The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-04-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXECUTION OF SARAH FREEMAN.—This wretched a-3 ear. culprit expiated with her life, at Taunton, on Wednesday, The auction duties ceased to be charged from the Bth the diabolical crime of which she was convicted. It will of the present month, on the usual condition that the he in the recollection of our readers that the unhappy parties consented to abide the ultimate decision of parlia- woman was committed upon four distinct charges of murment. der, namely, for having administered arsenic to her husband, her illegitimate son, her mother, and her brother, The tolls for Menai-bridge were let last week for (of whose murder she was convicted at the late spring f£1,140. an increase of .£lB5, and those of Conway-bridge assizes,) which caused their death. She slept well from or £560, an increase of £155, compared with the prece- twelve o'clock on Tuesday night until six on Wednesday ring year. morning, when she got up and ate a hearty breakfast. She The India mail of the 3d, as well as that of the 20th of strongly rotested her innocence to e chaplain and each month. is in future to be conveyed between this others, saying, that she bought the poison for herself, and country and Malta and Alexandria by the Peninsular and that her brother John took it from her bag and gave it to Oriental Company's steamers. her mother and brother. After receiving the sacrament James Hartley, Esq., of the Bishopwearmouth glass- she epeeared on the scaffold shortly before eleven o'clock, works, has, by a series of experiments, proved that pipes and joined in prayer, again protesting her innocence. In for gas and water, stronger than the ordinary metal pipes, a few minutes the fatal noose was adjusted, the bolt drawn, and much cheaper, may be made of glass. and she ceased to exist. " Captain Pratt," of Harwich, was convicted at the The Scotch members of both houses of Parliament are Central Criminal Conrt, on e aturday week, for forging a making preparations to resist any material alterations in check for £lO 10s. on Messrs. Herries and Co., the the laws that regulate their banking establishment. In bankers. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation. the lower house there is, we believe, only one Scotch The amount of money member not opposed to any change; and in the upper coined at the Mint, during the twenty years ending with 1836. was over sixty-seven milhouse the Scotch peers are, we hear, nearly as unanimous. lions of pounds sterling. The charge for coining this sum So that Sir Robert Peel will have to encounter a most formidable arid determined opposition should he be rewas nearly £421,000. solved to persevere in restrictive legislation. And it is The devastations, consequent on the overflowing of the scarcely possible that he will, under such circumstances, Elbe, at Dresden, have commuted the most frightful intriuluce any measure that will operate injuriously to ravages, The graves of the churchyards were emptied of that system of banking to which Scotland ascribes its iontheir dead, and the coffins, some open, and some empty, provement and prosperity—the more, as no practical evils floated on the top of the flood. of any moment have been traced to it. That Sirobert