The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.)

The Master of the Rolls, after disposing of the cases of Meryon wt.
Collett, and the Attorney-General v. Richards, heard the remain..
ing motions and causes in his paper.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
BEARD V. EGGERTON.
The arguments in this case, which our readers will recollect was
an application to dissolve an injunction that had been obtained by
the plaintiff; restraining the defendant from using the far-famed
Daguerreotype, were resumed and concluded to-day,
His HoNoun. gave judgment dissolving the injunction, directing
an action to be brought by the plaintiff and giving him liberty to
inspect the process made use of by the defendant.
(Before Sir J. K. BaucE.)
Bankrupt petitions and causes occupied his Honour the whole day.
(Eefore Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGR/Y.)
His HONOUR, after disposing of the case of Rogers v. Toney,
proceeded to hear causes.

LATE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.
EXECUTION OF JOSEPH CONNOR.—(THIS DAY.)
THE CONFESSION.
This being the morning appointed for the execution of Joseph
• Connor, for the murder of Mary Brothers, the Old Bailey pre-
sented those appearaeces which it always does when a human being
is about to forfeit his life for the commission of murder.
As early as six o'clock a great number of persons had gathered
round the scaffbld, and those places from which a good view of the
culprit and the scaffold could be obtained were taken possession of,
even at that early hour. There were many women amongst the
crowd. The majority of the spectators were of the labouring class.
At a few minutes after seven o'clock, Mr. Sheriff Sidney and
Mr. Sheriff Hunter, accompanied by the Under-Sheriffs, Messrs.
Ashurst and Martin, arrived, when the reporters were admitted.
Mr. Sheriff Sidney then came forward and stated that the pri-
soner made a full confession the day after his trial, which was
drawn up in writing, and having been signed by him, was trans-
mitted to the Secretary of State. Mr. Sidney said he had no ob-
jection to give the purport of the confession, though he could not
favour the retorters with a copy. The prisoner stated In it that he
committed the crime from the motive imputed to him—namely,
because he believed he had contracted a disease by his intimacy
with the unfortunate woman; that he was not right in
his head at the time, from weakness, caused by the ill.
ness under which he was then labouring, and from the
quantity of medicine which he had taken to cure it; and that whilst
in this state he had previously committed many acts of violence
towards his parents, arid had killed a cat and some birds, of which
he at other times was particularly fond. He had also stated that
the daughter of Mr. Oldham, the cutler, of High street, St.
Giles's, where he bought the knife with which he committed the
under;rr was correct in saying that he had a pimple on his nose at
the time; that it was not at the side of his nose, as she had stated,
but on the front of it. Shortly before his trial he offered
to plead guilty to the charge, and to make a confession,
if the Sheriffs had not provided him with counsel.
They declined, however, to receive any statement from him then,
and assigned him counsel. Mr. Ashurst said that the prisoner's
father came to him on Saturday, and said, that his wife had heard
that the coat in which her unfortunate son appeared at his trial
was to be sold for the purpose of being exhibited on a figure in-
tended to resemble him, and that she was, in consequence, in great
distress of mind. He stated that they should have the coat, but
that he would keep it a month before he delivered it up. From
the time the prisoner came to .Newgate he had conducted himself
in a most becoming manner, paying the greatest attention to all
that was said to him, and denoting, by his whole line of conduct,
that he was most grateful for the kindness which had been
shown him, not only by the Sheriffs, but by Mr. Cope and
every one connected with the prison. He had not attended the
prison chapel since his trial, and at his father's request, who is
said to be an honest consistent man.
It now only wanted a few minutes to eight o'clock; the Rev.
Mr. Davis, the Ordinary, the Sheriffs, the Governor, the Deputy
Governor, and the reporters were then admitted into the cell, the
Rev. Mr. Rolfe having previously prepared the prisoner for the in-
terview. Calcraft, the hangman, had come in after the Sheriffs.
Connor was sitting on a form, and was repeating after his spiritual
ldviser some of the prayers of the Catholic Church, which the
Rey s?entleman read from a book. He looked very pale, and was
wonderfully
and resigned. He was dressed as at his trial.
He
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The procession having been formed, he walked out of the cell
with the same undisturbed demeanour which has characterised
him throughout the whole time he has been in custody. At the door
of the cell he bowed slightly tp the tprnkeys, and
Absaie, and passing through the chapel.yard and the tew passages
which lead to the deor 4t which the scaffold was erected, where 'he
stopped for a n;ipment undismayed by the sight of the FroWd? sod
having mounted the steps, walked to the fatalipq with great firm.
"ebb. 4s f 1,41, out many noises were set up by the'crowd.
Some yelled and ahnudgd, whilst others clapped their hands. The
cap. and the rope were adjusted in less VI „-i a—f ut • the and
the wholeef he body of the culprit ihet.trerrulleA? ;iohilitik4trtl

the service, which was unusually long, so long that many in the
crowd cried "shame," having been brought to a close, the drop
fell amidst the screaming of the women. In a few minutes the
unfortunate youth—for he was but twenty years of age—had yielded
up his life. He seemed to struggle for a few moments, but his
sufferings were not great.
The Rev. Mr. Rolfe favoured us with the following statement,
written by the prisoner yesterday, and signed by him a little after
seven o'clock this morning i--

" I fully acknowledge that I was guilty of the murder with which
I was charged, and I beg pardon of God and man for the horrid
crime I thereby committed. I beg the prayers of a'l good Christians
for my poor soul, and I hope that all Catholic young men will take
warning by my sad fate, not to neglect the duties which their holy
religion prescribes. Whilst I adhered to its pious precepts and
practices I was virtuous and was happy. When I neglected them
I fell into bad company—plunged into vice—stained my soul with
murder, and am now about to forfeit my life on the scaffold. I resign
myself to a shameful death, as a penalty I have justly deserved by
my crimes, and only hope Almighty God will, in his boundless
mercy, through the merits of Christ, accept it and my repentance,
however late, as a small atoneseent for my many offences.
" June 2. " JOSEPH CONNOR."

The Rev. Gentleman said that the prisoner went to bed at ten
o'clock la,t night, and did not awake until half.past five t:iis morn-
ing, and that he ate a roll and a half, and drank three cups of tea,
for breakfast; he administered the Sacrament to him this morning,
not extreme unction, as it was only usual to administer that rite
when persons were in danger of dying from sickness.
The body was cut down at the usual hour, and the scaffold hay.
in„ been removed, the crowd dispersed.

LLOYD'S Sill PPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 2.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze, and fine.
DEAL, MAY 31, P.m.—Wind E.S.E.—JUNE I.—S. W.—
And. Pilgrim, Bawling, Porto Rico ; Damtske Eeg, China for
Copenhagen ; Creole, Boysen, Bahia for liamburgh ; Catha
rina, New York for Stettin. Sld. Sumatra, Ceylon ; Bengal,
Cape of Good Hope; Commodore, west coast of Africa;
James, Cuba; Westminster, New York.

LivErtrooL, MAY 31.—Wind S.S.E., light.—JUNE 1.
Wind S.S.W., ditto.—Arrd. Bleng, Stewart, Port Adelaide;
CharlAte, Carter, China; lmogine and Suffolk, New Orleans;
Henry Gardner, Nichols, Mobile; Leonard, Dobbin, and
Roger Sherman, Charleston ; St. Patrick, New York ; Hi-
bernia steamer, Eyrie, Boston. 1. Arrd. Secret, Valparaiso;
Plata, Buenos Ayres; Elizabeth, Barbadoes ; Ocean Queen,
New Orleans; St. Mark, Savannah; Mary Kembell. Apa-
lachicola. Sld. Apparition, Rio. 31. Liverpool, Hoag-Kong ;
Panama, Bombay ; Emelia, Rio ; Thomas Mellor, Brazils ;
St. Lawrence, Quebec ; Cheetah, Labrador. 1. Ann, La
Guayra ; Cambridge, Honduras; John Marshall, Alexandria,
United States ; Ashburton and New York, Now York ; Wil-
liam Goddard, Boston. Off, Isabella, .Demerara; Maid of
Cashmere, Jamaica; Albatross, Trinidad; Columbus, New
York ; and many others.
WHITEHAVEN, MAY 31.—Sld. George, Pugwash.
WATERFORD, MAY 29.—S1d. James and Hippocampi, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
CORK, MAY 30.—Sid. Swallow, Demerara. Arrd. Oscar,
Jameson, Benin (66 days) ; Lowca, Dobren, Valparaiso.
Off, Belmont, Wallis, Trinidad.
OFF' CROOKHAVEN, MAY 26. William and Henry,
Nicholson, Ichaboe.

BELF-t.sT, MAY 31.—The Campbell, Orr, from the Clyde
to Demerara, aground in the Holywood Bank, has been got
off, and into deep water.
LYNN, MAY I.—Part of a wreck was picked up near the
Roads 29th ult., and handspike, branded Temperance. From
the appearance of bulwarks and main-beam she appears to
be a foreigner.

HARIVICIi, MAY 31.—The brig Riso, for Stockholm to
London, has been assisted in here, very leaky, and with loss
of anchors, &c., having been on ie Sunk Sand.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CI7 Y, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were
four thousand bales, with a flat market. A fair
business was done in Shares, at steady prices.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 31.—The sales are
—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portruoi, 2%; Barnsley Junction,
5% 3/4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2,/8 3/4 ; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 8 1-16 ex new ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 7% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 5 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 ; Caledonian,
91/2 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% 8 ; Churnet Valley, 514 ;
Clitheroe Junction. 1% prem. ; Direct Northern, 34 ;
Eastern Counties, New, 9%; Erewash Valley, 19%; Glas-
gow and Dumfries, 2A; 3/4 ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and
Manchester Junction, I% ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds
and West Riding Junction, 8% 4 ; Leicester and Birming-
ham, 10s. 9s. Gd. prem. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
2 11-16; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% 34 ;
London and York, 4 1-1 G ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland Junction, 4% 9-16; Manchester and Birming-
ham, Quarter Shares, 9% jg ; Ditto, New Quarters, 74 Xs;
Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 81/ ; Midland
Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 283% ; Newcastle and Berwick,
17% ;North British, New Shares, 74 14:; North Western,
41,4 iii ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 2%; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter
Shares, 16% ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 375.
345. Gd. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 5;
South-Eastern, 44 ; Ditto, No. 3,7% ; Trent Valley, 18%;
Ditto Continuation and. Holyhead Junction, ; Welsh
Midland, 14 prem. ; Whitehaven and Furness, 234.
The letters brought by the Hibernia steamer from Halifax
were not delivered until rather a late hour this morning,
owing, we are told, to the great increase in the colonial commu-
nications between this country and the United States. From
the published accounts it is considered quite clear that all
apprehensions of a serious difference of opinion upon the
Oregon question are at an end. This is most satis-
factory, as fears were entertained in many quarters
that the commercial intercourse with America would
have been interfered with, and that, too, just at a
period when symptoms of a good improvement were most
apparent as respects the markets for British manufactured
goods. It is quite certain that the Polk party has almost
lost caste among the majority of the people of the United
States, and from previous accounts, we are led to the conclu-
sion that the peace party are rapidly rising as the ascendant,
and that the extension of mercantile pursuits is now the
principal object of those connected with trade and commerce.
There is some interest felt in the City in favour of the plan
for the construction of a railway in conjunction with the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and the Welsh Junc-
tion kailway.TheProvisionalCommittee comprise a great num-
ber of highly influential names. It is, in some quarters, objected
that there are engineering difficulties to encounter, but we
are assured that these, as compared with those that have
been overcome in existing lines, are of easy accomplishment.
It is somewhat remarkable that here, as well as at the
principal outports, a sudden demand has sprung up for bonded
wheat for exportation ;this is especially the case with re-
spect to Hull. In the circular of Messrs. Wright and Young,
of Hull, we find the following:—
" In the foreign grain trade a decided improvement has
taken place. Since our last a good demand has arisen for
wheat, particularly bonded, for export to Holland and Bel-
gium, and prices have advanced 3s. per quarter ; owing,
however, to the little that remains in this port, the transac-
tions have not been important. Barley, and other descrip-
tions of spring corn, have also been in better request, but
without any material alteration in their value.
" Our last Tuesday's market was moderately supplied with
English wheat, which suet with tolerably fair sale at an ad-
vance of 2s. per quarter upon the rates current on that day
week, the millers being, as heretofore of late, the chief pur-
chasers.
From the information that has been received from the Con-
tinent, a belief was induced that the crops were looking
excessively well, and that there was plenty of wheat
on hand. The former statement we believe to be true, but
with respect to the latter very considerable doubt exists,
and hence it is that a speculative market now exists for
foreign grain here. With respect to our own crops, there is
little doubt but they will prove most abundant if anything
like a fair harvest weather should prevail when the sickle is
ordinarily in request.
The advices by the Halifax steam-ship being of a most
peaceable nature, the demand for EnglishiStock has been
most animated. Consols for the Account have reached
100%. The price for transfer to-morrow has risen to 100%,
being about 3/4 per cent. above Saturday's closing rates. The
Three per Cent. Reduced have realised 99%, and the Three-
The premium on Ex-
chequer-billsand-a-Qu
te
ir per
s.tirm .Ceßnatsn.klso t2l has advanced to 211. For
.
India Bonds the current rateis from 735. to 745. premium.
The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market have been
less important than those in the British Stocks. Still the
prices have been rather firmer. Belgian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been quoted at 99% ; the Spanish Consols
at 30% ; the Mexican Five per Cents. at an advance from
37% to 384 ; the Portuguese Converted to 673/4 ; and the
Dutch Four per Cents. to
An innnensity of business has been transacted in the
Railway Shares this morning, and, as will be seen by the
i
official list of prices, n almost all instances. at advanced
prices. It mar, in fact, be stated with truth that never was
the bond fists demand so animated as it has been to-day.

ONE CLOS 1N
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 3%per Cents ...102 1017 i 102% 102 X
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 11 7-1636 11Hk.
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859... 1114 1112
India Bond, 1,0001 73 73
Ditto under 1,0001.......... 1,0001...........74 74
South Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities
nitto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account — 21114
Consols for Account.
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d.
Ditto 500/
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 57 59 pm. 60

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 154% 15%
Mexican, 5 per Ces.L. 1837 ...... 3B 38
Ditto, Account 37% 381 38
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian Botids, 6 per Cents —
Ditto. Account 3034 303%
i (Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 663 67% 67%
Ditto, Account 671/2 67%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto Account
1 Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 983,E;% 98%
Ditto, Account
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
RAILWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2% 23/4
Binning, and Gloucesterloo
Do. New
Ditto 1 Shares ...... 3
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction ......... 2
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New .... . ......... 2
Bi istol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 2%
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Chichester and Brighton 10
Chester and Holyhead... 15
,
Churnet Valley ......... 2 , s%%iii
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2q , ...
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton . 11
.._ ... .
, Lei
Coventry En,c('Fester 114
Cornwall:' ' 3 ...

85%
9

Direct Northern . ........ 21/, • 33a •••I'..l•.°.***
Ptol4l €l,ll4Belftigt4q. 21-1.27 DIN
Dublin and Giiwtiy... .. ffq - 4.. ....
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. 2O 214
Ditto New 41. 16s.
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E Astern Union l5 ..

Ditto Extension

24 4

10%
3

8%
14
17%
5%
21

112
514
103/4
211/s
67/8

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