The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

EEPRIEVE OP TWO OP THE COYDE.VNED
PIRATES.

A oommnnigation was received yesterday evening
from Sir G. Grey by Yr. Jonas, the governor of Newsom?,
announcing that two of the condemned culprits, Marchelino
mad Los Banta, would be reprieved during her Mijestj'a
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It is snticipated that the crowd of persons who will
bead their steps, towards the Old Bailey on Monday
morning will be laminas* large ; and in order to pre-
vent any untoward event the sheriffs and the cow
'Widmer of the City police have made such urines-
meats as, it I. confidently expected, will prove moat effec-
tual. An unusually barge somber of barriere are erected
at very short intervals ahem the Old Bailey, and across every
amine leading thereto. At the north and south entrances
• setts strong barriers will be placed, and all ingress and
egress stopped at an early hour in the morning. Barrie,
will aloe be erected MOM Giltepar-etreet, Nevrgate stree‘
and Wooer-street, where the traffic will be suspended until
after the execution baa taken place.
An addition of 7 feet has been °mistrusted, to be placed
at the and of the old drop. A sew cross-bees 23 feet
loug. 7 inches by 6 inches square, has been made, which
will rest upon three uprights. The Aye men will thus be
executed in one row at one time, three standing on the old
portion, and two on the new. A connexion sill be
made with the bolts beneath, so that the whole of the
culprits will fall at the name moment. It is wormed to
place a strip of black cloth or beige around the rails which
surroned the top of the drop. so that when the men hare
Wien little more will be visible thea their heads.
In order to avoid the difficulty of paining through the
crowd to the prison, the sheriffs and uudersheriffs will pass
through the Loudon Coffee-house from Ludgate-hill, at the
extreme back of which an entracte has been temporarily
made into • small yard adjoining the grand jury anteroom
of the Central Criminal Court. From therms the sheriffs
will peas through a subterranean purge into the gaol of

Nowise,. _
It is a ringlike coincidence that it will be exactly 57
years on Monday since the murderers of Mr. Steele were
executed on the same spot. On that day, February 22,
18D7, 30 persons were crushed to death is the Old 13eiley.ii
Mr. J. R. Steet, Chancellor to the Spanish Consulate, has
at • late hour, published an appeal on behalf of must of the
condemned men, offering various reasons for not carrying
oat the extreme penalty of the law. "It is strange, but
true," he says, " that the man who originated the plan of
seizing the vessel, and who masted in throwing the first
victim into the sea, has escaped the extreme penalty of the
kw. The &abduct of these Macilla men since their sentence
has been moat quirt and exemplary. They listen attentively
to their spiritual adviser, and pass their time in constant
devotion. They have repeatedly begged to be allowed to
pray once together, but this of course the rules do not
allow. Ose of the prisoners at the moment of the sentence,
and immediately afterwards, exhibited a mod unbecoming
levity, but his behaviour and countermen have undergone
a striking change within the last few day., and his mental
sufferings are evidently most intense. lie is the only .on
of a widow, and refusedlto allow her to be communicated
with. as he declared it would be her dsat.h.blow to hear of
his pcaition."