The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

TO-MORROW.

(Tim asterisks denote the horses trained at Newmarket.)
501. for Thaita-Yamt-oLini, Tat 71b ; four, net Sib ; ere,
six, sad aged, Sat 131 b ; the winner to be KIM for 300 soya
D.I.

HAIMICAP BWIMANTALEB of 15 sort. eirAlh, 10 ft, for 2•yr•
olds. T.Y.C.

HAND/CM SWIIPSTAKES Of `2O son. each, 5 ft, for a-r-
-olds sad upwards. D.M.
ftwearwramen of 10 soy.. each ; for 2.yr-olds, Est ; three,
Pet ; four. Met 121 b ; five and upwards, 9st 2lb ; the
winner to be sold for 150 son. ; if for 100, allowed 51b.
R.M.

S ELPSTA CM of 10 eon. each ; for 2.yr-old colts, Bet
7lb ; fillies, Net alb ; the winner to be sold for 80 eon.
First half of Ab. M.

Sitcom' YLAR THIS THIRTFENTH TRUCNWIAL PRODITI
Semmes, 10 son. each, for Cyrolds ; colts, 8.1 7lb ; fillies,
Set 41b ; the moond to mein 10 per cent,. and the third
1 per cent. on the stakes. A.F. (Ml subs ) Frailty, c.
by Wild Dayrell intimidation, 'Gammon, •Vidl-o'-ths-
Wisp, Horatio,•Bmps,•Prince Plausible, Vergiss:mein-nicht,
Fiountalla, Styria'►, **lobo, Elcot Lam, *Jingling Johnny,
f. by Loagbow Mrs. Gill, Pruceptress, 'Adrian, Stray
Bird, Starlight, Castatrice, Folkestone, Violet, Prudence,
The Dutchman, Canimino, 'Wing, 'Lady Blanche' 'Re-
veilM, Sloth, Pretty Patty, c by Surplice Boarding
School Mies, Vir, •Dneat, •Wast End, Matador, Zoeman,
Little Nell, Robin Hood, Knight of St. Patrick, Tartlet,
Lady Margaret, Romulus, Lady Anne, Africa. (paid),
—Lasagne's*), Klarikoff (dead), Twin Colts by Chatham
(dead), Bob Handy (dead), Martha Love
(dead t), by Little David Tarabounne (dead), Garrison
(dead).

Tim ST. LIZZR STALES of 25.0... each, far 3.yr-olds ;
colts, 7lb ; lilliea. Bst 315 ; winners extra, ke. ; the
second to receive 50 nova., and the third to save his stake.
(22 sobs.)--•Will4the.Wisp, 'Oberon, •Elboras,
Canary, •Sospahot, Pegasus, Sequitur, Conjuror, Nautilus,
Starlight, Ganleour, *Grouse, •Revklle, Vapour, Bay Cob.
ham, 'lmam, •Adrusta, 'Canto, •Diophantits, Arrogant,
•Walloon, Chamade (paid).
Ttss Gasser ATARI% of 30 Num each, 20 ft, for 2.yr
olds ; colts, Bst 7lb ; Allies, Bst 3lb ; winners extra, Ice.
From the turn of the leads in. (12 subs.) —*Ballerina,
Sappho, instructor, Yana, 'Elisabeth, *g by Kiegston
Flax, Margery The Orphan, 'Febrifuge, 'King of Hearts,
Pompadour, gippodamia.

CRICKET.

THE GREAT SINGLE WICKET MATCH AT
SHEFFIELD. _ _

Thin match was resumed at Hyde-park, Sheffield,
yesterday, at 12 o'clock. Damien opened the second innings
at the f4tocktoo players, but was quickly bowled by Hay-
ward. Robinsoo followed, and after a brief inning was
cleverly caught by Carpenter. Hornby made a better
@fend. nod several changes of bowling were rimorted to, but
without effect for some time. He appeared so well in that
has friends backed him largely to make a good score, but
be was bowled by Hayward in the 57th hall, !caries the
tkimbridge players the winner, by 55 runs. To the ascend
innings latrutee received 12 halls without securing a run ;
Rotations made 11 runs out of 44 bells ; and Maltby 19
runs out of 1:114 balls; Carpenter gave two widen The
more in appended :

CAYBRIDGE.
YIM Inning,. s,cond Inning".
21. Cementer. b. Itol•Inson .. 3 b. Rob!nom.. 21
T. Ilkann2,l. b. Damian 20 b. Lob .. 62
Wide* .. 10 N.b.,1; at., >A .. 9
Total

rrocICTIMON-TKIDS CLUB.

T. Rabinann, run out . .. 17 b. Hayward .. 11
T.Damtan,r earpanter.b.Hayward e.Carpentatb.Hayward 0
T. Hamby, b Hayward .. 9 b. H;rward 10

Umpired .—tor Cambridge. V. Reynolds: for Stockton-on-Tem,
IddLen.

THr CHAMPION PIAMOHNIN or ENOLANIA—The
three ploughmen of the pest rival plough.makere—Ran-
some, Howard. and Hornsby@ -have pat met at two im-
portant matches, "open to all England," the latter of
which came off on Saturday at Northampton. A youth.
hardly five feet high, east by Howarth, of Bedford, beat
his older and formidable rivals in both contests.

•
THE CONDEMNED MUILDEREFLH.— r.be execution
of Cogan and Maloney is fixed for Monday, the 14th inst.
A petition in favour of the latter is in preparation. The
grounds assigned by his solicitor for a respite are : sect,
because the indirect evidence moduord on the part of the
crown rather tended to corroborate the declaration made by
the prisoner. that the deceased stabbed herself ;
became the direct evidence depended upon the credit to be
given to the witness Saunders, whose testimony. before the
coroner, the magistrate, and the Central Criminal 0011 Ti,
was he 'Aikido evidence disproved in many material points ;
and thirdly.. Lanvin.° the jury stated at his trial their opi-
nion that Maloney had no intention when be wont home to
injure him wife.

The earliest red light of this morning was shining
through the mighty arches of the Colosseum, and
glowing on the few pillars in the ancient Forum,
when 1 came down over the Capitol on that side, and
turned to the right hand through the squalid, beg-
garly
hovels built on the Tarpeian Rock. Across
the Piazza della Consolazione, where a French sol-
dier was stabbed by cue of the Papal army the
other day, I went, and thence down the street of
San Giovanni Decollate, or Head:eta John the
Baptist, at the bottom of which I first saw the hide-
ous guillotine, surrounded by Hashing bayonets, and
on the skirts of the military mass, an expectant
popular crowd. By a short detour, I gained some
higher ground, close to the arch of Jaime Quadri-
frous, where the whole of these dreadful prepare-
tious became visible. It was in the low-lying dis-
trict called now, as of yore, the Velabruni, and
subject in every age to these inundations of
the Tiber, by which Horace once beheld the
Temple of Vesta overthrown from a neighbouring
site, where the round columnar structure that re-
placed it now stands. There just within the lung
hollow of the old Circus Maximus between the
imperial Palatine and the immoral river's bank,
the police of a priestly monarchy had erected its
apparatus of penal death. It was the too familiar
instrument borrowed from the Parisian revolution,
associated with the terror of 1793. A platform of
rough planks, at the elevation of a mans' face, sup-
ported above two upright posts, with a short trims-
verse beam, twenty feet high. A steel blade,
somewhat broader than a common ploughshare,
with an oblique edge, was fixed in a sliding timber,
heavily loaded, which might fall down through
the perpendicular grooves on either side, by
releasing it, with one pull of a rope,
from the latch that kept it aloft. Directly under
this suspended &XIS a bar or narrow plank, across
the open space, two or three feet wide, betwixt the
upright posts, was placed to accommodate the man's
neck, that it might be chopped asunder, tut on a
butcher's block. A high stool for him to kneel
upon, so as to reach this bar, and a spare shallow
box to receive his tumbling head ou the other side,
completed these bare disgusting arrangements,
without any sable hangings or emblems of solemn
mourning to dignify the means of destroying human
life. The square on each hand of the scaf-
fold was thick-set and enclosed with troops
of the various Pontifical corps, gendarmes or ears-
bineers both horse and foot, dragoons, Cacciaton,
and infantry of the line, a force altogether of per-
haps nearly two thousand, all under arms, and ex-
cluding the populace from coming near, though a
few, by coming early, had secured plasm under the
neighbouring walls. There were no French sol-
diery engaged to keep the ground, but many hun-
dreds were there as mere spectators, and privileged
to go in or out as they pleased. A large building
opposite me, iu which a French regiment is quar-
tered, showed every window and every inch of its
garden wall crowded with the foreign allies of his
Holiness, all very noisy and merry, most of
them in the dishabille of mere shirt and red
trousers, relaxing from drill and duty in
the easy abandon of barrack life. The con-
gregation of spectators outside was, I should
think, scarcely more numerous than the military
array. They seemed for the most part like men of
Locatelli's own class, artisans and labourers, with a
few neatly-dressed bourgeois, and a very few women.
Boys clambered upou the door of a large barn or
granary, inscribed as belonging to the corporation
De Propaganda Fide, and they laughed and shouted
if any one fell down. The behaviour of the people
otherwise was quiet, grave, and respectful to a degree
which might have well reproved the coarse ribaldry
of that London mob which throngs the Old Bailey
or Horsemouger-lane on a similar occasion. Spies
and listening policemen in plain clothes, or the
unofficial agents of detection and intimidation who
swarm in every public place of Rome, were very
frequent in that crowd, and you might observe how
the uneasy glances backward from a talking group
would betray their fears of being overheard by some
one of the enemy behind. Yet they did talk of the
comrade who was about to die, and I beard two or
three of them say they had known him for years
peat. "He was always so merry," said one, "a
line man, strong, and rather fat ; I was acquainted
with him before he went to the railway." Did he
leave a wife and children f "No, only a sister
and his old aunt, who had been taken away from
the city • there's his younger brother too, who 44
denim, has been shut up iu prison for the last eight
years." It was all for attari politici ; the brother was
of Garibaldi's followers, in the Iwrm bard campaign
of 1848, and after that, being a clever mimic-
worker, and behaving steadily, was patronised by the
Russian Prince Schou walofi; who took care of him for
some time, till he joined iu Mazzini's conspiracy of
August, 1853, and having comeback from Genoa to
Rome for that purpose, with nine or ten others, was
arrested on the discovery of the plot. This one,
Cense, fought on the walls of Rome against the
French in 1849 ; he got into trouble after the siege
for attacking three of them at once, when they
forced their way into his shop, and would have
robbed hint of his wine ; he also spent three or
four years in prison after the affair of 1853. There
had never been anything else laid to his charge •
be was au honest fellow, and trusted
of course every day with the luggage at the railway
station. A great subject of speculation amongst
these men was about the probability of his repenting
and confessing to the priests. Vornt coorertirsi o
leo f Io direi di no. " Will lie, or won't he, be
converted I I don't think he will," was the ques-
tion, with its answering opinion, which I repeatedly
heard. Then they spoke of the manner in which
convicts, during the last night they may live, are
beset with hourly relays of monks and other reli-
gious ministers, exhorting them to confess their
sins, and to receive absolution with the sacrament
offered to them in a little chapel next the
condemned cell. Fifteen or twenty criminals
under sentence of death may perhaps lie in the
same prison at one time, for it is usual
to keep ordinary offenders with suspended
execution for a long time, as much as two years,
though the brief respite of a few days only has
been allowed lanai the trial in this political case.
When the fatal warrant arrives, all these prisoners
under capital sentence are brought together, and it
is announced to them that next morrow one is to i
die ; they know not which it is, and are left to
pals a night of trying anxiety, each leering lest the
summons be for himself. These particulars were I
related to me by persons in the crowd, who went

on to describe some former executions they had
witnessed, such as the shooting of six men me-
corned in the murder of the two Jesuit spies at the
tine of Mazzini's dictatorship in 1849. They re-
membered, besides, how a woman was guillotined
there some years ago, and how ugly she
looked. With such unplesaing observations the
time wore away for two hours, till half-past seven
o'clock. A black canopy, with the crucifix beneath
it, was then seen carried across the Piazza to the
scaffold side, where several friars and, I think, one
or two clergymen beside, took up their posts.
Soon afterwards a closed carriage drove up, and
then commenced a great beating of drums, whisk
never stopped for six or eight minutes, with its
iswerwhelming din. By the time that rude noise
was over, the number of Pio Nono's disaffected
subjects, and of God's living rational matures on
earth, was diminished by one. Four persons I
saw on the platform ; one, plainly dressed iu ordi-
nary black, probably an official of the prison or an
assessor ; then an older mail, wearing a tong coat
and a sort of above) hat, wive was the executioner ;
then an assistant of his, in a white blouse, or apron ;
and lastly the man whowas just going to die. A fairer
specimen of physical manhood I have seldom seen,
as be stood toe one moment, firmly erect, and hooking
itet kiwagdo as& naked from the waist up, witE
&shy chest as i shoulders, clues mit black
hair and beard, and one of those ample, handsome
facts., square in the jaws and wide in the forehead,
every feature boldly expressive of a certain gene-
rous energy, which you may commonly trace in the
visages of working-class men in the Traatevere
quarter of Rome. He refused to let the bandage
be placed over his eyes, in which matter it is always
usual to comply with the person's wish. The
crucifix was presented to him that he might
kiss it, but he tossed back Lis head in-
dignantly, and if his hands had not been tied
behind him, might have thrust it away. Without
needing to be touched by any one, he placed
himself under the guillotine, and voluntarily bowed
down, so as to rest his throat on the bar. Au in-
stant only elapsed—the cord was drawn, and the
swift-killing tool of justice or vengeance descended;
and here sank the mere carcase trunk and limbs of
a human being, and there tumbled in its gore a
lopped-off human head. That reverend-looking
elderly mail, the bole, then took this fragment of
mortality up by the hair, and holding it at arm's.
length, showed it to the people all round the
scaffold. I cannot tell you bow the horrible thing
looked, for I could not look at it myself. The next
moment, he was busy with a cloth or
sponge and a tub of water, &musing
I the axe and the plank of his machine.
The corpse, in two pieces, had been wrapped
up and put into a cart, to be taken away,
after which the servant of Abhorson washed the
platform with a mop. I asked one of the by-
standers how and where the remains of this cri-
minal would be interred. " Oh, if lie had chosen
to be converted, his head would have been wrapped
in two coverings of white silk, and brought wit
his body to lie in the church of St. John the Be-
headed, and then to be buried close by ; you know
it was here, in that same place, that St. John the
Baptist's head was cut off." I did not correct his
blundering account of a fact in Scripture history,
as to which, perhaps, the vulgar notion at Rome
is not much worse founded than that of the
locality of St. Peter's sufferings in the Circus of
Nero, where the superb dome named after him now
stands. As for the corpse of this Locatelli, having
died without accepting priestly offices, it would be
carted out of the city, and put underground come
end bestir, as they said, somewhere beyond the
walls. The man who had told me before so much
about him now added, with more vehemence, these
remarks :—" He would not confess, because then he
must have said that he was guilty. And he was
innocent ! How do we know what testimonies there
were at the trial 1 Do you know, sir, that the
advocate who was to defend him did not
du so, because they would nut let him
know who were this witnesses against him I Ah,
I can tell you. &ions." mak easel. We're
badly off here indeed." With these very words the
man turned away, full of grief and resentment, and
I saw nut which road he took. Coming nearer to
the scaffold, as the troops marched off, I was in-
formed by one person there, a hobbling, white-
haired gnuidsire, how Locatelli haul exclaimed,
" Viva l'ltalia, Morte ai preti !" just before stoop-
lug to the block. I heard French, as well as Italian,
poises of the courage with which he had met the
stroke of fate. Pondering sadly enough on the
effects which this transaction may have in the ex-
cited temper of the Roman populace, I walked
home. From some conversations afterwards I
karma' that the resolute demeanour of
this culprit, though no more than had
been expected from his previous character, was
viewed by his own class with sympathy and admi-
ration. It was an hour after midnight, in the Car-
een Nuevo where he lay, that they woke him to
apprise him that lie was to die at the dawn of day.
" Leave me then in peace," was all lie said. Several
monks of the Scalzetti or Barefoot order, with
their Superior, who had known Locatelli before,
cause to offer him their ghostly comfort. The Su-
perior took him apart into the chapel for half-an-
hour, but then returned and said, " It is of no use
to lose our time with him." A Spanish bishop
staying here in Rome, moved by an ardent zeal for
the salvation of this departing soul, came to the
prison, and threw himself passionately on his knees
before the doomed criminal, imploring him to
accept the last services of the church. It
was all in vain ; the poor illiterate Roman
face/time remained obdurate to their COIIII-
- and prayers though be treated them with
no disrespect. lie did not abuse or revile the
turnkeys, whilst iu gaol, but when he was removed
this morning to the chapel of the Conforteria, near
the place of execution, three gendarnicis were steed-
lug at the door as he got into the carriage, and he
spat in their faces. He said, on his going up to
the scaffold, " This is the but blood to he Awl for
Italy." Why do I recount these details I I would
not pretend to hold up as a hero and a martyr this
' violent and headstrong map ; I detest the habit of
carrying the knife as a weapon ; I cannot justify its
' use, oven against the sabre, in an act of resistance
to the legal force. But the Roman population, by
' nature proud, irascible, brave, and geuerous,
has been brought up for a thousand years
immediately under the spiritual instruction and
civil rule of the great high priest of Latinised
Christendom, and if their high spirit has degene-
rated into ferocity, which their enemies, the apolo-
gise of foreign coercive, are apt to say of them,
whose is then the fault

DWI! OF Ma. LOFTUS CHIALIDI OTWAY, C.B
We are sorry to learn that intelligence waa received yester-
day morning, at the Foreign.°Bice, Whitehall, of the death
of Mr. Otway, C. 8., Consul-Urethral at Milan. The de-
ceased gentleman, who was the only son of the late
General Sir Loftus W. Otway and Lady Otway,
only daughter of the late Sir Charles Blithe, of Carroon.
park, Surrey. had been in the diplomatic service
for above thirty years, having been attached to
the 'Melo* at Stockholm in November, IA:10. He was
subsequently, in July Int, attached to the British midway
at St. Petersburg, and in August the following year re-
moved to the British Legation at Madrid. In deanery
1843, wee appointed second paid attache at Vienna, but did
not proceed to that capital. lu Junef that year be pro-
ceeded to Lisbon, and afterwards went, ill July ISO, to
Madrid. The deceased gentleman was appointed Secretary
of Legation at Madrid in May, is o, sod acted as charge
d'affaires in that city from May to December 1102, and
acted in the same capacity from May to December the next
year, arid repeatedly to tbe abseoce of the British
Minister Plenipotentiary up
to December, BIN. Is Sep.
tember, 1834, for his diplomatic services, he was made a
Companion of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath.
Early in the year 1858 he was selected by the Secretary of
State fur the Foreign Department to discharge the dutiea
of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Mexican Republic,
daring which mission lie exerted all his powers to protect
the iiiterests of hi. countrymen in that distracted country.
I The lamented gentleman, soon after his return home, was
appointed to the memos post of Consal-Unneral at Milan.

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