw a low stout man with no hat on . He was near the back staircase coming towards the side door . Had no time to see if it was a person I knew . The , colour of his dress was dark . Had been at the Hall twenty-four days before the murder . Xever saw the prisoner before . The next witness was the . boy Savory . Hived with the prisoner's son at Potash . There is a great deal of straw at Potash , at Seven Acres . I got the

      light boots from the ' prisoner : the light pair were wet and the heavy pah' were dry ; they had been left at the fire that ni g ht by me . I sat up one night at the beginning ofthe shooting seasen watching for game ; one man was taken up for poaching . I was examined at Stanfield Hall the day after the murder . I told them you went out between seven and eig ht o ' clock , or between seven and half-past . That was thc latest time 1 saw the prison er , 1 swear it was not ei g ht o ' clock . The court then adjourned for ten minutes . On the court re-assembling , the prisoner wished Mr . Howe to be re-called . Howe was then placed in the witness box . He said I do not know John "Vincent , George Blane , James Ruskey , I . T . Smith , or MrFrederick Braine . I never stated that I

      , would go to Norwich and swear against Rush for £ 20 . Some jokes were passed about £ 100 being got for coming down here , but I never said anything about any money . In fact , I never thought of getting any . I tried to remain away , and was most anxious to do so , but my surgeon would not give me a certificate because he did not think I was sufficiently ill . Iinow nobody in Iforwich . I made the remark ' to the witness Hyde . It was thoughtlessly made . Htde was re-called and examined by Mr . Prendergast —! heard Howe say he would come down here and give evidence , either way , for £ 20 , on the 4 th of December . I live in Edward-street ,

      _Newroad , at the top of Baker-street . I made a memorandum of Howe ' s statement . I will not swear _^ hat I did . i committed an error . I made a mistake . t an V- accoun t j mt , carrying on business at 39 , Lamb s Conduit-street , _ffo name of any kind is oh the door . Miss Smith keeps the ground floor . I went there at Christmas , 1848 . I pay £ 25 per year . I have had a clerk ( Williamson ) a long time . He stays in the front room . I only knew Howe on the nig ht he made the statement at an Elocution Society . I was the chairman . I lived at a coffeehouse , and have been a publican once , and I have been in the Metropolitan Police . I came from ireland before that . A solicitor in London paid me £ 3 to come down here . The witness then retired . — Rush : It is no use calling witnesses , and I shan't call any more , when this fellow ( Howe ) comes down at the last moment and swears all manner of things

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      what can J . do ? It i ? shameful _. conduct in a court of justice , but you may do as you like . ' ¦ The Prisoner then made application for certahl documents , which he requested might be put in , amongst others a lengthened pamphlet which he wrote , some years ago . The Judge . * Hoes that pamphlet tend to show your innocence ?—Rush : Why the police have taken possession of this pamphlet , and that is the thing . — The Judge : I don't understand what you mean . Do I understand that you wish to offer documentary evidence ?—Rush : Ye ' s , of course . I wish to show that what 1 stated to the jury was correct . A lengthened conversation took p lace between the judge and the prisoner . The judge stating that

      certain papers which he had called for from Mr . Cann were not admissible as evidence . This closing the case for the prisoner . _SehgeA-vi BriES then rose to reply , and after some remarks upon the delicacy of the duty he had to perform , proceeded to comment upon tho evidence which had been adduced by the various witnesses . The learned Sergeant concluded a very careful and lengthy address by remarking that the jury would do their duty towards the prisoner , and also to thc prosecution . The learned Judge then proceeded to charge the jury . He said—Gentlemen of the jury , your decision in this case must be formed exclusively on thc testimony which has been given iuthis court . We

      are inquiring into the death of Mr . Isaac Jermy , and under what circumstances he came by his death . It has been detailed by a number of witnesses , but as something may afterwards transpire as to the precise cause of death , I will read the testimony of several witnesses . [ The learned Judge then read the . evidence of Watson , Chestney , and Read , in which they speak to seeing the person in tlie hall shoot the two Mr . JcrmysJ | He then proceeded to _SJ-y—that is the account sworn to by three witnessses on the part of the prosecution . It has b' en further confirmed by two pieces of evidence which have been put . in by the prosecution—I mean the depositions of Mrs . Jermy and Maria Blancliflower . Mrs . Jermy said she was the widow of Mr . Isaac

      Jermy Jermy . On the night of the murder she was with her husband in the drawing-room . A report was heard , and her husband hastened out of the room to learn tho cause . A second report took place , when she left the apartment , and in thc staircase hall she saw the body of her husband and a man attired in a disguise , who fired at and wounded her , as also her maid , Eliza Chestney . That is the account which Mrs . Jermy gave . You have , therefore , the testimony of five persons , in addition to which there is the evidence , which is not unimportant , of Edward Stanley , who was the first witness called on Friday , and of Honor Holmes , and although their account differs as to time , still' the variation is so small that it is not important , and

      therefore makes no material difference . I may say , by way of anticipation , that only four shots were fired ; the testimony of tlie two witnesses proved that they could not be expected to be exactly correct as to a moment ; God only knows , gentlemen , when his mind shall be in such a horrible state of excitement , as those persons must have been , what he would do _. When the body of Mr . Jermy was found in the porch , it was examined , and a number of pieces of lead were found , whether they are called slugs , or whatever they are called , does . not matter . It seems to me , gentlemen , to be abundantly clear , that the person who shot young Mr . Jermy shot Mr . Jenny , senior . There is no doubt that the person who was in the house ou that night was guilty of

      the murder of Mr . Isaac Jermy , senior , and it that be the case , there remains only one thing for you to consider , and that is , who was the man who shot Mi * . Jenny , senior , and the other persons afterwards . The prosecutors say tho prisoner is the man , and in order to establish the fact the first evidence on that point is the same as I have already read to you . Watson said , " I believe the prisoner to be the man , it strnek me at the time he was tho man , " and then he pointed to the prisoner and said , " That was the man . " Eliza Chestney , in sneaking of the point , says , " She saw the head and shoulders , and she formed a belief at the time that he was the man , and that she had no doubt he was the man . "—The prisoner here made some allusion to the depositions of Chestney endeavouring to show that they varied . —His Lordship said : If you wish

      it they shall be read , but it does not make tho least difference , thc sli ght variation is accounted for by the excited state they were in at the time . You have the testimony of four witnesses , who state that they are confident that the prisoner is the man , they saw in the house , You have also five _witnesses who speak to seeing the man ; one , however , did not know him , as she had never seen him before ; but the others said they were satisfied he was the man ; that is very conclusive evidence . But there are several objections to be made , owing to thc state of confusion , which I have previously mentioned , the witnesses were in at the time . ' And there is no sort of evidence to which so much attention ought to be directed , in order to ascertain its Jair burden . There was a case the other day where a-man was accused ofa brutal and almost

      murdering attack upon a policeman . He was proved not to have seen or been , near tho man . It was a mistaken identity ; but at the same time I must say that in this case the parties had . all seen the prisoner before , and they wore well acquainted with him , and the least si ght mig ht have been sufficient to recognise him . If , for instance , you saw one of your own children turning a corner , and you only got a sight of its shoulder , It would be sufficient for you to know it . So it was with those witnesses , as they were in the habit of seeing the prisoner come to the Hall . Mrs . Jermy spoke positively to him ; she was in the habit of seeing him . —Rush : I never saw her in my life that

      I recollect . —The Judge * . With regard to thc disguise , if there is anything peculiar in a person , it is not easy for them to disguise themselves . The four witnesses speak positively to him . Thoy say they are confident Rush was the man . There is a most important thing in Mrs . Jermy ' s depositions . She says she thought so , and she mentioned it that night . Let us see what the nurse says , " She saw a low stout man , without a hat , he had a pistol in each hand . "—The prisoner again interrupted his lordship concerning the depositions of tlie witnesses . The learned Judge then proceeded with his charge , which occupied about three hours . The jury then retired and were absent exactly

      sovqii minutes . " On their return the most deathlike silence prevailed . The marshal of the court said , Gentlemen , how say you . Is tho prisoner guilty or not guilty ? The foreman of thc jury . —Guilty . Rush—I am innocent for all ' that , thank God Almighty . The marshal of tho court—Prisoner , you are indicted for the wilful murder of Isaac Jermy . -You have pleaded " not guilty , " and put yourself on your country . Your country have found you Guilty , What have you to say ? The prisoner made no reply .

      Baron - Rolfe then put on the black cap , and , amidst the entire silence of the court , spoke in the following terms . : —James Bloomfield Rush , after a trial unusually protracted you have been found guilty of the crime of wilful murder , a crime tlie hig hest one human being can commit against another ; the deepest crime under any circumstances of extenuation ; but I regret to say that in your case there is . every thing that could add a deeper dye to guilt the most horrible . It appears from letters which you yourself have put in , that to tho father of the unfortunate victim of your malice you felt you owed a debt of deep gratitude You commenced a system of fraud by endeavouring to cheat your landlord , and you followed that system

      up by making that unfortunate girl , whom you had seduced , a tool whereby you should commit forgery . And , having done that , you terminated your guilty career by the murder of the son and grandson of your friend and benefactor .- More cannot be said . It unfortunately happens that great guilt is sometimes allied—in imagination at least—to heroism ; with something to dazzle the . mind . But fortunately , in your case , you have made vice as loathsome as it is abominable . No one who has witnessed your trial , and heard the evidence preferred against you , will fail to agree with me when I tell you that you must quit this world by an ignominious death , the object of unmitigated abhorrence to every well-regulated mind . I do not make this

      statement for the purpose of upbraiding you , but for the purpose of pointing out to you the dreadful situation in which you stand . To society it must be a matter of perfect , indifference what shall be your conduct in the few remaining days that shall be allowed to you . No concealment of the truth , in which you may persist , will cast the slig htest doubt onthe propriety of the verdict which the jury have returned . No confession you can make will add a taper ' s lig ht to the broad glare of day which surrounds the evidence against you . So far as society is concerned , the conduct you may pursue during the few remaining days you have to live is a matter of perfect indifference , but to yourself , it must be most important . Let me conjure _yoxi by every consideration of interest , no less than duty , to employ the short space of time that yet remains

      to you , in endeavouring , by repentance and prayer , as far as may be , to reconcile yourself to that offended God , before whom you must shortly appear . In . the mysterious dispensations of the _Almighty , not only is much evil permitted , but much guilt is allowed to go unpunished . Perhaps it may Be presumptuous , therefore , to trace in any particular crime the avenging hand of God . But sometimes one does delig ht in an investigation into such a case , and I must observe what I would willingly omit that if you had made that unfortunate girl your wife the policy of the law would have disposed of that link of evidence , which is so , conclusive against you . You have been convicted by testimony so clear , that it is perfectly unnecessary for mo to dwell upon it . Having said so _irmch , I will only add my earnest hope , that you will pass that short space of life allowed to you with propriety , and that

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      ttt _2 _ff - _S _^ hichnow remains _*»)™ . _MffiMS _yi ? from the _** m « ™ y > _SKwA ? . _^ * a * "titiott * interest s ynicnmaj be baneful to socety , but mav be enito which i thp _^ T t 0 , m 0 Ct that awful d _° _^ now , W tv . r _S e ofn _* y solemn duty I am now about to sentence you . I have only to say this-that you be taken to the place from whence _n _^ n bi { ldtLe J n ? e t 0 a P _cf execution , S that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead , _" uiltyToul UriM ™ S _V J" * " _™ rcy On your ° TV . ' . .. !

      vurmg me delivery of this address , thc majority of the persons present wore moved to tears The solemnity and earnestness of manner in which the earned baron delivered his address had a perceptible effect on the mmds of the audience . Sixdavs incessant labour liave fallen to the lot ofthe learned baron j and it may be safely affirmed that on no previous occasion has a judge displayed more patience or more discriminating judgment than O _? ro -T _^ ,, has exhibited in this case ofthe Stanfield Hall murders . Rush was then removed , and , contrary to general expectation , ho said not a single word . The court then broke up

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      The Bristol Murder-Trialo¥ Sarah Thomas....

      THE BRISTOL MURDER-TRIALO _¥ SARAH THOMAS . _JZZnli _i _^ _l 3 rd . - _^ e trial of _Sivrah Thomas for the murder of her mistress , Miss Elizabeth Jeffenes , commenced at the Gloucestershire assizes , held m om 1 n Gloucester , at nine o ' clock this Mr . Wliitmore and Mr . Skinner were counsel for the prosecution , and Mr . Sergeant Allen for the prisoner . - Mv , _"WHiTMeaB having opened the case , Mrs . _M heeler , a charwoman , of Bristol , deposed that she sometimes went of errands for the deceased , who was occasionall y without a servant . She was a woman of violent teu > p » r . The last servant was the prisoner . Lucy . Chad preceded her . Witness called ouher on the Friday , March 2 nd , and was to call again next day . Did call in the afternoon of that dav , and found the house closed .

      Asn Ham stated that she lived with her husband at No . 6 . Trenchard-street , Bristol , next door to iV _^ _iss Jefferies . On the morning of Saturday , the 3 rd of March , about five o ' clock , witness was awoke by a screaming in Miss Jefferies' bedroom , which adjoined her own , being divided by a party wall . Witness being alarmed , went to the bedroom of Mrs Fry , in whose house she lodged , and found that she , too , had been awoke by the noise . Witness , at Mrs . Fry ' s suggestion , knocked at the wall of the bedroom , and about a minute afterwards the screaming ceased . At about seven o ' clock the same morning , the prisoner came to her house , and said her mistress had sent her to say she hoped Mrs . Fry woul . _l not be alarmed at what she had heard that morning _, for that the cat had got on her mistress ' s bed and _frii-htened her , and she said that she was going to leave her service , for that her mistress was a bad _mistres ' .

      Mrs . Fry corroborated the testimony of the last witness . Mr . Henr y _Jeffi-hies _. formerly a surgeon , and brother to the deceased , deposed that she was sixty-one years of age , aud had been estranged from the family . On Wednesday , March 1 , the witness accompanied some policemen to the house of his sister , and o » proceeding up-stairs found the body lying- ' on the bod partially covered with the bedclothes . Witness described the horrible spectacle presented by the corpse , the state ofthe room , which streamed with blood , and other appearances presented . Witness missed several _articles of jewellery , of which the majority were afterwards produced in court , having been found on the prisoner and in her boxes , the whole of which he identified as , the property of his eccentric and murdered sister .

      M . Bernard , surgeon , of Bristol , who was called in to inspect the body , more particularised the nature ofthe wounds which had been inflicted . They were exclusively upon the head . There were seven wounds on the head , three of which , in his opinion at least , had been caused by a blow from a large stone found on the bob by the side ofthe fire , in the bedroom , and which stone had been kept in the house f > r the purpose of keeping open the kitchen door . [ This stone , produced in court , was a very heavy one , and would be a murderous instrument in the hands of a determined assailant . ] Mr . Bernard described the appearance ofthe body from memoranda taken at the time . His opinion was , that death had been caused by concussion of the brain , produced by the blows on the head , ln cases of concussion the _sufferer usually were incapable of crying out , but he had known cases when parties so sufftiiing had been able to c _* y out .

      A number of policenv n were then examined to state the proceedings which had been taken on the discovery ofthe murder to detect the- perpetrators . These witnesses made the discovery of the stone on the hob of the grate , and which was produced in court and bore marks of blood , having also one or two grey hairs upon it . The production ofthe murderous weapon excited great sensation in the court . Four or five policemen were called , each of whom produced some portions of the property stolen from the house of the murdered woman , and a l . of which were found in the house of the prisoner ' s mothe r , where she had taken refuge , and where she was apprehended in a coalhole , 'half dressed . This property consisted of rings , brooches , and other

      jewellery , clothes , and numerous other articles , all of which were fully and very satisfactorily identified by Mr . Henry Jefferies , the brother of tlie deceased . In the pocket of the prisoner were found between thirty and forty sovereigns . The prisoner was traced home with a number of boxes , which were removed from _Tiencliard-street , partly by herself and partly ' by a man whom she engaged . She left her boxes for a short time ( or a portion of them ) at a confectioner ' s , and called frthem afterwards in a fly . This was on Saturday evening , and it was proved that she had stated to one person that she had left Miss Jefferies' service _^ on Thursday , and to another on Saturday , while it . was clear that she had not left there until the Saturday , the morning of the murder , when she was seen by the next-door neighbour .

      Mr . Webb , a neighbour of the deceased , proved that on the morning of the murder he saw a man removing a box from Miss Jefferies' front door with the aid of a female , who was in the doorway . The woman had a bundle under her arm , and was in the act of shutting the door when witness passed . Did not observe the features of either man or woman . This was about eleven o'clock , a . m . 'Mrs ! _ItYAN proved that a young woman left a bundle with her the same afternoon , and fetched it away in the evening . Did not know her . - John Kowley , flyman , proved that the prisoner hired his fly on Saturday evening to take her to Hoi'fiehl .. They called at the last witness ' s house and took . up a bundle on the way . The prisoner had also a small mahogany box , a trunk , and a bag .

      Ann Thomas , ' the mother of the pi isoner , who it will . be remembered was at first charged with a participation in the crime of her _daughter , was then examined . She appeared quite unmoved , and did not look towards her unhappy child . She stated that the prisoner came home to Horfield on the Saturday afternoon between four and five o ' clock , and brought her boxe 3 with her . She represented that her mistress used her very ill , and that she had , therefore , left her . The prisoner went to Bristol again that evening , and also on the Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday evenings following . The police came on the Wednesday night , imd , at her daughter ' s request , she told them she was not there . When lhe police came , the prisoner , who was in bed , ran _^ down stairs , and hid herself in the coal hole . The prisoner was eighteen years of age .

      Several witnesses were then examined to trace the keys Of Mr *' . Jefferies' front door . These keys , on the Wcdnesdav after the murder , were found in a groove in the shutters at tlie Flitch of Bacon pubh _' chouse in Host-street . They were found to be the door and latch key of the front door of Miss Jefferies'house . Mrs Solus proved that , on that Wednesday night , the prisoner was at her house for a short time , and said she had Ielt Miss Jefferies' house oh the previous Thursday . When she left witness ' s house she proceeded in the direction of Host-street , which was within three minutes ' walk of witness ' s house .

      The next class of evidence was that given upon the prisoner ' s extraordinary confession . This was proved by two witnesses , viz ., Policemen _M'Clymont and _G'Donnell . _M-Olymont stated , that while the prisoner was in his custody at the Bristol eitypolice-omce , she made the following statement to him of her owufree will , and without being questioned , except on one point . She said , " On Saturday morning I was taking down the shutters , when the girl Lewis , who used to live there , came and told me that she bad been there frequently to get her character from the old woman ; and she would not

      give her a character , so that she could not get a situation . She then said she would go up stairs and kill her . She went up stairs and killed her with a stone . - She then opened the cupboard and took out a small box full of sovereigns , gave me part of them , and kept the rest herself , and . also all the silver spoons and plate , and said it would be along time before . it was found out . _. _i _^ Ve then made some pancakes and es > t them , and the stone which the old woman was killed with was puton the hob of the grate . " A very similar statement was made to _O'Donnell at another time .

      ; Lwcy Ciiad , a former servant of Miss Jefferies , and Mr . Palmer , of Bath , was then examined , to 5 rove that she had _Byed a very short time with Miss efferies , and had been ever since in Mr . Palmer ' s service , or at her own aunt ' s house . Chariotib Morgan , another of Miss _JefTeries _' s former servants , said she had lived with her only two days . All the witnesses who knew the deceased spoke to her beicg ofa very violent temper , and to her re-

      The Bristol Murder-Trialo¥ Sarah Thomas....

      quiring the servants to rise very early in the mornin » . 'This was the case for the crown . . Mr , Serjeant Allln then addressed the jury for the prisoner , arguing that , although his learned friend for the prosecution was qui : e correct in his fft -ts that the death of the ill-fated Miss Jefferies l _, _^ ' been occasioned by the violence exercised towards » er by the prisoner , he was wrong m his _infe-™ V at that violt ; nce had been the result of pre-S " _^ _i . He was there to deny that this was a "J , -1 act of violence . He believed that after _EnttaoW i > th 0 f MiSS _Jeffe' _" ieS the SUdden im " tue untimely u . fl f j pr 50 ner , t 0 steal her pulse arose _int-V He belfeved that the giri rfotK _* n P _^ _^ r i » i » atai _* e idea rf things , that not knowing in her between _^ _* , ' there was any _differonc-. ousofeScaue amM . . ,. ; , _«¦„• duster , and being , de _^ _^ _SSFU _' _dto tlie property as affording tn » . ' that

      escape , _, __;»„ ,.., _.,.. His Lordship summed up , aW r " _£ _* £ ? _% * _*< facts of the case , riving a brief b . _^ ' _^ T , _^ of it , showing the parts where the _jvm _^ ce affected the prisoner . He read numerous exti . * , lC . * roin - _* evidence of the witnesses , pointing out i . ** _^ fphcationto the case as he proceeded ; and in _, ' !« _, _including remarks s iid that if the jury were sa . tsned that thc screams heard on the Saturday morn . _^ i were those of the deceased , and that the prisoner ' 1 had inflicted the wounds found on her mistress , wi'h the stone , as set forth in the indictment , they must do their duty , and return a verdict accordingly , Tbe learned counsel for the prisoner had , in a very able address , urged the want of proof of premeditation ; but it did not appear that the prisoner might

      not have brought the stone , by which the death of the deceased was _caused , from the kitchen on the the previous night , and concealed it in the rooom . It was their duty deliberately to weigh the evidence on both sides . If they thought that the prisoner did inflict the wounds , which caused thc death of Mi » _s Jefferies , premeditatedly , they must in that case vindicate the law and find the prisoner guilty of murder . But if they thought that the prisoner had inflicted the wounds in her own defence against her mistress , and in resenting the attacks of her mistress , they would find the prisoner guilty of the lesser crime of mans aughter . He need not remind them that if they had any rational doubt upon the subject , they must give the prisoner the benefit of it .

      The Jury then retired , and were absent about three-quarters of an hour . On their return they _delivered a verdict of " Guilty of murder , " at the same time recommending the prisoner to mercy on account of her youth-His Lordship then passed sentence , during which the prisoner was dreadfully agitated , and at the termination moaned in deepest anguish of mind . She was conveyed from thedockhy the officers in amost distressing condition , '

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      Health Op London During Tub Wekk. — The ...

      Health op London During tub Wekk . — The deaths _registered in the week were 1 , 241 , or seventytwo more than the weekly average of the season . But it must be observed , that tho excess in this return is not caused by sudden increase of mortality ' it is due to an accumulation of coroners' cases , which occurred in previous weeks , though they were not registered till the end of the quarter . Tho cases on which inquests were held , and registered last week wove 198 , and are principally found amongst violent and sudden deaths . If sixty be taken as thc number of inquests that on the average actually occur in a week , which is probably not far

      from the truth , 138 arc included in this return to account for the increase of deaths registered " . The persons who died in the week were , therefore , about 1 , 100 , while the average is 1 , 165 ) . Small pox , measles , typhus , pneumonia , and phthisis , »{ I continue to be less fatal than usual ; hooping cough prevails to some extent . Cholera has nearly disappeared from London , the deaths in last week being not more than four . Six deaths were caused by privation , most of them having occurred , probably , in various weeks of the quarter . A cork-cutter , of thirty-five years , was found in Spur street , Leicestersquare , and died in twelvo hours afterwards , of " exhaustion from want ofthe common necessaries

      of life , and general neglect —( Inquest . ) The wife of a pensioner at Greenwich died of " serious apoplexy , hastened by the want of proper nourishment " —( Inquest . ) The whole number of deaths in the last three months by starvation , either from poverty or self-neglect , or voluntary abstinence in lunacy , is thirteen ; the number from want of breast-milk and inanition , in the same period , is twenty-eight . A man died from injury , wliich he received from falling in a state of intemperance . Two lads , respectively seventeen and eighteen years , died from excessive drinking ; one was found " dead on board a

      ship ; in the first quarter of this year , intemperance is reported as tho immediate cause of twenty-one deaths ; in other cases persons died of injuries _' from falls , carriages , or otherwise , after excess in drinking also forty deaths are ascribed to delirium tremens , a disease which , in a majority of cases , is the effects of intemperance . A woman died in Thornhill-stveet , _Islington , of fever after childbirth , in wliich thc medical attendant certifies , that her illness was agravated , if not caused , by bad drainage . A girl ot six years also died in St . Giles-in-the-Fiolds ( North ) , of " typhus ( five days ); and deficient drainage , " according to medical certificate .

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      wastakou _uj > to tbe Southern Hospital , in _» rtlc Hint the servant girl might have an opportunity of givinsr her evidence as to liis identity . He was brought ii to tne room with six or seven others , wlvn the g irl mime ' _wiel y pointed him out as the man who lodged nt lier mistress s house , and made thc brutal attack upon them . The following is th » . statement of the girl ( Mary Pa-r ) , which was reducer ! to writing •—She said , g . he lived servant with Mrs . Henrichson , whose husband was at sua . Wilson , who was present , took lodgings at their house for a month . He came on Tuesday night . Her mistress went out the next morning to market between nine and ten o ' clock , and she was cleaning the front parlour . Her mt ' stre-s had two children—the elder . George , five years old ,

      and ; he younger , John Alfred , three years old . The children were left in tlie hon . * e with her when her mistress went to market- They were in the front parlour and the prisoner in the back . In a few minutes after , he fame ( ram the back parlour , with a newspaper in liis hand and asked her the price of a set of _fireiron-i , and the _fencer and card tables . He struck the children on the iieau ~ _U 1 * l _^ newspaper in fan , and S _' - 'nt them out ofthe room , but the _jWestopened the door again . The prisoner had the tongs lii . > is hand , and Psked her the price of them , and she was at the time cleaning the shovel . She did not _remt ttl * bv . -. " his saying anything , but he then struck her with the tv ? ngs somewhere on the head , and knocked her

      down ( a . _'id she did not remember anything more ex « cept lying Jhere . The _^ child ren were iu the room when he struck her , but w _* . _* cre they went afterwards she did not know . She never saw _hrr mistress after " that . She was near the fire sia ' _, _3 when lie struck her , and remembered nothing afterwards . She had lived nearly five years with her mistrese . Had been to Mr . Arkin ' s office lately , where she received £ 10 for her mistress . Her mistress had a green purse , also a watch and chain , which were those shown to her . [ These articles were found on the prisoner when he was detained at the police-office . ] The prisoner had no luggage with him , but said he was expecting it .

      A note came to him that morning , wliich he said was from his governor , telling him he need not be in a hiirry to come to work . He said he must wait for his clothes . She did not know that her nustresS wore her watch that morning . Tlie _prisoner had no money , and borrowed sixpence from her mistress . When the lad brought the note , the prisoner had but three halfpence out of the sixpence , ; md her mistress lent him three halfpence more to give the lad . The prisoner only slept in the house one night . —The prisoner , on being asked , declined to put any questions and did not betray' any sympt ms of emotion , Ms conduct being similar to that he exhibited on the previous evening at the police-office .

      The INO _. UKST . —On Monday an inquest on the bod cs ofthe sufferers by ihe late murders in Liverpool was heM before Mr . P . F . Curry , the borough coroner , and a jury . The jury proceeded in the first instance to view the body of Mrs . Henrichson , at the Southern Hospital , and the inquest commenced at the police court , abmt half-past eleven o ' clock . — Daniel Roebuck- , a boy . was the first witness called , lie said that on Wednesday he took some china to Mrs . Henrichson . I rang at the bell , but got no answer . I then looked through the keyhole _, and saw the legs or feet of some female lying in the lobby . Could not see her head . When first he looked he heard several deep groans . Concluding that she must have fainted , he called a boy and told

      him to look through the key-hole . Then went to the cellar door and shouted . Got upon the window sill and saw the servant and child lying in the front parlour , lie then fetched a policeman . —John Hughes , the young man who first broke the window and entered the house , repeated ( he evidence he had given before Mr . Rushton . When it was _fimshsd the priso . er said , ' ¦ I ' ve no questions to put to that chap . "—James Wilson , police-constable , 623 , produced the knife with which the youngest child ' s throat had been cut . Its production caused a shudder of horror in court , and the prisoner was apparently the only one unmoved . — Police-constable Hougli produced the bent poker found near Miv . Henrichson ' s head . It was the head of the poker , it appeared , with whicli the blows had been inflicted . He also produced the shattered bonnet and v-. il that Mrs . Henrichson had worn . —Henry Pover , another officer , exhibited the broken tongs and bloody

      shovel . The newspaper , it appeared , which the murderer had been reading just before the tragedy , was th . * Eastern Counties Herald . The witne _.-s went up stairs on the discovery of the murder , and found a box of jewellery that had been broken open . A chest of drawers had also been opened , and part of the clothes _scattered upon the floor . ( Thc box of _jswtliery was produced ? it was in a very shattered condition ) . The box contained also several artie ' es of plate , - apparentl y undisturbed . Ithadaclasp lock in front . —The prisoner at this stage of the proceedings intimated to the turnkey a desire that witnesses should be called to prove an alibi . —The coroner s _. vd , very well , it would be desirable to do so . He meant to sit till twelve o clock at night , if necessary , to complete the inquest , and he would rather finish it in one day . He asked where were the prisoner ' s witnesses ?—The prisoner : I gave timely notice that I wanted them . —The coroner ordered tin m to be sent for . —Mrs . Henrichson ' s death was

      CMnmunicated to the pisoner Wilson on Sunday , but the intellgence had not the slightest effect on him . He has been rather sullen of late ; but on Sunday this gloominess gave way to a fit of passion , during which he vowed vengeance _against Mr . Commi sioner Clough , and made an attempt to . force a stick out of lhe hands of the turnkey who at ends him , designing , doubtless , to commitsome mischief ; but fortunately he _wai foiled . He afterwards became again meditative , and ejaculated something to himself . He then , after some _preliu-inary remarks , declared that , if hung , he would , when at the gaUows , come out with some revelations that would astonish everybody . After this he was again quiet . Vacancy in the ItEritESENTATioN of Sheffield .

      —On Monday meet ' ngs of both sections of the liberal party were held , to select a representative in the room of H . G . Ward , E-. q ., who has b . en appointed Lord High Commissioner ofthe Ionian Islands , and at each it was _rcolvcd to support John Arthur Roebuck , Esq At a meeting ofthe ultra-Liberal party , which included manv of the friends of Sir Culling Eardley , the support which it was agreed should be given to Mr . Roebuck was coupled with the conditions laid down bv the meeting of Normanton delegate !} , at the last _election of the West Rulingnamely , _opposition to _farther religious endowment , support of free trade , economical reform , and a gradual and safe extension of the _suiFi-age , to which was added , a new condition in favour ofthe ballot .

      York .-Execution . —George Howe , condemned at York assizes for the murder of his child at Yarm , was executed on Saturday last at noon . He seemed to be penitent , but he denied firmly his commission of the deed of which he had been found guilty . Kent . —Execution fob . Murdkr . —Millan , . who was convicted fur the murder of an old num .-at Bethersden , in this county , was executed pursuant to his sentence , at . the county gaol , on Wednesday week last . The culprit was brought out at twelve o ' clock , and after praying for a short time the bolt was drawn , and hc died without n struggle . . He was only 11 years of age , and appeared . to meet liis fate without regret . The prisoner Sheepwash was respited on account ofhis evident weakness of intellect . He will be placed in a lunatic asylum . : -. ; .. Norfolk . — Another Murder . —A fish merchant named Prince , on Sunday , mortally stabbed a man at Ditchingham , from motives of revenge . -

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      Suicide of a Clergyman . — Wc [ Liverpool Journal ) , deeply regret to say that tho Kev . Mr . Chapman committed suicide this morning ( Saturday last ) , at Prcscot . . [ On reference to the clergy list ,. we found that Mr . Chapman enjoyed the vicarage of Prcscot , valued at £ 1 , 352 per annum , ] I . eoulatio . v of Beek-houses . — The magistrates of the borough of Leeds havo adopted a petition to the House of Commons , recommending a more stringent system of licensing houses , for thc sale of beer than that which at present exists . Loss of the Steam-ship Forth . — An investigation into tho circumstances attending tlie loss of the steam-ship Forth , on the Alacrancs reef , was held at Southampton on Saturday last . The tribunal was composed of the following gentlemen ,

      _wiio constitute- ! an inquiry committee of tlie company : —Captain Shepherd , ofthe East India Company , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house , Chairman ; Captain Mangles , a managing director , Vice-Chairman ; Captain Nelson , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house ; Captain Barton , R . _X ., the company ' s superintendent at Southampton ; Captain E . N . Chappcll , lt . _Jt * _.., secretary ofthe company ; Captain Wish , R . N ., auditor of the company ; likewise the commanders of three of the company ' s ships in port , Lieutenant P . Ilast , R . N ., of the Avon ( the senior officer arid commodore ofthe company ' s fleet ); Captain William Allen , of the Dee ; and Captain W . Vincent , of tho Severn . Tlie whole tenour of the evidence ( to which a patient and careful hearing of four hours was given by the committee ) demonstrated that the loss of this hne steamer arose

      from—1 , an error in the reckoning ; which , however , ought to have been counteracted by different observations and attention to thc sounding lead ; 2 , a violation of the company ' s regulations in regard to frequent soundings , as before alluded tO ; and 3 , by the taking from bis post of one of the lookout men . As tlio most explicit instructions on these heads are laid d own in the company ' s volume of regulations published for tho information and guidance of theii-officers , the resolution arrived at , after delibration , was , that a laxity of discipline in relation to the duties of the navigation ofthe ship caused her position to bo wrongly computed , and her total destruction consequently followed . . The decision arrived at by the committee was — that it would be their painful duty to recommend to . the Court of Directors the dismissal of Captain Sturdee and the chief officer from the company ' s service ; that the second officer should be reduced to thc

      grade of third officer for one voyage ,, and that the third officer should be reduced to tlie grade of fourth officer for one year . Lom > J . Mansers for South _Kottisguam 3 ihre . —There is every probability of Lord J . Manners being induced to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of South _Nottinghamshire , in which the _resignation of Colonel Rolleston will shortly create a vacancy . A requisition ia in course of signature , inviting Lord J . Manners to allow himself to be put in nomination . Mr . Bromley , son of Sir Robert Howe Bromley , Bart .. of Stoke Hall , has also been requested-to offer himself as a candidate , and has acceded to the request . — Derbyshire Courier .

      Cnuncii-BdTE Seizures . —Distress warrants were issued on Tuesday by the Southampton magistrates against a great number of persons in the Earl of Guilford ' parish for church rates . The churchwarden has applied to the earl , to repair the church himself , and render the enforcement of the distress warrants unnecessary ; but the rev . earl is inexorable , -and has ordered the . churchwarden to enforce the law . He declares that if the latter falters in the least , he will call on the archdeacon to prosecute bim .

      Tbe Mail _Robbekks . —Ths Cokyict Pools . — We-hear that Poole is nothing daunted by his sentence . He was heard to say , " I played for a high stake and I have lost , but I am not such a fool as to regret it . If I had the same opportunity I should do the same , again . " , He paid groat attention to the witnesses on the trial , and wrote notes to his solicitor ) suggesting questions , incessantly . A quire of paper , we should say , at least , was consumed in this way . His wife was not affected on hearing the sentence . She . was in court the whole day . —Devonshire Chronicle . ; , _Tdb Murders in _Ltorfooii . —Mrs . Henrichson , mother of the two children murdered iu Liverpool , expired on Friday night , week . The unfortunate lady remained in a state of insensibility from the time she was attacked by tbe assassin . On the forenoon of this day the prisoner , John Gleeson Wilson

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      Dram , Friday . — Distress is the' West . —The accounts of the progress . of 'destitution throughout certain portions of Connaught continue to be of a most deplorable description- The county of Mayo , as usual , takes the lead in , the _histo-vy of horrors . A gentleman named Ilillcs ,. writing from Newport , enumerates a fearful catalogue of deaths by starvation , and as the names of _the-imhappy people and all tho _circamstanccs connected with the tragic scene are duly set forth , there is-no reason to suppose thafc thc writer has been guilty of exaggeration . Mr . _IlUles- concludes liis lcttciv by stating on the

      authority of a person officially connected with thc district , that fally 1 , 000 livos must be lost within thc coming month , as many- of those- who- aiie on the relief list were- getting only a few ounces- ii yellow meal daily . Equally miserable is- the condition of Connemaora , where , according to the _testiiaaay ofa Roman ; _€ a « tholie priest , " _thoeountry _appears as if it was after being ravaged by some _pcwei-fnl enemy . Despair is visible in every _countenance ; industry oftevery kind is paralysed * : the fields- la © waste , and _eveay eye is turned to America .. A . few only arc _livine ,, and fewer still , are making _aay preparation foi-tillage . " Dublin , _Saxkthjat _Mabgh 31 . —Mr . C . _&; . © _-. ufft . —Tho Freeman ' s Journai o £ to-day has a column and ... .... j * r . i % _» , rincii & _natT

      .. a half occupied ; with f » _ine- «* f the p p * j ) ig , _* re _9 to the memorial on behalf of Charles _Siu-ao ,- Duffy . It is stated thaf _lft _^ ft signatures _boye been appended , the prayer- of the memorial being that all further _proceediiogs should be _suspended against the prisoner . Ashei 3 totally ruined , and would never embark in politics again , and as his private life \ _ra _& _excellent there arc many who consider that clemeacy may bo iustly exercised towards him with . perfect safety to thecommunijy . _Several members ofthe Royal Irish Academy ,, and meaibers of the Faculty , besides most inftaential . members of the mercantile community , have signed the memorial A good many barristers have also attached their names , It is a most respectable- demonstratiWv

      _CiBAiuNCBS and EsaoRATiOSv— -Between the evictions of tenants and the lands of the southern thoroughly cleared out , The is rapidly disappearing , from ments by wholesale ; whilst renters of the larger classes . of up to two hundred acres , are of their stock , and betaking States . The workhouses and

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07041849/page/7/