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

EXECUTION IN INDIA•

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Rajah Jepoll Singh paid the extreme Pernhe'iti't
of the law on Saturday morning last, trial of
. ,
, at "the scene of massacre." The trial fa,
this man reflects the highest credit on the °de.
ce.drs who conducted it, while his execution
theA
ci edly constitutes the most vigorous act ef. 0, e
local administration. There is not a sipn:n;
dissentientl from the sentence—native or EurePs
I,a l are agreed as to the guilt of the Rajah, an
Lave had too much of the fallacious clemency 131;11's
to have looked for an expiation of crimes sue ;41.,
Jeyloll Singh had been convicted of in any as
ment short of that of the gallows, and it has
fearlessly meted out. The example is a terrible and
an awful one, but justice has been avenged an
society satisfied. By 6 o'clock the arrangetnelate
the execution were complete, under the imineulos.
superintendence of the Deputy Commoner,lico
sisted by the Assistant Commissioner. To the other
was confided the duty of preserving order. IN° ° was
troops were out. Tne assembly of spec
11 particularly scanty. There could not have &
ent
more than between 200 or 300 natives, and
chiefly military officers' "
score of Europeans, ers, Prestige
Nawab Moshun-ood-Dowla being the mil):
the
of distinction among them. Before removing had
handcuffs
Mr. Carnegy asked the prisoner if he
last
anything to say. Jeyloll Singh denied to to
Suffer
his own guilt, averring that he was about t 0,,,,
for
the crimes of others, especially, of hiss erval:lf,'
that he was not present when the murders `gate
committed, did not even know the exact day, fter
that it was only on his return to the city td
'oo
three days' absence that he heard of what hano.
done the day before. He finally offered to paY
amount—from a lac upwards—for a oomnita;
of his sentence, and begged that the proposal
be communicated to the Chief Commissioner
readbe t 6
he was hanged. The death warrant was then his
him, after which the handcuffs were remove ' his
hhands were pinioned behind, the cap put over i„p
e and face, and himself assist ecl to mount the ne'ict
form. He throughout maintained the most Perim;
composure, repeating to himself some prayers. foe
soon as the noose had been adjusted, Mr.CornegY'ovid
clear audible voice, briefly explained to the crowd
around that the criminal on the gallows be:hat
them was the Rajah Jeyloll Singh, who on that
very spot, where stood before an outer gatewaY,o„
the Kaiser Bagh, had stationed himself on thethe
of it, and caused in its immediate vicinity
Europe
tnej.
cold-blooded murder of some 22 or 23
and other Christians—that he had been tried 0.,
convicted of the deed on the clearest and tOst con-
convicted to
elusive evidence, and that ho had been senteneero.,,
death—to be banged at the " scene of tflassfice the
o
He then gave therder for the withdrawal
.o
ins f
props, and a single jerk left the culprit swiali good
'
iii the air. Ho died very hard. It Was 3 v 0
five minutes before life was extinct. The. it voal
left hanging for about an hour, after whle' 'Thus
taken down and buried outside the gaol.
its a
ended the days of Rajah Jeyloll Singh. Ire IV the
middle-sized man, well-built, "rather ahevezaiely
middle-age, and of dark complexion, with cell aa.
nothing villanous in his countenance.—Outle
zette, Oct. 4.

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41,,Psfleld, Surrey, on Sunday last. The,' jis
gentleman retired from the Civil S • . the Bast 'l' --
ervxce of relit;
Company in ,
.- 1827, and acquired considerable literarY
loccurred.
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IV HALE FISIIING.—The latest returns Ervin trilee,
various whaling stations continue to bring gratifYingetio
voyager;
the fishings. Capt. Penny the well-knova Al; Eton'
voyager; arrived at Aberdeen on,Monday, morning, l',tat
Cumberland Straits, after an absence of little more ,til,,,
four months, and brings with him in his little vessel!, 'Tit
Laciy Franklin, three large whales, about 60 tons ot,.oort
and a few tens of bone The voyage has thus been s 1' per
and successful one. Oil is briing from £33 to X 34
ewe-
ton; bone, £ll4 to £416 per ton. Capt. Penny left s ~,,
berlatal Straits on the 21th of October, and report the
weather as very fine.
, , Abt but
IRISH TRAMIVAYP.—As there is nom' no .011 . the
that the bill of Sir Robert Ferguson will besome
c mrse of the ensuing session of Parliament, 13w leactu°
a prosy 0.
' his been issued of the City of Dublin and rverl
way Company, under the Limited Liabilities Act.
notice of
flourishing account is embodied in the preliminarPl,o oa
the success of tramways in New York, chiefly fou;,",files la
the statistics supplied by the correspondent oft, tbeiej -,ublia
Now York. It is proposed that the capital the Dub As
Company should be £lOO,OOO in £lO shares, to be paid the
want NI ; to run five lines of four miles each 111°u:do/Or
slaurbs, centering in the business part of the city) 4
SUburbo .
n)eting the railways atd quays.