OLD BAILEY, Thursday, Apr...
The Lrialq beini concluded, the convicts werebToughtup forjudg- ment before the Comtiio SRrGEkxr, at five o'clock. Sah Mlliarns and Cethern.o CarPI were seutenced to transpor. tation for life, five to transportation for 14 years; forty-seven to transportation for seven years: three to be imptisoned and privately whipped; onetobe privately vhlpped and diseliargedl; and sixty- five toimprisonment for var;mus periodls rhe following prisoners, convicted of capital oftences, *tere then placed at the har:- James Wrilliams, Frederick Scott, and John Bass, highway rob- berv; John Hill WagstafF. forgery; T. F. Creec. Richard Hughes, Richard Erans, James Wilkbey, Frederick Bolton, George Tho- mas, Stephen Beats, George Goswell, James Flalloway, F. H. Jer- maine, John Cosbet, Sheik Brom, Rliza Hillarv, James Lamb, Willianm Whitehead, Mary Ann Hudson, William Williams, and James Sullivan, stealing in a dwelling-house; Theimas Pearson, George Lock, John Thomas, Thomas Hooks, 'Thotnas Keeler, Edward Brimnian, Wim. Clutterbtick, and John WVades, burglary. Proclamation of silence having been made, The Co'MMOu' SEIRGEAhT proceededI to address the prisoners. The sentences which it had been his painful dutv ta pronounce upon those who had just left the bar, hsd been apportioned according to the beat consideration the Court had been able to atTord to their dif- ferent cases: but with respect to those who now stoed at the bar, the Court had no such discretion. Onlv one duty, a most painful one. was cast upon it-namely. to pronounce that sentence wlichi closed the scene of this life up-n them for ever. As the degrees of their guilt were dlifferent, so wvere their prospects of mercy in another quarter different, but the Coart had no power to hold out hopes to any of them ! it was possible that thev might all suffer. If any of them received a transmutation of their. senterce, it would still he on condition (which might be considered a hard one under other circumstances) of their final separation from their country and friends. Whatever mnight be the-result of the pe- titions of their friends here, there was a throne at which petitions for merv were neser offered in t-ain. lHe therefore implored them to consider the awful situation in which they stood, baving now for- feited their lives, and lose no time in makinz their peace with Heaven. Whether they lived or died, the time devoted to such a purpose would not be thrown away. His Lordship concluded by pranounc- ing sentence of death upon them asll. HfidFon anid Hillary, being pregnant, prayed stay of execution. The Court then adoiurned. OLD B,41LEY, T?wr.sda!l, April 15.