The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-08 00:00:00

THE NEW ITALIAN

M. Cordova, Minister of Grace and Justice, is
by prefeadou a Sicilian avocets. He has, however, never
attended the courts, but has low resided at Turin, where
he is known for his proficiency in economical studies. He
was Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and after-
ward. Minister of Agriculture and Ocoutteree under Count
Cavour.

. .
M. Petittt, Moister of War, was Chief Secretary hi that
department under General Lamarmora. lie was made a
lietiteaaat.general after the war of 1859, and resigns the
chief command of the second army.corps to take °Hoe. He
is a Piedmootese.

M. Bella, Minister of Finance, who is also a native of Pied-
mont, is a distinguished engineer, and represents Biala,
his native town, in parliament. He was formerly appointed
Chief Secretary in the department of Public Instruction, on
the recommendation of Count CM our.

Admiral Perrino, Minister of Marine, is well known as
the captor of Ancona and the besieger of Gaeta.
M. Dorset* Minister of Public Works, a Piedmontese, is
one of the most distinguished members of the Turin bar.
In the Chamber he sits on the benches of the Left. He was
for a time Pro. Dictator of Sicily, having been appointed after
the taking of Palermo.
Y. Pepoli, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, is a
eon of a Princess Murat. He was sent to Turin by
Bologna, his native town, in 1889, to obtain the annexation
to Piedmont, and afterwards was elected deputy. Count
Cevour appointed him Commissioner Extraordinary of the
King in Umbria, when he decreed lan important measure
the suppression of oonventa. In the chamber his place is
with the left entre, and he has soled with the friends of
Itatarsi.

N. Mancini, Minister of Public Instruction, is a Neapo-
litan of great repute uan advocate and jorisoonsult. He
was one of the emigrants, and has long practiced at Turin.
After the annexation of Naples he was sent thither to pre-
ride over the department of justice. He is a preforor in
the University of Turin, and was appointed by the King
tc read constitutional law with the royal princes his sons.

THE MEDI

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.MALT4,.Mtsca 2.

I inclose you a copy of the Progrersiita, a news-
paper lately started in Malta in favour of the new Italian
kingdom, and spinet the temporal power of the Pope. It
is currently reported at Malta that the archbishop boa sir
nified that any ern who prints, touches, or I. in any way
connected with the said newspaper, will fall under his dis-
pleasure. Should. such be the case, it will be very difficult to
get the paper printed at Malta, for the bishop stands very
high is the opinion of his flock : his wishes are their law.

" Norm.

" His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to
grant the usual permission for the diversions of the carnival
this year on the four days, beginning with the let of March,
measures have bean taken to prevent the carnival from
assuming such a political colour as was given to the 'Posta'
of St. Paul. A notice has bees issued, stating, among other
regulations, that ' nose shall on this occasion carry emblems,
dos, or other signs referring to foreign political questions,
or by any masquerade, or otherwise, make allusion to the
ISOM"
Her Majesty's ship Maribor-msh arrived from Sicily sad
a mules on the 27th ; and the Trident the same day, from
Algiers has left for Niche, to relieve the Exmouth; and
the Quill. prooods early next week for Corfu.
Commander Palmer, promoted from the Algiers, did lot
Emus_ to ass in that ship, but remained for a woo to

EXECUTION OF THE CAPTAIN OF
A SLAVER AT NEW YORK.

(Pram the New York Tramm at Feh. 221
Yesterday Nathaniel Gordon, the slave trader,
was hanged in the City prison. The enormity of the crime
for which he suffered was justly characterised by Judas
Shipman, of the United States Circuit Court, before whom
he was tried, in pronouncing upon him the sentence of the
law which he had violated.

" Do not imagine," said he, " that because °there shared
in the!gnilt of this enterprise yours is thereby (limn:6l6a] ;
but remember the awful admonition of your Bible, Though
band join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished' "
On the same occasion the doomed slave trader was Te,
minded of the 'maid &meter of his crime in the following
language :

"Do; not attempt to hide its enormity from yourklf ;
think of the cruelty awl wickedness of seising nearly a
thousand fallow-beings, who never did you harm, md
thrusting them beneath the decks of a stoat ship, beneath a
burning tropical sun, to die of disease or suffocation, or be
transported to distant lands, and be consigned, they sad
their posterity, to a fate far more cruel than death.
"Think of the sufferings of the unhappy beings libels
you crowded on the Erie ; of their helpless agony awl terror

as you took them from their native land ; and especially
think of those who perished under the weight of their
miseries; on the passage from the pkoe of your capture tollou-
rovia! Remember that you showed mercy to none, carry-
ing off, as you did, not only those of your own su, tut
women and helpless children.

"Do not fierier yourself that because they belonged to
different race from yourself your guilt is therefore lessened
—rather fear that it as increased. in the just and gummy'
heart the humble and the weak inspire companion, and
Gall for pity and forbearanoe."
The condemned, for the lan few weeks, was attended
by the Rev. Dr. Camp, who was unceasing in his care for
the spiritual welfare of the prisoner. The gallows bad
bean prepared for the execution previous to the itli of
February, the day on which Gordon was sentenced to be
heaged by the court. Owing to the threats that • rescue
would be attempted, the United States Marshal obtained
from the Marine Barracks, at the Navy-yard, • sufficient
force to protect the prisoner in any event. About 80 marines,
tinder the command of Captain Cohen, were in attendance.
They were drawn up in line, and ordered: to load with fall.
cartridge and put caps on their muskets. This done, win
fixed bayonets they marched into the yard of the prism,
and the main body were drawn up in double file, fronting
the gallows.

TLe plkors was a new one, originally made for hang.
ing the three murderers of Captain Pyke, of the ship
General Parkhill. It was not used, however, at that time,
as the sentence of there men was commuted by the Pre n.
dent to imprisonment for 15 years.
Although the execution bad been announced for
half-peat 2 dela*, crowds of people began to assemble in the
immediate vicinity of the Tombs at au early hour. An
ample polity force under the command of Captain Dowling,
of the Sixth Precinct, guarded the entrance to the prison,
and kept the way clear for the approach of persona who
had been authorised to be present at the execution. Han.
dreda sought the loftiest positions which could be obtained
on the buildings °Maide the prison, all anxious to get a bat
glimpse of the dying slaver.
About 200 spectators, including members of the 844
Pcslaturs, city and county officials, and representatives at
the pries, made up the assemblage in the prima. The gal.
lows was meted in the grand central square, in full view
of the marinas and the spectators.

After parting with larshal Murray on Thursday night,
Gordon occupied himself in writing letters to various frieeds,
especially to his wife and to his son, a boy about five yearn
of see. The letter to the boy was .directed to be presented
to him when he should come to the age of discretion. Al-
though he seemed careworn, the prisoner did not express
himself as if anxious or uneasy as to the solemn circum-
stance' which narked his quicklyfleeting hours.
At 1 o'clock yesterday morning, evidently exhausted
from the labours of the night. and the earls for the coming
morrow. Gordon retired to bed, and slept soundly till shoot
3 o'clock, at which time be awoke and expressed his asto-
nishment that he bad been asleep so long.

At about 11 o'clock a youth came rushing into the prism,
coming in his hand a telegraphic despatch from Albany,
which he had ban instructed to re►d in the hearing of
Mamba' Murray. Hawing gained his ear, he read the tele.
gram, sa follows :

" Poughkeepsie, Feb. 21.
" Governor telegraphed President to respite Gordon. See
Wormy. Received from Albany at 10 a.m."
To which the Marshal replied that his arrangements with
the President were such that he would disregard any tele.
graphic communication, from whoever it might come. The
message referred to wee from e:Judge Beebe, who went to
Albany on Thursday night, to endeavour to induce the
Governor to interfere br Gordon's behalf.

Shortly after, ax-Judge Dean arrived, bearing the
same inhale*, and presented it to Mr. Murray, who told
him that be appreciated his pandas, but was unable to
regard anything that did not emanate in regular documem
tory form from the President of the United Stet's.
As bee been stated, the *suer retired to bed at 1
o'clock a.m. As he answer& explained to Deputy-Hu
shal Borst, who had the prisoner in charge the latter put of
the wonting, his object in retiring at 1 o clock wee to elude
the vigilance of hie keepers, by pretend' to be Weep ;
but nature asserted its claims, and he fell into a soled
slumber, which lasted him till 3 o'clock, at which time,
waking up and looking at his watch, he was amazed fiat
by his own exhausted condition he had been outwitted.
His plan was not to be baffled, however. He was desperate,
and be at mace, by some mysterious sleight of hand, am-
eroded in swallowing a quantity of poison.
Shortly before 4 o'clock the deputies in charge of Gordon
observed him act in a very curious manner, and soon the
fact disclosed itself that their ward was in a spasm, from
which he did not recover before half,past 4 o'clock. By
that time the prison physicians had been summoned to he
side, and when be recovered from his first spasm he wee
astonished to au the doctors, and quietly answered their
questions as to what he had been taking, by saying that be
did not thank them for interfering with him. He looked
up in their fuel and pashbeg his teeth said, " Fre cheated
you ; I've cheated you." The doctors immediately pro-
ceeded to administer such antidotes se they deemed new'
eery, although they had to work in ignorance of what kind
of poison he had taken.
At length the matter Immune known to the United States
Marsha, who immediately dispatched a messenger for Dr.
Janus IL Wood, who arrived at the prison at SI o'clock. He
immediately learned that the prisoner hid taken strychnine,
and applied himself to the POO accordingly. Copied
draft+ of strong whisky were wimistared 'to the patient,
which had the effect of gradually restoring him to con-
sciousness. Shortly after 9 o clock he became aware of what
was going on around him. From that time, however, be
continued very feeble, and made his responses to all ques-
tions asked in writing.
At about 11 o'clock the prisoner wrote a note to Simeon
Draper, in which he said, " I hope I will die before 12
o'clock."
The first note that he wrote to Depnty-Marshal Borst was
" Did you give me the whisky to keep the spasms off r
He then followed that by another note, saying, " I wish 1
might die, and end my suffering."
Mr. Simeon Draw, on entering the cell of the prisoner,
said to hint, " Do yon know roe, Gordon?' to which he
replied, in writing. " I do. Mr. Draper is a very good man.
and I thank bier for what he has done fur my wife and
child."
Deputy-Marshal Borst then asked him what kind of poison
be had taken ? to which he replied in the same manner as
before, "Strychnine. A good many may accuse my wife of
a hand in this affair. I have only to say that in time of
peace prepare for war. The little bench you sit or, if it was
examined and could speak, could possibly tat some take
about it." Here hedirected the bench .to be turned eei
when he pointed to a crack on the lower .iide of it in which
be intimated that the strychnine had been secreted for a
long time.
Ho added, in writing, the following intimation that uo-
tiring relative to the slue.trade should even escape his liP4
"I shall never let mortal man know anything."
In reply to the question, " Why did you want to
exit suicide suicide ? " he said, " I wanted to spare my wife and
child the disgrace of my being hanged."
He stated in writing that he had had the strychnine give°
be him on the second day of his trial.
He also stated his plan of intending to pretend to be
asleep at 1 o'clock, and how it failed him.
The last note he wrote to Deputy-Marshal Borst
"Tell my wife and child that my last thoughts were of
them."
At 12 o'clock, United States Marshal Hurray and Deputy
United States Marshal Thompeun, with their deputies, the
beer • to the oell of Gordon and announced to him that
been bad arrived when the execution must be carried into
elfeet. He was pinioned by Deputy•Sberiff Isaacs, Bed
brought from his cell to the corridor, where he was set down
on a chair. His appearance was feeble arid haggard, 01J
presented a drugs outcast with the owe lordly crept!"
who gave his orders from the quarterdeck as to the do'
positron of helpless humus beings imprisoned in Abe bold
of his due ship.
The Uaited States Marshal then reed, slowly old
solemnly, the death warrant of the culprit, also, tbe
respite granted by the President of the United States.
After a brief passe, Captain Gordon delivered, in • dell.
berate tone, the tellurium speech
" My somesience fa dear. 1 have no fault to find with

the treatment f have received from the marshal aid hie:
deputy, Mr. Thompson : but any public man who will
.get
up in open court and any to the jury. ' you ebovici
i•ri..mer, 1 will be the but man to age a petition for his
',Mon,' and will then go to the executive to prevent his
commutinq the sentence, I my that man is a man who will
it • .it”, thin to promote his own ends-1 du not
.15143 what
pe.ple say.
IWe are assured that the officer referral to never said
anything of the kind. - Tab.'
The procession thea moved from the prison to thepllewl.
the culprit beingsappeted between Deputy. Sheriff Imam
and Deputy Coined States Marshal O'Keefe. He wee
ile.ithly pale with terror, his heed hung over his shoulder,
and his limbs almost refusal their odice. lie tottered as
he stood beneath the tital beam, and had to be supported
to the instant of the falling of the weight which drew him
into mid-sir. At a given signal the cord was snapped
aninder by the emecutiosses brusilexo, and Nathaniel
Gordon, the slave trader, was Lunched into the presence of
the Groat Judge of all the Earth.
Immediately opus the hoisting of the body a few cot:mot-
ive twitches followed, the veins of the Deck sod hands
swelled *ad stood out like cords for a brief while, thee, the
limbs lest their rigidity, the blackened flesh innessed a
bowl hue, and the slavetradsr, sow a lump of diehononreal
clay, aeon slowly to and fro is the frosty am
After betas seepimiled the wed tuna, the carpet was
lowered upoa. a bier, arid conveyed lens an unoccupied
room in the pram siege Comer Collie proosabd to bold
an its melt on the body.
Two witnesses to the haggle' of deceased lesilfeel to the
moaner of his death, and De. Thie lishiassa, who held a
postmiortem examination of the body, Wiled that death
was caused by esPhYtie, and the jury rmalerod a verdict to
that effect. It appeared that the asst eat thotioesseed was
not broken
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ta.lv of the beefed me wee thee girol3 over to the
friend., residiing in Williemebergh, where it will be taken
pees •wis to istormat.
Soak was the eett al the Ent slaver fairly punished for his
Qin,a le the UMW Star al AIINTiOS.

TIM INOLAND v. ALISTRALLAN CIUCKET

MATCH.

tIY lIIKIIIIC

ALIA AN DMA, MAWR 6.
The Inglish cricketers were victorious in the
great match at Ifelbourne.