The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION IN INDI4.

Rajah Jeyloll Singh paid the extreme Penal
of the law on Saturday morning last, t..11°1115f
inst., at " the scene of massacre." The t'ilt4;-
this man reflects the highest credit on the "de-
ters who conducted it,
while his execution
cidedly constitutes the most vigorous act of, 11,
local administration. There is not single
dissentient from the sentence—native or EurePe'-e.
all are agreed as to the guilt of the Rajah, and e.
have had too much of the fallacious clemency P°l-14
to have looked for an expiation of crimes seet!,,h,
Jeyloll Singh had been convicted of in any PenulLo
ment short of that of the gallows, and it Igo "714
fearlessly meted out. The example is a terrible asid
au awful one, but justice has been avengeaed+. for
society satisfied. By 6 o'clock the arrangenl,ge
the execution were complete, under the iniele",isa.
superintendence of the Deputy Commissionerf„„s
sisted by the Assistant Commissioner. To the police
was confided the duty of preserving order. N° elvr.
troops were out. Tne assembly of spectators
,eews'
particularly scanty. There could not We
about
more than between 200 or 300 natives, andat,
score of Europeans, chiefly military officers, Ph;tice-
Nawab Moshun-ood-Dowla being the only 11- the
of distinction among them. Before removing ,s 4
handcuffs Mr. Carnegy asked the prisoner if lie ';`...t
anything to say. Jeyloll Sinh denied to the -74
his own guilt, averring that he was about to eon
for the crimes of others, especially of his ervaur.;
that he was not present when the murders la
committed, did not even know the exact daYO
that it was only on his return to the city tees
three days' absence that he heard of what had nof
done the day before. He finally, offered to pair ii0;1
amount—from a lac upwards—for a covuut%ht
of his sentence, and begged that the proposal beforenigh
be communicated to the Chief Commissioner .
he was hanged. The death warrant was then re.,a
him, after which the handcuffs were removed,
hands were pinioned behind, the cap put over ;Iv.
form. He throughout maintained the
head and face, and himself assisted to mount the Pis'et
composure, repeating to himself some prays .4-;
soon as the noose had been adjusted, Mr. Carneglyl,:a
clear audible voice, briefly explained to the .herefare
around that the criminal on the gallows ethat
them was the Rajah Jeyloll Singh, °II of
very spot, where stood before an outer gatescaltop
mosey,er ,A •
the Kaiser Bagh, had stationed himself on the
to
of it, and caused in its immediate vicinitysios
cold-,blooded murder of some 22 or 23 Eurel) sod
and other Christians—that he had been tried
cos,
convicted of the deed on the clearest and uosted
luAve evidence, and that he had boen sentene
re.o
death—to be hanged at the " scene of inassafe.the
He then gave the order for the withdrawal
.0
props, and a single jerk left the culprit swlagp,ood
in the air. He died very hard. It wes a "wee
five minutes before life was extinct. The kodt
vo
left hanging for about an hour, after which
taken down and buried outside the gaol.
ended the days of Rajah Jeyloll Singh. 1° 1r the
i.
ce
middle-sized man, well built, rather
iaiY
middle-age, and of dark complexion, wi above
th na-
nothing villanous in his countenance.— Otws
:ette, Oct. 4.

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VL1411.114-
DEATH OF THE HON. MOUNTSTITART --, O.
STONE.—We regret to announce the death of the bon. 4.
Elphinstone, which occurred at his residence, ---TT„,°°,klott.
pal k, near Limpstield, Surrey, on Sunday last. l'e II
t ind 3
gentleman retired from the dvil Service of the Eas u•
Company in 1827, and acquired considerable literary repo
tati en for his work on Cabal.
ports of the fishings. Capt. Penny,
WHALE F
various whaling stations continue to bring c,(rratifYlliketio
ISIIING.—The latest returns fro.lll, the
voyager, arrived at Aberdeen on Monday morning; Afro
_ Cumberland Straits, after an absence of little 10" i, the
four months, and brings with him in his little ve6le , oil,
Lady Franklin, three large whales, about 60 tons 0._,00
the well-known L.-0
and a few tons of bone. The vole.- ) has thus been i!„3:'per
and successful one. Oil is brin.,tupg from £33 to caw
ton ; bone, £414 to £416 per ton. Copt• Penny left
reports ,1.0
nd Straits on the 2lth of October,
beds Straits aud
weather as very tine. doubt blit
IRISH TRAMWAYS.—As there is now no ~„ tio
that the bill of Sir Robert Ferguson will beeonne !awl cosi
e )urse of the ensuing session of Parliament, a proorro.
hms been issued of the City of Dublin and Suburblijk yeti
way Company, under the Limited Liabilities Act.
_tic, 01
flourishing account is embodied in the preliminarin%d ell
the success of tramways in New York, chiefly 1010,;„700 0
the statistics supplied by the correspondent of the 1-1,,0b1i1l
New York. It is proposed that the capital
Company should be £lOO,OOO in £lO shares to be P.h tho
tbrott_ba co-
want,d ; to run five lines of four miles elicit
s ilurbs, centering in the business part of the citYlau
a ?sting the railways atcl quays. of tlie .iiiiia 0,