The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

ore V.* SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY +'- NOVEMBEA 13, 1849 nil of all this is truly lamentable. Goo .It is need less, of course, to say ssaettymthanastit);l7 e' I) throughout the whole crew, in some ;cases throw-. ,shout even half of it, b e comes altogether hopeless . Proper discipline is ren keed wholly impossible— The character of the entire se rvice is undermined and jeopardised. We would see TERMS OF BUSINESS : . 1 th ese m i, 442 lAble effects of the present mismanagement Drawing or Current A.ccounts—One per cent. Interest reclaim. their recurrence sedulously from day to day, to be allowed en all balances constant for six 1 4 ' once dissipated, thel and the safety of months, of 1001. and upwards; and two per cent. on all such %5, -tad. Not only the inters:, balances exceeding 200/ ; but the permanent maintenance of any ~., Italauee will not be insiste d on. This p oint will be optional with the 1.. ne Ve " ' but the consideratio ns of national economy all deposets castomer. *h.. empire, Deposit Accounts —T h ree p er cent. reckoned daily, on ' - , ~der this wish imp e r ative. Something for six mouths, and the interest paid monthly , or accumulated half- coal nine to re. ' - e most valuable class of men in the yearly, at the option of the depositor. Cash Credit Accounts will be granted to respectable parties, sup- r‘,: ust i be done and the :aos , t ill considered — our sea ported by two or more sufficient sureties :is joint obligors, at five per i.d e standing army. Why cent. interest on advances, and one per cent. commission on the ." amount of the credit. Advances or Loans i,n promissory Notes with marketable see d met I'., We have a large ties readily convertible, will be made at tile rates proportioned to is it We have no perrnanO_t navy ?—a navy the mainte tea nature and value of the security in each case. for the Discounts of Bills of Exchange will be at the rates of the day. being ,avcolutely requisite f9r k among the nations, au. Remittance-3 will be made to, and Bills collected is, any place in Etisland, Scotland, or Ireland, where there is a banker. Our maritime supremacy. Y nance , Of our fan Dividends, se., will be received for customers or strareholders, conserratico of • without charge. econonci_ c calculation, the matter is de- -- No charge will be made for keeping accounts ; nor &n 7 fee nor only upon an gratuity allowed to be resolved from a customer or applicara by any and demands the earnest one in the Bank's employment. serving of serious reflect • . ; on, Applcations from several of the ni - itropolitan districts for the os- attention of the Parliament , 'Lila the Admiralty. Let tablishment of Branch Offices. are now under consideration. er be dependent on Forms of applications for the opening of accounts, &c., on the not the navy of England any IoCS cona:nencement of business, are ready to be supplied at the Ba.ak, pr on the fish er will be sent by post to any who may require them. the merchant service on the collier;, By order of the Court of Directors, ing-smacks, on the offscourings of the lavvest haunts lITIGII INNES CAMERON, General Manager. o f o ur seaports; but let the comma nder of ever y ship Rut in commission know exactly where he may ob -1 taio his requisite c om p lement, secure that each mariner drafted into his vessel is not only able bodied. a nd skilful but honest, well and cordially attached to his profession. The better performance of the duties required on board a man-of war, the facilities thrown in the way of officers anxious to increase their complements of men, and the appreciable enhancement by this means of the strength of this the strongest arm of the empire, would soon afford more than mere compensation for all the disbursem ents demanded for the support of the seamen during the intervals which might elapse between the periods of their engagements. All the time desired by Jscx for a holiday-gap between his voyages is simply time enough to spend his loose cash. So long as he has a shot in his locker he will continue to have his fiddler in tow, and his lass on his arm ; but as soon as the last sixpence is shaken out of his pocket he is ready to put his best foot forward to work, and chew his quid in the forecastle. The sailors of England require no bounty ; they want only a decent show of justice and attention—this they assuredly have not had hitherto—this they should and must have hence forth. ___- ----- u. BANI.' ____ lIHE ROYAL BR I I 'Ts ... -re ms:tisss,len This Bank will be OPENED for PURL- NI. ~,s , , end al- MONDAY, the 1 9 th insta nt, at Nine A.. The rates of interest, &c., to be cha r g ed on advant, 'te state NC lowed on acceunts and deposits , must of course vary with 1... •f i of the market, and the value of money, which so frequent.':ofihg tuates ; but at opening, the Directors propose that the fob shall be their - ' PREVENTION of COUGHS and COLDS. — Persons liable to attacks of Coughs and Colds, will entirely escape them by the occasional use of that celebrated remedy, DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS, which have a pleasant taste, and never fail to give instant and permanent freedom from all irritation of the lungs. Upwards of 300 cures of Asthma, Consump tion, Coughs, &c., have been performed by this medicine (and pub lished) during the last twelve months. To singers and ionblie speakers they aro invaluable for clearing and strengthening the voice. They have a pleasant taste. Price Is. 11-id., 2s. 9d., and I is. per box.—Agents :Da Silva and Co., 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all medicine vendors ; of whom also may be had DR. LOCOCK'S FEW , LE WAFERS, The only medicine recommended to be taken by Ladies. Have Bo Taste of Medicine. Beware of Imitations in the form of " Pills." ~ OMETHING NEW.—EVERY BODY SHOULD ASK FOR I)IPPLE'S MISCELLANY. Price One Penny, Weekly. Containing History of the Turkish Empire—The Doings of the Woedby Farally—Melmoth the Wanderer —My First Proposal — Our scrap Book Poetic Gems—The Lady's Work Table—Golden Gleam ings—Attie Halt—Our Medicine Chest—The Housewife's Guide— Peueillings from Nature—The Gardener's Friend —Correspondence — The Sphinx—The Critic, &c. Loudon : Published at the Office, Holywell-street, Strand ;‘ and sold by all Booksellers. 'THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. 13. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new Comedy, entitled THE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstane ; After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the Farce of LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Duo notice will be gives of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Box-office is ender the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THE.e.fitZ ILOYAL. ADELPHI. ~ ..'n !sr tke direction of Madame Celege. THIS EVENING, _ . _ Having disposed of the fallacies respecting the "potato blight," "overproduction, and "over-spe culation," we now turn to the railway expenditure, which has been so triumphantly referred to by the bullionists as the teterritna causa of all the evils under which the nation has suffered. These modern So- Lossoms assert " that enormous sums of money, to the amount of nearly 200,000,00 01 . sterling, have been irretrievably sunk in railways ; that the effect has been precisely similar to that which would have followed if an equal amount of money had been cast into the sea—that the nation could not bear so large a transfer of its " fixed " into its " floating capital ; " and that money necessarily fell short when so enormous a drain—to the extent of from two to three millions of pounds sterling per month—was continued for a considerable period." Such are the assertions that have been repeated usque ad nauseant by these sagacious gentlemen, who trace the entire ruin of the country to the enterprise and activity which intersected the country with an iron network, which almost annihilated time and space, and gave facilities for travelling to the hum blest artizan of the present day that were unknown to the wealthiest nobleman, even in the commence ment of the present century. It would appear as if they supposed that gold and silver were the materials chiefly used in the construction of the railroads, and that what was once invested could never in any manner be recovered. They will not believe that there was a continual and active circulation of the money employed in the pay ment of the labourers, or that all classes benefited by the additional stimulus afforded to trade and com merce, and the extra demand for articles of comfort thereby occasioned. To these persons the employ ment of the working classes, and the rendering a " fair day's wages for a fair day's work," are calamities of no ordinary magnitude, that should be averted by any means and at any sacrifice. Better that the sturdy labourer should waste his time in unprofitable idleness, that he should su3tain the utmost privations, dragging on a miserable existence, badly fed, and badly clothed, a constant inmate of the union workhouse, than that he should be enabled to support his family by his own honest industry, and to become a well fed, comfortably clad, and hard worked man. . _ Will be performed TiliSiONS OF MARS. T• be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO. MEATIC ECONOMY. John Grimly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. any Chick, Mr. ►right; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Posher, Mr. Boyce; Eruest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell ; Mrs. Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclide with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCY..IIM. THEATRE. Bader the Managemeut of Madame Wart& sole Le4see, V. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, _ . Will be performed METIIINKi. I SEE MY FATHER, To be followed by BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. To conclude with a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. hrca• t •ox;:, Ss.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Yo !• inv par' of the house. All applications for Private Boxes roust be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitle,! CHARLES THE SE COND. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with a new I;allet entitled LES PATINEURS. _OVA: Y'S ROYAL A.MPIIITHEATUIS. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. nder the Patronage of her ajesty the Queen, his Royal Manua Prince Ilbert, Vcc. Triumphant suctess of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet, which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and von unccd by the public press to be the must gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece zvcr produced at the Amphitheatre. Appearance of Mr. Briggs in Moncrieff's new Extravaganza. The celebrated Comedian and Clown, Mr. T. Barry, and Mr. J. Br dges and Madlle. Amine will have the honour of appearing every Evening Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian spectacle, cititled THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear. let!uwed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, by the Brit Equestrian talent of the day, in which Mr. T. Barry will appear. To conclude with the new Extravaganza called THE PLEA SURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING, in which the whole Company aid Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveable, comprising omnibuses, barouches, go-carts, and other 'vehicles will appear. .sox-office open from Eleven till Your. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. In a PAY — Mor nin g , 42 min. a ft er 12 ► Evening, 3after °ruing, 23 min. after 1 I Evening, 41 min. after THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, Nov. 13. THERMOMETER, Loweat, 43; Highost, 48; Noon, 52. BAROMETER, 29.99. WIND S. W.—foggy, and inclining to rain. Of the money invested in railways, about 20 per cent., or one-fifth of the entire cost, was paid to the proprietors of real estates, for the purchase of the land required for railway purposes. These enormous sums then were merely transferred from the shareholder to the former owner, who perhaps paid his debts therewith, or possibly invested the amount in the very undertaking from which he received it. That money was not abstracted from the circulation, nor was it sent out of the country. Probably no coin or notes changed hands during the transaction. The entire process in each case was completed by the delivery of a cheque and the transfer of certain credits in the bankers' books from one account to another. It could no more impoverish the nation than the change of a purse of sovereigns from the right hand to the left hand pocket could impoverish an individual. The same may be said of the Parliathentary and legal expenses, which were arranged in like manner. The other, and by far the greater part of the expenditure, consisted chiefly in the payment of wages to the different classes of workmen. These payments cer tainly required the use of some amount of money, but it circulated rapidly from hand to hand, and speedily found its way back to the bankers to be again drawn out and again disbursed to the labourers. The railway% " ;movie" did not usually hoard or make away with his money. He was paid his wages every week, and they were scarcely received before they were handed over to the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the lodging-housekeeper, the publican, and perhaps, oc casionally, to the tailor, hosier, or shoemaker. These latter persons deriv4d considerable profits from the 3,11 e of their goods to the new class of customers, but the tradesman did not put by the money either. In turn they paid it away to farmers or wholsale dealers, from whom it went to the landlords, manufacturers, cr merchants, and thence again to the bankers. Now, no part of these operations took money from the country. The articles required for the labourers were chiefly of home production, and a very small portion indeed went to the foreigner. The course was as certain a s that of a river flowing towards the sea, fertilising and irrigating the lands through which it passed in its progress. In a few weeks at the outside—probably in a single week—the whole process would be gone through, and the money restored to the original custody. If 500,000/. or 600,0001. was thus distri buted on every Saturday during a series of years, not more than a single million, or a million and a half would be required, and a paper currency would be just as efficient for that purpose as bullion, were it not for the absurd and impolitic law that prohibits the circulation of small notes, which are found so beneficial and convenient in Scotland and Ireland. These opinions are fully corroborated by the testi mony of Mr. GURNIEY and of Mr. BLRIEBECK, who so ably represented the provincial bankers before the Committee on Commercial Distress. The former gentleman says, " I cannot in my own experience trace the effect to the railways. My own experience} which is in the floating money of the country, has not led me to perceive much derangement in the circu lating medium on account of railways." The -latter, however, enters so clearly and explicitly into the 'luebtion that we cannot refrain from giving his evidence on thi s po i nt i n extenso : gae"i" 5 919. Aud , thare hts been, in conjunc tion with th a t, a very largo investment in railways I' That, I think, would na° causes have been felt to a serious degree but fur the other individual suffering, but it would; no it t h w a o v u e ld cau h s a e ve na c t a i u on se a d l r still. in the . suffering. 5920. Does it not raise the rate of interest mar ket ?—/slo, it does not, the money is the e 5921. Then you do not think tha t the calls upon the c ountry for railway purp oses, to the amount of 3,064 001. or 4,000,000/. a mont h, have had any effect in raising the rate of interest in the market or producieg it scarcity of money P—l cannot conceiva that it could do so ; pro vided there was a good state of tri, de, Ido n think the nation would have felt it in the least ; individuals might have felt it, but not the nation. The money is thcre still. 5922. It goes to landed proprietors, shopkeepers, and others?—Yes. 5923. Thero is the same amount of railway calls going on now, but yet money is at the cheap rate you have described?—Yes. There is n, arly the slme amount of railway calls. 5924. At the time you allude to money was very cheap in the market?—lt was. 5925. There was a great difficulty in employing it.— Yes. 5926. If it had not been employed in railways do you think it would have gone for investment elsewhere?— I think a good deal would have gone abroad, 5927. Being kept at home, hive not the labourers of the country benefited from the general expendi ture?—Yee. BERMONDSE Y U RDEE. EXECUTION OF THE MANNINGS. 5928. And the revenue hai also benefited from that expenditure?—Yes. 2929. Did it at all lessen the amount of currency in the d34”try ?—I cannot conceive how it could lessen it. 59301. As you said before, it might hare created some individual distress?—No doubt it has done so. 5,31. Bat nationally it has not produced any effect?— No. All that I can charge upon the railways is, that it has occasioned the difference between keeping a number of labourers upon gliod wages and throwing them upon the poor- rates. And that is all that any candid and unprejudiced man could charge against them. They have kept the money in the country, which, in place of being invested in foreign stocks and foreign produce, as on former occasions, has been retained at home in the employment of labour on useful works that have per manently increased the capital of the country. It has benefited the labourers, benefited the shop keepers, and manufacturers, and benefited the public revenue, and the only cost has been the difference of " keeping a number of labourers on good wages and throwing them on the poor-rates." Would to GOD that we had many such works in progress, and that every man able, and willing to work, should receive the legitimate rewards of his honest industry. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. (THIS DAY.) We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The editors of the Paris newspapers met on Sun day, to consider the course to be adopted to prevent a repetition of the insult offered to their body on Wed nesday by M. DDPIN, at the suggestion of an obscure member of the parti-pretre. At the meeting M.M. LEOPOLD DURAS, EMILE DE GIRARDIN, BOILEY, and CRATARD, were elected Syndics. A fog prevailed in Paris during the whole of Sun day ; its denseness was such as to obscure even the gas- lights. The Veterinary School at Lyons has been re opened, but the pupils are not permitted to carry arms or to wear an uniform. Several steamers are being fitted out at Toulon to form part of the expedition against Morocco. M. DE FALLOUX has gone to Nice. According to, the last accounts from Algeria, the Arabs of Zartcha still held out.: PARIS BOURSE, Nov. l2.—Last Prices.—Five per Cents., 891. 45c.; Three per Cents., 56f. 75c.; Bank of France, 2,3501. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 12. Northern of France, 2 dis.—Rouen and Havre, 9!4 — Sambre and Meuse, 1%. To-day, in this gretA metropolis, en appalling crime has been consummated by an appalling expiation. Once more, for the instruction and warning of the civilized world at large, has the inviolability of human life been vindicated and symbolized by the ignominious immolation of those by whom it was outraged. Once again inflexible justice proclaims " An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Swift and unerring oft is the pursuit of justice. But three short months ago and the inhabitants of this great city were horrified by the discovery and details of a deed of blood, as atrocious as any that has ever stained, with indelible infamy, its gloomy annals of crime. Now, after a brief interval, the perpetrators of that deed, for a time shrouded in mystery, have been dragged into the light of day and . put to a fearful end ; and the public mind again sickens at the spectacle or the recital. Vain alike were the precautions taken to baffle discovery or to facilitate flight. A few days more, and all trace of the ill-fated Patrick O'Connor would have been completely obli terated ; the quick lime would have rapidly done its work of decomposition ; and the Mannings, husband and wife, rescued from justice, would have walked the earth carrying about with them a hor rible secret, than which death itself would have been a thousand times prefdrable. They might have revelled in the luxuries which their ill-gotten wealth would have commanded, but their cup would have been embittered by an ingredient with which the sufferings and privations of the se verest, if virtuous, penury are never mingled. But it was otherwise ordered, as it ever is in all such cases ; and outraged Justice has, in the fact which so speedily vindicates her omnipotence, mercifully rescued her victims from a life, which, though it might have given scope and opportunity for repent ance, could only have been haunted by a fearful reminiscence, rendering it intolerably burdensome. The same amazing infatuation characterised the perpetrators of this crime which ever distinguishes the agents and actors in all kindred ones. As if bereft of ordinary instinct or reason, invariably do they carry about with them some indelible or damning evidence of their guilt or complicity. There is always the spot of blood, overlooked or half erased, on the :murderer's habiliments,. or some incident, slight and trivial in itself, constituting often the only link wanting in the chain which indissolubly connects him with the crime and seals his doom. Alarmed at the first appearance of the emissaries of justice, Maria Manning sought safety in flight, and but that, with incredible fatuity, she carried about her person the documents which established her guilt beyond all question, she might, in all human probability, long have remained at large, though she must, sooner or later, inevitably have been captured. Equally demented was the partner alike of her crime and her bosom. Weeks, in which a distant flight might have been achieved, penniless and destitute though he soon must have become, were spent in hovering about the very confines of the land which he had polluted by his crime, us if he were spell-bound by emotions which disarmed him alike of common prudence and hat feeling of self-preservation which is the stronges, instinct of the human heart. But it is always so. The circumstances in such cases may be varied, but the issue is ever the same. There is something attaching to the crime of murder which defies conceal ment, and sooner or later conducts its perpetrators to the scaffold. By this enormous crime and its results the world is taught a solemn, an impressive lesson. It shows to what a fearful termination the evil passions of our common humanity, once let loose, may lead. The intimacy of the Mannings with Patrick O'Connor was an un hallowed one—characterized by an insatiate lust on the one side and the greatest avarice and cupidity on the other. It is beyond a doubt that, throwing to the winds the sacred obligations of marriage, and the sweet and ennobling impulses of chastity, she had for some time carried on an adulterous intercourse with the man in whose blood sho eventually imbrued her hands. Her youth and beauty had from the first awakened in him the liveliest emotions of affection, which, though legitimate in the beginning, found afterwards an unhallowed and forbidden gratification. For him, who had passed his prime, and could no longer boast of the vigour or comeliness of early manhood, she could have had no passion but an unholy one. Obeying the strong native instinct of a youthful heart, she united herself in the holy relationship of marriage with one who was at least her equal in years and in station. So far her motives were pure and praiseworthy; but, forgetful of the requirements of that new relationship, she continued to yield to the solicitations of a previous amour, and in that consisted her first great lapse from the paths of virtue. Nor was her husband blameless in this matter. He appears to have connived at her intimacy with O'Connor,and to have stifled the feelings of jealousy and manly indignation which it would have awakened in an ingenuous mind, or merged them in the same mercenary considerations which animated his faith less wife. Mark the end I See how, eventually, the unholy passion of O'Connor, the avarice of his para• moue, and the baseness of Manning himself, culmi nated in that atrocious catastrophe which consigned the first, " unanointed and unanealed,": to: a violent death, and al unconsecrated grave, and the two last to the ignominy of the scaffold. What a stern moral lesson is here taught to the men and women of this vast metropolis, and wherever the details of this horrible crime and its awful retribution shall find their way. To those who have long held dalliance with Nice in any shape or form, or who may be hovering on the verge of crime itself, rightly applied, " read, marked, and inwardly digested," it may be the means of snatching them from the abyss of , an impending doom ; and to those, happier far, who have never wandered from "the direct forethought " and the straight line of duty, snay it prove the medium of confirming them more stedfastly in the choice and pursuit of virtue, which shall secure to them all that is delightful, or joyous, or ennobling, in this mortal life, and the blessed enjoyment of another and a better ono. " Ile that hath ears to hear let him hear: , Proceed vs e now to a detail of the circumstances pre- ceding and attending the execution. THE LOCALITY OF THE PRISON AND ITS drop being inconveniently crammed. But even tt that early hour we found it wholly impossible to di mare than catch a dis `,ant glimpse of thG. irdlows. The narrow en. rence to Iforsemongar-:.:the was likewise barricaded, tod none bat policemen and privileged persons per- Tnitted to pass. Here an immense crowd, collected in Blackman-street, conten'ed themselves by catching a remote look at the scaffold. A large staid oe platform, erected immediately in front of the drop, in Winter terrace, was crowded with occupants long before daybreak, and the windows and housetops in all the surrounding vicinity were crowded with eager spectators of both sexes. THE GAOL AND ITS APPEARANCE. If a person could last night have placed himself upon some high eminence, and have obtained a clear perspective view of London, he would have seen, wending their way along the principal thoroughfares, between the hours when the great city is ordinarily hushed in silence, people of all classes andof both sexes, seemingly bent upon one and the same destination. Perhaps at a considerable distance from the general place of rendezvous the echo of the streets was only disturbed by the hurried tramp of solitary parties of pedestrians, but as the distance grew less the number of persons in the streets increased, and the actual spot to which, as it were, the different streams of moving humanity ran, was one dense and gigantic mass of people, filling the roads and thoroughfares, and covering some of the houses to their very tops. Strange it is, that the morbid tastes and feelings of the people to witness a public strangulation are so great, that remaining throughout the night in the streets in cold, foggy weather, squeezed on all sides by the mob, and first pushed one way and then another, and the probability of being seriously in jured or robbed, are not thought too great risks to encounter, in order to witness the terribly real drama of which llorsemonger-lane Gaol was the scene this people—htlf a-dozen silver spoons (taking them out of the box and holding. then up) ; alse something that will keep the broker out on a Monday morning —a 51. note, some small change in the shape of half a sovereign ; and, once more, gentlemen—l'm really tired of telling you what you get for a penny—the mot corr, -, ct portrait of Manning and his wife. Why won't you buy ? I'll hang myself to-morrow if I am not ruining myself every one I sell." A loud laugh followed his peroration, and good-natured people purchased for the sake of spending a penny. This, however, is only one instance of the kkd we could mention. At another spot we saw a lot of big boy F, little urchins, and girls of all sizes, assembled round large plank lying in the road, and laughing most heartily at the people, who every now and then stumbled over it, the reflector of a brilliant gas-light throwing it into the shade; and preventing it being seen. Every one, in fact, instead of being impressed with the awful na ture of the scene, seemed to look upon it with a degree of pleasant excitement ; and singular, strange, and out rageous were some of the observations that met the ear. Some sympathised with the criminals, saying " What fools they were; they did everything to lead to their detection ; why didn't they wet the slack lime, it would have burnt everything, the bones and all, and left no trace of the body." Others said, "I wonder if she will die game or confess; she's a brave one, and no mistake." The chief conversation seemed to turn upon the probability of their being filing together ; some thought the beam was too small for this purpose, and that one would be allowed to see the other executed first ; and it was said, if they both appeared together on the scaffold, the female would try to take revenge upon her bus • band. Round the prison door a large collection of boys amused themselvers by attempting jokes upon persons coming out, some of which were of a very callous and obscene nature. As midnight advanced, however, the character of the mob materially altered, and it was chiefly com posed of men who alone could keep their position and withstand the pressure. The night was cold, damp, and foggy, and the stoutest must have been exhausted and worn out before daylight. The morning broke with a fine clear sky, slightly tinged with red, and continued bright until some time after the execution. The whole area in front of the prison then appeared to the gaze of those who had but dimly seen it through out the night, and from one end of it to the other there was nothing to be seen but a floating mass of heads. Persons who had seats to let had posted up large bills, intimating the fact to the crowd below, and those who had not let them at a late hour in the morning adopted the expedient of stating the price which would be charged. THE GALLOWS. morning. For two or three days past the gaol has been an object of great attraction, but yesterday, owing to the near impending fate of the Mannings, the excitement of the public to see it became greater, and the neighbourhood was visited by thousands of people before nightfall. To many, however, the appearance and situation of the prison must be comparatively unknown; for, although it abuts almost close upon one of the largest thoroughfares in London, it is entirely screened by houses from the sight of the pedestrian. About half way between London-bridge and the Elephant and Castle there is, on the east side of the road, a small narrow street, which is called Horsemonger lane, and nearly faces the wall of the Queen's Bench prison, and although very narrow at the commencement, about half-a-dozen houses down it opens into a wide open road. On the right of this road is the gaol; it is surrounded by brick walls so high that the tops of the buildings inside can scarcely be seen as one walks along. In the centre of this wall, and in a line with it, is the 'entrance-gate, or tower, which is about 40 or 50 feet from the road. Upon the roof, which is almost level, is erected the scaffold, painted in black, and of very simple con struction. It stands not in the centre, but at the west end of this building, close to a stack of chimnies, and consists simply of a slightly-raised platform, upon which the fatal beam is fixed. The beam is about twelve feet long, and supported by two up right posts, ten feet or so high. The platform is enclosed by a wooden railing, except about three feet at the corner, where steps are made for the criminals to ascend. At the other end is an other platform, a little higher, also surrounded by wooden rails, upon which the culprits will first make their appearance, and engage most likely in prayer with the chaplain before their execution. Only a few minutes' walk of the prison, in that direction to which the faces of the unhappy couple will be turned, and no doubt within sight of the gallows, is Minver-place, the scene of the dreadful tragedy for which they are about to pay the penalty of their lives. Nearly along the whole front of the gaol is a row of small houses, called Winter-terrace, each having about 40 feet of garden in front, and therefore afford ing a most unlimited amount of space for the erection of seats for spectators. It is but justice to state, however, that of these gardens only two at the West end had been fitted up for the occasion. The two houses alluded to were nearly facing the drop, and the seats for the accommodation of visitors were fitted up in a kind of amphitheatre style, one being erected above another; and no doubt the pro prietors of them reaped the highest sum of any on the occasion. The Masons'Arms, to the west of the terrace, was filled from top to bottom, and the extensive pre mises behind running down the corner of Swan street had been fitted up with awnings. The win dows of the houses between it and the top of the lane had all been taken out, and were filled with spectators, and some had ensconced themselves on the pointed roofs, and very chimney-pots. On most of the houses placards were fixed intimating that good seats were to be let. Thousands of people had assembled at an early hour last night, and they kept gradually increasing in numbers until daybreak this morning, when all approaches to the place of execution were completely blocked up. Better order was preserved than could have been expected, owing to the most indefatigable efforts of the police, who mus tered in great force. The crushing and swaying to and fro of the crowd was terrific, as every now and then the police had to renew their efforts to keep clear the space immediately in front of the scaffold and to prevent the approach of the gradu ally thickening mob to the barricades which had been placed across the entrances of the different streets. Here were stationed policemen mounted on horseback, and the kicking and plunging of the animals they rode were not suffi cient to keep back the crowd. Many who had strength enough to keep their feet, and bear up against the con stant pressure and pushing and kicking which they were subject to throughout the night, were at break of day so exhausted as to be compelled to quit their positions, and give them up to those who had more recently arrived. Towards eight o'clock the excite ment of the crowd reached its highest point. The scene which the exterior of the gaol presented shortly after dusk last night until long after mid night was one which, since its erection, has perhaps never been witnessed by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The hammer and pickaxe were going in all directions. About fifty carpenters and labourers were employed in erecting strong barricades along the whole length of Winter terrace, across the outlets to the different streets, and immediately in front of the entrance to the prison. Others were as busily engaged in knocking up seats in the fronts and tops of houses, and some might have been seen perched on the fronts of the roof hammering away at the scaffolding by the light only of a torch or a flambeau. The noise of course must have penetrated the cells of the Mannings, and have given them awful warning of their rapidly-approaching fate. The dreadful note of preparation foil the morrow did not, however, seem to have any other effect than that of bringing together numbers of idle loungers, whose bearing was anything but suited for the solemnity of the occasion. The whole place had the appearance of the outskirts of some country fair, or of the streets at the West-end on the evening of a general illumination. Boys and girls—the refuse of the neighbourhood, or of the Mint—labouring men, respectable looking mechanics with their wives, and no inconsiderable portion of persons of a higher class, formed the motley assemblage until about eleven o'clock. Vendors of brandy balls, hot inta toes, and pies pursued their vocation with great suc cess, and " Cheap Johns" took advantage of the opportunity to dispose of their wares. One shrewd looking fellow of this class, who stood almost imme diately under the gallows, and who was surrounded by a large crowd of gaping people, got rid of his Mock-in- traiL by me:;..ns of a very ingenious stratagt.m. To mention it will just give an idea how matters go on in the vicinity of a prison prior to an execution. " Gentlemen," sail he, " talk of the Manning?, of going to California, and of the good times coming, why here's something that vi iH astonish you all—a small fortune for a penny ; first, here's a gold wedding ring, next a beautiful little keeper, gold, of c. - mrse ; again, a fine shawl-pin, Upon which you can angfave your crest or initials; also: something that is really indiipensable to married The machine of death was erected immediately over the porch of the prison. It was firm and sub• stantially constructed, hut it lacked the black cloth covering that is usually placed over the trap and planks of the drop of the Old Bailey. Of course it was the grand point at which all eyes were directed for hours before the fatal period of execution. The area in front and all the adjacent outlets were thronged almost to suffocation, but the precaution of erecting gout barriers had been adopted to break the waves of the multitude. These barriers were guarded by strong bodies of police, whose conduct was beyond all praise. They resorted to nothing in the shape of violence to preserve order, using their tongues rather than their truncheons, and it is gratifying to know that this new policy of the po lice authorities has proved, in this instance at least, highly successful. Let merit be awarded then where merit is due, and, acting upon that trite but excellent maxim, we take leave to award our meed of praise to the police authorities for the tact, foresight, and humanity they displayed in the regu lations observed at this painful but necessary exhibition. Little can be said of the form, shape, and appearance of the gallows itself, further than in point of strength and position it was well adapted for its fatal pur pose. It occupied nearly the whole of the roof of the entrance-gate to the prison, and from the north it could be viewed with great distinctness. A number of chimnies built in stacks are to be seen at the back and sides of the roof, but with the exception of those at the back they did not seem to be in use. Strange to say one 01 those caught fire some half hour before the execution, and for a time the gallows was com pletely enveloped in smoke. Soon after this occur rence Calcraft and some of the gaol officials _were ob served to ascend the scaffold, and inspect it with mi nuteness and attention THE POPULACE. Of all the multitudes it has been our lot to witness and examine at a scene like this, the most orderly and best behaved was that which had concentrated itself immediately in front and around the place of execution. Go where you would, little of that low ribaldry and brutal converse. tion which generally characterises such assemblies was to be heard. It proved beyond all doubt or question that the admonitions of the press upon this subject have not been thrown away, and the tone and feeling that prevailed this morning amongst that immense and heterogeneous multitude must have afforded much pleasure to the philanthropist, as it clearly establishes an improvement in the spirit of the age. The heinous crime of which the culprits had been convicted was discussed with calmness and temper, and while moat people lamented the fate, they did not deny the justice of their sentence. Here and there in the gardens, and at the windows of the houses facing the gaol, were several well-dressed females, but the majority of them appeared to be abandoned women in more senses than one. As the momentous hour approached, the noise and roar of the myriad voices of the populace somewhat subsided and died away, when we were not sorry to remark a few persons who had the appearance of being Dis senting ministers, availing themselves of every oppor tunity to exhort their hearers to take warning from this exhibition, and endeavour on every occasion to pursue, the paths of rectitude and truth. Repeated disturbances and riot occurred in the course of the morning, it is true, but it was only natural to expect as much from so tremendous a crowd being collected in so confined a space. On the whole, however, the populace were exceedingly well behaved throughout the entire proceedings ; and again exp pressing a hope that the improvement will continue to increase as time advances, we pass at once to the final scenes in this shocking tragedy of real life. No sooner bad the drop fallen than the intelligence f it was cznve3t - t1 to different parts of the metropolis y c Irrier pigeons, while, within a quarter of an our afterwards, the sad tidings of their terrible end ed travelled far and wide through the very same lectric wires that had been used to bring one of them to justice. At the very time these wretched beings were descending to their graves he sun shone out with unusual warmth and splen dour for this period of the year, falling directly upon the lifeless bodies as they swayed to and fro in the ':teen morning air, and lighting up the white caps that concealed the features. The great mass of the spec - tators dispersed soon after the criminals had ceased to xist and their struggles had terminated; but still an immense number of people loitered about the spot, gazing at the ghastly spectacle above them till the hour bad expired and the bodies were removed. 4UTIIENTIC CONFESSION OF TANNIN G. The Rev. Mr. Rowe, the chaplain, favoured the reporters of the newspapers with an interview at noon, and read to them Manning's confession, as dictated by the murderer himself. It was as follows : On the 15th of March in the present year, I left my lodgings, 41, Castle-street, Regent-street, for Guern sey, where I remained three weeks. During my thsence my wife took possession of the house, 3, Ainver-place, at Lady-day. I returned from Guern sey on or about the sth of April, landing at iouthampton, from the Dispatch steam-packet. Mr. John Coleman, the owner of No. 3, Minver , place, required a reference, and my wife referred him to the deceased Patrick O'Connor. On the Sunday night after entering No. 3, Minver-place, O'Connor slept in that house, and promised to return on the following night with his boxes, but did not keep Isis promise. On the following Thursday he mme and told Mrs. Manning that ho had sltered his mind, as he thought that Manning And himself would not agree, as he Manning might , me night return home drunk and make a disturbance with him. Maria Manning replied that he, O'Connor, was_no man nor worthy of the name, and said that this was not the first time he had served her in this man ner; that he was the sole cause of her taking the 3 King John's Head," at Haggerstone, by which 1001. vas lost ; that he had once before induced her to take a house in the Mile.end-road, and that he might depend upon this, that he should abide the cmsequences—stating, at the same time, that she herself was the same as her own forefather was, who lespised a man upon whose word he could not depend; snd that she herself would sooner see the devil enter than one on whom she could not rely. Shortly after the three weeks, dating from the 24th of July, had elapsed, my wife made a claim ipon O'Connor of the payment of what she consi lered to be due from him of the three weeks' lodging, and summonsed him to the County Court, Osborne-street, Whitechapel, for the same. The day previous to the summons O'Connor came to Mayer 91ace, and paid 80s. for the three weeks to my wife, in my presence,and apologised for his not taking the lodg` ngs, saying that he was alarmed at the idea of giving ny wife too much trouble, and trusted that we should iot be bad friends in consequence. I replied chat it was a matter of indifference, as ;he object of his lodging there would be of little foment. I then said I had been informed „hat he had spoken disrespectfully of me, and that if [ could be certified of it, I would bring an action sgainst him for defamation of character. He almost shed tears, and solemnly declared that he had always spoken of me in the highest terms, and held out his . hands to shake hands with me. He begged and en treated of me to take a glass of porter with hires and to smoke a pipe. I then said " O'Connor, ' I owe you not the slightest animosity, and never did." He frequently asked me by whom I had learned he had spoken disrespectfully of me, but to this I gave no reply. It was, however, my wife that had told me so, but begged of inc not to name it to O'Connor that such a thing had been the case. O'Connor left the house, and we parted good friends. When he was gone my wife said, " That old villain has been the cause of my losing much money, and I am determined as I am a living woman in this room, to have revenge upon him." I asked her what :she meant. She said, " I will shoot him if I am hanged for it, as he has deceived me many times." I then expostulated with her on the impropriety of her conduct. She said a there was no more harm in shooting him, than in shooting a dog—that he was a perfect brute. 1 said, " Do in the name of God banish such thought* d from your mind." Her answer was, "I will now' inform you of the plan I shall adopt. I shall frequently ask him here to dinner, and go to his home very often, to endeavour to ascertain the amount of money he has in his possessions las also the number of railway shares he has ; that she was quite certain he had foreign bonds to the * amnunt of COOL which she herself could dispose of, as that was no home:to them." O'Connor did come frequently to dine, and she did visit his house about twice a week up to the time of the murder. She went and found O'Connor tipsy one evening at his house ; she came home and informed me that she had seen him quite drunk, be having taken brandy at the Docks as a remedy for cholera; that he went into bis bed-room and brought out all his scrip and bonds and showed them to her, solemnly declaring to her that he had made a will leaving her 1,3001., and had so made it that Manning should have nothing to do with it after her death. She said that she believed what the old villain had stated to her was 'a great lie, having an assurance that he would never leave her a shilling —that she was quite contented having seen the amount of money he possessed. "Now," she said, "I shall begin to get things. ready to cook his goose." This took place about the 20th of July. At that time I was offered a 4ituation at Messrs. Gover's, stationers, Hol born-bars, as :their town and country traveller, at a salary of 2/. per week, and a per tentage upon the goods sold. I then said, " Banish all these thoughts from yourmind as regards'O'Connor, A 5 this was an excellent situation, and I might be enabled to save a great deal of money." She said, "You fool, you will never be able to save the amount which I shall by murdering that:O'Connor, and if you 'eke that situation you will be whoring about with the women of London land in the country—that if took it she would follow me to every par of London I visited, and that I had better let her follow out her plan, as she was determined to have her revenge out of the old vagabond- I per• .4 isted in going to see Mr. Gover. She locked away my coat and hat to prevent my going. She said, " Now I shall prepare his grave." She went and pur; 3hased a shovel at an ironmonger's•shop itn Tooley' ,treet, and began next day to dig the grave, which was completed between a fortnight and three week° previous to the murder. O'Connor had been in the kitchen three or four times after thegrave was finished. ind in walking over it frequently made observationo to to what:was being done. She told, • him that Mr' Coleman was having a drain altered, and O'Connor observed that it was a long time in action. She said there Was a great deal to do, and the men were not constantly at it. The reason of his going to the kitchen was to wash his hands previous to 11111 taking tea or; dinner in the house. On th e 26th or 27th of July my wife get ler Massey to write a letter to Patrick O'Connor which was to the following effect : " Dear O'Connor,—l shall be happy to see you t° •line with me and my sister, as she has come froro Derbyshire to stop a few:weeks with me, and she wil l f)e.most happy:to be introduced to you. Dinner wil l le ready at half past five. If you are engaged drop , ne a line. Trusting you are quite well, " I am, dear O'Connor, yours ever truly, " Whx.F.hasswir. "3, Minver place, New Weston-street, Bet' .nondsey" O'Connor came on Thursday, the 26th of July, th e ime specified in the note. When he came into the louse he asked for Miss Massey and her brother' Vly wife said they had just gone out, but expected hem to return in time for dinner. I was sitting in he parlour with O'Connor, relating to him rnY -ention of bringing an action against two men at raunton for defamation of character. During this ime my wife called me out of the ro o: uid asked why I did not leave the room, as she Nanted to get him itito the kitchen to cook 1)19 loose ;" upon which I said I would not have all 1 .•L :„ . ~..i.'l)%ip'l i', ',.' ,le . . q 7 e i ' ' t •Ni ttr . , l !' 4 /611...., -'; IA 1 4 1''' '' % ib:Frt- , ,t , :iiidlL., , . - /'....‘. 1 4•4 1 i491M ' * -'4 ' .4 .* 4 i. '''-t.'"' ,-,''',- ''.• ~.., *.r ,„' 7. -'..,, 1 11 `;:`,` .4 7 `i:4•4:: enyjennol .frzzlutth LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1849. Speaking of the wise and glorious government of OLIYBR CROMWELL, " the greatest prince who has ever sat upon the throne of England," Mr. MACAULAY observes in his criticism on Mr. I:W.lam (Essays, Vol. 1., p. 185), that "he took a peculiar pleasure in encouraging that noble service which, of all the in struments employed by an English Government, is the most impotent for mischief, and the most power ful for good." Perhaps the most unpopular of all our sovereigns, the unfortunate though able and energetic King JAMBS the Second, was conspicuous for the interest with which he fostered the maritime profession of Great Britain—that gallant and heroic profession which has transferred to our " snug little island " the supreme dominion of the seas, planting the royal standard in every clime, and carrying the enterprises of com merce and the researches of science to regions where the Dutch, or the Venetian, the Genoese, the Por tuguese, or the Carthaginian had failed to penetrate. Most profoundly is it to be hoped that what was attempted by the last of the STUARTS, and aspired to by his highness the LORD PROTECTOR of the British Commonwealth, may be accomplished in the golden days of VICTORIA, when England, according to the felicitous remark of Mr. Itoenucx, presents to Europe the majestic spectacle of a crowned Re publicanism, and a royal Democracy. Only the other evening, when referring to the mismanagement of the national Exchequer, we ob served that even the enemies of a financial retrenchment confess that according to the present system noless than 1,250,0001. of the naval estimates are wasted. sow, we are clamouring neither for a reduction nor for an increase of our naval estimates —we are only solicitous that henceforth 1,250,0001. shall not be squandered without eny adequate compensation, we might even say without any good effect whatever, but that by a judicious reorganization of the arrange ments relating to the great national service, these 1,250,0001. shall be applies to the advantage of a noble set of fellovve, one of the finest races of men in the empire, the renowned and lion hearted sailors of England. For it is monstrous, it is absolutely monstrous, to reflect that in a great maritime country like England we have a large standing army and no permanent navy—on the contrary, an entire absence of any plan by which the British tar might obtain continued employment. As matters are at present ,managed, or rather, we should say, as they are at present mismanaged, the ablest seamen, after toiling for a number of years in the service, and becoming in the highest degree proficient in the discharge of their duties, may be turned adrift, are actually turned adrift upon society to go to the dogs, go to the devil, just as or to accident may lead their fiatithes , Fine stalwart fellows, ready to stick their fiste into a tar-bucket, or, according to their own Hithe atri gallant expres,ion to " work with a will" whenever the boat3wr,io pipes his whistle, are by this re'chei system pai I cif in some one of our seaports, dilipelled thenceforth to shift for themselves. Th e once of this is, that we are going the very best erk to estrange the hearts of our breve from a service which was formerly the object of their love and enthusiasm ; besiLies which every year increases the difficulty of manning a vessel just put in commission. For the life of him, the captain has no notion where to go for his proper complement — so that he is at last forced to tout for mariners in one port or another, and to content himself with the stragglers picked up in any pot house or brothel. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. BADEN. The following extract from a B vier' latter shows how widely democratic principles are spread among the soldiers of Germany :•—" The Baden officers who were compromised in the late revolutionary move ment were to be tried by a court of honour, com posed of their peers. A very singular difficulty has arisen in the formation of this court of honour. There have not been found a sufficient number of officers altogether exempt from reproach, and it was necessary to have recourse to the officers of the Prus sian army of occupation." The German troops in Baden are to be placed under the command of General VON PUCLINER, in order to be in readiness to march into Schleswig- Holstein, in the event of a renewal of the war with Denmark. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Intelligence has been received from Copenhagen to the 6th. A. royal circular, dated tke 4th, was issued, com manding the elections for the next ordinary Diet ; those for the Folkething for the 4th; and those for the Landesthings National Assembly for the 28th instant. The Fadrelandet asserts that notes have just been received from the Austrian and Prussian Govern ments, demanding negotiations on the settlement of the relation of Holstein to Germany, and in regard to Schleswig, that of giving the KING thQ right of regulating the various relations, and suppressing the insurrections without foreign interference. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.—His Majesty arrived at the Palace of Laeken to-day. There will, doubtless, be a Cabinet Council, at which the KING will preside, and at which the speech from the throne will be decided upon. At a sitting of the communal council, this day, the burgomaster read a report on the cholera. It appears that the epidemic, which commenced on the 24th of April, ceased on the 27th of October ; the number of cases amounted to 1,244, of which 1,013 proved fatal. Of these, 931 were residents, 17 military, 15 prisoners, and 50 foreigners. High commendations were passed upon the medical men, the officers of the police, the Sisters of Charity, the clergy, &c., for their inde fatigable exertions ; and it was decided that a medal should be struck and presented to each individual, as a souvenir of their eminent services.—Journal du Commerce. THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET. Admiral Panxza's fleet was seen from the heights of the Pireeus on the 23d. It continued its passage to Smyrna. CIRCASSIA. Russia has commenced negotiations with Circassia and has offered to make large concessions to secure peace. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen walked this morning on the Slopes and Eastern Terrace. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Colonel lion. Charles Grey and Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Gordon, left Windsor Castle for Birmingham at twenty minutes before eight o'clock this morning, to inspect the exhibition of manufactures and art in that town. . . . . His Royal Highness travelled by a special train on the Great Western Railway to London, and from thence by the North Western Railway to Birming ham. His Royal Highness is expected to return to Windsor Castle about seven o'cloek. Her:Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will_dine with the Queen and Prince Albert this evening. The nomination of Sheriffs for the different coun ties of England and„Wales, for the ensuing year, took place yesterday (the morrow of St. Martin) in the Court of Exchequer, before the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Marquis of Clanricardo, Postmaster-General; the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ; and the Judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and the Exchequer. Three gentlemen were nominated for each county. Mr. C. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst, the Clerks of her Majesty's Privy Council, were in attendance. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) "The Priory, Nov. 11, Evening. "The Queen Dowager passed a languid day, but her Majesty's cough has been much less troublesome "DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D." LEAMINGTON SPA, Nov. 12.—Among the latest arrivals at the Spa are the following : —Lord Charles Hamilton, Lord Clifton, Lord Wa:erpark, Count and Countess Rossi, lion. Captain and Lady Louisa Ramsay, Hon. J. B. Kinsey, Sir S. M. Colville, Hon Mrs. Denman, Hon. George Talbot, General Vernon Lady Louisa and Lady M. Cathcart, Hon. S. Crighton, Mr. and Lady B. Browne, Mr. David and Lady Berry, Rev. Sir Hinry D. Broughton, Mr. Carnegie, Mr Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, Dr. and Mrs. Jephson Mr. and Mrs. Whitbread, Colonel Spencer Stanhope Hon. Mrs. Macdonald and family, Captain and Corbett, Captain Cooke, Captain E. 11. Parry, Rev. E. Edwards, &c. The mercantile advices from Vienna of the 7th inst. mention that the new loan was still declining, the last quotation being 2 discount. A further advance of 1 per cent. had taken place in the premium on gold, which was now 124 ; while on silver it was 71 per cent In the rate of exchange on London there was no partici'• lar alteration. A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.—,Eliza Co)l's Journal. APPROACHES. Long before daybreak this morning we were bending our way from a distant suburb to the scene of execution, in the discharge of our public duty. Surprised were we to find as we proceeded so little indication of " the coming event." The great thoroughfares through which we passed were comparatively silent and deserted. In Cheapside itself, that great artery of the metropolis, only here and there did we discover a solitary individual or two, who seemed wending their way to the same destination as ourselves. But as we neared London bridge, and the day began to break, which was cloudless and serene in the extreme, the scene wore a very different phase. Crowds of persons, mostly young men and boys, of the operative class, were seen emerging from the streets and purlieus in every direction, and filing along the bridge ; and as we threaded our way through the Borough the immense moving mass of human beings, which gathered strength as it pro (seeded, became denser and denser still. In Black e man -street it was met by equ ally formidable crowds. who hal approached the scene by way of Black friars, Waterloo , and Westminster bridge's. It was a motley tumult of jaded prostitutes, emaciated artiz les, and dirty, raw, and scantily-clothed lads. We were surprised to see in the crowd so large a num . bsr FCTSOIIti Lpparontly reTtetable, so far as dress made them so, but most of all to meet many young women, tidily and well app:lrelled. The only consider. able approach to the scaffold was from Blackman street, through Trinity and Swan-streets; and by seven o'clock both of th;se were thronged by a n i m menso crowd such as we have described. At the foot of Swan-street a barrier was thrown across, which prevented the space in the immediate vicinage of the THE EXECUTION. A few minutes before the clock struck nine the bell of the prison chapel was heard to give forth the fatal knell, and those who had collected in the vicinity of the scaffold were observed to uncover, which was taken up by the populace below as a signal to do the same, and to call for silence. Immediately the roar of voices which had previously prevailed became hushed and still, when the mournful cavalcade was seen to emerge, as it were, from the roof, and ascend the steps of the scaffold. Calcraft went first, then came the chaplain, followed by the wretched man ,Manning, who ascended the stairs with a firm step, but appeared pale and emaciated, and seemed to be cry ing. He was dressed in deep black, with a long frock•coat. The rope having been adjusted, and the cap drawn over his face, the female partner in his crime was brought forth, and, like himself, walked with a firm step. She was attired in a black satin dress, tightly bound round the waist, with a long white collar fas• tened round her neck. On advancing upon the drop she observed her husband, doubt less for the first time since her trial, and, as ii acting upon the bnpulsa of the moment , she seized hi:;right hand and shook it for se veral minutes. During this time the chaplain and another person who was on the drop held a l , earnest conversation with them, after which the Under• sheriff' advanced to the front of the roof, and said something which did not, however, reach our ears. The hangman than hurriedly coin , pletcd his deadly preparations, and having a , suddenly disappeared, in the next instant the slain ty the drop was heard, and the dread sentence of thl kg w had been accomplished. Mannin gave a fete convulsive jacks, and all was over, but his wife had t. long struggle with death, and it was some moment: before the immortal spirit had quitted her body foi ever, and passed the threshold of eternity. A sligh! fbudder—a murmured expression of horror—escapid the multitude, and the terrible iitama closed.