The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

away. lie asked her before Mrs. Rose if she would
go home, and she refused.

- The complainant, in answer to questions, said
the prisoner told her that he should ask her to
go home before Mrs. Rose, and that she mast
answer " No," for she should not go home. He did
ask in the presence of Mrs. Rose, and witness said
she did not care about going home.
The prisoner said he begged and prayed of Ter
to go home, but she would not. She was alwrlyg
following him about, and he took her to Mrs. Ro:
rather than to another house.

•
Mr. Robert Nicol, the father, was next examineti,
and said his daughter went out on Thursday, tb e
9th inst., and did not return until the Sunday Nl-
lowing. He did not know of her going away, and
had.not the least suspicion of anything wrong.
Mr. Ingham—Then the prisoner never had yo u r
consent for paying his addresses to your daughtc ?
The witness—No, sir ; and could never have h a d
my consent, because I knew he was a married ma 1 3.
Hannah Amelia Rose said she was a married wi
man, and lived at Sand's-ene, Fulham. When t .e
prisoner came to her house with the complainer._; t,
he said that he had left his wife, and was going i;
live with the young lady. She slept in her hou 3 e
two ni6ht§, but never with the prisoner. She hea- r d
the prisoner ask the young lady if she would ;
home, but she replied that she would not, and tha t
if he left her she would poison herself.
The complainant here denied having made that; t
statement.

The witness added, that on the Saturday sill •
suspected there was something wrong, and she t 01.3
the prisoner that she should not provide any dinnc c
for them. Witness's husband allowed them to slec
in the house as he had known the prisoner and hi ,t;
wife a long time.
The prisoner further said that he told complaii i -
ant that if she lived with him she would have t 3
fare very roughly, as he was sometimes out of work ,
but she refused to go home, and said she would fol, •
low him.

Mr. Ingham then remanded the prisoner for th s
attendance of Mrs. Nicol, who was said to be very

PHOTOGRAPHING AN EXECUTION.

The Photographic .Arews (a new journal devoted
to photography) contains a strange and startling
narrative from a correspondent in Algeria. It ap• •
pears that a family of Arabs (one of them a Sheikh :)
had been convicted, and very properly condemned to ),
death, for a most atrocious murder in the vicinity o f
Algiers. The correspondent resolved to photograph.
the execution of these ruffians. He says :—" The
crowd of men was immense, and as the rays of the
rising sun fell upon their upturned swarthy faces it
was painful to see the earnest and even frightened
expression of their countenances. I had been pre-
sent not long before at an execution in France,
which thousands had assembled to witness ; and the
recollection of the jests and laughter I then heard
made the dead silence on the present occasion more
impressive. lat first thought that this silence
was owing to the number about to be executed,
yet I could not reconcile this interpretation of it
with the reports I had heard of the indifference of
the natives to human life. I asked the driver of
the waggon if such silence was usual, and learnt
from him, half a native himself, the reason. The
Arabs are followers of Mahomet, and believe that
their bodies, after death, will, by means of the tuft
of hair they leave on their otherwise shaven heads,
be conveyed by their prophet into paradise. Now,
the head, which is completely separated from the
trunk by the action of the guillotine, can alone, ac-
cording to their belief, be placed in paradise, and
as the body must be left on earth, they conclude
(what is perfectly natural, seeing the nature of their
paradise), that this arrangement will not contribute
much to the owner's gratification. I have since
heard that when the native chiefs executed a
man by cutting off his head the executioner
invariably left it attached to the body by a
bit of flesh, with a view to obviating the in-
convenience referred to above. . . . . . .
The criminals were not brought on the scaffold to-
gether, but led up one at a time. The first was the
Sheikh, who seemed perfectly indifferent to his
fate. So rapidly was he bound to the plank and
thrust under the axe that I had barely time to in-
sert the plate-holder and get the instantaneous
movement into order before the sharp edge de-
scended and his head rolled into the basket. This
picture was quite successful, and so was the second,
but the third presented a dim appearance ; the
fourth was nearly, and the fifth and sixth were
wholly invisible. How to account for this I know
not, unless the atmosphere around the scaffold be-
came in some way affected by the blood, the odour
of which was distinctly perceptible to me. Perhaps
some of your readers may be able to suggest the
reason."

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LEICESTER-SEPT. 25.

At this eorn market to-day the supply of wheat from the
growers was tolerably good, and there was a numerous at-
tendance. The wheat trade ruled firm, and the previous
week's rates were fully supported.. Old white made 458 to
495, new 46s to 50s, old red 42s to 455, new 44s to 46s per
qr. There was rather more doing in barley, at late rates
for superior sorts ; inferior, is lower. Quotations for all
kinds ranged from 32s to 40s. Oats is lower, namely, 30s
to 365, and little doing. A small show of beans, fine sam-
ples making 64s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 335, seconds 31s,
thirds 29s per 20 stone. Potatoes are turning out well.