The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

ROGERSS LONGEVITY I

"When Rogers made his appearance as a poet, Lord
Byron was unborn—and Byron has been dead 31 years I
When Percy Bysshe Shelley was born, Rogers was in his
30th year—and Shelley has been dead nearly 34 years I
When Keats was born, The Pleasures of Memory' was
looked upon as a standard poem—and Keats has been dead
35 years! When this century commenced, the man who
died but yesterday, and in the latter half, too, of the cen•
tury, had already numbered as many years as Burns and
Byron had numbered when they died. Mr. Rogers was
born before the following English poets—Scott, Southey
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Moore, Campbell, Bloom-
field, Cunningham, Hogg, James Montgomery, Shelley,
Keats, Wilson, Tom Hood, Kirke White, Lamb, Joanna
Baillie, Felicia Hemans, L. E. L. ; and he outlived them
all."

Execution in Longford. —A Painful Scene,

Charles M.Cormack, who had been convicted at
the late assizes for the murder of s, young man
named Michael Beglan, at Drinan Bridge, on the
21st of November, suffered the last penalty of the
law on Tuesday morning, in front of the Longford
gaol.

It will be remembered that the case, which was
heard before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald on the 2d of
July, excited much interest, as no abject could be
discovered for the perpetration of a brutal murder
on a person scarcely past the years of boyhood, and
who, as far as it could be learned, had never had
any differences with the unfortunate man who has
expiated his crime, with the three men who assisted
him, or with the four men who stood calmly by
while Beglan was being was being beaten to death
in the presence of his aged father, who could render
him no assistance. Although M'Cormack had been
convicted on evidence the most clear and conclusive,
many persons believed that there was some mystery
at the bottom of the painful transaction which had
not been brought to light. Even the learned judge.
when passing the sentence, observed:—" WhAt mo
tive you may have had in taking the life of that
young man, Michael Beglan, I know not. From all
I could gather from the evidence presented to the
jury, you appear to have had no quarrel with the
deceased. He committed no offence against you as
I can discover. You had no cause for entertaining a
feeling of animosity towards him. You do not
seem to have been his antagonist; but you can tell,
and you alone, what motive led you on to take his
life."

Since the conviction of the unfortunate man every
exertion was made by some of the most influential
parties to have his sentence commuted. A memorial
was..drawnlAp and forwarded to the Government for
this object, and hopes were entertained of its being
successful ; but the governor of the gaol received an
official communication from Dublin Castle stating
that the law should take it course. At the hour
appointed on Tuesday morning numbers of persons
collected in front of the gaol, but at no time did
those present exceed 2,000. They conducted them-
selves with the utmost propriety, and seemed sensi-
bly impressed with the solemnity of the awful oc-
currence. The melancholy preliminaries, the
Pinioning, the proaaises of resignation, and
the funeral procession, having been all gone
through, the unhappy man appeared on the
fatal drop. lie seemed collected, and his ap-
pearance imparted a shock to every individual
member of the crowd. The rope was ad-
justed, the prayer ejaculated, and the bolt was
withdrawn—but unfortunately M'Cormaek was
on

ly precipitated to the ground, not into eternity,
By some mistake, it would appear, the rope was too
long, and when the executioner drew the bolt the
unfortunate criminal fell to the ground on his knees.
This, however, did not give him a long respite, for
the rope was immediately hauled up, and in about
three minutes 11`Corm:lck Woe before the dread tri-
bunal of eternity.--Freeman Correspondent.