The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-05 00:00:00

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find the several parts of the service, and appeared mach
affected. Throughout the administration el the Hy
Sacrament, Fowles's firmness appeared never tre...kneva
him for a siagle moment, and he retired from the chapel
to the condemned cell without betraying the Slightest
emotion of fear, preserving, however, the same decorum
which he had rnaiet:ene.l ifuring the impressive service,
On entering his cell be preseated to the Govareor a
little book, entitled." Tie Sinner's Friend," with a re-
quest that he Would eive it to a fellow prisoner, whom
he named. The Geveino'r then, in the tethst solemn
' manner, besoeek him to' tell the wbeie truth before he
left the world, and not to die with a lie in his mouth.
Fe-Ales again declared that be knew nothing about the
murder, end that be had told the truth as far as he knew.
About eight o'clock the executioner entered the cell,
and proceeded to pinion the unhappy man. Whilst he
was performing this office it waa most surprising to,
witness the. unshaken demeanour of the prisoner. The
Governor said, " Fowles, I hope you are not going to
leAva. the world with a lie in your mouth ?" He re-
plied, No, sir." The Governor added, " You know
that your punishment will be more than tenfold in the
Lela world if you do." The prisoner replied, " Yen,
sir, lam aware of it." He then requested that his
coat and hat might ba given to Ellis, one of the boat-
men, who Was reprieved only a few hours before the
time fixed for his execution last year, and-who still
remains in the county prison.
The Under Sheriff, R. W. Hand, Esq., having, undo
to the Governor, made Cie usual demand for tt:e body
of the culprit, he was delivered up into the hands of the
executioner. The Chaplain immediately commenced
reading the burial service, and with the Governor and
Under Sheriff, preceded the prisoner to the drop, the
prisoner walktng, unsupported, with a firm step. Ho
ieicended the scaffel I likewise without assistance, and
took his station under the fetal beam. After the rope
bed been placed round his neck, the Governor asked
him for the last thee what:et he had any further com-
munication to neike? He replied, Le should like to
say one word ; and turning to the Rey. Chaplain, be
seql, " ba-d to die an innocent man for this theag."
Time Rev. Chaelain then adeed, " You still assert your
innocence id' To which he replied, " Yes, air." In a
a few seconds the bolt was drawn, and the gehaPpy man
was launched into eternity. iith disalkeifitt almost
in-
stantancons.

The spectatars began immediately to disperse. We
understand that a fdow was detected by one of the
Stafford police picking a person's pocket in the crowd.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

(From the Observer.)
On Saturday a Court of Aldermen was held, ait which
a good deal of mcrrimeat %cat; created by a respectabl3
paitiooer.

Alderman KELLY presented a petition from Mr.
E lis, the Lndlord of the Chapter Coffee-house, in
Paterooster-rory, praying that omnibusses and ( tiler
public carriages might be prevented iron) passing dawn
the row during the hours of Divine service on the
Lcrd's day.

The LORD MAYOR asked the petitioner if he had
arqthieg to add?
Mr. ELLIS, who pleaded his own cause, with great
cart e=ticss said that his family would be ruined it his
petition were not complied wilh, for, in consequence
of the prohibition issued against the passing cf public
vehicles round St. Paul's Church-ya-d during the hours
of Divine smvice, they ratili2il by his house in such
quick succession, ILA his family were not oily dis-
turbed, but his customers, who were principally c!ergy-
men, could not get their refreshment in prace, and they
would be obi ged absolutely to run out of the house if
the nuisance were not abated. Tae injury, too, which
his valuable stock of wine in the cellars under the pave-
ment would be subjected to would I e very serious, for
the rumbling of the carriages maae the wine shake
again, and his floe old port would never recover the
convulsion.

Alderman FAREEROTHER thought the petitioner's
request a very unreasonable one. The Court of Al-
dermen would not be justified in closing a publics
thoroughfare because an indict idual sustained ineon-
%enience from its use. If Mr. Ellis's family would go
to cherch they might enjoy the quietude they longed
for, as it appeared from the petition that it was only
during the hours of Divine Service, when St. Pual'a
Churchyard was closed a2ainst public traffic, that the
coaches disturbed Mr. Ellis's family.—(Laughter.)

Alderman WHITE was surprised, for the same rea-
son, to hear that Mr. Ellis's customers were dis-
turbed ; for as they were described by the petitioner to
be quiet clergymen, he should have thought they would
be engaged in their sacred calling during the Sabbath,'
rather than be seate.l in a coffee-house to have their
meditations disturbed by the rattling of omnibuses and
the noise of coaches and cabs.—(Hear.)
Sir C. S. HUNTER assured Mr. Ellis that the
Court would take his bottles into their serious con-
sideration.—(A laugh.) It might be perhaps arranged
that the omnibuses should pass the petitioner's house at
a foot pace, instead of creating a commotion in the
cell tr by the rapidity of their movements. The wine
must, of all things, be protected.—(A laugh.)
Alderman COPELAND moved that the petition should
be laid on the table. St. Paul's Churchyard was very
properly closed during the hours of divine service, at the
instance of the Bishop of London, that the solemn ser-
vice of the cathedral might not be disturbed ; and if
Mr. Ellis's had been a church instead of a coffee-house,
there would have been some reason, as well as some
right, for the Court's interference; but as it was there
was neither reason nor right, for upon referring to the
Act of Parliament under which the authority was given
to close the streets in the way proposed, it was clear that
it oily applied to cases in which the clergymen or
churchwardens applied. In respect to Paternoster-row
no application could be made, because there was no
church in the whole line.--(Hear, near.)
Alt!erman LUCAS shook his head very much at the

idea of the iojury which the wine might sustain from the
sort of earthquakes which the vehicles occasioned iu the
cavernous locality of Paternoster-row. He was really
afraid that the thunder of the omnibuses would be as
falai to port, as the thunder of the elements was to
porter.—( Laughter.) Of the suggestion that the car-
iiages of all kinds should go at a slow pace he should
approve, if the proprietors were not liable to a penalty
for creeping.
The petition was then, according to the terms of the
amendment, ordered to be laid on the table.