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EXECUTION OF COOPER, TWO HIGHWAYMAN
AND MURDERER.

The executi n of Thomas Cooper, for the murder of
Timothy Daley, a policeman, at Highbury, took place on
Monday morning at the usual place of execution in the Old
Bailey. The authorities of the gaol, by the orders of the
Sheriffs, refused admission to every stranger who applied.
Mr. Sheriff Rogers arrived at the gaol about seven o'clock,
and an application was made to him by the reporters to be
allowed admittance. He replied, in answer to the applica-
tion, that in consequence of some errors that bad appeared
relative to statements alleged to have been made by Mr.
Sheriff Magnay at the last execution, it had been resolved
not to allow any reporters to be present on this occasion ;
but he said he would go and consult Mr. Magnay upon the
subject, and an answer should be sent. He also very
politely told the reporters that the Sheriffs did not wish to
prevent them from seeing the execution, and at the same
time pointed to the Old Bailey, intimating, no doubt, that
they might choose a position among the crowd. He then
went into the gaol, promising to send an answer, but none
arrived before the execution took place, and the reporters
then retired, without having had any opportunity of obtaining
the facts connected with the execution.

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The following particulars have been obtained from various
sources. The culprit had latterly, to a very considerable ex-
tent, abandoned his former reckless demeanour, and had evi-
dently been affected by the exhortation of the chaplain ; he
also expressed contrition for the offence he had committed,
and admitted the justice of his sentence. He slept about
three hours on Sunday night. He got up about six o'clock,
and shortly afterwards Mr. Carver was admitted to his cell,
and remained with him until the hour of execution. The
culprit appeared to be very weak ; indeed his legs almost
failed him, and it was necessary to support him through the
passages of the gaol to the scaffold. Here he appeared some-
what to rally, and walked up the steps leading to the drop,
and the executioner immediately proceeded to perform his
duty. The wretched culprit again became very faint, and
just as he seemed on the point of falling to the ground the
bolt was drawn, and he appeared to die almost instantly.
The crowd assembled was very inconsiderable when com-
pared with those to witness the execution of Good and
Blakesley.

TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF THE
CITY OF DUBLIN.

REV. GENTLEMEN,--I have had the honour of enclosing
in an envelope—addressed to each of you who, I learn from
your Directory, are placed at the bead of your respective
places of worship in this city—copies of the following peti-
tion to the Houses of Lords and Commons, which, though it
has been printed before, I now reprint, that the Roman Ca-
tholics of Dublin may know it is placed in your hands, and
may again read it with due deliberation :
PETITION.

TO DEFEND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS, PRIESTS,

AND COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH

To the Knights BUrgesses in the Commons' House of Par-
liament assembled.
The Petition of the undersigned Roman Catholics
and Liberal Protestants of all denominations.

HUMBLY SHOWETH,—That whereas certain. cruel, un-
founded, and illiberal calumnies and slanders have been and
are being circulated among various classes of Protestants,
impeaching the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of
Ireland, and especialiy the principles taught in the Roman
Catholic College of Maynooth, and in the conferences of
priests, with the view of procuring petitions to your Honour-
able House to withdraw the grant of public money from that
college

That it has been stated that ordinances of idolatry and su-
perstition, doctrines subversive of the obligation of oaths
when the utility of the church requires it, principles inculca-
ting intolerance and persecution of heretics, invasion of the
settlement of property, disloyalty to a Protestant Sovereign,
and gross and revolting obscenity to be used with females in
confession, form part of the instruction of students trained
for the Roman Catholic priesthood in that college.
That it has been stated that, after they are ordained priests,
similar principles are instilled into them by their bishops in
their diocesan conferences, to teach them to direct the con-
sciences of the people, that the bishops have a certain stan-
dard for this purpose, to which they have added certain Papal
laws, and that these alleged facts are sufficient to account
for the crimes and miseries of the Roman Catholic popula-
tion of Ireland.

That petitioners are well convinced that these are the ca-
lumnies of base and interested individuals, itinerant sowers
of discord and disturbers of the public peace, that they have
no foundation in fact, that such principles as these are neither
inculcated in the class-books and standards on the students
of Maynooth, nor subsequently on the priests by their bishops
in the standards of their diocesan conferences, that there
exists no such wicked code of laws in Ireland, but that the
Roman Catholic hierarchy and priests of Ireland are most
loyal, moral, upright, chaste, pure, and exemplary men.

-Petitioners, therefore, most humbly piay that Your honor-
able house will be pleased to investigate the class-books and
standards of instruction used in the College of Maynooth,
and the standards for the diocesan conferences of the Roman
Catholic priests, and all the alleged charges : that your
honourable house will thus vindicate this excellent institu-
tion, and the justice of the parliamentary grant to support it ;
rescue from calumny this most venerable and loyal class of
her Majesty's subjects ; put illiberal slanderers to silence;
remove a cause of diccord ; disabuse the minds of the cre-
dulous; inspire Protestants with confidence and good-will
towards their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; promote
peace and Christian charity in Ireland; and petitioners con-
fidently expect that your honourable house will see ample
cause not only to continue, but to increase your grant to the
Roman Catholic College of Maynooth.