The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

EXECUTION

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NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.—The execution of John
Jones, alias Samuel Moore, the Mansfield murderer, has
just taken place, before an immense concourse of people,
many of whom had travelled on foot from Mansfield, to wit-
ness the disgusting exhibition. From the period of his con-
demnation, the unhappy man showed the deepest signs of
contrition, acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and
longed for the arrival of the period when his sufferings would
terminate. lie was repeatedly visited by
.the chaplain, the
Rev. W. Butler, and has been a willing recipient of religious
instruction. Jones retired to rest about midnight, and arose
at six o'clock. The rites of the church were administered to
him, and at eight o'clock he was conducted to the press-
room, where be was heavily ironed. On his passage to the
scaffold, he asked to see his grave, and was conducted to the
yard in which it was dug; he surveyed it with great calmness,
and threw a letter into it, requesting that it might not be
opened. When the rope was put round his neck, he said to
the hangman, " Not quite so tight, if you please ;" and then
the poor man affectionately shook hands with all around him.
The scene was most affecting ; but Jones appeared the least
moved of any. At the drop he addressed the spectators,
prayed aloud for several minutes, shook hands with the exe-
cutioner, and gave the signal for the fatal launch. He ap-
peared to suffer very little.

Workmen are engaged in sinking an Artesian well in Pic-
cadilly, London, just by St. James's Church.
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COUNTY MAGIsTr.ACY.—The two senior magistrates for
the county of Lancaster, are, Lord Skelmersdale and Sir T.
D. Hesketh, Bart., the first having qualified in 1800, the
second in 1806. The whole number of magistrates in the
county is 313, made up as follows :—in Lonsdale Hundred,
43 ; Amounderness' 18 ; Blackburn, 38 ; Leyland, 21 ; West
Derby, 81; Salford 109.

THE ELECTROTYPE APPLIED TO MAKE COUNTERFEIT
COlN.—Base coin is extensively in circulation in Worcester.
Pence and halfpence, in particular, have been successfully
counterfeited, having every appearance of genuine coin, by
the chemicai application of a solution of copper on a lead
body. The deceit may be easily detected by rubbing the sus-
pected pieces against any rough substance, by which the coat-
ing will be removed.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—One of the soldiers of
the Guards in the St. George's Barracks loaded his firelock
with ball cartridge, just after the drums had ceased last
evening, while four other men were in the room, and com-
menced firing, whether at either of them it is not possible
to say, but immediately on his doing so the others most im-
properly left the room, instead of disarming him, and he
continued firing for some time, until the whole of his am-
munition (12 rounds) was expended. One of the shots
seared a man who happened to be near. During this time
he was so furiously excited that nobody durst enter the
room ; he then threw himself from the room he was in, that
being a top room, into the barrack-yard, clearing most mi-
raculously the iron railing, and is now carried to the hospi-
tal, of course in a hopeless state. He had been drinking
apparently very little at the canteen, and had but a short
time previous obtained some bread, some of which was
found on the table.—Times of Thursday.—We take the fol-
lowing from the Times of Friday :—Thomas Hutchins is a
private in the third battalion of the Ist regiment of grenadier
foot guards, now stationed in the Mews Barracks, Trafalgar-
square, and was considered the finest man in the regiment,
measuring 6ft. 2 in. in height, and stout in proportion, and,
when, uninfluenced by liquor, was a quiet, inoffensive person;
but a little drink would sometimes excite him to an "extraor-
dinary degree, and cause him to quarrel with his comrades.
On Wednesday night, at about nine o'clock, after having in-
, dulged rather freely, he retired with three others to one of the

sleeping-rooms at ihe top of the building for the night, where,
however, he had not been many minutes before he commenced
quarrelling with a man named Greene, whom he at length
threatened with his vengeance, and, fearing the consequences,

Greene made his escape down stairs, and informed the s

geant that Hutchins was drunk. The sergeant immediately
repaired up stairs, and ordered him down to the orderly-
room, for the purpose of testing his sobriety. He, however,
struck the sergeant under the ear with his bayonet, and
slightly wounded him. Another man was slightly wounded
in the face in endeavouring to rescue the sergeant, who, but
for his interference, would no doubt have been murdered.
An, however, ran out of the room with the exception of one
man, who had got into bed, to whom Hutchins said, " You
have never injured or given me any offence ; I shall not there-
fore hurt a hair of your head." Hutchins, however, now
commenced firing at the door, imagining, no doubt, that some
of them were on the other side of it. Six bullets passed
through the door, which is about two inches in thickness, one
of them lodging in another door at the end of the passage,
which is about 12 feet in length. He also fired through the
front• window at the sentries in the yard, who, however, for-
tunately escaped. Hearing several persons coming up the
stairs, he threw up the back window, and flung out his belt
and pouch, and having exclaimed. " Now, you , follow
me," precipitated himself frOm the window into the back
yard, a height of about 50 feet, when a rush was instantly
made, and he was found lying upon his back in a state of in-
sensibility. He was immediately placed upon a stretcher,
and conveyed to the barracks hospital
Din Rochester-row,
Westminster, where he was attended by rs. Johnson and
Bellam, of the regiment, who discovered that his left arm was
broken ; lint the extent of injury sustained could not then be
discovered. On inquiry yesterday at the hospital, it was
ascertained that he had been spitting blood the whole of the
day, which proceeded from the internal injuries he had re-
ceived, and which are of so serious a nature as to preclude all
hope of his recovery. The flagstone upon which he fell was
broken into several pieces, but not a spot of blood was to be
seen. Hutchins is in the 2Sth year of his age.

HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—A monthly statement o
hemp, flax, and tallow, has just appeared from the house o
one of the first brokers in the trade ; and according to this,
the quantity of hemp on hand is 5,194 tons, the delivery for
the month of February being 798, at a price of £35 to
£35• 10d• for clean per ton. The stock of flax is given- at
912 tons, and the delivery at 144 tons ; the price of good
twelve-head flax being 48s. per ton. The stock of tallow is
stated at 29,685 casks, and the delivery for February at 8,323
cash, the nearest price during that period being, as it is now,
about 48s. for good P. Y. C. Compared with the same
period last year, this statement shows a decline of about £3
per ton in hemp, and an increase in the value of tallow of
about 2s. per cwt. Flax appears to have undergone no varia-
tion.—Shipping Gazette.

THE NEW TARIFF.-At the sheep fair held at Caister, in
Lilcolnshire, last Friday, good hogs sold at 30s. to 355. per
heal, which at the corresponding fair last year would have
brought 403. to 455. very prirrie 50s. On the Saturday fol-
owing, beasts sold from ..:C2 to £3 per head under the last
year's prices. • •