The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

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adjusting the rope round the prisoner's neck, or being
too frightened to adopt the usual method of rendering
death certain, the culprit (sitting on a chair) fell
through the trap, his fall not being so effective as
usual, and in an instant he made the most desperate
efforts at self-release. A frightful scene ensued.
The wretched man three times succeeded, despite
the turnkeys, in planting his feet on one or other
edge of the op, and frantically struggled to free
his hands. Calcraft, who had run away after drawing
the bolt, was brought back with difficulty, and with
the assistance of several turnkeys at length got firm
hold the poor wretch's legs, when, in spite of his
frightful struggles, they held him down till death
ensued. The whole of this dreadful proceeding oc-
cupied about twenty minutes. There bas not been
a more horrible exhibition on the scaffold far some
time—the yells of the crowd ware terrible, and the
ghastly struggle between the turnkeys and the cul-
prit contrasted sadly with the loud, merry peals of
the church bells, ringing out the announcement of
" Peace—and goodwill toward men."

THE CONVICT THOROGOOD, guilty of the murder of
Hales, gamekeeper to Sir John Tyrrell, has been re-
prieved by the Queen on condition that he be trans-
ported for life.
THE Two EYRES, charged with an attempt to rob
M. Durando, the bullion broker at Liverpool, and
with a frightful assault upon the two clerks in the
counting house, pleaded guilty on being brought
before Mr. Baron Willes, and were sentenced to
transportation for life.
SEVEN CASES OF CHILD MURDER 111 different parts
of the country were reported between the 27th March
and the Ist of April at the chief police-office, Great
Scotland-yard.
A CLEVER CAPTURE was lately made in Liverpool.
Nathan Salaman, a man adjudicated a bankrupt, was
returning from Australia in the Lightning, having
previously intimated his intention of coming by the
Emma, !with some goods and gold. Mr. Gaskill, the
messenger of the District Court of Bankruptcy,
watched with great care for the Emma, but as the
Lightning arrived first he thought he might as well
look over the list of passengers. One Salaman had
come home by her, but he had quickly landed,
cleared his baggage, and started off to Leeds. Mr.
Gaskill immediately telegraphed to Leeds for a
bankruptcy messenger to be on the look-out, and
upon Mr. Salaman's arrival, with 1,2001. worth of
gold-dust, he was met by the Leeds bankruptcy mes-
senger, who, on behalf of the creditors, relieved Mr.
Salaman of all further care of the precious burden.
Two Jewish friends attempted to claim the gold-dust,
but their claim was not allowed.

Two MEN, CARE AND WALL, were tried before Mr.
Baron Martin at Liverpool, on Tuesday, for the
murder of James House, a sailor, on the morning of
the 20th February last. The murdered man, it will
be remembered, was found lying dead from strangu-
lation in the streets of Liverpool, with a muffler tied
very tight and knotted round his throat. The evi-
dence was purely circumstantial: the prisoners
were seen in the company of the deceased over
night, articles of the deceased's dress had been
found upon their persons, while the muffler round the
dead man's neck proved to be one formerly given to
the prisoner Carr by a girl of the town. The
prisoners were found Guilty, with a recommendation
to mercy, and sentenced to death.

LIEUTENANT ACKERLY, R.N.' a gentleman well
known about town, was fined by Mr. Jardine, at Bow-
street, on Wednesday, for baying assaulted Mr.
Tonna, Secretary of the United Service Institution,
Whitehall, and creating a great disturbance upon
the occasion of his being expelled the society on that
morning.
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MR. WILD, a solicitor, of Friar's-street, Black-
friars, was brought before Alderman Lawrence, at
Guildhall, on Tuesday, and remanded for a week, on
a charge of embezzling 501., the property of the
Bankruptcy Court, while officially in possession of a
bankrupt's property, at Bagbrook, Northampton.
THE REV. J. C. WARD, whose examination as an
alleged lunatic had been adjourned last Tuesday for
a week, was, after a lengthened appeal on the part of
Mr. Ward, in which he announced his intention of
refusing to appear any more, adjourned for another
week.
THE PRIVILEGES OF AMBASSADORS' SERVANTS was
allowed in a case brought before Mr. Paynter, on
Thursday. William Kilmeister, charged with un-
lawfully detaining some wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of a tradesman, pleaded his privilege, and Mr.
Paynter said that the inviolability of the ambassa-
dor's household must not be interfered with. Com-
plainant inquired whether there was no means of
getting back his property from the defendant? Mr.
Punter said he knew of none, and persons must be
careful in their transactions with ambassadors'
servants. The case was then dismissed.
A GENTLEMAN, name unknown, deliberately
destroyed himself by blowing out his brains, on
Tuesday night,in the middle of the Mile-end-road,
The body has not yet been identife/t