The Sun. — 1832-08-24 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF A LADY'S CATS. —on Saturday week, a maiden lady, living at Walsiugham, Norfolk, and long known for her deep attachment and benevolence to the cat tribe, which dotage has for many years " grown with her growth," was observed in thoughtful, melancholy mood, and dressed in the sable weeds of a Mourner, On inquiry it was found that a decree which had lately gone forth against her favourite companions, had that morning been put into execution; and, in spite of the nine lives of the cat, 46 of them—all the lady's 't°ek—had " undergone the extreme penalty of the law," and were then lying skinless in a hole " by the wall," hdenied even a decent Christian burial. The benevolent ey has for some time been allowed a pound a week by _s brother, the chief of which has been spent in the Maintenance of her tortoise-shells ; yea, so careful has bbeen in keeping as large a stock as possible, and in ling them unsparingly, that in doing so she is said to se half starved herself. Her brother, finding that this 'n°ldinate attachment to these four-footed animals was b 'eunaing daily more engrossing, and 4 that his sister was 4'4 unlikely to starve herself outright for the gratification of this old-maidenish propensity, resolved on their destruction as above, and sent a man to fulfil his wishes. The lady, however, will now have some consolation in visiting her neighbour's cats, and carrying them their daily pertisn of meat and milk, as she had been accustomed to do for several y ars past, should not her life he endangered by grief for the loss of her own tabbies. —Hull Packet.  BAILEY, who was to have been executed to-5Y for the murder of ELIZABETH MARTIN, was reprieved b" Saturday. Since his condemnation, his conduct has eo in keeping with his unhappy eituat'on—penitent for 3 former follies, which he admitted were great and frequent--and resigned to the fate his country's laws had 4warded him. Whin the reprieve arrived his wife and Ttoother were about to enter the cell, for the purpose of aking the last melancholy farewell of its lonely tenant. eir joy- on the receipt of the happy intelligence was great the cause was unexpected. BAILEY himself did not exhibit any extraordinary symptoms of unbounded gladness when first told that he was not to be snatched from society 5o suddenly as he had long anticipated, but this is not to be attributed to moroseness, or the absence of the common ft•elings of humanity, for he is far from being void of een-sibility ; but the judicious manner in which the intelligence `vll3 conveyed to him by the Governor, precluded the tobsbllity of one of those scenes which were of such fregognt occurrence on similar occasions. Mr. BRUTTON, aware that too sudden a disclosure might cause a mental tiwulsion that would, perhaps, save the prisoner from the 411C1Wil, to be killed, after the Irish fashion, by kind-1144, began by raising a feeble hope of clemency being 'tended to him : this was succeeded by doubts on the jotof the informant, with respect to the sentence ever i'log carried into execution ; and these again were fol-s Wed by a confidence, alnmst amounting to assurance, that his life w0u1,4 be spared. The prisoner at first was 142o0ved, declaring his willingness to meet his fate as be',44le a Christian and a man, and persisted in his asseverations of innocence of the crime for the supposed perpeIN.tion of which he had been condemned. By degrees he i‘:l,4,ced more interest in tbe Governor's communication 4j"tlis apathy was succeeded by inquisitive anxiety ; the I,:tlost torpid resignation with which he at first responded 1/4; a humane interrogatories of Mr. BRUTTON, gave way, ktrltolpicion of the true nature of the interview became iihNthened ; and when at length the full truth burst t;,_°4 him, he appeared as one suddenly snatched from annihilation. Staffordshire Gazette.