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EXECUTION IN LONDON,

The awful punishment of death was on Monday morning
inflicted on Job John Ward, who was convicted at the last
November Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, of the
wilful murder of Timothy Ested, an infant, aged only one
year and nine months. The wretched culprit, who was in the
prime of life, his age being only 28 years, has ever since his
condemnation suffered the most accute mental anguish, and
yesterday, during the condemned sermon, he fainted away in
the chapel of Newgate, and the service was suspended for
nearly a quarter of an hour in consequence.
The same thing had occurred at his condemnation, and we
understand that during the brief interval which has since
elapsed, fits of a similar nature have been of frequent re-
currence. From all these circumstances it had been feared
that his strength of nerve would have failed him in his last
awful moments. Such, however, was not the case.
Shortly before eight o'clock the rev. ordinary, the sheriffs,
and other officers were in attendance upon the prisoner in his
cell. The prisoner was seated on a form, and Mr. Sheriff
Magnay sat by his side. Mr. Carver asked him whether he
admitted the justice of his sentence, and he replied, " Oh
dear, yes." Mr. Sheriff Magnay then asked him whether he
he wuuld now wish to state anything as to the manner in
which the child was killed; he replied, that the child was
lying in the bed, and he struck it with his fist twice ; he
added, that when he did so, he had not the least idea or in-
tention to kill it, and he concluded by declaring positively,
that he never made use of the hammer.

The Sheriff then asked him whether it was true that he
was intoxicated at the time ; to which he replied that he was,
and he at the same time said, that he hoped all working men
would refrain from drink, for that had been the means of
placing him in his present dreadful situation. Upon another
occasion he told the ordinary, that it was drink which put
the idea of striking the child into his head, and that he
wished liquor had been a guinea a quart on that day, as it
would have prevented the unfortunate occurrence taking

The Sheriff then asked the prisoner whether it was not
possible that the head of the child might have come in con-
tact with the chair or the bed-post, but he replied that that
could not be, and again repeated, that the only injury in-
flicted upon the child were the blows with his fist, adding
that at the time he had not the slightest intention of killing
it, but as those blows were the cause of death, he acknow-
ledged that he was justly charged with the murder—and
was, therefore. liable to the punishment he was about to
suffer.

When the prisoner was pinioned, he expressed a wish to
shake hands with the sheriffs and ordinary ; and having done
so, he exclaimed, " God bless you! I thank you for all your
kindness."

The usual hour, eight o'clock, having arrived, the culprit
was led to the scaffold, with the usual procession. He ap-
peared very faint, and was . supported by one of the turn-
keys and Mr. Holding, one of the surgeons. The appear-
ance of the wretched man on the scaffold was the signal for a
burst of cheers, mingled with groans, from the assembled
crowd. He appeared to struggle for about a minute before
life was extinct.
At nine o'clock the body was cut down, and will be in-
terred by the side of Blakesley.

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We are informed
and Earl that theGrlieukeo.
of Buckingham, the Duke
of Beaufort, de y 1; are candidates for the blue
the
riband vacant by the death of latei Earl of Westmorland.
It has not been definitively arranr,e: pon whom the selection
will fall, but it is understood that the claims of the Duke of
Beaufort will probably be preferred.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.—We learn from the best autho-
rity that there is every prospect of the excellent
crown prince
itl appears,
of Hanover recovering his sight. The operation
from which so much good was anticipated, failed o,n
,Ist which there was no guardingy through
well as could he wished. The‘tho"ry;
-11 formed in the pupil, and hindered
penetrating penetrating to the back of th
A, when a convulsive motion of the byali
.cent all at once into such a position that
rdinary coolness of Dr. Graafe it must have
-If, and destroyed all capacity of vision ;
bad just time to touch the spring by
-as kept in its place, and the result
e horny substance fell back again
Into the bed from which it had been removed. We learn,
however, that Dr. Graafe is in great hopes that by the mere
process of absorption this will be got rid of, or, if not, that
in bout a year from this date the amiable and interesting
patient will be in a state to undergo a second operation.
Meanwhile it is most satisfactory to know that the retina is
not destroyed, that the real powers of vision are quite per-
fect, and that nothing keeps the Prince from enjoying the
full blessing of sight except this foreign and, as it would
seem, removable obstruction to the passage of the rays of
light to the back of the eye. The Prince, we are assured, is
in excellent health and 'spirits, and is himself very sanguine
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