The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-10-15 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MSS. they left behind them, so that posterity may judge how far the biographers have been unjust to their subjects, or how far their partiality has been misleading. The Daily Graphic, announcing that the interment is to take place in Westminster Abbey, says: Assuredly none of those whose monuments may be seen in the famous Poets' Corner could boast a clearer title than his to Le received into the necropolis of the nation's worthies. The greatest poet of his own age, and one of the greatest that England, mother of poets, has ever produced, his tomb could obviously be nowhere more fitly found than among those of the mighty ones who by deed,, or speech, or song have helped to build up the glory of our name. It has been observed that the funeral of Livingstone was the most densely attended of any that have taken place in the Abbey in recent times; but, although the man of action nearly always appeals more powerfully to the popular imagination than. the man of thought, there is every reason to believe that Wednesday's ceremony will be witnessed by an equally imposing throng. The circumstance is a striking and interesting illustration of the strong hold which Lord Tennyson had gained upon the people's hearts, notwithstanding his rich endowment with those rate delicate qualities which make, and will always make, his work the keen delight of the cultivated few.  Banbury, 22, plaster and house was convictod before Mr. artistic* last sessions of the Central Criminal Aenced to death for the wilful murder of Annie Oakley, was hanged on Tuesday morning within Wandsworth .Gaol, London, an application for a reprieve having been refused. Bil Huston, the hangman, arrived at the gaol on Monday afternoon, and in the presence of Mr. Under Sheriff Metcalfe, who supervised the arrangements for the execution, he tested the rope and the drop, which has recently undergone certain alterations. Banbury retired to bed about ten o'clock, but he was very restless and slept,. little. He rose shortly after seven o'clock, when the final preparations for the carrying out of the sentence were completed. l'he convict bore up with remarkable fortitude. He was dressed ,in the clothes which he wort at his trial. He ate spar. ingly of the breakfast supplieff him. The Rev. Mr. Pigot entered the convict's cell soon after eight, and remained with him in cluse•devotion to the end. Banbury expressed the deep remorse which he felt for his crime, and a hope of forgiveness. The passing-bell began to toll at a quarter to nine. A few minutes before nine Captain Helby, the Governor of the prison; Captain Schuyler, the Deputy Governor ; Mr. Uocter-Sheriff Metcalfe, and Mr. German, chief warder, accompanied by Billington, proceeded to the condemned cell, where the proc es of pinioning the culprit was quietly and expeditiously periormed. Banbury shook hands with the gaol officials, thanking them for their goodness to him, before starting for the scaffold, which is situate withie a few paces of the condemned cell, in a yard at the south-east corner of the prison. It was stated that the convict walked firmly to the scaffold. A drop of 61t. was given. Death was said to have been instantaneous. The usual formal inquest afterwards took place.  John Ji