The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

BIZOCITION OP 1117.AP10 MANSANO.

The Spaniard, Serafin Mensano, who was oon-
viond at the recent Wilts amino foe the insider of Ads-
tatia Trowbridge, at Ashcan)" wee executed yesterday
(Wednesday) in front of the new pride. Devises.
The denisenour of the prisoner after his conviction was
mild and gentle, and every Way was afforded by the
authorities of the prison for supplying him with the means
of religions consolation. An Italian convert from Ito- I
manila, named Ferraro, who is staying in DOVift4,
admitted to the prinaner's cell, and at first it was stated
that the unhappy man preferred him as his spiritual
adviser to any other ppeerson. Mr. Burt, the Mayor
ed Devises, who nnders4nia Spanish, was subse-
quently requested to have an interview with the
prisoner, and on his complying With that request
the wretched man expressed a desire 'to see a Ho-
man catholic priest. Catholicism was, he said, the '
religion in which he had been brought up, and immediately
the question was put to him be drew crucifix from his 1
breast and kissed it devoutly. The Rev. Mr. Clark was ac.H
cordingly requited to attend the prisoner to the time of his
execution. An 'mega of the and Child was placed in.'
his cell, and the prisoner continued throughout most atten-
tive to his religious duties. On Sunday tie prisoner wrote
letters to Mr. Alexander, the governor of the prison, and
his wife, thanking them for their kindness dieing his con-
finement, and assuring them that he wee about to
suffer martyrdom vapidly. He likewise addressed •
communication to the governor's children, charging
them never to be disobedient to their parents. His own
father, he stated, was a millionaire, possessing two silver
mines, but that through disobeying him God had chastised
him. He added that he bad two sisters (nuns) Ina convent,
called the convent of Ban Francisco.

The prisoner slept but little during Tuesday ht, and
appeared to feel his position moat acutely. He
little tea, but ate nothing for breakfast. The priest was in
attendance upon him between 8 and 9, and remained with
him up to the hour of executioe-12 o'clock. Mk-raft, the
executioner, arrived on Tuesday aftenioon, and slept at the:
prison. The high sheriff (H. N. Goddard, Faq.) and the
under sheriff (West Awdry, Faq.) arrived shortly before
yesteorning.
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Aboutrday mast 11 the unhappy men was asked if he had
any request to make. He replied that he desired nothing'
but the prayers of those around him, and still continued to!
protest his innocence. The prison bell commenced tolling
at a quarter before 12, and the high eheriff then proceeded
to the condemned cell, and demanded the body of the pri-
soner, and the usual process of pinioning having been gone
through, be wee handed over to the executioner.
mournful precession, headed by the priest bearing a lighted
tepee, and reading the recommendation for a departing soul,
limited its way slowly towards the drop, arrived at which
the wretched culprit mounted the steps without assistance,
and having placed himself beneath, the fatal beamd
appealed to the multitude to pardon him. He remand on'
the drop nearly ten minutes when, the sacrament having
been administered, the signal was given, the bolt was
drawn, and he passed into eternity without a struggle.
The culprit was about 29 years of age.
Three or four thousand poisons had assembled in the
vicinity of the "son, and all appeared to conduct them.
selves y well. After hanging the usual time the:
body wen token down, and interred within the precincts or
Thin is the first execution that has taken place at Devises
for eleven years.

THE AMER AN BROOM@ zarras
IMPOSITION.
Om Tuesday the stipendiary magistrate of Hull
stated that a most ble family near that town, one.
al whose members has litielbeen removed by death, re-
sired Use following in an envelope bearing
American postmarks. • family knew, however, that
there was act the least ground fur such an application, and
took so modes of the letter beyond placing it in the hands,
of the stipmedlary. Other persons in the neighbourhood
have not been so samible, end the clerk to the magistrate*
stated that he knew one most respectable family who have
sent out 904 in answer to such applications :
" klinsh 24, 111110.—Best and only Friend—l cannot
ream you have not written and sent the weal
more especially at thug mobient that poor Tom
isying4ll4 it is with a bunting heart that I tell you your
poor sea Toes—all that makes life bearable to me—cannot
recover. Be will soon be kakis from me for ever. Why,
a why, then, at this inmost of terrible affliction, do you '
fail ma. Little did I thinhwhen years ago I discovered the
truth and lied with my Tom—poor fatherless boy—to
this distant and strange land, and that 7ou might be tree
and lumpy with these so worthily, so dearly loved,
that you would leave ltim to ste. Yes, I must I
Vplain, dearest. Tom's sickness and my iss•
ty now to do little more than Wait upon him, I
and your iumoomintable silence, has reduced me to the last
shilling ; and I shall be compelled, until I bear from you,
to sell everything to procure him absolute necessaries.
You told me net to waste, but what am I to do! Your
failing me at this awful moment has crushed me to the
earth, sad melees you send the instant you receive this your
poor suffer son will be starved to death. I will not
upbraid with unkindness. You must have sent. Your
good kind heart would not permit him to so dreadfully
golfer. I removed here for the benefit of poor dear Tom,
but fear it bas not done him any good. Therefore, direct as
below, and it will be sure to reach me safely ; and pre-pay
the portage, or I shall not be able to obtain it. Yon must
imdeed—yon most send me immediately 101. or I shall go
mad. Owed imamate( England notes, furl am miles away from
where I could get other moneys changed. Bless you, God
bless yon. Oar prayers are daily offered up for blessings on
yea and )ours. Farewell, may heaven's mercy attend tts.
I regret I meet send this to you direct, for the captain's
ship is mot sew in the United Stets, and if it were I dare
not delay an instant. Best assured that dreadful, indeed,
meat be our situation that would induce me to write to you
against your wish. Seed, oh do, I siairytyedou, send by re-
turn mail, for we are in the most • want. On my
hams I implore you, do. The broken- and deeply-
afflicted in her miseries blesses you, bleesu
Monte.
" Direct Mrs. Clara Mostyn, Brookfield, Fairfield Co.,
Connecticut, U.S."

Arrumrr AT MURDZIt. —A case of attempted
murder nuns under the attention of the county magistrates
acting for the western division (near Bath) of the county of
Somerset, at their weekly sitting, on Monday, when a young
man named John Merrett, a groom, in the service of Mrs.
Ricardo, of Weston, was charged with firing a loaded pistol
at John Sidman, & gardener in the same service, with in-
toot to do him grievous iodily hens. It appears that Mr.
Rioniq who was a hanker at Bath, and who died lately,
placed gnat cosidence in the prisoner, and before his deft&
a:premed a wish that he should be always retained in the
seem of the family. Accordingly Mni. Ricardo, having
resolved on leaving Bath for a time, left the prisoner in fall
charge of the premises, and also with authority in °erten'
business matters. It would seem, however, that he was not
worthy of the trust reposed in him, for an ill-feeling hag
=up between him and the gardener, in consommes of
tgter having refueled to participate in, min oonntemanm,
the fraudulent disposal of one of their employer's hones ;
and it is supposed that he feared the divulging of the matter
to his mistress on her return home. He had used threats
towards the prosecutor, and on Wednesday night in last week,
after having been drinking in the village, he spoke to a milk-
man about milking Mrs. Ricardo's cows in the morning.
This was ailury always performed by the gardener. Oa that
s night the suer, who lives at the lodge, retired to bed
about 11 °slack, and soon afterwards he was awoke by
the sound of the discharge of firearms, which he attributed,
however, to some gentlemen who had been out rifle shooting
in the neighbourhood diving the day. On getting up in the
morning, however, he found that the door haul been pm-
foratedgda ball which had been fired towards his bed, bat
which,gliding off, had buried itself in the skirting of the
wall. ormation having been given to the police, the pri.
sonar was apprehended, and a brace of pistols which belonged
to the late Mr. Ricardo were found in his possession--one of
them baying evidently been lately discharged—and also two
Millets similar to the one found in the skirting. Mr.
Superintendent Morgan was of opinion that the bullet, which
was shot in a diagonal direction, would have reached the bed
of the prosecutor had it not been diverted in its coune by
paining through the front door. The prisoner, on being
apprehended, admitted firing the pistol ; but said he did sot
know it was loaded. His solicitor now pleaded that he did it
to awake the prosecutor. The prisoner was committed tot
trial at the 111111301.
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