Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-07 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

THE PARIS ELECTIONS.

ANOTHER TRIUIVIPII OF THE REPUB-
LICAN CANDIDATES.

PARIS, MONDAY NIGHT.
The elections terminated to-day, when the
numbers were as follows :

THIRD ELECTORAL DISTRICT;

Cavaignae
Thebant (Government candidate) .... 9,745

FOURTH ELECTORAL DISTRICT.

011ivier
Varian (Government candidate) ..... 9,976

SEVENTH ELECTORAL DISTRICT.

Darrimon .
Languatere

14,014
9,676

EXECUTION OF THE CONVICT MANSELL.

This convict, about whose ultimate fate there has been
so much uncertainty, was executed at Maidstone, o n
Monday morning in front of the county prison. The con-
vict, Thomas James Mansell, was:about 30 years of age.
lie was tried at the last winter assizes in Maidstone, on
the charge of shooting Corporal M'Burney, of the 49th
Regiment, to which Mansell also belonged, when he was
convicted and sentenced to death. It will, however, be
remembered that at the trial, the prisoner's counsel,
Mr. F. Russell, took an objection to the mode in which
the jury was empannelled. The point was overruled
by the presiding judge (Mr. Baron Bramwell). Mr.
Russell, however, brought his writ of error, and the
Attorney-General issued his fiat to have the matter tried
before the Court of Queen's Bench, and subsequently
before the Court of Exchequer Chamber—the origina 1
judgment being in each instance confirmed. The prisone r
had, during the whale of this trying period, remained in a
very cool and comparatively indifferent state (at time s
expressing his conviction that his counsel would succeed
in reversing the judgment.) He was removed to London
no less than five times to be present at the argu-
ments on the point raised in his behalf. After the
final confirmation of his sentence, however, he becam e
very irritable and excited, and so remained for
some days, but again resumed his former calmness
and quietude. During the whole of his confinement the
chaplain of the prison (the Rev. Watson King) was most
constant and earnest in his ministrations upon him; but,
although he listened very attentively to all that the rev e-
rend gentleman urged, he never showed any deep sense
of the enormity of his crime ; indeed, he frequently
stated that, from the overbearing conduct of the deceased
towards him, he felt perfectly justified in what he had
done. The final order for the execution of the wretched
criminal was received by the governor of the jail on
Thursday, and the intelligence was communicated to
the prisoner by the chaplain on Saturday. Although
the day had been previously named to him, and he
had been exhorted to prepare himself, he at the moment
showed some little irritation, but soon became again
cool and collected, and apparently fully prepared to
meet his fate. The only relative the convict had, so far
as he was aware, was his brother (his mother having died
in the West Indies some years since). The brother is
confined in a lunatic asylum, consequently, no interviews
took place between them. The day preceding the execu-
tion being Sunday, the erection of the scaffold was not
commenced until one o'clock on Monday morning. It was
completed about nine. By the standing orders strangers
are not admitted to the gaol on the morning of the execu-
tion. Mansell spent a very restless night, but was firm
and collected when he appeared on the scaffold. There
was a crowd of nearly 5,000 persons present. After the
usual preliminaries the drop fell, but the unhappy man
did not die until after a hard struggle.