The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

BXECUZION OF ABRAHAM BAKER.

The sonnet Abraham Baker underwent additions
waft tithe law yesterday iseruier at Winelieber for
the uswier el Naomi KlageweU, at Suatkeraptos oa the
14th et Oeuthee lest. lbw hie eneunittel to pried', and
eareeially arse Itb filblowees Baker hew bass meet sweet to
Wog
_gosaaastisw Ise She shame that awaited bin. He
Mir ablel lit" Ofiekedsre of his 11■11110," which arrow
blow bed =tasted weed wilt helm it wag won-
fibbed. sad, Wasps to say, we perpetrated a day war
thou he WOW. He was to km left his eiteatlua on I
Weft esaaist, sad he raeolual to shoot the girl at he was
hoofs/ I wseairg hum trastaboash, with the Jauntiest of
psalms up his Oise to Iwo, rat day, he found the girl '
at howl She spewed the deret a Ms, aad lainedistely it
wee swelled to him this. see so wow about sow,
sad there will be to-morrow ; yea bad better do it sow."
The girl, Haw' Liegbeek:vsflaished a letter to her
mother,wareispher spirt Baker into her how,
sad had bees roadig Ye Elleasalait to the housekeeper,
arid put it Wit be pasha, whoa she received the ball
through her beak.
The as. Behar has fully nowseated the girl from any
sharp of ibaorality, and, front the boor of hie aboiesiese
sad her ow letter, as well ea her taistrese's eharairter of
her, she appears to hawk heed a resat wowed of good_ prin-
ciples and of diwonsier and owl Judi/seat. Had she
Ws 'leer so, her life would sot have bees smelted by
Beher's head.

The folletrieg paper was writhe in Ids all at 3 ''.g.&
on the moisten of his theestioa. It yes net semplthedr
bet he beppd the obsolete would eddeuseseblegthere M itr
as es earnest exhortation to his fellow *mem and esnents
to lee the sloe shish led to his fate. The templets, how.
ever
_lift the paper in the state Is which it
wee headed:to aim:
" Jan.&
" Mr. Rogers,—Dear 81r,—Iley the Lord bap me to
leave a few words ea asp last has. are earth—arid may the
Lard blew them—to every the of my dear fellow prisms.%
sad May the Lord blew you, my dear miniater—may yes be
'gabled a chow the natal your lock the way to the fthatais
°poised for eta sad sotheasser—which sin shortened my
Ws. Wrist kiss brought me here? —Pride—short prayers—
net reading my Bible—Sabbath. breaths, and ad manner of
'nobody's., which ended my days for shooting of thy fel-
low-creature. Arid may this be a solemn warolog to you
all for life. When I wee brought to Islam at South-
ampton ray =hatter read the 63rd of Isaiah, which
ovetlowed my eyes with tears; mother minister read
the blst Pieter, teed showed me the awful condition
1 brought sayoutlf to, sad my wished heart began to epee.
I questiosed thyself as to who made as,, and where I should
p it 1 wee to die this sight, and began to sty, ' God be
merciful to the a einem I began to read my Bible; I
reed the New Tee amest right through, gad seemed to
sedentand it by preying to Gird for the help of the Holy
Spirit."
• few hours, end age's a few Wastes, before his death,
be otheowledged that hie abominaM• sad crime me-
Aced every paniebtaent of body end soul, but he looked for
pardon through Christ."
He &Raided the ebapel menthes daily, sad reaped the
Holy Commetholoa at belt-pest seven o'elock yesterday
misesieg, and, footslog to his all, remained is prayer and
religiose methreaties sign the arrival of the soder-shone,
mad then walked with a Arm stop and audible prayer to the
drop, where his Yoko was meet distinet In appesbag to the
Lora I. receive his spirit.