Meanwhile, the son, utterly unconscious of what he had done, or feeling only satisfaction at what he thought was the suitable punishment for his father, went out again, and finding his way into a neighbour’s shop, told the keeper of it that his father had beaten him, and that he had knocked him down. Here he fell asleep, and slept probably till his fit of intoxication had passed away. On rising he was about quietly and unsuspectingly to return to the scene of his crime, when he was arrested and brought to prison. When, on the way to the prison, he was told that his conduct might possibly bring him to the gallows, he showed his first symptom of alarm. He remained in prison till Thursday, September 24, when he was submitted to his first public examination. The trial, according to the laws of that country, was repeated on Monday the 28th. The judges, and two juries, in number together thirty-seven, after the fullest investigation of the facts, and after hearing the able defence of his advocate, Mr. Hammond, pronounced his crime to be murder, and condemned him to death. The court refused even to make application for the mitigation of punishment, whereupon he was delivered to the execution of his sentence, which he underwent on Saturday, Oct. 3d. There were many particulars in this case, in addition to the remarkable nature of the crime, and indeed the rareness of any crime of such magnitude in the small district in which it occurred, that made it a subject of very general notice. One leading circumstance was the manifest alteration which took place in Jolin’s mind during the period of his imprisonment. Upon this point there was an entire agreement of opinion amongst all persons who had any acquaintance with the real state of the case. Not only ministers, both of the church and the Dissenters, but persons of other classes, bore testimony to the reality of _a_ change; the _nature_ of which, however, not so many persons could detect, as its very striking effects. The newspaper spoke of an “alteration” which took place in him, of his “confession, in the most humble terms, of his own sinfulness;” of “his forcible admonitions to others to abstain from evil, and to practise the duties of religion and morality;” but of the change of heart which this case exhibited, the editor of the paper seems to have had no real understanding. The case of Jolin, convinced of his sin, however, is that of a man, not merely convinced of his guilt in one instance, and anxious to warn others not converted by the Holy Ghost, acknowledging his total alienation of heart from God, and persuaded that all his repentance, all his good resolutions, could never expiate his past sins; but that, as he himself said, “Christ was his only hope; for HE had paid his ransom, and He would receive him into glory.”