The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

Fresh up to-day a very moderate supply of wheat came
to hand, coastwise and by land carriage, from Essex,
Kent, &c. The general condition of the samples, though
rather Better than on Monday last, was by no means first
rate. There was no inclination on the part of the millers
to get into stock, consequently the trade for all kinds of
wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state; and, in
some instances, prices were in favour of buyers. Several
of last week's unsold samples were brought forward, and
the market closed nominally 2s to 3s per quarter beneath
last Monday's prices—leaving a large quantity unsold.
There was a good show of foreign wheat. All descrip-
tions met a very dull enquiry for home consumption, yet
no quotable change took place in prices. For export to
Spain several parcels sold at full currencies.

Floating cargoes of grain were firm, and quite as dear as
ast week.

The supply of both English and foieign barley was very
moderate, and the trade ruled firm, at full quotations.
Malt was in fair request, on former terms.
We had a much smaller supply of oats in the market
than for some time past. The trade was by no means
brisk, yet prices were supported.
Beans ware in moderate demand, at last week's cur-
rency.
We had a very dull sale for peas, at Is. to 2e. per quar-
ter less money.
The flour trade was dull, and country marks wereratber
cheaper, viz., by 2s. per sack.
CURRENCY PER ID
Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red •• .. new 49, to 63a
Ditto •...... old —s —a
Ditto, White new 54s 72s
Ditt0........ old —s —s
Noriblk and Lin-
coin, Red, old —s —a
Ditto new .... •• 49$ 65s
Ryo—Old ............ —s —s

Now .......... .. 38s 42s
Barley—Grinding ..... 34s 383
Malting ......... 353 393
Chevalier—. . . 42s 48s
Malt—SnffolkandNor-
folk .• • . • • ...... 66s 75s
Brown .............. 633 6 is
Kingston sndWare 76e 78s

LTERIAL MEASIIRD.
Malt—Chevalier •• 764 to 77s
Oats Yorkshire and
Lincoinsh.,Feed 23s 258
Potato •• •• 24s 29s
Yonghal and Cork
Black. ...• •• 20•3 223
Cork, White ... • • 24s 271
Seoteh,Feed... •• 24s 293
Beans—Tick •• •• .. 385 40s
Pige0n5.......... 40 43s
Peas—Grey .......... 36s 093
Maple ......• •• 39s 42s
White... •• .. 39s 423
Boilers ......... 41s 433
Frlour—Town-made... 58$ 60s
4uIIolk•• .• .... 443 48s
Rtocktn & Norfolk 44s 47s

NEW( A.TE AND LEA.DENHALL.

With both town and country-killed meat, our markets,
to-day, are extensively Fup?lied. Prime beef, mutton, and
pork are in good request, at full prices. Otherwise, the
demand is by no means active.

Per Sibs by the carcase. '
s. d. s. d. s. d. 0.
Beef, inferior 2 8 2 10 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6
Do., middling 3 0 3 6 f Do., middling 3 6 4 0
Do. prime large.. 3 8 4 0 I Do., prime 4 2 4 8
Do., do. small ....4 2 4 6• Veal 3 8 4 8
Pork, large 3 8 4 4 I Pork, small 4 8 5 4

TALLOW.

. -
time of the execution.
At half•past 7 o'clock Mr. Sheriff Mechi and Mr.
Sheriff Keates, with the Under• Sheriffs, Messrs. Ander-
ton and Crossley, arrived at Newgata, and shortly after
proceeded to the condemned cell. Oa entering they
were received by Marley standing, and in a cheerful
manner. In answer to Mr. Sheriff Mechi, he said that he
had endeavoured to make his peace with his Maker, and
that he was prepared to die. He had no request to make,
nor any wish for any message to be conveyed to his

riends.
Throughout the whole of this trying time, and when
within a few minutes of his appointed time to die, he
betrayed not the least emotion. He stood erect with
that military bearing which a former connection with
the army had imparted to him, and answered the va-
rious questions put to him without hesitation and with
not the slightest tremulousness of voice—his sharp,
piercing eye scanning quickly yet minutely the various
official personages by whom he was surrounded. Not
even the appearance of Calcraft, the hangmau, when he
entered the cell, made the slightest impression upott him
—his cheek never blanched for a moment, nor was the
quick, penetrating glance of his eye suffused for an in-
stant as he surveyed the ghastly-looking apparatus with
which he was to be pinioned. On the late execution of
Benefield for the murder of his wife and children a scene
of the most horrible description was witnessed, and i❑
order to prevent a repetition of it, Mr. Weatherhead,
the governor of Newgate, provided Calcraft with a leather
apparatus of his own construction for the more effec-
tually pinioning a convict. It is made of a stout leather
strap, buckled round the waist with back straps to
fasten back the arms, and two buckle straps one on each
side in front with which to fasten the convict's wrists
securely on his breast. When Calcraft took it out to
commence the process of pinioning the convict, the
latter stepped out in front of him and lifted his arms,
whilst Calcraft fastened it round his waist. In doing
so the . convict's coat was doubled back, and before
Calcraft had time to buckle the leather strap, the convict
carefully adjusted his coat under it. He rendered every
assistance to Calcraft in fastening the other parts, and
to his inquiries he said that "it fitted very nicely and
did not injure him." Calcraft then, in a jaunty, flippant
manner, took the end o f the convict's neck tie, untied it
and took it off, and then proceeded to unbutton his
shirt collar and bare his neck, the convict at the same
time drawing his neck up to its full length.
The time for the execution having arrived, the convict
was again asked if he had anything further to say or
any request to make, and he replied in the negative.
The Rev. Mr. DAVI4 then said that he had been de-
sired by the convict to inform the sheriffs that he was
fully imbued with the position in which he stood, that
he much regretted navi ng committed the crime for
which he was to suffer, and that he had been justly
sentenced to die.
All being r n readiness the mournful procession was
ormed, and the convict, with a fires stop, amidst the
tolling of the prison bell and the reading of the impressive
and sublime burial service for the dead, waltied with the
same firm step from the condemned cell across the prison
yard to the scaffold. The 000luess and self-possession of
the convict was astounding, and the same daring hardi-
hood that led him to brave death at the cannon's mouth
led him to the foot of the scaffold, there without quail-
ing to meet a felon's death.

The fortitude of the convict on this oocas ion far ex-
ceeded that of Barthelemy, but it was devoid of that
want of religious feeling which characterised the latter.
The appearance of the convict on the scaffold was the
signal for an outburst of terrific yells, but even then his
fortitude did not forsake him. He walked quickly and
firmly under the fatal beam, the halter was adjusted
round his neck, and the white nightcap drawn over his
face, and in a moment the bolt was withdrawn. One or
two slight convulsive throes was observable, and the
wretched man ceased to exist.
After hanging the usual hour the body was cut down,
conveyed into the prison, and buried within the pre-
cincts of the gaol.

(From Ike Times.)
All the preparations for the execution of this wretched
man were completed on Saturday night. During
the week the prisoner has evinced the same re-
signation of demeanour that has characterised him
almost from the first moment of his being taken into cus-
tody, and he has evidently never felt that there waa the
slightest chance of his escaping from the punishment
that now awaits him ; indeed, the only circumstance that
appears to create any uneasiness in his mind is the long
period that has elapsed since the conviction and sentence,
and he has repeatedly expressed a wish that it had all
been over before this. The culprit, while admitting the
justice of his sentence, continues to assert in the most
earnest and solemn manner that he had not the slightest
idea that the injuries he inflicted upon theunfortunatean
with
ie
The appeal case of M. Verdi against the judgment deceased Richard Cope were likely to end fatally, d
lately given in favour of M. Calzado as to the right of he also states in the same positive manner that nothe
e
tre, Paris, came on at the opening of the Appeal Court, e
that
performing certain of Verdi s operas at the Italian thea- but himself was concerned in the
affair,
mreecinuoenuttslyideextphreesssheospthheaddeneoptehaingregtroetdti
at the untt.imenlye
Paris, on Saturday morning, when the previous judg-
f
ment in favour of M. Calzado was fully confirmed. end of the unhappy man.
THE LAW OFFICERS OF THE CITY.—In consequence On Friday morning a gentleman came t
of the elevation of Mr. Stuart Wortley from the liecar- who represented hircself to be a Roman o the gaol
Catholic pricsti;
dership of London to the office of Solicitor-General, and and he expressed a desire to have an •
the absence of Mr. R. Gurney on circuit, Mr. Bodkin, the prisoner. The authorities of the gaol ininvtaerriavhielywarloit
who in the event of Mr. R. Gurney being elected to the the utmost possible latitude to unhappy persons in thew
office of Recorder will become a candidate for the then condition of the prisoner, and they always allowed
are . . .
vacant office of Common Serjeant, on Friday last pre- tosee the members of any l' 're igtous ersua-ion with which
sided in the Mayor's Court and disposed of a consider- they may be connected, if the desire but, s
y to do so ; a.
able number of cases, the arrears being very great. Marley bad not expressed any such wish, he was asked
A RAPID VOYAGE.--The Mirage left the Downs for whether he had a desire that the gentleman should be
Bombay, en the 14th of April, 1856, and discharged her admitted to him. He replied the be could not under
pilot at noon off Beachy Head. She sighted land at stand why such an application should have been made,
7 a.m. on the 4th of July, and at 11 a.m. anchored in as neither himself nor any member of his family belonged
Bombay, making the passage out in 81 days. The dis- to the Roman Catholic persuasion, and that he had no
charging of cargo and taking in of ballast occupied about desire for any further -spiritual advice than that of the
of Ne 34 days in Bombay, whence she sailed oo the 6th of worthy ordinary wgate, the Rev Mr. Davis, which
August for Tuticorin (on the S.W. of Iliodostan, oppo- was all tbat could be wished for, and he therefore de-
sit.l Ceylon), where she arrived on the 12th of August, dined to see the gentleman who made the application.
and remained there 38 days, taking in cotton. She No one has visite i the prisoner during the week except
sailed from Tuticorin on the 19th of September, arrived Mr. Davis and the other authorities of the prison whose
off the port of Liverpool on the 4th of December, and duty it is to do so, and he has expre-sed a "lab that none
docked there on the sth inst., making the homeward of his relatives should be admitted to him. None of
passage in 76 days, the entire round ~f voyage out and them, however, have applied with that object,and he has
home occupying only seven months and 21 days, of I seen no member of his family but the sister who sae
which 72 were spent in port loading and discharging. I mentioned last week.

The curtain has fallen on the last act of the judicial
tragedy, and the principal actor sustained to the last
that coolness and self-possession which has characterised
his conduct throughout. At the time of his committal
he expected the just retribution that has overtaken him,
and he never ceased after to impress en all who 'rt me
near him that " he was prepared to meet his fate like a
a man." After his conviction the same fear of death
animated his conduct, and he frequently expressed to
those with him in the condemned cell that he "regretted
the time permitted him to live was so long." The Rev.
J. Davis, the ordinary, was most assiduous in his atten-
tion to the convict, who received him in a becoming
spirit. He paid much attention to the rev. gentleman's
instructions, and as he preferred making his peace with
God without assistance, his request to a certain extent
was complied with, and, in the absence of the rev.
gentleman, he frequently prayed most ardently for
forgiveness of the horrible crime he had committed.
After his conviction he resolutely refused to see any
of his friends, with the exception of his sister, and his
humour in this respect was also complied with. Whether
Mr. Wright, of Manchester, the prisoners' friend,
as he is termed, who usually, from philanthropic
motives, visits condemned convicts in the various
prisons, had been informed of this circumstance,
and therefore abstained from visiting
the prison, or
from any other cause was prevented from doing so we
are unable to say, but no application was made by him
for an interview with Marley.
Yesterday the condemned sermon was preached as
usual by the Rev. J. Davis, the ordinary, and it was
attentively listened to by the convict.
At an early hour yesterday afternoon crowds were
attracted to the spot, and as night advanced and morn-
ing broke upon the scene the numbers greatly increased,
until the whole of the space in front of Newgate, and the
various thoroughfares leading thereto, presented a vast
sea of heads. So closely were the persons assembled
packed together that at the lowest computation fifteen
thousand were present and, witnessed the spectacle.
Throughout the night the vast crowd, composed of
both sexes and of all ages, had recourse to the usual
mode of passing the intervening period between their
arrival and the execution. Coarse jests, interspersed
with loud laughter, shrill whistles, and discordant noises
of every character, resounded on every side ; and in
various parts of the crowd the strains of "Bobbin'
around," " Polly, won't you try me, oh," were chaunted
by a score of voices with evident gusto and
delight. Shortly after twelve o'clock the prepa-
rations were c rrnmencA for erecting the grim
engine of death (the sight of which was di3
tinctly visible throughout its prigress from the bright
light of the moon), without any intermission of the
boisterous and indecent mirth of the crowded assem-
blage, and was completed long before day light.
The convict during the whole of ye 4 erday was in a
cheerful state. He ate and drank heartily, and at
night slept soundly, notwithstanding the noise of the
crowd without and the heavy fall of the hammers tp:e,l
in the erection of the gallows, which reverberated
through the prison and was distinctly to be heard in
the condemned cell. He awoke touch refreshed about
5 o'clock, entered into conversation with the turnkeys
who were keeping watch in his cell, and speedily
dressed himself. About half-past 5 o'clock the Rev. Mr.
Davis entered his cell, and remained with him up to the