By this means the story reached the ears of the police, who went to, the dam, found the body of the woman, and carried it to the house,, where Wager was sitting on a sof% drinking gin. He affected a disgusting sort of pity fo? his wife. She had drowned herself, he said, through jea lousy of Hancock. He " had not dared" to pull horout of tho water, for she had threatened to drown Mm if he came in. He had followed her in the direction^ of Vein Bam; but couldn't catch, her. She plunged in, and when she was in "he couldn't think she was drowning." These cowardly lies were, of course, directly contradicted by the two Sallera ; but there is one other piece of evidence which is still more conclusive. We shudder at quoting it; but it is necessary for a due appreciation, of the crime.- "A "post

mortem examination was held, the result of which showed that them -were many bruises on the woman's head, logs, and body. There was a deep wound cutting through her upper lip, and extending into her mouth, and nostril. Her tongue was cut, her brain congested, her nose and upper jaw fractured, and her liver was ruptured. AU these injuries were the result of blows, and the injury to the liver would alone have caused death. The proximate canse of death was drown ing."

Stich was the crime of which Wager was found guilty, an 4 for which he was most justly sentenced to death. We now learn with amazement, from Captain Arch dall's question, that Mr Walpole is'sup posed to have recommended this monster to the* mercy of the Crown. We withhold our credence .until the supposition is substantiated by Mr Walpole himself this evening. Except upon his own admission, it is beyond belief that any English Minister can have dreamt of such a degradation of the prerogative of mercy. We aro aware, indeed, that the jury re commended the prisoner to mercy. We must presume this jury to have been com posed of the same class of men as those two minors who looked on while a woman appealing to them for help was being furiously licked to death by a brutal drunkard—who sav>* her forced into a deep pool of water and never made the slightest attempt to rescue her. 