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 expressed gratitude to Mrs Connaway for the kindness with which he had treated her. He thus contrived so far to achieve his object, that she seems to have opened her affection and confidence to him—she looked to him for protection—she felt he had dealt kindly with her—she refused to enter the house until he entered with her. A struggle, or pretended struggle, ensued; and, when I recollect that the moment she fell the struggle ended I cannot rationally entertain a doubt that it was feigned, and got up for the purpose of entrapping her, and throwing her off her gaurd. What did the individual to whom she looked for protection now do? She is thrown down, and he, with the atrocity of a demond, instantly throws himself upon her, and extinguishes life in a few moments. I do not state this with any view whatever of exciting the feelings, or aggravating indignation against the unhappy prisoner, but really when such a system of crime, in which there, are many actors, is developed in the midst of this great metropolis, I cannot resist stating the impression which it has made on my mind as one of the most monstrous exhibitions of atrocity ever disclosed in the annals of criminal jurisprudence in this or any other country. Sitting as I do in this place, there is little occasion to advert to certain matters that were pointed at, and eloquently pointed at, in course of the defence. I will only observe, that with matters of science we have nothing to do. We have but to administer justice, and God forbid that the claims of science should prevent us feeling that horror which such offences are calculated to exite. The prisoners must have been conscious that he was violating that great command of the Most High, "Thou shall not commit murder." There is no doubt that the duty of the court is to condemn the prisoner, and I now suggest, that the prisoner be executed on the 28th day of January next, and his body given for dissection.

Lord Makenzie expressed his concurrence,