The Sun. — 1840-10-12 (London, England)

TURKISH SAILORS.—The absence of cleanliness and comfort I experienced was amply compensated by the insight which a week's close cinfinement with eight or nine Tusks afforded me into their character and manner?—an insight more extensive than had resulted from a long residence at Pera. The imptess:on made by them was highly favourable. The harmony with which they lived together, captain and crew, like so many brothers; the alacrity with which they went through the business of the ship, and which was, no doubt, inspired by the interest every man took in the success of the voyage ; and lastly, the unfeigned piety wi ich appeared to influence all their formed, certainly, very pleasing oh.. thoughts ald actions, jects of contemplation.—Longtoorth's Year among the Circassians. .  vY EFFECTS OF TERROR —At the execution of a man at Coutances a short time since, a young man who made his appearance for the first time on tl.e scaffold, as assistant executioner, fainted on seeing the blood spout from the neck of the criminal. When restored to anima. tion he was found to have lost his reason, and has ever since been confined in a madhouse, where no hopes of his recovery are entertained,  Greenacre, executed for the rnurder of Hannah Brown. Lees, executed for the murder of his wife. Merchant, executed for the murder of Elizabeth Paynton, in Cadogan-place ; and thong;; last, not least, CourvaiLier, for the murder of Lord William Russell. The beholder of the casts of these murderers is immediately struck with the extraordinary thickness of the lips of ell, with the exception of Lees, whose mouth forms a singular contrast to that of any of the rest of the fraternity, the lips being very thin. Indeed, the countenance is like that of a person not at all fitted for such company. A countryman, upon looking at it the other dav, said, " For sartain, Sir, the Jury was out in their judgment in hanging that man ; he was a reg'lar good-tempered smoke-a-pipe fellow, with whom It body might drink in the dark." Upon being told that Lees was a person of that character, but bad fallen a viaiaj,ia gin, 4 Aye," said the countryman, "for sartainbloollvas not his habit. Gin might ha' done it, but nature never did."  The cast of Greenacre resembles very strongly the face of that monster, as it was some days before his execution, when he scorned to have made up his mind to meet death boldly. There is a placid expression upon the features, not unmixed with an expression of pain, but not at all denoting the agony of mind with which his countenance .was marked, when we saw him pass from his chamber in the press-yard, now called " Greenacre's room," to the spot on which he made his final appearance. The upper lip of Greenacre was, if we may judge. from the cast, thicker than any other lip on the murderer's shelf. His nether lip fell in when the strippers of the body were plastering the face, so that those who had not frequently seen him, would fiad a difficulty in ascertaining kis identity. The casts of the Burkers would inspire horror, even if the stranger who glanced his eye upon them were told that the beings they represented had died in their beds.  The cant of Courvcisier gives a face in which more court ers could he read without drawing much upon the im.Agioation. It looks as the original looked, while he was writing cn a piece of paper for Sheriff Evans, the words Written on the morning of my execution." 'nue is nothing remarkable in the two remaining casts. The neck of.each of the seven casts is distinct;), marked with the rope. The exhibition cannot be easily forgotten.