The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-10 00:00:00

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 n'elnek, 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
abont 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 H ho was co-lessee with Mr. Van Amburgh, of the
English Opera House a few years since), at the sum of
2,0001. We are happy to congratulate Mr. Batty upon
the success of his speculation on that occasion, and trust
his energy and enterprise, whether in catering for the
amusement of the public or his own individual profit,
will always meet with the same success. We are given
to understand they will leave for New York 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, he latter from the
*oth December last.—United Service Gaz'tte. - '

Lieutenant-Colonel Lheureux, orderly officer of
the Minister of War, left Paris with dispatches on
Thursday, it is said, relative to Abd-el-Bader.