The Old Bailey Sessions closed on Wednesday. Sentence of death
was passed upon Joseph Allen, Charles Taylor William Kingsley, George Wilden, John Carter, and John M'Cardy, for entering dwelling-houses, and committing larcenies therein ; and George Blutch, for burglary. This is the smallest number capitally convicted during the last two hundred years. Nineteen were sentenced to be transported for life; 17 for fourteen years; 79 for seven years ; and others to various terms of imprisonment. The woman Spiller, who was charged with having occasioned the death of an infant named Landon, by improper applications to its head, in an attempt to cure scald, was tried for the manslaughter on Tuesday. The facts of the case we detailed when the inquest sat on the body, three weeks ago. Mrs. Spiller produced a host of witnesses, whom she had cured, in order to testify to the excellence of her methods. One of these, a man between fifty and sixty, was very energetic in-her defence—
Ile spoke, says the report, with great fervour, and insisted on being heard in her favour—and that, too, "boldly." He had been under the care of the faculty with abash hand, and they were unable to do him any good.
Mr. Phillips—" Now, witness, we do not want toy the merits of the faculty;. what can you say for the prisoner at the bar ?" Witness—" I will have it out. They did me no good. No; they certainly did not ;—and I heard of Mrs. Spiller ; and to her honour I speak it, she cured me in two applications. Yes, your honours," exclaimed the witness warmly, striking his -hand on the box, "she only put two plasters on, and all was
right. The hand I strike this blow were the cue she cured." (Much laughter.) Other witnesses carried children in their arms, and presented them to the Court as living pledges of the successful operation of the prisoner upon them.
The Jury seem to have been quite astounded by such an array of facts. Living proofs of medical skill are indeed valuable for their rarity. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty immediately.
The Recorder on Monday made his report of the prisoners in Newgate under sentence of death, convicted at the last Old Bailey sessions —viz. William Saunders alias Jones, aged twenty-two ; John liThittey, twenty-eight ; Sarah Whittey alia.s Rosina Sarah Ann Eliza, twentyfive; for highway robbery, Henrietta Maria Hall, thirty-six ; Edward Smithers, twenty-five ; Daniel Martin, twenty-eight ; Nicholas Wood, twenty-seven ; Thomas Jephson, twenty-eight; Henry White, twenty-five; George .Bates, nineteen ; for housebreaking. Robert Mace, twenty; James Sutton, twenty-seven ; Henry Kemp, twentyone ; Thomas Jones, twenty ; and Henry Gray, thirty-two ; for cutting and maiming ; all of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite during his Royal pleasure, except James Sutton, who is left for execution on Monday next. The case of Thomas Attrell is postponed for further inquiry. Sutton, who is ordered for execution on Monday, is only twentyseven years of age. He was convicted with two others at the last Old Bailey Sessions, for wounding Rebel t Davis, a policeman of the H division, with intent to murder him. The policeman was on duty in Wentworth Street, Whitechapel; and in attemping to quell a disturbance between two prostitutes, he was suddenly attacked by Sutton and his companions, and dragged into a house, where Sutton attacked him with a crow-bar, in consequence of which his head was cut in eight different places. He was then dragged out of the house ; and on coming to his senses, found himself bleeding profusely. The attack being re. rimed by Sutton, Davis struck him to the ground, and fell on him. Two officers then came up and secured Sutton and three others. The prisoners who were convicted with Sutton were recommended to mercy by the Jury.
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