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EXECUTION OF KNATCHBULL.
THE above-named individual terminated his career, begun with honour and with every prospect of earthly advancement and happi- ness, in infamy on the scaffold yesterday morning. The circumstances connected with the fearful crime for which he suffered, are too well known to the public to need repeti- tion, nor does it accord at all with our inclina- tion to revert to them. His trial, the verdict of the Jury, his condemnation, and the sub- sequent proceedings taken by parties who thought they would be doing an act of hu- manity to save even his life, have also been recorded ; but justice has now been done.
Even after the sentence of death had been passed upon him, after the Executive Council
had determined that no mercy could be ex- tended to him, and after the decision of the Judges upon the points raised in bis favour, he still hoped that he should be allowed to live; and although his conduct was becoming the position to which he had brought himself, he did not confess his crime, or despair of his life being spared. When, however, Mr. Keck communicated to him, that he had received the official instructions for his execution, he gave up hope, and applied himself to pre- paration for another world. In this he was assisted by the Chaplain and various per* sons, whose efforts on his behalf, and influence on himself, produced, if appear- ances may be believed, the most satisfac- tory results. To some of these, it is said, that his admissions of past crimes have been unreserved. But the public here have only now to do with that which has brought him to an end. On Sunday last, the Rev. Mr. Elder preached before him the " condemned sermon," and this appears to have had a most extraordinary effect upon him. Immediately on being conducted to his cell he wrote to Mr Keck in the following
terms :
" Condemned Cell,
" Woolloomooloo Gaol,
" 10th February, 1844
"In the presence of Almighty God¡, Amen. I am guilty of the horrid deed for which I am to suffer death ; and may the Lord bave mercy on my soul. Amen. "
"JOHN KNATCHBULL»
This, we believe, is the only formal confes-
sion which he has made as to his last crime, although he has left behind him a variety of notes, letters, &c, which mayafford informa- tion as to other matters to the authorities, whose duty it is to look to the security of the
public. His last hours were passed in prayer:
abundance of religious assistance was afforded him, and, as before said, to all appea rance not in vain. After having seen those friends
who had of late attended him, for the last time, in his cell, he was brought out from that cell to the scaffold, which had been
erected outside the gaol wall. On either side
of him were the Rev. Mr. Elder and the Rev. Mr. Sharp; and following him the Rev. Dr. Ross and other religious friends
who had attended him in his last days. He
walked steadily, apparently insensible to all around him, and engaged in ejaculatory prayer. At the foot of tbe scaffold he knelt with the clergymen, and prayers were offered up. He ascended the steep ladder without
failing; and to the last moment- after all the fatal arrangements had been completed and
after the clergymen had left him his ejacu-
lations were still heard by those in the immediate neighb The drop fell and the struggle was but brief death being probably hastened by
--- of the drop. The body was taken down
after the usual lapse of time and removed
"" .tí,»tate.formed no small proportion
Ämb es. ThT Mounted Police and a 'VA We in attendance. We are A ay, hoCer, that no ebullition of
r » iñnV nlace : a was tranquil and good
K"d tfcVhout the solemnity of the
e5e was preserved from the slightest inter
iption. _ I IwrsLEïAN CENTÍNARY CHAPEL.- This | Erected and spacious chapel will be
./for oublie worship this day, when
¿sí U be Poached by the Rev. Walter [wry? Superintendant of these Missions in ROMAN "CATHOLIC CHuacii.-Archbishop AHM I» e« 8 *isit t0 $e B°utD1ern. d»1,»0'8 S Kwai at Goulburn on Sunday last, and was
outproceedingtoYass.
? IT H AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS SO ONE ANY
»."" -We have been requested to state, that iV £22 raid by Captain Thompson to stay
leial proceedings that had been commen Bon account of certain transactions on
'j the Urgent, has been thus disposed of: fe"to the Dorcas Society, £5 to the Benevo «t Society, Ä10 to St. Leonard s Church, forth Shore, and «2 Si. law expenses.
THASBOURMASTER NEWCASTLB.-HIS Excel
L» the Governor has appointed Mr. A. H. A to be Harbour Master and Pilot at êwcMtle, in the room of Mr. George W.
ickson, resigned.
îTHBATEicALS.-We mentioned je'terday oniing, that the Opera of CINDERELLA had ?en brought out at the Victoria Theatre in a Uly creditable manner. The difficulties to > » overcome are very great; for instance,
Sere was but one copy of the music, which las i« the possession of Mr. Nathan, and no nilish version could be found in the colony ¡ ie libretto waa from the pen of Mr. It. hompson. His by far the most successful ¡tempt at an opera that has been made in lis colony, and the scenery as well as the ar injiement and performance of the music, and le efforts of the singers call equally for the ¡pportof all who wish music and the drama I keep pace with our Dther improvements. I would not be right for theatrical critfes to e hypercritical, especially with tho first erformance ; time and repetition fre iiently effect improvements. We have ply therefore to express our surprise and dight at the manner in which CINDERELLA as been got up. Mrs. Wallace sang better kan we have heard her, and when a little more bnfident, we dare say, be more distinct and I tilla in her delivery of the dialogue. MrB. Bushelle charmed us much with her sweet liesi of tone and correct style ; but her voice
Í.83 weaker than we have heard it. blie ap-
peared to be suffering from fatigue. Mrs. ffiibbes, who we are always glad to hear, was bot able to do justice to the part of the Prince E» bichean only betaken successfully by a ?¿nor In the concerted pieces this was par ?¡cularlyfelt. Mesdames Toriiing and Louise Wfhisbe and Clorinde) acquitted themselves li usual, very creditably, although the difh Elty of the concerted pieces in which they Ed to take parts renders a little more prac Ee advisable. The acting of Lazar and ?mmona {li Magnifico and Dandini) was Kcellent-they made the mosi of their vocal lowers, but the part of Papi in their places ?as severely felt. Lazar's Dream Song ?as particularly good. The orchestral accom tniments reflect much credit on the ?»rangers; but were sometimes played too Hud for the voices ; this will, of course, be litmedied. The dresses, scenery, and pro- perties, displayed much spirit cn the part of Itte manager, and the tout ensemble will doubt Ess draw many visitors to the theatre. The Erase was well filled, and the audience were pghly delighted with the performance.
RPOUCE COURT BUSINESS.-This Court was Kpened yesterday with a drunkards' list of ?wo cases, when each defendant was fined 5s , Bid in default of payment each was sent two ?ourajto the stocks ; Margaret Williamson, as B1 rogue and vagabond, was bound to good Behaviour; Margaret Lynch, Sarah Jermain. Pgnd Johanna Brown, each for drunkenness Liidstreet walking, sent one month to gaol. |f he general list contained in all ten caaes, ¡f»z, James Green, for a violent assault, KHichael Finninghan and John Perkins, for 'iealiug wearing npparel, Stephen G. Wilkes, |ftr writing and publishing a libel, and David (Doherty, for fraud, all remanded ; Henry (Davies, for stealing razors, Richard Horne, drunk and assaulting a constable, and 'Johanna Deacy, for being drunk and illegally th Philip Chamberlain's premises, all dis- charged; Richard Harrison, for drunkenness ind using obscene language, bound to good piehavour for twelve months, himself in £10
.tjiih sureties in £5 each. The summons list '.cntBined seventeen cases, fourteen of which fere postponed; one assault case was dis ¿used from the non-attendance of parties ; Henry Read, for a breach of the peace, bound to the same, himself in £20 and two sureties if £10each: and Margaret Denehy, for an assault, fined 10s. with 5s. costs,
j CATTLE AND SBEEF.-The following is a . itement of the prices of ca'tle and sheep »Id by auction, by Mr. W. H. Chapman, at ïficton, Stonequarry', by order of the trustees of piomas Inglis:-1123 sheep,including lambs, |fc. each ; 439 wethers, one to two years old, I;fc.; 460 maiden ewes, ditto, 2s. 3d. The ¿jbove sheen were very small, and the fleece
"sff, Working bullocks, from £2 12s. to J63 ' '18s.; cows, 35s. to 52s. each; fat bullocks,
.2 10s. offered and refused. i /j ON THE FORMATION or FAT IN THE ANI- I ÍAi BODY.-The carnivorous races of animals
irive on azotized food, which supplies ma ilenal to replace their wasted tissues, and
: wasted tissues again afford material to «'dated or burned in respiration, and
ort the animal heat. But besides azotized ' ter, the food of the graminivorous races anís sugar, starch, and gum, which arc
employed in the proper nourishment of I r bodies, but solely for the generation of lal heat, by combustion at the expense of oxygen of the air. The disappearance in' manner of fat iii the animal system, in imstances where rapid oxidation is wn to occur, seems to point out a lantv in the use of the latter, cb thus becomes burned in the body
carbonic acid gas and water, in the ab- le of the vegetable principles above men- ea. It is well ksown that graminivorous «als, abundantly supplied with food con '."g starch or saccharine matter, and whose «ration is, to a certain extent, ohecked by' itotmoUon and exercise, become in a short e loaded with fat, which the above consi ation indicates to have been formed but of esceij of nou-azotized food over and above t required for respiration. This is supposed ?K P'ac.e by a metamorphosis analogous to '»jwiilialcoliol and carbonic acid are iduced from sugar. This opinion of the ssm?1 ii ?,88 recently been called in ques
UÎ 1M',Dan>«s, who contends that the Saf¡7Vat °í a« animal body has been fur
ilied ready formed, in that state, by ie food itfelf, and cites an experiment
«when a goose has been fed for some ' Z Ti ras,z.e' 8UPP°sed to be free from I eaL?, tr' the ätarch of the g««» aP" eariDgto haye generated the fat found in
owin,VVnfe.re,lcc which he "jects by uS'K"?1» il8elf contains a large > I ftlÄ «'"«»fore became desirable 'ojuiB.additional evidence on the subject. Bsi « WS60-at Sle88en'thlee y°un8 nd 2Zl' ÍSM"B thirteen weeka. °« Peas
hese vii8! fte 2u?ntity, of fat contained SjÄles bein8 calculated, from the â, Ä of,B""»n»ot and Fresenius. It hat hÄ-Bt *. «Pwatwn of that time, S Ä 8,of thcse animals contained n<5 I"l no«iw" 80VCunty Puunds morc fat than B CIS'T h?B? Biven in the fo0Q.and I ¡on o ,h0efre iü,err.ed t0 arise from an irjÄ5? ?tairch-., A,n eiiuallyfiatisfac I»Mcffi\..? de;««bedby Boussingault, KoexlnHUer f!írni!hed b* aco* was BieauftÄ ^«ttythe fat of the food.
| nm"10u of hay and Btraw, with re
feien co to fatty matter, and, describes them to contain about 4*5 per cent; ¡of a crystalline waxy matter, mixed with chlorophyll, alto- gether different from ordinary fat. The ex- crements of a cow, fed on those substances, yielded a quantity of the same waxy sub- stances corresponding very closely to the whole quantity contained in the food ; so that it appears quite evident that> the fat of the
butter does not arise from this source. The author concludes with observations on the composition of maize, which contains very different quantities of oil, from 1 to 9 per cent., grown in different localities.-Liebig.