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LONDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 10, 1848

The penalty of blood has been paid. The noonday
destroyer of three people has suffered the extreme
punishment of the law. He who slew without pity
has perished without compassion. The outrage upon
society was enormous, but the ignominious death of the
murderer has satisfied the laws which were ordained
for its protection.
In the glad and cheerful month of May the house
of the aged couple was made desolate. There was
snow, and a chilling wind, and winter, when PATRICK
Rum looked for the last time upon the earth which is
/id of him, and has cast him out.
ISVCARE lives, his judgment of death is respited,
and rumour has it he will be pardoned ; this is the
more probable as the real murderer, in his last mo-
menta, corroborated the confession he had previously
made, and exonerated M`CADE from all participation
in the
brutal crime. We see in all this something to
deplore, and something to admire. A British jury,
after a careful inquiry and by a well-considered
verdict have found an innocent man guilty; for that
MVAnE is innocent, vie are bound at least in charity
to suppose, and perhaps
the evidence is consistent
with this conclusion.

'The reformers of our criminal law are thus sup-
plied with a leading case, Which
they will not hesitate
to press into their service ; arid
who can marvel if
they do so? While they who advocate the abolition of
pun i
si anent by death may in future point with some
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We must at the same
another reflection of an opposite nature, which natu-
rally arises at the present moment. The witnesses
for the Crown were
subjected by the young and
talented counsel who defended REID to a most
rigid rind careful cross-examination. The evi.
deuce as to time was thereby very much
-weakened, and the medical testimony was
completely shattered. Dr. WEST'S analysis yielded.n
altogether to Mr. DIGEY SEYMOUR'S. I
Nothing,
i Fact, was omitted which ingenuity could suggest, or
patience carry into execution ; and at the close of the
case for the prosecution the jury were addressed
at great length on behalf of the prisoner in
a speech of unusual eloquence and power. Yet that
jury, after three hours' sober and impartial inquiry,
returned with a verdict of guilty. Thus, while our
legal reformers are furnished with a plausible argu-
ment in the respite' of WCABE—while new, and, in
the opinion of many, strong reasons are to be found
in his condemnation for the establishment of courts
of criminal appeal and the abolition of capital punish..
ment; on the other hand, by the death of REID,
-the strength of the law has been declared, the
efficiency of trial by jury vindicated, and justice once
more has mightily and memorably triumphed.
_Perhaps, too, when we consider all the evidence
Pi vquced at the recent trial, and balance the probabi-

lities ; when we look to the case against AUCABE, and
recollect the ordinary rules of human action, perhaps
we say the solemn and unanimous decision of the
jury is only weakened by the circumstance of a sub-
sequent confession, and that on the whole the verdict
of guilty against REID and M'Cane cannot be fairly
quoted as an argument against our present system
of criminal jurisprudence, or our time-honoured in-
stitution of trial by jury.
There is another circumstance connected with this
extraordinary case which should not be lost sight of
—and although we cannot regret the exemplary pu•
nishment that has at length terminated the career of
the wretched criminal, most sincerely do we hope
that the case may not be cited as a precedent, or made
use of as an instrument of persecution. We allude
to what has practically been the second trial of the
murderer for the same offence, for though, according
to the letter of the law they were regarded as separate
offences, yet in its true spirit they were one and the same.
In fact, the case completely came within the rule
which had been deliberately laid down as a test by
which such cases should be tried. It cannot for a
moment be doubted "that the evidence necessary to
support the second indictment would have been
sufficient to procure a legal conviction upon the first."
(See Rex v. Clark, 1 B and B 473 ; Rex v. Emden, 9
East 437; and Rex v. Sheen, 2 Car. and Payne, 634.)
We are glad to see Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR did not lose
sight of this circumstance in his able speech, and we
cannot express our opinions in stronger language
than that ascribed to him by a Contemporary:—
"It (said the Learned Counsel) we search the
calendars of crime in ancient or in modern times—if
we turn to the history of criminal prosecutions
recorded or traditionary—while on the one hand we
can find no parallel for the wickedness charged against
the prisoner at the bar ; so on the other, can we
discover no case in which more energy than has been
exhibited in the present instance was put forth on the
part of the prosecution, or more zeal and ability em-
ployed for the purpose of procuring a conviction. So
long as that energy and this zeal were kept within
their proper limits; so long as they did not lead to a
stretch of power, or to a departure from that spirit
which prompts to a lofty, a dignified, and an impartial
conduct ; so long they who undertook to investigate
and trace out the author or authors of the horrid
deeds at Mirfield, acted as the servants of justice;
but the moment this spirit departed from them, and a
desire to secure a verdict succeeded a zeal to punish
crime, respect for the accuser merged in sympathy for
the accused, and the servants of justice became the
ministers of persecution !
" Suppose, gentlemen, a counting-house was felo-
niously entered—that a desk was broken operi which
contained in separate compartments gold, silver, and
copper—that all the money is carried off—that
a man is brought to trial on suspicion of having
committed the robbery—that the indictment charges
him with stealing the gold only, but• from the
evidence it is indisputably established that if he took
the gold he must have been the person who took like-
wise the silver and the copper—that after a patient
investigation he is acquitted by the unanimous ver-
dict of his jury—suppose further, that after this
acquittal a resolution was formed to try him for the
stealing of the silver or the copper, would it be fair ?
would it be even and impartial justice? would it or
would it not be substantially (for what have you or
to do with technicalities now ?) a departure from that
rule and maxim of our civil liberty which says that no
man shall twice be perilled on the same charge I
"Gentlemen—ln what position does my client stand?
He comes before you already found not guilty ' of this
murder. Is it not clear upon the evidence that who-
ever slew Mr. Wraith was the slayer of his wife and
servant? But Reid is innocent of the old man's
death, unless the former jury forgot their oaths or
forgot their senses. How, then, can he be tried for
the murder of either of the females ? This is not to
prosecute, but to persecute. It is not to try men, but
to victimise them. It is to trample upon the princi-
ple of trial by jury, and virtually to blot out the best
and brightest page of our constitutional history I
"I respect the laws, and I hold in honour the insti-
tutions of my country, bat it is one thing to respect
the laws and quite another to respect those who em-
ploy them for a sinister purpose ; and I fear that when
this second trial of Patrick Reid is published to the
world, that the enemies and cavillers against that
freedom of the subject of which England boasts and
vaunts herself so highly, may have good cause to
speak of our civil liberties as an utter mockery
and a wild delusion !"

We are sure we shall be pardoned for making
this extract, which so forcibly and clearly expresses the
opinionwe have not now for the first time put forward in
reference to the circumstances of this remarkable trial.

There can be scarcely any doubt whatever as to
the course which the French Government is likely to
pursue in reference to its illustrious captive, the great
Emir ABD-EL-KADEE. The Guisot Administration
is too remarkable for the elasticity of its conscience
to allow its conduct towards the hero of Africa to
remain for an instant dubitable. M. PARMENTIER has
not peculated in vain ; M. Le Comte DR BasssoN
has not severed his carotid artery without advantage :
M. Le Comte DE MORTIER has not brandished
razors about the throats of his children ineffectively
—as far, at least, as the development of his colleagues
is concerned. The web of principles by which the
Cabinet of the Tuileries is covered has been rigo-
rously stretched of late, and so roughly handled
as to render it impossible that it could be other-
wise than most transparent. True, there has been a
solemn guarantee of leniency to AED•EL-KADER
true he has received the assurance of a Prince of the
Blood Royal that his departure for St. Jean d'Aere
or Alexandria would be permitted by the Ministerial
Councils of Paris ; true, indeed, that it was almost
intimated to the conquered chieftain that he might,
at pleasure, retire to any quarter of Egypt or Pales-
tine, make a pilgrimage to Mecca, or take up his
abode in the halls of Damascus. True, that
the submission of the EMIR was utterly and
entirely conditional, that his compact was readily
acceded to by General LAMORICIERE, and as readily
acquiesced in by the Duc D'AUMALE. Still, despite
these deliberate and authoritative agreements, there
is every human probability that not one of them will
be fulfilled. The EMIR has been entrapped, his
sword has been forwarded to LOUIS PHILIPPE, his
pistols have been conveyed to the wife of the Go-
vernor of Oran, his war-horse has been re-
tained by the successor of the Duc DISLYI
his liberty has been restricted to the garden
and the corridors of the lazaretto of Toulon—the
EAIIR has been entrapped, cajoled, circumvented,
or, to speak more plainly, he has been thoroughly and
indisputably bamboozled.

We observe that our previous remarks upon the
seizure of this extraordinary warrior have excited a
very atrabilious sentiment of indignation in our
Parisian contemporary the Commerce. According
to that journal, it appears matter of astonishment that
one of the organs of public opinion in London (our •
selves) should conceive the possibility of the restoration
of the Arab's fortune, and the ultimate revival of his
puissance. It is incomprehensible, moreover, to the
same journalist, how any one can dream of the com-
pletion of the arrangement entered into between
ABD-EL• KADER and the Governor-General of
Algeria. What guarantee, he exclaims, iwhat gua-
rantee can be afforded by the EMIR of his pacific be-
haviour when conducted to within the battlements of
St. Jean d'Acre, or landed on the quays of Alexan-
dria ? That is surely a question which should
have been decided by General LAMORICIERE before
he consented to the demands of his prisoner; it is
a contingency which should especially have been re-
membered by the Due D'AUMALE before he com-
mitted the French Government by his distinct
assurances.

is it proposed to falsify the assertions of the Go-
vernor-General by a supposed imitation of the course
followed by Lord BATHURST, in reference to the
promises made by Captain MAITLAND in 1815, when
the Emperor NAPOLEON placed himself under the
protection of the laws of England ? Is it supposed
for a moment that the two cases are in the
smallest degree analogous ? Is it pretended that
the commander of a vessel of war is to be
regarded as equally entitled to arrive at such an
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Algeria'
Governor
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Gene-
ral of a Before the
apologists of M. Guizor can at all extenuate his
they must demonstrate a sort of
principles parity
between a Captain R.N. and a youthful statesman,
before whose titles are prefixed the magical ini-
tials H.R.H. Before the Cabinet of the Tuileries
can gratify its animosities towards ADD-EL-Ks-
DER with impunity it must obliterate from the
recollection of Europeans those numerous dere-
lictions of duty, those various distortions of truth,
and those repeated exhibitions of profligacy and in-
sincerity which have rendered it notorious and ab-

horred by the majority, while they have rendered it
contemptible and suspected by the minority.
Whatever may be the ultimate decision of the
SOVEREIGN of the FRENCH and his advisers, whether
they determine to imprison the EMIR within one of
the " Gallic " strongholds, or to transport him to
some securer portion of the globe, or to resort to
some more dastardly and deadly punishment, it is
certain to us that our original impression
will prove correct, that ABD-EL-KADER is only
worsted for the time being, not conquered beyond
redemption. Ingenious as this renowned Thant has
shown himself to be in the most terrible extremities
valiantly as he has struggled to power through
so many disasters ; perseveringly as he has
fought against a multitude of obstructions and a
legion of disciplined troops—he is not to be de-
stroyed by diplomatic quibblers like the subordinates
of Oran and Algeria—he is not to be quelled by the
gendarmes of Toulon, his glory is not to be extin-
guished by the audacious duplicity of a GUIZOT, or
by the insidious instigations of a BUGBAUD.

The Genoa Gazette states that the news of the
entrance of the Austrian troops into Modena had
produced a great fermentation at Leghorn. On the
evening of the 27th ult. the people in a mass pro-
ceeded to the residence of the governor, and de-
manded arms with loud cries. It was not without
difficulty that the tumult could be appeased. The
day before a similar commotion had taken place at
Florence. The Tuscan Government has decreed an
extraordinary levy, twelve pieces of cannon have been
already dispatched to the frontier of Modena.
The Alba, of Florence, states, that a telegraphic dis-
patch, received at Naples the 29th, announced that the
people of Palermo had gone en masse to the grotto
of St. Rosalie, patron saint of the city, there
to offer a new political oath. The Grand
Duke of FLORENCE had issued a decree, inviting
young men, from eighteen to thirty, to inscribe their
names upon the volunteer registration ; the object of
the decree is to have the army increased at once,
instead of depending on the annual levies. Monsieur
Buss', the successful negotiator of the Commercial
League at Florence and Turin, was about to set out
from Rome for Naples, to engage that power to ad-
here to the treaty. It was said that he would shortly
be elevated to the dignity of Cardinal, and succeed
Cardinal FERRETTI.
Letters from Milan state that the inhabitants of
Lombardy have agreed to abstain from the use of
tobacco, in order to cripple the Imperial revenue.
A disturbance took place at Milan on the 2d, on
account of the appearance in the streets of several
persons smoking—they were ordered by the people to
desist, and on their continuing to smoke, they were
set upon and beaten severely. The next day the
official Gazette published a long proclamation from
Baron TORRESAIN LANZENFELD, Director-General of
Police, prohibiting, under severe penalties, all assem-
blages, riots, cries, writings on walls, or wearing
cockades. The latter offence is particularly dwelt on,
and the proclamation declares that it will in every case
be punished with imprisonment, independently of
other punishments specified by the law.
A new motu proprio has been published by the
POPE for the organization of the Ministry, which
appears to have given universal satisfaction. The
Administration of the Holy See is in future to consist
of nine departments, namely, foreign affairs, interior,
public instruction, grace and justice, finance, com-
merce, fine arts, manufactures and agriculture,
public works, war and police. The chiefs of those
departments are to compose the Council of Ministers.
State affairs are not to be brought before that council
until the Consulta (the deputies) shall have exa-
mined them, and given its opinion. Ministers are to
be responsible for the acts of their respective admi-
nistrations, and the subaltern officers are to be
likewise accountable for the execution of the orders
they may have received. The important affairs of
the State are not to be submitted to the approbation
of the SOVEREIGN until they shall have been discussed
in the Council of Ministers.

A letter from Berne, of the 4th instant, says :
"A report was current yesterday that a revolution
had broken out in the canton of Neuchatel, but
letters received to-day from Neuchatel merely inform
us that the Government, fearing some attempt at
revolution, had sent some pieces of cannon to La
Sagne and the Val de Travers. It appears that the
Liberals of the canton, besides, seeing with regret
the lamentable part played by Neuchatel, in the affair
of the Sonderbund, cannot bear the idea of their ca-
pital becoming the seat of a congress whose object
is to domineer over the Confederation. This is the
way in which diplomacy deranges everything, when-
ever it sets its foot within Switzerland. It is to
diplomacy that we owe the war, and that it is which
will force us to take up arms a second time, perhaps
by interfering too much in our private quarrels."

The Frankfort Journal of the 7th states that the
King of PRUSSIA is about to publish an act of amnesty
which shall include the Poles under sentence of death.
The maximum of punishment will be within eight
years seclusion. A law in favour of liberty of the
press was also expected.

Madrid papers of the 2d and 3d have arrived.
A remarkable article, headed " Imminent Pella,"
appears in the Eco del Comercio. It intimates that
not only is there no probability thus far of the QUEEN
having issue, but that the state of her MAJESTY'S
health is so far from being satisfactory, that it is not
improbable that, in a period more or less long, the
question of the succession to the throne may be
brought on the lapis, and it says it will be a terrible
one, considering the hostility of England and France
respecting it. It appears that the QUEEN had for
several days previously been suffering from severe
nervous attacks, which had excited considerable
alarm. Her MAJESTY was, however, better, and
had gone to the Opera on New Year's- day.
The same journal talks of a new Ministerial crisis
being about to occur, and puts forth a list of a new
Cabinet, the chief features of which are the retire-
ment of NARVAEZ, and the entry of PIDAL to the
Ministry of Interior, NARVAEZ returning to Paris
as Ambassador. The new combination, the Eco
says, was agreed on at a meeting of the principal
Moderados held in Queen CHRISTINA'S house, at
which the Duke DE GLUCIESBERG was present.
General Cc:ascii/. would, it was said, be the new
Foreign Minister, and General PEZUELA or FULGIOSO
Minister of War. SARTORIUS would, it is said, have
the Embassy to Portugal.
The Duchess of Goa has been appointed Camerara
Mayor to the QUEEN.

The Papal bulls confirming the 26 Bishops ap
pointed by the QUEEN had been received at Madrid.

ESPARTERO has arrived at St. Sebastian, where
he was received with the greatest enthusiasm.

It was supposed that the Salamanca impeachmen
would be allowed to drop.

A new Progressista journal called El Siglo made
its appearance on the Ist January.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 3.—The Three per Cents.
26f cash; 27 at 50 d. coupons off; Four per Cents.
151 at 35 d. ; Debt without int. 5e paper. Exchange
on London 48. 30. paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and Sunday.
It was reported in Paris that Ann-ELACADER had
written to the Government requesting not to be sent
to Egypt. Nothing certain was known as to the fate
of the EMIB, and the majority of the journals were
demanding that no faith should be kept with him.
Even in the discussion on the Address in theßureaux
of the Chamber of Peers on Friday, the suppression
of the paragraph attributing the results obtained in
Algeria to the prudence of the Due D'AUMALR was
loudly called for, lest, says the National, "it should
afford a pretext to the Government to ratify the im-
prudent promise made by the Governor-General of
Algeria."

The Patrie states that the Ministers have deter
mined to order ABD-EL•KADER to Paris, and then to
transfer him as a prisoner to one of the citadels of
the north. After this any treaty entered into with
the present Government of France can only be consi-
dered as so much waste paper.
The papers communicated to the Chambers by M.
Gurzor on the subject of Italy are thus commented
on in the Constitutionneh---

" What appears to he especially significative in the
communication made by M. Guizot to the two Cham-
bers is the small number of documents. Whence

arises this small number ? If there be other docu-
ments which are not communicated we may sup-
pose that it is because they would throw too mucls
legal on the Ministerial policy ; if there be not
others the Ministry has failed in its duty, and has
not exercised in Italy the action which became
France. Who can be made to believe that events
have occurred in Italy such gravity as the
great manifestations of Leghorn, and of Florence,
as the treaty between Tuscany and the Duke of
Lucca, as the movements of Lunigiana, as the insti-
tution at Rome of the national guard, of municipal
councils, of the Consulta, without a dispatch being ex-
changed between our representatives and our Cabinet.
What ! Pius IX protests against the occupation of
Ferrara, Charles Albert places his army at the dis-
position of the Pope ; Charles Albert prepares his
fortresses and his arsenals ; Charles Albert concludes a
customs' union with the Pipe and Tuscany ; Charles
Albert establishes the liberty of the press in his
states ; Charles Albert changes a Ministry in a signi-
ficative manner, and accomplishes so many reforms
that Austria causes almost public representations to
be made to him ; and our Government has not six

lines to publish to prove that it encourages the So-
vereign of Piedmont in that paTh at once liberal arid
national, or has not the courage to avow that it has
made common cause with Austria! A dispatch for
Tuscany, one for Piedmont, not one for the king-
dom of Naples. This silence is eloquent. Yet an
insurrection• has broken out in the kingdom of
Naples, blood has flowed there in streams, and hor-
rible acts have there been committed in the name
of the Government—acts so horrible that even our
Ministerial journal believed itself obliged to brand
them !"

These papers show that M. GunoT was engaged
in furthering the views of Austria in Italy by every
means in his power, and that he actually remon-
strated with the POPE for having protested against
the occupation of Ferrara. On this subject the
Presse remarks—

" As the language of the Government at Vienna
becomes timid, so that of the Government at Rome
becomes proportionally stern. In the protest of Car-
dinal Ciacchi, which was immediately confirmed by
the Holy Father, M. Guizot at once found matter of
complaint. In 1832, the time of the first invasion of
the Austrians, who,—a circumstance worthy of note,
—were called in by the Pope himself, the first step of
M. Casimir Perrier was, to give orders by telegraph
for the vigorous manifestation at Ancona. In 1847,
the Austrians entered Ferrara, not upon the call of
the Pope, but in spite of his protests, and the first
step taken by M. Guizot is to blame the protests of
his Holiness. To make loud complaints, to appeal to
Europe against the act of injustice committed, what
can this be but an instance of bad taste in Pius IX. !
The Minister of Foreign Affairs sends a courier to M.
Rossi, instructing him to express his dissatisfaction
to the venerable Pontiff and his prime minister.
After this, can any one be astonished that the
Governments and people of Italy should be without
any confidence in that policy which bends the knee
at Vienna, imploring respect for nationality, and
which can only find a certain severity of style, when
it is thought right to reproach the Holy Father, at-
tacked in his sovereign rights, with having so legiti-
mately had recourse to a public protest."
M.GuzzoT,on Friday, gave a grand dinner to MM.
COLORED° and RADOWITZ, at which all the chief
personages of the diploinatique corps were present
except the Marquis of NORMANBY. The absence of

the English Ambassador was the chief subject of con-
versation during the evening.
M. GUIZOT has laid before the Chambers
an additional document relating to Switzerland ; it

is a dispatch from Lord PALMERSTO'N dated
December 27, 1847. Its object is to show in
what light the British Cabinet regards the declara-

tion of the Five Powers, made at Paris on November
20, 1815, by which the neutrality of Switzerland, as
well as the integrity and inviolability of her territory,
are guaranteed :

" It was therein decided," sat s the dispatch, " that
Switzerland should be invested with the privilege of
a perpetual neutrality, so that no other power should
be tempted to endeavour to induce her to be either an
ally or an auxiliary in case of war. For that object
the territory was declared inviolable, so that no
foreign troops could enter it, or cross it in order to at-
tack another country; and in order that the Swiss
Confederation should never be drawn away by senti-
ments of partiality to depart from that strict neutrality
which ought invariably to characterise it relations with
other states, the Five Powers declared that Switaer-
land ought to be independent of all foreign influence.
The Government of her Majesty thinks that it is
highly important for the general interests of Europe,
as well as for the honour of the Five Powers, that
these engagements be strictly and literally observed;
that as long as Switzerland abstains from all acts in
disaccord with her charaeter of neutrality, the in-
violability of her territory should be respected, and
consequently that no foreign troops should enter that
territory ; that the liberty of Switzerland and her
independence of all foreign influence, ought to be
maintained, and consequently that no foreign power
ought to endeavour to exercise a dictatorial authority
in what regards the internal affairs of the Confedera-
tion. Doubtless if the Swiss assumed an aggressive
attitude with respect to their neighbours, the neutrality
and inviolability guaranteed to Switzerland could not
free them from the responsibility of their aggressions.
But up to this time the Swiss have not committed
any such agression. Her Majesty's Government is
therefore of opinion that the declaration of Nov. 20
subsists in all its force, and that it ought to be ob-
served and respected by all the Powers which took part
in that convention."

PARIS BOURSE, JAN. B.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 76f. 10c.; New Loan, 75f. 95c. ; the Five
per Cents., 117 f. 15c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,11,7 f. 50c.; Rouen, 903 f. 75c.; Havre, 432 f. 50c. ;
Great Northern, 538 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 5621. 50c. ;
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Troyes and Montereau, 260 f. ; Basle, 160 f.; Paris
and Strasburg 4101. ; Nantes, 3861. 25c.; Paris and
Lyons, 3901. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
501; Spanish Three per Cents., 281; and Spanish
Domestic Debt, 26k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. JAN. 8.
Dutch Rhenish, 234—East Indian, 3/4—Paris and Lyons,
s:%—Paris and Orleans, 46—West Flanders, 1%.

EXECUTION OF THOMAS SALE.
(THIS MORNING.)
At eight o'clock this morning this wretched man
underwent the extreme penalty of the law in front of
Newgate, for the murder of Mr. Bellchambers.
Since the attack upon M'Coy by Sale, a very
marked alteration has taken place in the latter's con-
duct, and instead of the sullen, morose, and, at times,
violent demeanour which he exhibited, he appeared to
be fully alive to the awful situation in which he was
placed, and listened with a quietness and marked at-
tention to the exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the
chaplain of Newgate.
Long before six o'clock, although the morning was
dark and piercing cold, a number of persons had col-
lected in the vicinity. The sheriffs and under-sheriffs
arrived at the prison shortly before seven o'clock, and
after that time the crowd began to pour in from all
parts in shoals, and by eight o'clock every avenue and
vicinity of the gaol where a sight could be obtained
was densely crowded. Precisely as the clock of St.
Sepulchre's struck eight the bell commenced tolling,
and in less than two minutes the Rev. Mr. Davis
ascended the scaffold reading the Burial Service, fol-
lowed by Sale, who walked firmly and boldly up the
steps without assistance, but without any appearance
of bravado. He looked boldly to the crowded assem-
bly of uplifted faces, and having made a low bow,
without uttering a word, took his station under the
fatal beam. The executioner immediately placed the
cap on his head and adjusted the noose, and in another
minute he was launched into eternity. His struggles
appeared to be very short. The Rev. Chaplain conti-
nued in front of the wretched man until he gave the
signal for withdrawing the fatal bolt. The body
having hung the usual time was cut down, and will
be interred within the gaol this evening.

Mdlle. Jenny Lind, the celebrated elephant, whose
disinclination to tread the boards of Drury-lane Theatre
was evinced by various antics in the streets adjacent
about nine months since, previous to her appearance in
the grand spectacle of the Desert, produced at Easter
last, is about to take her departure for America, to
astonish our transatlantic brethren with her sagacity,
together with the male elephant and nine camels pur-
chased by Mr. Batty at Hughes' mammoth sale at Vaux-
hall-gardens, in November last, the whole having been
sold to Mr. Sands, for his American Circus (the gentle.
man who was co-lessee with Mr. Van Amburgh, of the
English Opera House a few years since), at the sum of
2,000/. We are happy to congratulate Mr. Batty upon
the success of his speculation on that occaiion, and trust
his energy and enterprise, whether in catering for the
amusement of the public or his own iudividual profit,
will always meet with the same success. We are given
to understand they will leave for New Ycrk by the
packet-ship Prince Albert, Captain Meyer, which sails
on the 28th of this month, and we sincerely hope that
Mr. Batty will give the juvenile portion of his auditory
who throng his theatre at this season of the year an
opportunity of witnessing their performance before they
take their departure.
The good service pay of twenty-five shillings per
diem has been conferred upon Major-Generals Richard
Egerton, C. 8., and Sir W. Chalmers, K.C.H., the for-
mer dating from the 18th December, the latter from the
201 h December last.—United Service Ottzette.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lheureux, orderly officer of
the Minister of War, left Paris with dispatches on
Thursday, it is said, relative to Abd-el-K&der.