The Press. — 1856-11-08 (London, England)

CONFESSIONS OF A FILLIBUSTER. (From El Nicaraguense, Sept. 20th.) AT five o'clock on the evening of Friday, the 10th inst., Second Lieutenant Jennings Estelle suffered the extreme penalty of the law by being shot on the Plaza for the murder of Second Lieutenant Charles Gordon, in the guardhouse in the city of Granada, while acting as officer of the guard. Estelle had been previously arrested for shooting Thomas Edwards, and was, when he committed the unfortunate act for which he suffered death, a pri• goner confined to his quarters. He had a fair and impartial trial, and the gentlemen who sat in judgment upon him gave him every opportunity to establish a defence, but in this he utterly failed. The deed was committed without any provocation or without any aggravating circumstance. He was sentenced to be hung, but the Commander-in-Chief caused it to be so far mitigated as to allow him to be shot. There was a large concourse gathered to witness the execution. Estelle walked with a firm step by the side of a rev. father of the Church, who prayed with him and for him from the guardhouse to the place of execution. When he arrived at the spot where he was to breathe his last, he requested that his hands might be untied, as he wished to address the crowd. This request being granted, he spoke in a firm, unfaltering voice. In his speech he asked forgiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Nicaraguan army. Voices responded from the crowd, " God forgive you!" While in prison he wrote the following address, which he requested to have publish"d  Granada, Sept. 15, 1858. These a e the dying declarations of Jennings Estelle : I was born in Marshall, Tennessee, in the year 1833, and was raised from my infancy in Hinds County, Mississippi. I started to California in 1852. On the road i had a " difficulty " with a man of the name of Howard, and shot him. I afterwards shot a loan of the name of Hays, bit the wound did not Iv-ippon to prove fatal. In the s true year I had a " difficulty" with Charles Robinson, •id stabbed him in three places. My last two " difficulties" while in California occurred at the State prison, where I had been employed for the last two years. After getting in the last scrape, I came to Nicaragua and sht,t, Thomas Edwards. I afterwards shot Charles Gordon. I must say that in all my " difficulties" I was not once in my right mind. Twice I had been forgiven, and hope to he forgiven for them all. I think there is a God in heaven that will and can forgive, and He knows, and I know, that it was not I that killed Charles Gordon. It was whisky and my crazy mind that did it. I say that I was not in my right mind when I did the deed, and God knows it. For4t‘e me, officers and soldiers, and I can die a happy man.  THE LATE LORD SCARBOROUGH has, it appears, constituted his cousin and successor to the title, Richard George Lumley, Esq. of Tickhill Castle, his hi ir, and the new earl will have the estate at Sandheck, the Lumley property in Lincolnshire, and the fan ily castle and estates in Durham. THE SOLICITORS TO EARL TALBOT have addressed a circular to the tenantry of the Shrewsbury estates, calling upon them to pay all rents which have ac. crued since the death of the Earl of Shrewsbury, or which were current at his death, to the solicitors of Earl Talbot, and offering on the part of the earl and )u son, Lord Ingestre, a full indemnity against