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73 | _ ean alpen eae or, eid aa * And blown ont his brains!’ added the landlord, { We brought with us some socks and other clothes, a MeKenzie , Wh a The hey ape Sea" of it a. ieadianones. ‘hae The colonel looked et the ghastly, distorted face, It was| woman’s dress, a watch, and quantity of,money. There aoe re — sith ; a ; the Thursd: when we were at fected during the reading over of hen Sait of th seni) & that of bis only eau. He was a corpse ‘about £50 allin gold. Slavia had it in his pocket. wé | had pe aay — pd a : ey © a oe om ; parts ie evid ; . 5 MeKenzie’s ; we took it home; my son might suspect that relating to the perpetration of the horrible crimes committed,

This is the story { have promised you, continued my friend. There is still more to say. everybody thought the calamity would kill Mrs. H--——; but you see ber now, a feeble, sorrow- stricken women, who never leaves her own rooin, except to viewt the grave of the enicide.

The colonel isa diferent man, Since the tragedy he has over been seea@ to Baile. He stands hke a withered ook, dry and suff, yet streng in his decay.

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OF THE McKENZLE FAMILY. (From the St. John Courer, Nor. 14 ) {SUPREME COURT, BEFORE HIS HONOR MR. JUSTICH PARKER.)

The all-engrossing topic of domestic interest during the

aveck has been the trial ef the miscreants who murdered | McKersie and bis family at Mispeck on the 24th ultimo. |

The trial commenced oa Tuesday, and long before the regular hour for pening the Court every available sitting and standing place was occupied, and larger numbers still unable to gain admittance. Considerable difficulty was found in impannclling a Jury, it being contended for by the Counsel | Yor the prisoner, and allowed by the Court, that no one was admissable unless prepared to affirm that be had not expressed | a previous opinion on the case, a thing which we believe | there are few indeed in the community that have not done. The case was opened for the Crown by Mr. Solicitor-General | Watters, in a plain and temperate speech, in which he laid | before the Jury the various facts conneeted with the com-| mnission of the crime, and the evidence by which it was: proposed that the guilt of the parties should be substantiated. | We have ealled it the trial of the murderers, for although | there was actually only one of them at the bar, the other’ two baying previously plead gu Iry, the investigation of the | ease was the same as if all three had been on trial ; and as | it ultimately eventuated in the placing, first of one of the, confessed murderers, and then the other, on the wi‘ ness stand, a more thorough expiseation of the ease was arrived at than periaps it ever Lelore was the province of a court of justice | 40 Witness, The evidence taken the first day of the trial went princi- pally to show the way in which the murder and fire were discovered by the neighbours on the day after the occurrence. The state the ruins of the premises and remains of the bodies were fouad in, and a variety of circumstances connecting the perpetrators with the scene of the transaction previous to the deed being effected. This was pretty much the same as the evidence given on the first day of the inquest, ju-t enough to give a strong moral assurance of who were the guilty parties, bat not affording sufficient legal proof. On the second day the most important testimony was that of the little boy, whose examination on the inquest first) divulged a correct outline of the horrid ermme, and of Captain Scoullar, of the police force. The boy told exactly the same | story be gave on the inquest, adding, it might be, information | on some points about which be had not been previously | questioned, but varying in nothing when properly understood, | from his original statement. At the hands of Mr, Kerr, | one of the counsel for the accused, he underwent a most | searching cross examination, without in the Jeast shakivg his | testimony, and it was not a little amusing, had it not been | fur the seriousness of the case in hand, when the learned’ gentleman himself got confused in what he was asking about, | to see the readiness with which the little witness put him | right. He is evidently a boy of parts mach beyond his years | aud opportunities, and it is to be hoped that when the excitement of the trial is over, something will be done to) keep him from falling back into the slough of sin and ig- | novauce from which be has been’ so providentially though | cruelly thrown up. The evidence of Capt. Scoullar was confined entirely to the state he found things in at McKenz e's, | the steps taken by him in tracing out and arresting the | prisonere, and finding the property, and to the contessiou | wiule to him by the prisoner at the bar the night he was taken. On Thursday the third day, after the examination of a 90d dea! of additional circumstantial evidence, quite sufficient to have condemned the whole three prisoners had they been in the dock ; the coansel for the crown called Breen, one of the two confessed murderers, a step which Jate alterations in | the criminal law of the Province allowed them to take. We give the confession of zeen entire as reported for the News :-— Hugh Breen (one of the murderers) examined by Mr. Watters. Being sworn and duly cautioned, deposed—that he kaew prisoner, had lived at his father’s about three weeks, knows of the burning at McKenzie’s, old Slavin and prisouer at the bar and me were there, I did not see him do anything. We went together. I was outside, he was inside with his father, I did not go in till after the murder, and all three were jn the old house, we were there first. I saw McKenzie, he was io the small house when prisoner was there, McKenzie was alive when prisoner was in the emal! house, 1 saw him dead when prisoner was there. I went to the house and asked McKenzie to come down as my wife was come. Old Miavin said not to make a fire, and after it was made we put it out. old Slavin took the axe used for chopping wood out of my hand, His son was there, There were two or three rooms jn the house. Slavin was in one place and McKenzie in another. When McKenzie came ip Sjavin came out and said “ she is on hand,” (this was referring to my wife's com- ing.) He had the axe in his hand, and hit McKengie on the breast, he said “ dead dogs tell no lies.” He bit him on the breast with the back of the axe, McKenzie groaved but did mot speak. We put kim into the cellar, and old Slavin after- wards brought him up. Loe asked me to help, and [ said [ could nyt, but afterwards did. This was before we fired the Jower house, and an hour and a half after we killed him. We pet him is the room. When we went to the upper house Slawin.asked me if 1 knew the house ; he told me to go in and watch.the doar4il) he got a view of her (Mrs. McKenzie.) He then weat jn and Mrs. McKenze was sitting at the fire with a child inher arms. She asked if she was coming, {meaning my wife.) Slavia then struck her with the axe on the head, and she fe!l over on the edge of the stove; he then struck her three blows on the body. He then struck the ebildrea avho w

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MeKenz’‘e did gut. the murder; we were standing in the porch at this time, Aster the murder was over, the dog came in and got some

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blogd gn him—this was about half-past nine; we looked at it to me, and [ gave it back to him. the edge | Breen before he came to town, I have three bays, Pat 15

the clock-~we shut up the doors aud went down to of the wood and sat some time; we went up tot and thought we beard some of the children erying, and went ‘dowr again—we came back again and got some bread and

he house.

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milk. @risoner took the key of the safe out of the pocket |

trowsers before we left the lower ‘house, J d Slavin and son went in, and I heard the | and we)

of McKeozie’s staid outside an iron chest opens they got what. money was there, cwent to the wood again; it was now half-past 11. Slavin’ suid better put.a coal in the lower house first ; we got some : matehes and a candle and went to the lower house and set fire to the straw of the bed; McKenzie the straw. We act fire to the house. upper house and set fire to it in th straw with us and put wood round it. in abgut five minutes afterwards.

i} saw him have a portemonaie.

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TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF THE MURDERERS changed. | pieces of old newspapers in it; I got the’purse

iL took the purse to keep money in,

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‘in an indictment against Barnard Unggerty for having aided

‘to it and been removed, Mr. Wetmore opened the case for

McKenzie cawe down with a candle in his hand, and |

came all to Slayin’s together, Prisoner did not hear much of the planning of the murder till a few days before it happened. Old Slavin wished him to go and hold the candle to him and they would murder McKenzie. On the way to| the burning old Slavin told us to back him as well as we }eould. I saw Prisoner with money on Sunday after the fre; The one iu Court is the | jortemonaie to me} Saturd

the peopie’s being in the way was the reason of our not sue- ceeding that night, It was understood among us that we ‘were to go back on Satarday.

| Wewere all together ou Friday, about our going back, but my son might not have he Breen and L understood when we left to go to MeKenzie’s on ay what we were going to do, but I caunot say my m son knew. He went with me without saying Yes or No. | McKenzie expected Breen that night, Breen went to the ‘emali house and kindled the fire. I kept out of sight, and

1 had no money the | x irs did not allow my son to show himself. We kept at the back irs. | j

Breen and I talked

Prisoner afterwards gave the |

same, I think he got the mouey fro

hefore we were arrested.

Cross-examined by Mr. Wetmore. I got money on Sunday from N

‘night before the fire. ; Slavin, two half sovereizns, and went to Knox’s to get them of the house. Breen came and told us to come in. My son 2 went in with me. There was light io the house. I went

I came to town on Sunday night, was in David |' e f that is fm Court with me, I had some | to another room where it was dark, L cannot say 1. my son

from old Slavin. | Was with me in that room. I had an axe. Breen gave it L only asked for one to me. Breen went for McKenzie of his own election. My wife lives) MeKenzie came down with him. _ They were talking about in town, did not go to see her on Sunday. 1 had been | his wife. I may have said * she is on hand.” I do not re- drinking, know the Cathedral, am not sure if L was near it, collect what remarks were made for the bustle. I saw my or in the strect it is in on Sunday evening. , | am not sure | son immediately after, I looked in the pockets bat did not if I was near Mrs. Blackwall’s. I wasa good deal scared | See the key. l think it must have fallen out of his pocket. on the night of the fire. (Asked if his recollection of what | We pat his body into the cellar. . happened was perteetly distinct, but refused to reply.) Was) boy might have searched his pockets. We took the body out in Fredericton a month before the fire with old Slavin. 1} of the cellar after we came down from the upper house. know Sally Golly. I never consulted with Slavin aboat| When we went to the upper house Breen stood back. There murdering, her. I was onee ia her house, (Asked if he| Was an inside door, There was a front door open. Mrs. staid two days and had to come home aguin because they McKenzie spoke to Breen about his wile. : Breen and my soa could not effect. their purpose ; refused to answer. Witness} Came In after L had killed Mrs. MeKKeuzie and the children. refused to answer a great many questions about this matter.) |

They were very much confused and frightened, The one was L slept with Leat on Thursday night. We had yone to murder | a8 bad as the other, I searched the house myself, We MeKenzie on that wight. but were prevented by something | Spoke about what we were going to do as we went from the Leat said about his father being in town and likely to come) lower house to the upper. i told Breen and my son never past. On the night of the murder we were alll' ti gether all tp pat their hands to the same work again, as they were not the time. Can't recollect anything about Sunday vight, [fit for it. IT took charge of the money. I thought I was (Asked if he knowsa Mrs. Blackwall in Waterldo street, St. | best entitled to it, The safe was full of books and papers, John, but refuses to answer. Asked if he gave her avy ‘tL threw them on the floor. After the first search we thought movey on this Sanday evening. Replied he did not know if: there should be more money, and went back and searched he did or not.) Witness here got dogged at the eross- | again. It was me that set the fire to the straw in the lower examination, and refused to answer any further questions. | house, my son might have done so too ; McKenzie s body was He was removed aud recommitted to Jail. brought up oWt of the cellar again by this time. I set fire ‘to the upper house; we set fire to it at the end. We all itook turns at carrying the things going home.. Johnnie was ‘in his bed when we came in. We told the old woman that |we had put things through. I did not tell her what we were }yoing to do betore we left. sea She might have had a guess what I meant by saying we had wee'"8 | put things through. It was after I had asked Pat if hehad any mouey, and he had not given me any satisfaction, that | ld Johunie to go and watch him, when he went into the { cannot say what money Breen had ou the Sunday ; y son was hired with Knox doing farm work. I suppose rege ae ates : JT emsiots in which it was done, and the absence of complicity on the | 2 did not know the error of what he. did at McKenzie 3. : , : ‘tle could not have been made to do it himself, he always bad |

part of the prisoner. The learned counsel thea read to the |). ean Bee Pe ae ted sine Jury the law in regard to the responsibility of miuors, and | 1 ae ts i aa - x4 . o a, — noticed the points of the evidence that had shown the, ony > we ba ke ae a ee Sa : aaa % *“) we had plenty of opportunity and time enough. When we simplicity aud want of intelligence of the prisoner, He also | ne at MiB dishes on. SAU Stoke as ifbe did net took the position that the prisoner did uot know of the!) Rhee eee .

iutention to murder when he went to McKenzie’s, but that | know each other,

ute Jn LO rae shy 3 rc MCcKCHRZICs ue ° . Pe Ea ‘ , Re-examinued by Mr. Wetmore—I think Johnnie the he only supposed he was to be robbed. After commenting

, smartest of the boys; [saw my son have his hands about at great length on the Jaw of the case, he concluded by a) yop cnzie's body “I always tried to keep what we were sivedede annie : _ a Be ack wet et ‘ . , 8 2 strong appeal to the Jury, in which he disavowed any wish voing to do from my son, he might have beard,/ I only tuld to acquit the prisoner if he was really guilty, but that under Stace <I uae soiled enaee neat T think if I the cire ih ids he t} } hey wouid s! > th weyrees areen, am satisied at not having escaped, WuK I

:¢ circumstances he thought they wouid show that he Was/) 4 7 ould have done worse. 1 am satisfied to swing for it

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not. Mr. Wetmore spoke for about three quarters of an |This closed the evidence of Slavin, WhO was remanded back hour, and with great fveling, but the above are the poluts on

: : : to the jail, which he grouuded his defeuce. Yy ; 13th ia catia Site f ; E , esterda 3th inst.), the fourth and concluding day o Patrick ‘Slavin, senior, (another of the murderers.) Was) ye tra) a bat was an equally crowded at + ad then placed on the stand, und being duly sworn and cautioned | - 3 RO £ 0p" nd the. Jeden, depesed-ok-ent fathe r of the prisoner, he is as it had been from the commencement, and the prisoner ap- $ eposed— athe > ° 3} ieenetn fifteen ad sixteen. | have not aig in a place of | peared to be as unconcerned as he had been throughout. aa rae eo AAildre _| After the opening of the court the Solicitor Geveral, anti- worship for some time, have not given my children any! eine tne of defence likely to be set ‘tad ¢ . instruction ; prisoner is a boy of teuder feeling. I first knew | PEpOTenG Se TSS OS Cee er ee oe STC — 3reen om the Railway, was at Fredericton about six weeks of authorities to shew how far imbecile persons were eXcusadic ar es ite eh ‘lin the eye of the law for the commission of erime, and laying ago, went with Breen. 1 saw the woman Sally Golley, it g he goneral bribciple that it could not be held asa plea was to rob her that we went. I would bave murdered her it} babel, pera sas, nage angler stlle oo shal eae tie el aide thaeh ‘of exculpation unless it was shown that the accused had no we had got s:chance; Wepid RAs gos A HANES, “e ee back | + Lowledge of the difference between right and wrong. without doing it. I first suzgested going to MchKenzie’s ; 2 , o o". . © ee ae on : Mr. Kerr addressed the jary on behalf of the prisoner Breen did not then know him. ‘This was alter we came from | ie r ad h : J ‘3 F the evitd did. ii : Frederction: we spoke of it coming from Fredericton, We |contending that the greater part of the evidence exc net es i rote, ter? “ vid k ra hi : We} the charge against his in the least ; and that in fact he spoke of robbing Corkery, but [ did not know him. e came from Frelercton about five weeks ago.

had neither teen participator in the act of the other pri- aad Sle : t koey. Pally 'soners, nor had planned nor combined with them for its that lived in MeKenzie’s lower house, and we wanted him to | be away before we robbed McKenzie.

Ramsey's, had the purse

sovereign on Sunday. I am amarried man,

At this stage of the proceedings, the Grand Jury brought the concealment of the prisoners, and after he had pleaded to the prisoner. He said the calling of the ‘ast witne-s place on the stand, Breen, was a most unaccountable proc oa the part of the crown, and that either none or both of the prisoners should have been produced. The crime that had od been committed, was he allowed, one of the most horrible | ches ever heard of in this or any other country, but they would | eae show by the evidence of the father of the prisoner the way |

Dt Sete a perpetration. He also read the law to show that infancy,

: imbecility and coercion could-all be pleaded in exculpation, would have killed Polly or not; I was wre o brother- and iu application of these principles to the ease of the pri- in-law of Polly's that owed me money. Wheu Polly went). oud that his age and want of mental capacity ren- away Leat went there, Breen and | were there toyether. etna a. ; aint . - as W B 08 MeKeusie’s it waa to ‘t S al dered him irresponsible, by disqualifying bim from judging me “ ae a a ere = lak killed teu correctly of the nature of the acts he was engaged in, and 7 Nes Thi me ’ t “brs had my" con et - f. he ‘that what he did was done under the influence and coercion id Ob OP RAREST mis weyers a Ke m2 wr ‘ef of his father. The learned gentleman spoke for vearly two and mother coming past. Going to ‘de aie e \ . <n hours, going over the evidence and the various points of the r - Wi vo RE : 26 eae oe aa Vol a ee i © case favorable to the prisoner, and concluded by an earnest

ee eve ee ee ee > ry ™Y and touching appeal to the feelings and merey ef the jury in son was in and out. I told Breen to go and tell McKenzie): pig > a to come down; I was in the house and heard them coming | if. a the case for the Crown, the Attorney General down; my con I th'ak was in the house; I oan’t tell if he} said, that ke had been called on to address courts and juries

was in the same roo‘a with me; I had an axe; MeKenzie | : 2 "7 mew it . 7 ~!on almost every kind of crime and iniquity, but never had he and Breen came down, I came out of the bedroom and struck a duty to discharge like the preeent, nor crimes to prosecute . . . > . . y s € c ’ ‘him on the breast; he fell; I struck him five or six times on | J ™ ©. P . P

p alling in magnitude ity those now before the head and breast— Breen was aside; [ could not say if my Lae rae a Ps orate 0 tbh Shldieedl ere me son was aside at the time; I think he came in just-after ; S parsed APS 3 sag

| court, I searched MeKeuzie’s pockets, aud could not get the key—

ard, |

I have no doubt but the

SENTENCE PASSED.

During the time the jury were out considering their yep dict, the judge ordered the other two prisoners, Breen 1, the elder Slavin, to be brought into court, when the Att

General moved for sentence against them. The clerk hayj ‘read the finding on the indictment, and asked if they had any. thing to say why sentence should not be pronounced, Brag | replied, “Tam satisfied ;” Slavin did rot speak. After. “usual formality of proclamation, his fionor proceeded in g most solemn aud impressive address to pass the last sentence of the law upon the unhappy prisoners, which was,. that they be taken from where they were back to the jail, and from thence to the place of execution, on Friday, the I1th day of December next, and there hanged by the neck till they i dead, and may God have merey on their souls. Scatenee ay

} ‘the younger Slavin was deferred.

Che Examiner, | CHARLOTTETOWR, F. B., NOVEABER Sie

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INDIA.

Tux last English Mail brought a confirmation of the good. ‘news previously reported, that the strong walls of Delhi no longer kept the avenger from his victims—that after shelling the town and breaching the walls, the European troops, with their Indian auxiliaries, the warlike Sikhs and Ghoorkas, had assaulted the stronghold of the wretched mutineers, and that Delhi was in the hands of the outraged British. We were) | about to write, ‘‘at their merey,’’ but by the orders of the” General (Wilson), promulgated just before the assault, no. quarter was to be given, save to women and children. This exception is all that could be expected ; and how great a con trast it presents to the conduct of the rebels, all who have ‘made themselves acquainted with the course pursued towards ‘the wives and families of Europeans by those of the Sepoys who might have gotten them into their power, will need not We regret that the attacking force lost in

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She might have bad a guess. | killed and wounded about 600 men ; in this list is included the

| large proportion of 50 officers. This would argue the daring © ‘gallantry of the attack, and the obstinate nature of the de- fence; and we believe that the surviving relatives of those who have poured out their spirits in thus ‘* bearding the lion in his den,’’ will, one and all, feel that they whom they mourn have deserved well of their country, and died in a cause as holy as any in which warrior ever bled.

The fall of Delhi will, of course, exercise a great moral and — material influence on the rebellion, which will speedily be. trampled out, now that so stunning a blow has been delivered —a blow which wili have the effects of disheartening and ters. rifying thousands of enemies, and leaving a large number of the victorious party available for service at any point where the mutineers may dare to congregate. Lucknow is doubtless relieved ere this, and we think we are not premature in con- gratulating the friends of its gallant defender, Lieut.-Colonel Inglis, on his escape from his numerous assailants, and on the — laurels he has gained.

Lieut.-Colonel Inglis, of Her Majesty’s 32d Regiment, isa - native of Halifax, being second son of the late Dr. Inglis, Bishop of Nova Scotia. He had previously distinguished himself by services in India.

A CANDID ADMISSION.

Tur Islander of Friday last warns its friends that there are rumours in circulation of a general election, and advises ** in- tending opposition candidates’’ to act as if the ramour were well-founded. We think we have heard sech a rumour as this started anew, almcst once a week for the last two years, and expect to hear it repeated as frequently, until some fine morning in August or September, 1858, when we have no doubt that it will merge into an undeniable fact. But our object is, particularly, to direct the attention of our readers to the following remarkable admission of a very ob- vious truth. It is remarkable enough to merit being placed in a paragraph by itself in all the importance of italics :—

«It is worse than useless to blink the fact that the chances in —

Savor of the present Government are very much better than they

were twelve months ago.””

Our cotemporary will probably seek to explain this passage by assuring us, on his very high authority, that twelve months ago the Government had no chance at all. Eyen so. The admission is important, as indicating that the efforta and mis- — representations of the Js/ander, the Monitor, the Holy Alliance . of the Political Parsons and the Unkoly Alliance which holda._ its weekly orgies in Temperance Hall, at the bidding of Mr, Secretary Bevan—have failed to damage the influence of the

| for the prisoner, for their exertions in his defence, and on the we bad thrown his body in the cellar, the key bad fallen ont pare ee Sek ae roe Laem ge aaa and the prisoner got hold of it, We went up to the house, | ra sy e “l . id . 7 ae A oe of iuiduii Pratd ora Breen aud I, 1 was first; Breen went with me and showed | Pain aa = 7 oe ae = a Pe ie al — me the way; L did not take the axe, there was one at the “2f™ * give the prisons ¢ o aoe

door, Breen gave it me. When Cwent tek caw Bite: Me.4 me committed, he said, the Crown bad selected the greatest Kenzie sitting at the fire, and the four children beside her ; | j of all known to human law to prosecute on, aud iu proving tt, struck her on the head, ten or fifieen times. I killed them ‘had deemed it necessary to bring forward all the evidence

, 4 ° oe whe L all; they did not cry much. We searched the house and

‘bearing ov it that could be procured, The time of the mur- found over £100 of money. It was inyself that ransacked der, he said, was proved, the fact of who did it, the way it the chest, the money was ip gold, it was ina yellow bag,

was dove, and who were there when it was committed. He

. ny le > -ev1e . vari s feal ps r h ’ like the onein Court. There was a purse also, and portemonae, ang pricy " ae ae eres ae ves The boy was knocking about keeping watch. We had \* oe Ai oe BgeeP pic vee: UM he something to eat, We thought it was best to set fire to the

‘eouduet both previous and subsequent to the murder; and- houses ; Breen and 1 both did it. The boy was about. We

‘round by the road howe. ere standing round their mother erying; he | killed «he shale of them; the children cried, but Mrs, {goin Prisoner and me took no direct part in | woney; my wife got it, and afterwards took it out and hid it,

) smart as be onght to be; he bardly knows right from wrong ; |

was lying alongside of 16 years of age, I cannot tell if ever he was in a place of We then went to the | worehip. e porch, we took some We left altogether |

\go to McKenzie’s. On the Thursday when we went to

‘wet the arguments of the prisoner's counsel seriadim on these

did not wait loug, but only till the fire got agoing ; we came points, 7 The Attorney General ridiculed the idea of inbecili- They were in bed ; my wile let ity of mind on the part of the prisoner, and showed from his

She did not know before we left of what we were | Schaviour before, at and after the murder, the igfelligence We counted the | Which he had displayed, and the responsibility which that

intelligence involved. In conclusion, he warned the jury to throw all feeling aside, and look at the case only in the light of strict and impartial justice. They were the guardians, under the law, of the public safety, and it was their duty to | the unprotected houses and families scattered throughout the to 16, Johnnie 10 to 11, and Jamie 6 to 7; Pat is not go | country, to see that the law was strietly applied, as what ‘might be deemed merey now might turn out to be great in-

justice hereafter, The address lasted nearly an hour, and

| was an able effort, both for argument and eloquence.

His Honor the Judge summed up the evidence in the after-

noon at considerable Jepgth, and explained the law to the jury on the various points they would have to decide. The

us in, gto do; she did not watts to know.

awe money on Sunday, I told the boy He had the portemonaie and gave I gave the purse to

I saw prisoner b Johnnie to watch him.

L have sometimes been too severe to him. tle did not know when we left what we were going todo; if he had refuspd to go L would bave made him. He is a tender hearted boy ; he has not looked the same since. 1 did not tel] him to go with us when we left the bouse. It was | that killed them all. lam aware that senteuce of death will be passed on ame—IL haye told the truth.

Cross-examined by Mr. Watters,—My son is about 15 or |

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against the prisoner, and the jury, afier an absence of about half an hour, brought in a yerdict of GULLTY, with a re- commendation to mercy on account of the prisoner’s youth, and the want of good example and instruction under which he had been brought up. The faces of the jury when they came in, told the verdiet they were about to render before a

I bave known his mother teach him his prayers, but I never heard him. I never laid out to make my escape; never told my son particularly about the time we were to

charge was, as it behoved to be, from’ the evidence, strongly |

Government. The seer of the isfander prophesied more than a dozen times within the year that is now drawing to a close, that the millenium of Toryism was at hand, and that not one solitary supporter of the party in power would be returned at the next General Election. We certainly did not expect to find the seer so soon becoming the falsifier of his own prophetie

croakings. The editor of the Js/ander made another important admission a short time ago, when he informed his readers that

the Catholics in this Island, who are well known to be attached

to the liberal principles of the present Government, are sufli-

ciently numerous to return fourteen representatives out of the

thirty, When Liberal Protestants will do, as heretofore, their - share of the work ina political contest, and heartily co-operate

with their Catholic fellow-subjects, in spite of all theinfuriate

attempts to array one sect against another—we need entertain

no apprehensions regarding the result of the next appeal to the

constituencies. We are beginning to have a better opinion of the Islander for those glimpses of truth we have noticed, a4

evidences of returning common sense.

Fire at Moncroy, N. B.—On Saturday morning, 1th instant, between 1 and 2 o’clock, the premises of Mr. Wort man, at the above place, comprising dwelling house, coach- houses and stables, were totally destroyed by fire. Four horses perished in the flames, A man has been arrested and lodged in jail, charged with having gone into the bay loft and set fire to it,

New Goons anp GREAT BakGarns TO BE EXPECTED. —Countty traders and others will do well to bear in mind the extensive

word was spoken, the expression of every countenance being |

sale of Gocds which will take place at the sale room of Mr. . ‘James Morris to-morrow and Wednesday.