Executions not always in front of Newgate after discontinuance of Tyburn--Old Bailey by degrees monopolizes the business--Description of the new gallows--Same system had already been used in Dublin--"The fall of the leaf"--Last case of burning before Newgate--Phoebe Harris, in 1788--Crowds as great as ever at the Old Bailey, and as brutal as of old--Pieman, ballad-monger, and "rope"-seller did a roaring trade--Governor Wall--His demeanour and dress--Enormous crowd at Wall's execution--Also at that of Holloway and Haggerty--Frightful catastrophe and terrible loss of life in the crowd--The same anticipated at execution of Bellingham, but avoided by extreme precautions taken--Crowds to see Fauntleroy and Courvoisier suffer--Description of an execution in 1851--The demeanour, generally, of the condemned--Long protracted uncertainty as to their fate--Awful levity displayed--Reasons for delay--The Recorder's report--Its arrival--Communicated to convicts by chaplain--Tenderness really shown to those certain to die--Chaplain improves the occasion in preaching the condemned sermon--The chapel service on day it was preached described--Demeanour of the condemned described in detail--Abstract of a condemned sermon--Service and returning thanks by the respited the day after the execution--Callousness of those present--Crowded congregation to hear Courvoisier's condemned sermon, and dense throng to see him hanged--Amelioration of the criminal code--Executions more rare--Capital punishment gradually restricted to murderers--Dissection of the bodies abolished--Some details of dissection--Public exhibition of bodies also discontinued--The body of Williams, who murdered the Marrs, so shown--Hanging in chains given up--Failures at executions--Culprits fight for life--Case of Charles White, of Luigi Buranelli, of William Bousfield--Calcraft and his method of hanging--Other hangmen--Story of the cost of a hangman.