Northern Times. — 1857-08-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXECUTION AT CUES [ER,  YESTERDAY MORNING.  FROII OUR OWN RZPORTER.  Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, John Blagg was executed in front of the city gaol, at Chester, for the murder of John Bebbington, a gamekeeper, at Tilston, by shooting him in a field near his own residence, on the morning of  the 16th April last. Since bis cmviction the culprit had been most obstinate, and manifested a painful inlifference to the exhortation of the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Milner, In the earlier part of his visits the chaplain fJund him  almOst inaccessible to the influence of religious service s,  but within the past le v days he had become more softened, and frequently gave expression to loud ejaculations when speaking of his wife and faulty. His wife had daily interviews with the unfortunate man, the last of which was about six o'clock the previous evening, and was, as might be imagined, of the mast painful character. To her, and t) the chaplain, and all the officials of the gaol who visited bins, he stoutly denied his guilt, and when at the close of the final interview with his, wife on Thursday night, she implored him to confess his crime if he was really guilty. His reply was in an apparently calm and collected manner, "My dear,. I am► as innocent as you are, and some day it will come ou►." The distressing interview than terminated, and she bade him a final adieu. Shortly afterwards the barber came to shave him, and on this office being completed, the culprit rose, and passing his hand over his chin, he remarked, with extraordinary coolness and self-possession, well, I suppose this here is the last shave until to-morrow morning." On Thursday forenoon, a very intimate female friend visited him, and implored him, if guilty, to•confess his crime, and pray to Christ, who was always ready to have mercy on the worst of sinners. ifs reply was " I will pray to myself." They then prayed together for a few minutes, during which she said to him, "now John, tell us who has done it,—thoa knows who has done it," when he replied with great coolness, " Agnes, I,know who did, bit I'll never tell," these were the last words between them, with the exception of the parting farewell, which almost immediately followed. At four o'clock yesterday morning the sheriff and the city gaoler made a demand for the eulprit at the county gaol. He was then handed to them by the governor of the county gaol, and• accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Kilner, the Chaplain of the county prison, and was conveyed to the count! gaol in a cab. The Rev. Mr. Kilner, and the Rev. Mr. Ilevesou the Chaplain of the city gaol remained with him during the whole of the night. Ho s'ept little, and in answer to questions, from the two reverend gentlemen, he persisted is his innocence, and repeatedly remarked that " some day the mnrderer will be fotind out." At twenty minutes to eight o'clock the culprit, accompanied by the two Chaplains, was condected to the chapel, where service was performed. The Sacrament was not administered•. A few minutes before eight he was c )nducted to the room adjoining the drop, where Calcraft (who h•ad arrived on Thursday evening) went throtegh the pr mess of pinioning. The procession to the scaffold was then formed, during which the county Chaplaia repeatedly asked the prisoner to confess his crime, if guilty, but he stoutly denied it, and maintained he innocence to the final moment, his words to the chaplain being " I am an innocent man." He remained in prayer with the chaplain until eight o'clock, Vrlash the bolt was drawn and the miserable man was launched into eternity, dying without the slightest struggle. About half an boar before leaving the county gaol, one of .the. turnkeys said to him "new Blagg, it is of no use now denying your crime, if you did kill the man—if you shot the wean, say so." He replied, " I know that in a short time I shall have to meet my Maker, and I tell you that I am as innocent of the crime as at y man in this prison."  The Arcbdeaconry of Llandaff, remlared vacant by the preferment of the Venerab'e Taornas Williams, M.A., to the deanery of ManilaEf Cathedral, has been conferred upon the Rev. James C. Campbell, M.A., rector of Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire. The appointment has given great satisfaction to the clergy of the diocese. Till