Greenacre was hanged on Tuesday morning. He tottered on to
the scaffold; gave the rope which was put round his neck a pull to make it tighter; and in about two minutes after his appearance, was dead. The crowd below, which had been in the street during the whole of the previous night, gave a loud yell of triumph when the criminal appeared, and another when the bolt was shot. Greenacre appeared to take no notice of any thing that passed. The Morning Herald says- " The bivouac in the Old Bailey, at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, pre- sented a most edifying scene for the philosophers of the march of intellect. There were assembled more than two thousand Englishmen and Englishwomen, many. of them in a state of beastly intoxication, laughing, singing, dancing, fighting; and all this on the very spot where, in a few hours afterwards, a hu- man being was to expiate his crime on a scaffold. Refreshments (not, it may well be imagined, of the choicest confection) were eagerly swallowed, and the fumes of gin and tobacco filled the air. Several of the crowd, exhausted with the drunken revelries in which they had been engaged, sank down in the street, and were soon fast asleep. About half past two o'clock, a policeman was seen hurrying towards the Governor's door ; and somebody having cried out 'a re- prieve,' the discontent of the multitude was manifested in language of the most disgustingly profligate character. The feeling which prevailed was evidently that of disappointment at the ices of the anticipated spectacle, rather than of honest indignation at the supposed escape of a murderer. 'That a shame to bring te. here for nothing !' was the general exclamation, until the correction of the mistake restored the wonted hilarity of the crowd."
Some letters of Greenacre to his brother and sisters, and to his attorney and counsel, have been published. In these he persists in his declaration of innocence ; and coins some new lies to support the old ones.
He was buried on Tuesday night, by the side of another murderer, Pegsworth, in the interior of the prison. Greenacre left his watch and seals to his attorney and counsel, and his spectacles to Sarah Gale. At the Queen Square Office, on Monday, Lord Melbourne was fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. for not having his name and designa- tion painted on the off side of a cart belonging to him.
At Bow Street, on Tuesday, Thomas Francis Carroll, an Irish so- licitor, was remanded on a charge of having forged the signature of Mr. Henry Barron, M. P., to a bond for 400/. The prisoner said he Was ready to swear that Mr. Barron and his cousin, Mr. l'hilip Barron, had signed the bond in blank, to raise money to carry on a lawsuit, at his office in Waterford. Mr. Barron declared that he had never signed the bond in blank, or filled up ; and that he could prove, if necessary,
that the prisoner bad committed a series of forgeries, not only upon himself (Mr. Barron), but upon his own mother, sisters, and relatives.
An inquest was held on Saturday, at the Burlington Hotel, on the body of Count Schulenberg, a young Prussian nobleman, who had come to England to visit Sir Augustus D'Este. It appeared that on Thursday, the day of ter his arrival, he threw himself out of the window into the street, and that be died of the consequences of this act on Friday morning. Evidence was given that the deceased was in a state of great nervous irritation ; and the verdict was " Temporary derangement."
A fine carriage-horse belonging to Mr. Fitzjobn, of Hampstead, went mad in his stables few days ago, and was shot by his owner. It is siipposed that the madness was occasioned by the bite of a dog eight months ago.
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