The Sun. — 1848-01-10 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF THOMAS SALE. (THIS MORNING.) At eight o'clock this morning this wretched man underwent the extreme penalty of the law in front of Newgate, for the murder of Mr. Bellchambers. Since the attack upon M'Coy by Sale, a very marked alteration has taken place in the latter's conduct, and instead of the sullen, morose, and, at times, violent demeanour which he exhibited, he appeared to be fully alive to the awful situation in which he was placed, and listened with a quietness and marked attention to the exhortations of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the chaplain of Newgate. Long before six o'clock, although the morning was dark and piercing cold, a number of persons had collected in the vicinity. The sheriffs and under-sheriffs arrived at the prison shortly before seven o'clock, and after that time the crowd began to pour in from all parts in shoals, and by eight o'clock every avenue and vicinity of the gaol where a sight could be obtained was densely crowded. Precisely as the clock of St. Sepulchre's struck eight the bell commenced tolling, and in less than two minutes the Rev. Mr. Davis ascended the scaffold reading the Burial Service, followed by Sale, who walked firmly and boldly up the steps without assistance, but without any appearance of bravado. He looked boldly to the crowded assembly of uplifted faces, and having made a low bow, without uttering a word, took his station under the fatal beam. The executioner immediately placed the cap on his head and adjusted the noose, and in another minute he was launched into eternity. His struggles appeared to be very short. The Rev. Chaplain continued in front of the wretched man until he gave the signal for withdrawing the fatal bolt. The body having hung the usual time was cut down, and will be interred within the gaol this evening.  Mdlle. Jenny Lind, the celebrated elephant, whose disinclination to tread the boards of Drury-lane Theatre was evinced by various antics in the streets adjacent about nine months since, previous to her appearance in the grand spectacle of the Desert, produced at Easter last, is about to take her departure for America, to astonish our transatlantic brethren with her sagacity, together with the male elephant and nine camels purchased by Mr. Batty at Hughes' mammoth sale at Vauxhall-gardens, in November last, the whole having been sold to Mr. Sands, for his American Circus (the gentle. man who was co-lessee with Mr. Van Amburgh, of the English Opera House a few years since), at the sum of 2,000/. We are happy to congratulate Mr. Batty upon the success of his speculation on that occaiion, and trust his energy and enterprise, whether in catering for the amusement of the public or his own iudividual profit, will always meet with the same success. We are given to understand they will leave for New Ycrk by the packet-ship Prince Albert, Captain Meyer, which sails on the 28th of this month, and we sincerely hope that Mr. Batty will give the juvenile portion of his auditory who throng his theatre at this season of the year an opportunity of witnessing their performance before they take their departure. The good service pay of twenty-five shillings per diem has been conferred upon Major-Generals Richard Egerton, C. 8., and Sir W. Chalmers, K.C.H., the former dating from the 18th December, the latter from the 201 h December last.—United Service Ottzette. Lieutenant-Colonel Lheureux, orderly officer of the Minister of War, left Paris with dispatches on Thursday, it is said, relative to Abd-el-K&der.