The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,. The boiler of a steam-boat at Belgium blew up last week. The vessel was demolished. A dozen persons were killed, and nine mortally wounded. The Jewish Chronicle says that several Jewish families have emigrated to the United States from Bohemia, with the view of founding a Jewish settlement in the state of Wisconsin. A CRUEL SENTENCE.—Four more of the slaves who leely escaped from Charleston, S.C., workhouse, have bean convicted ; and the following is the sentence : " Each of the prisoners to be placed in solitary confine ment in the jail, for six months, to receive fifteen lashes each month in the workhouse, and at the expiration of this time, to be placed in solitary confinement for five years, unless sooner sold out of the state by their owners." —North Star. FIVE STEAM-BOATS BURNT At New Orleans, on the 7th ult., a fire broke out on board the stc just arrived from Louisville, which was a-boat Falcon, estroyed, AVlth .t, and North boats hilin larshal Nev )f the hulls sunk frei;:ht on boat, and America. Three imaged, and was a shal ved. s insured for S'2 vinz for the west Falcon The Mar- and had on board S. inviuding 1000 a very valuable 3 of forw noi be s' HEROINES IN HuNGAny.—Three Hungarian officers passed through Berlin on Tuesday, accompanied by a lady, Mademoiselle Appollonia Jagello, who distinguished her self in the late war by serving at its outbreak in the field, id the duty of an ist cif superint nces of women acting a the revolutionary „tiers were by n het ; they wor 'ought in the ranks with as ;ex not being di jutant— '-Berlin Correspondent of the undertook the pitals. Jr ri.eans rare dul the uniform of their corps much courage the men, ti ley were kit icribed as laving a wears tl scarf of an Hu tain always a captain.' Times A RELIGIOUS MOTIVE FOR MURDER.—The Journal de l' Oise informs us that on the 31st of October a strange crime was committed at Jouy-sons-Thelle. A woman, aged 45, named Elizabeth Lebrun (nee Lairel, having nothing particular to occupy her attention, endeavoured to procure a little temporary excitement by strangling her sister with a packet of ribands. Having perpetrated the murder, Lebrun went to the brigadier of police and surrendered herself. She manifested no emotion when confronted with the corpse of her sister, and stated that she had no particular motive for perpetrating the murder. The sisters having long resided together on the most friendly terms, it is the general opinion that the mur deress was a religious monomaniac, and that, deeply con vinced of the fact that the present life is an intolerable evil, she thought to render her sister a great service by sending her soul to heaven. DEATH OF AN ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN SETTLER. — The last arrivals from the South Seas announce the death of Mr. George Leake, of Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 64. This gentleman was one of the first set lers on the banks of the River Swan, in the year 1829, when he literally pitched his tent on the soil of his newly adopted country in the primitive patriarchal style, and so roughed it until something like a house was erected. Mr. Leake soon reaped the reward of his exertions, he having realized a large fortune as an agriculturist and a store keeper, and attained the highest offices under the colonial government of the district. He was a member of the council and a magistrate. In consideration of his valua ble services, and the respect generally entertained to wards Mr. Leake, the Governor honoured his remains with a public funeral. Mr. Leake has left a young wife to lament his loss. He was formerly a member of the London Stock-Exchange, which he abandoned for the antipodes soon after the disastrous commercial crisis of 1825. _ _ CALIFORNIAN GOLD.—The correspondent of the Times, writing from San Francisco, remarks :—" It is impossible to estimate correctly the quantity extracted. Every one at all acquainted with the subject, will admit that the following is a low estimate :-30,000 men earning one half-ounce of gold per day, will give 15,000 ounces, which, at 4'15 an ounce, yields .8225,000 per day, which, reduced to sterling money at the rate of exchange ruling here now, is £48,750 gross yield of gold in the diggings' per day. This is pretty well as tae produce of one branch of industry. The total number of men employed all over the gold region is generally put down at 35,000, even by those who are most careful in making computations upon the subject. The individual earnings, as I take it, at half an ounce of gold, is making allowance for numbers occa sionally unemployed by sickness, absence, or business, such as coming down to San Francisco to make remit tances, to buy provisions, and the like. It is generally supposed that a full half of all the gold extracted is spent in the country." A VIRGINIA'S ADVERTIREMENT.—A Norfolk (Virginia) paper contains the following advertisement :—" Notice. For sale, a coloured girl, of very superior qualifications, who is now in Mr. Hall's jail in Norfolk. She is what speculators call a fancy girl—a bright mulatto, fine figure, straight black hair, and very black eyes—remarkably neat and cleanly in her dress and person. I venture to say, that there is not a better seamstress, cutter and fitter of ladies and children's dresses, in Norfolk or elsewhere, ora more fanciful netter of bead bags, money purses, &c. Any lady or gentleman of Norfolk or Portsmouth, who may wish to purchase a girl of this description, (whom I con sider the most valuable in Virginia,) may take her and try her a month or more at my risk, and if she does not suit and answer the description here given, may return her to Mr. Hill. The cause of offence, for which I intend, though reluctantly, to sell her, is that she has been recently induced, by the persuasions of some coloured persons, to make her escape with them to the north, in which she failed, and is now for sale. Apply to the subscriber in Suffolk, or to James Murdaugh, Esq., or to C. C. Robin son, of Portsmouth, for further information.—Joseph Holladay."—Boston Emancipator. DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.—The New Bedford(Ameri can) Mercury, gives particulars of the sufferings of a boat's crew belonging to the barque Janet, of Westport, Captain Hosmer. On the 3rd of June last, in lat. 3 north, and long. 104 west, three boats left the ship to at tack a shoal of whales, which they soon captured. In one boat were the captain, his third mate, and four seamen. While turning the whale to the ship the boat upset and filled. They endeavoured to reach the ship but could not. The other boats made towards them but turned back, deserting them. In trying to bale out the boat two of the crew were lost, two others were seized. with delirium, from immersion and thirst. With only a fragment of a sail left, the captain made for Cocus Island, on the Peru vian coast, a distance of 1000 miles. On the seventh day, without food or drink all the time, lots were drawn which one should die, to save the lives of the others, and the un fortunate victim met his fate with resignation. A shower of rain gave some relief. They had no compass, and the captain steered by probability and an occasional glimpse of the north star. On the Bth day, one man died from exhaustion. Another shower gave some relief—also the circumstance of a dolphin leaping into the boat, and seve ral birds being caught. On the 13th July land was dis covered which proved to be Cocus Island—uninhabited. They reached it almost hopeless, but secured a pig, and drank its blood. They also caught birds, and got fresh water. After remaining two days they joyfully saw a boat approaching, she belonged to the whaler Leonidas, of New York, Captain Swift, who received them on board and treated them with every possible kindness. An ap palling wreck is related in the Meswayer du Midi, that of the brig La Lucie, 215 tons, on the Coast of Africa. She had left Algiers with eight men, for Gorea and Gambia, on the 27th June, and on the 13th July, was wrecked in a storm on the coast of the Desert of Sahara. The crew got on shore by clinging to the mainmast, which was cut away. After remaining under a sail for two days, they set off, on foot, towards St. Louis, of Senegal, more than 100 leagues distant. They suffered dreadfully for want of water—the soil was arid and burning hot. On the 9th day they saw Cape Blanco, but were soon after robbed of the remainder of the provisions they had brought on shore from the ship. hey fell into the hands of some Moors, and were cruelly treated, flogged, and sentenced to death by the females, but on the latter retiring, the males allowed them to escape. The captain and three of the seamen went to look for a more hospitable place, but never returned. The others were discovered by the natives, were stripped stark naked, and maltreated, es pecially by the women. At nightfall, a fiery storm came on, and one of the sailors died, while the others passed the night almost buried in the sand. They all returned towards the ship, ane after folic days' march, recovered some clothing which they had left along the beach. Another of the seamen died. The survivors reached the ship, but found that the natives had plundered her of everything—they had resigned themseves to death, when a white sail appeared in the far distance. They raised a signal, which was responded to, and they were saved by the Spanish ship Adam, Captain Devega, who, after making every possible effort, for a month, to discover their brave comrades, but in vain, forwarded the unfor tunate Frenchmen to Cadiz, in a Spanish government steamer. They arrived at Marseilles on the 12th ult. IRELAND. -4- On Saturday week, the extensive flax and linen mann fadory of Mr. A. W. Craig, Falls-road, Belfast, was de stroyed by are. The value of the stock burnt, exclusive of the building, is estimated at £9,000. Dr. O'Donnell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway, has refused to countenance either of the agitation schemes ; he has seen "so much selfishness and perfidy amongst the apparently most enthusiastic patriots," that he is determined to trust no more of them. _ _ — On Saturday night week, 300 men, well armed, and having about 100 cars, swept away the corn from two tenants of a gentleman named Garrett, in county Limerick. On the next night, (Sunday,)a large party, also well armed, and with 100 cars, swept off the corn, potatoes, turf, &c., from the lands of a widow, named Hennessy, who owed her landlord, Col. Bitten, two years' rent. THE CROP MOVEMENT.—A young man, named Farrell, lately connected with the Liverpool police, returned a short time since to Clare, for the purpose of enjoying a small property, rented by a person named Connolly, to whom Farrell had made very considerable abatement and granted many other favours ; notwithstanding which Connolly, a few days since, collected a number of men, and carried off the entire crop and every atom of property.—lrish paper. AWFUL MURDER.—On the 22nd ultimo, a most fright ful and unprovoked murder was perpetrated in the town of Sligo, in daylight. The victim of this frightful crime was a little girl, about thirteen years of age, the child of a very decent man named Hart. The father cf the child went to his work at nine o'clock that morning, leaving the little girl, who was the only inhabitant, as usual, at home. 'At half-past two the father returned, and, finding his house shut, he forced in the door, when he found his child lying dead, her skull being fractured, and a " beetle" lying beside her covered with blood. A room of the ?min had been broken ioto, ands nos under ./32 . taken from a trunk, the lock of which had been forced : robbery was, therefore, the cause of this awful crime. Several other murders of equal atrocity have been committed. They had their origin in land disputes. CHARACTER OF THE ORANGEMEN.—On the contrary, the Orangemen and Protestants of Ireland, as a body, are highly loyal, intelligent, industrious, ar.d " well to do" in the world ; they are such men as constitute a nation's , strength ; security, and honour. Does any one doubt ? Let them ask themselves what would be the present state of Ireland, at this hour, if occupied by a race of the prin ciples, habits, and objects of its Protestant population ? That they are free from blame in their contests with the Roman Catholics we do not say. In the circumstances it was not to be expected. But this we say, that educated in scriptural principles, and taught to venerate the pre cepts of the Bible, they are, in the abstract, admirable members of civil society, such as any civilised nation would covet as subjects ; while the Roman Catholics, shut out by an impious mandate of an apostate church from the word of truth and life, nurtured in the demoralizing principles of the papacy, instead of the pure and sanctify ing truths of the Bible, are constituted by their teachers, by the education this country gives them, the wretched law-breakers and murderers, whom we see acting in reek -11 law and all honesty and principle.— less defiance of Record. Her Alnj: , , Tt. , uilly at C Prince All. AND FASHION. y and Prince Albert visited the Count de Tel-omit on Saturday. rt visited the exhibition of manufactures of art at Birmingham, yesterday (Monday.) It is proposed to erect an equestrian statue of the Queen at Glasgow, in commemoration of her Majesty's recent visit to that city The Queen Dowag- UNIVERSITY r appears now to be approaching, rture from this world of sorrow. is she was mu, 4ND CLERICAL NEWS. DIOCESE OF CHESTER, PREFERMENTS Rev. Benjamin Strettell Clarke, to the perpetual curacy of ChriQt Church, Southport, vacant by the decease of the Rev. William Docker. Patron, Rev. Charles ilesketh ; value, £lO7. Rev. Richard Chapman, to the stipendiary curacy of St. Martin's Church, Liverpool. VA CANT Marthall, Cheshire, perpetual curacy, by the resigna. tion of the Rev. John Paul, last incumbent. Value, £6O; patron, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. The Rev. Jacob Picton, formerly of St. Stephen's Church, in this town, has been presented to the vicarage of Milwich, Staffordshire, value £95, with residence ; pa tron, G. Lewis Dyve, EN. The number of freshmen admitted to Cambridge Uni versity during the present year, amounts to 462, of whom nearly one-third have entered at Trinity College. The Principality states that the interment of the late Bishop of Llandaff, in Cardiff Cathedral, is the first in terment of a bishop there for 400 years. On Sunday last, the congregation of the Rev. Gilmour Robinson, the incumbent of Tockholes, presented him with a magnificent inkstand and a handsome gown. A purse containing two hundred and eighty guineas has been presented to the Rev. Evan Morgan, curate of Lewisham, Kent, on resigning the curacy after more than thirty years service. The Rev. J. Irvine of Leigh, and the Rev. J. K. Alsop of Westhaughton, have addressed strong letters to the Bishop of Manchester, with reference to the remarks made by his lordship on certain Tractarian priests, and the obstruction offered by the bishop to Tractarian ten dencies. By the appointment of Dr. 011ivant to the See of Llan daff, the following appointments are vacant :—Regius Professorship of Divinity, at Cambridge, worth £BOO per annum ; a canonry in St. David's, £6O ' • a prebendal stall at Brecon, £lOO ; and the rectory of Somersham, Hants, £1770. RESTORATION OF ALIENATED TITHES.—AbeI Smith. Esq., of Woodhali, having become possessed of the great tithes of Bengeo, Herts, as lay improprietor, has recently restored them to their original holy purpose in the church, by which the benefice, instead of £lOO a year has become endowed with £6OO a year (the impropriate tithes having been worth about £5OO a year). The population of the parish is about 1150, and since this act of Christian jus tice, a school room licensed for public worship has been erected in a distant hamlet. THE CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER.—NO less than five new churches have been erected in Westminster during the last eleven years ; and on Friday the foundation stones of two others were laid. Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., laid the foundation stone of one which is to be erected by sub scription. The other church will be built at the sole cost of the Rev. W. H. E. Bentinck, archdeacon and preben dary of Westminster, whose lady laid the first stone. The latter church will contain 850 seats all free; the former 1,209, of which 900 will be free. In reference to a report that there is about to be an or ganisation of the evangelical clergy under Archdeacon Law and Mr. Goode, a correspondent of the Record says :—" I have every reason to believe that there is not a word of truth in it; and you know my name, and the probability that lam likely to be well informed. The paper in ques tion appears to be very anxious to make a split in the church, and aspires, I presume, to be the organ of the Free Episcopal Church ! The editor will eventually find, I have no doubt, that this is no other than an Ideal Church.' " The Record adds—" We confirm this repre sentation of our correspondent, and we believe our readers have too much knowledge and good sense to give any cre dence to the representation of the dissenting parties who write such paragraphs." THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND THE REV. DR. O'SuLuvArt.—The Archbishop of Dublin having, in his recent charge, alluded to certain statements relative to the exclusion of the bible from the National Schools, made in "a speech at a public meeting," and charac terised those statements as " audacious calumnies." Dr. O'Sullivan, who had made the speech in question, wrote to the Archbishop, offering him "an opportunity of re considering his accusation, and of explaining or with drawing it, if he should find it unmerited and unfounded." The Archbishop has replied, through his secretary, to the effect, that " with whom the misrepresentation originated, by whom it was uttered, or whether attributed by the editor to the right person, or whether correctly reported, were points to which his Grace made no allusion, having no disposition at any time to enter into personal.discus sions." DR. OLLIVANT,—The earlier years of Dr. 011ivant's life were spent at Manchester, where his father was en gaged in a very considerable and lucrative business. Through the fault of some near relatives their affairs were utterly deranged and the family were ruined, and they came to reside in London. At this time Dr. 011ivant, a boy of about nine years of age, was sent to a school at Chelsea, and soon after was admitted at St. Paul's School. There he greatly distinguished himself ; and becoming captain of the school, and obtaining an exhibition of £lOO per annum, he went up to Trinity College, and from that time forward entirely supported himself. His career there had been one singularly advantageous to the University and the Church from his entire freedom from all party feeling ; his great judgmtnt, diligence, impartiality, and kindness ; and the dignified and scholar-like manlier in which all his public duties have been discharged. GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY—RARE MUNIFI CENCE.—AII zealous churchmen will be highly gratified to learn that the " Report" of the Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel, agreed upon on the 24th ultimo, will be found to contain, among other interesting intelli gence, these truly cheerful announcements : William Long, Esq., of Queen-street, Cheapside, placed some two years since, in the hands of trustees, £19,400 3 per cent. Consols, £lO,BOO 3j• per cent. ditto, and £3OOO Bank Stock, ultimately to become the property of the Society, after the decease of himself, Mrs. Fowler, his sister, and certain annuitants. Mrs. Fowler who has left to the Society a bequest of £550, and Mr. Long, having both died in January of the present year, the Society can im mediately avail itself of about £27,000, sufficient being retained by the trustees for the payment of the annuities as they become due. An anonymous donor has also given £4OOO 31 per cent. Consols. THE BISHOP OF VICTORIA, HONG KONG.—On Tues day, the 6th instant, the Bishop of Victoria and his wife, with a party of seven clergymen and candidates for holy orders, embarked at Portsmouth, in one of Messrs. Fillips, Shaw, and Lowther's vessels, the Sir George Pollock, Captain Withers, for the distant field of their evangelical labours in China. They were accompanied on board by a party of clergy and other friends, who paid them this farewell token of respect and interest in their , mission. The China Mission of the Church of England, which now numbers two missionaries at each of the northern cities of Shanghae and Ningpo (exclusive of chaplains) will now be strengthened on the bishop's ar rival by the following conditions :—Rev. F. F. Gough, 8.A.. Scholar of St. John's, Cambridge, for Ningpo ; Rev. W. Welton, 8.A., Otitis College, Cambridge, and Mr. R. D. Jackson, Church Missionary Collage, Islington, to commence a mission at Foochow Foo. Rev. E. T. R. Moncrieff, M.A., and Mr. M. C. Odell, 8.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, Tutors in the proposed Missionary Col lege at Hong Kong. The spiritual wants of our mer chant seamen in China have also not been overlooked . Mr. James Holderness, brother of the indefatigable clergy man of the Thames Church Mission, accompanies the bishop with a special view to the religious instruction of European scholars, visiting Hong Kong and Whampoa. An interesting member of the party is an intelligent Chinese convert under course of preparation for the Christian Ministry, and a probationer for holy orders, with a view to future usefulness amongst his fellow countrymen at Hong Kong. The bishop's engagements in visiting the various friends and supporters of the mission since the period of his consecration, have not been without success. In addition to £3OOO, given anony mously by a " Brother and Sister," some months ago, and £2OOO granted in July and October, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (both which sums are for building the college) the bishop has himself collected nearly £.3000 towards the various objects of his mission. From his lordship's various public addresses it appears that next to the important duties of ministering to the spiritual wants of British subjects at Hong Kong, and oc casional visitations to the Free Consular Ports, his atten tion will be directed to training a body of Chinese youths, to become missionaries in their own country. For this purpose be has succeeded in obtaining the services of two able tutors, who will carry on the work of tuition under his superintendence as ex-officio Warden of the College. Considering the number of the party under his charge, the bishop has determined to proceed with them by the longer route, via the Cape, in preference to taking him self the more expeditious journey overland, and leaving them to proceed by themselves. IRE LIVERPOOL STANDA RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The Nexcastle and Carlisle railway company not having received any offer from the York, Newcastle, and Ber wick, have resolved to work the line themselves. At the Brighton junction of the Manchester and Shef field railway a goods train ran into a tender, on Monday, and shivered it all to pieces. The damage is estimated at £l,OOO. An agreement has been entered into between the East Lancashire, Bolton, and West Yorkshire, that will put an end to the competition that has hitherto existed between these companies. The Caledonian railway company have entered into an arrangement with the London and North-Western rail way, by which the former company will save £20,000 a year, the interest on the floating debt, which will be paid off by an advance, and also at least £lO,OOO a year by greater economy. RAILWAY AUDIT, LONDON.—An important meeting of the representatives of railway companies was held on Thursday, Lord Lonsdale in the chair. Mr. Glynn pro posed a resolution to the following effect, " That two shareholders and a public accountant shpuld examine the accounts." After a prolonged discussion, the resolution was carried by a majority of two. The opinion of all the shareholders, in all the companies, will be taken on the subject. A committee was appointed to prepare a bill for Parliament, in conformity with the resolution. There were several gentlemen from Liverpool present, and dur ing the proceedings a number of parties present expressed themselves favourable to a Government audit. ALARMING ACCIDENT.— A fearful accident, which for tunately was not attended with fatal results, occurred at the Stepney station of the Blackwall Railway, on Wed nesday. About a quarter-past five, the regular up-train arrived, somewhat behind time, just as an express-train was about to proceed downward. This created some bustle. A lue-gage-train, which followed the regular one, and which, no doubt, calculated that the latter had left the station several minutes before, was just then heard thundering along the curved part at the east of t tion, which is roofed over to protect the vessels lying in the neighbouring besin from any chance sparks from the engines. When the position of the two trains was disco vered, the luggage-train at once let off the steam, but it was too late to avert the shock, which took place with tremendous effect. Dashing furiously into the train, it swept the last carriage of the passenger-train clean off its frame, leaving the latter a mere truck. The displaced carriage working its way under, the preceding one forced the hinder end into the air, with the head ploughing downwards. Eight or nine persons are said to have been seriously injured, but none dangerously. Some had their ribs fractured, some their arms, and all suffered more or less from severe contusions. Most of them were con veyed to their own homes in cabs, which were immediately in attendance. Considering the nature of the collision, it may well be called a narrow escape. SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—A general meeting of shareholders in this undertaking was held on Tuesday, at Chester, to consider the general affairs of the company, and a plan proposed by the directors for pro ceeding with the line (the works of which, owing to the depressed state of the times, have been in a state of abeyance) on a reduced scale of expenditure ; and for the further purpose of sanctioning an application to Parlia ment, for powers to limit the capital to £450,000, to reduce the shares from £2O to £lO each, and to increase the number of shares from 40,000 to 45,000. Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., was the chairman.—Mr. G. E. Taunton, re presentative of the Liverpool shareholders, opposed, at considerable length, the adoption of the report.—Mr. John Budd, of Liverpool, also opposed, at considerable length, the adoption of the report.—Mr. Robert Scott expressed surprise at the apparent desire of the Liverpool proprietors to repudiate their connection with a company to promote which they had taken shares upon the faith of an act of Parliament ; more particularly when, at one period. bad it not been for the success of the Shrewsbury and Hereford in Parliament, another company might have made the line.—Sir CHARLES MALCOLM supported the report, and the proposals of the directors, which he thought judicious.—Mr. Robertson, the engineer, in re ply to questions, said he felt confident that the line could be constructed for £485,000. After considerable dis cussion the amendment was lost. sta- THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—AnI important process is now being carried out. The operation has for its object the joining of the wain tube securely on to the lsnd tube in the centre of the great tower on the Anglesea side of the straits, and so completing one half of the passage across. Tn effecting this, it is found necessary to pro vide for the expansion and contraction of so great a mass of metal, which from changes of temperature are necessarily very considerable : the extreme variation in the length of one of the tubes between summer and winter is stated to be nearly twelve inches. To make pro vision, therefore, for this constant alteration in length, which would otherwise endanger the stability of the whole structure, the great tubes are fixed in the central Britannia tower in such a manner that they cannot move, but on either side, where the tube unites with those land towers and abutments on shore, they travel on moveable rollers of cast iron six inches in diameter, a portion of the weight being also supported at the top on balls of hard gun metal of the same size, work ing in channeled beams and acting in the same way as the rollers. Beside these rollers, which are now being placed, and on which the tube ias to be let down, at the extreme ends, where the rails intended for the trains in the tube are joined to those on land, contrivances are used to prevent a gap from being formed by the contrac tion of the tube, which might otherwise interfere with the passage of the trains. Some uncertain"..y has occurred with reference to the floating of the second tube. Should the tides, &c., be favourable, it will take place before the close of this month, but if not, at the beginning of December. The hydraulic apparatus will be brought into action for the lifting of the second tube as soon as it is floated to the foot of the piers. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER-CONDUCT OF THE PRISONERS. The convict Manning was on Tuesday permitted to have another interview with his brother, Edmund Man ning, accompanied by a married sister, who had come to town for the purpose of seeing her wretched relative. The Rev. Mr. Rowe and Mr. Keene, the Governor of the Gaol, were present at the interview, which was of an ex tremely painful nature. After the first outburst of feeling had subsided the convict was addressed by his brother at some length, and urged to communicate all he knew on the subject of the murder. Manning- expressed his readi ness to do so, and commenced by reiterating his former statement to the effect that his wife shot O'Connor as the latter was proceeding down stairs to wash his hands. He further stated that O'Connor had noticed the hole dug in the back kitchen on the occasion of former visits paid to Minever-place, end that he bad been told by Mrs. Manning that it was a drain they were making. On the day of the murder, when the unhappy man went down stairs, Manning states that on reaching the back-kitchen he heard him address his wife, and say, " What haven't you finished the drain yet ?" These, he says, were the last words O'Connor uttered, for immediately afterwards he heard the report of a pistol, and then a heavy fall on the floor. The wretched man, in answer to other ques tions put to him by his brother, has confessed that he pledged a pair of pistols, with one of which the deceased was shot, on the evening o; the day his wife left town, being at, the time almost penniless. He also confessed where the watches belonging to the late Patrick O'Con nor, and the crowbar with which the murder was comple ted, may be found. The brother, Edmund Manning, on taking leave, promised to see the convict again on Satur day, but the sister took a last farewell. Manning is more resigned to his fate than he was for two or three days after conviction. At first he would neither eat nor drink for some hours together, but he nose takes his meals regularly, and expresses himself prepared for the awful change he has to undergo. He is not less anxious than heretofore to have an interview with his wife, but she positively refuses to see him. Edmund Manning, when at the prison, sought to obtain an inter view with her, but she declined to see either him or his sister. There has been no application to see the female convict on the part of her own friends since her convic tion. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, WEDNESDAY The point reserved, as to the right of the female prisoner to be tried as an alien, by a jury consisting of an equal number of aliens and natural subjects, or, in legal language, de niedietate Unglue, came on for argument on Wednesday. The Learned Judges who formed the court were—the Lord Chief Justice Wilde, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Baron Rolfe, and Mr. Baron Platt. After an argument from Mr. Ballantine, in favour of the prisoner, and a reply from the Attorney-General on the part of the Crown, Lord Chief Justice Wilde delivered an elaborate judgment, in which he pronounced the una nimous opinion of the Court that the prisoner has no right to a mixed Jury, and that therefore the trial was a legal one. Shortly after the decision of the Judges was known, information was forwarded to the Governor and Chaplain of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, so that Maria Manning might be made acquainted with the fact, as she has since her condemnation confidently relied on being successful, which has materially buoyed up her spirits. These func tionaries accordingly had an interview with her in her cell, and the Rev. Chaplain informed her that she must prepare herself to meet her Maker, as the sentence pronounced upon her by the judge at her trial would be carried into effect on Tuesday morning. She seemed extremely sur prised at the announcement, and exclaimed that she had been unjustly tried and convicted, which her unfeeling husband could prove. He could unravel the whole of the circumstances relative to the murder, and if he told the truth it would exculpate her from any participation in the dreadful crime. She seemed rather excited at first, but afterwards put her hands to her face and cried bitterly. The Chaplain exhorted her to employ the few remaining hours she had to live in prayer and repentance, and im plored her to make a full confession of the crime for which she is convicted. She asserted that she was not the party who committed the murder, and she had nothing to confess. Her husband occupies all his time in reading religious works and writing. It being suspected by the authorities of Horsemonger lane Gaol that Maria Manning might do some violence to herself after hearing her fate on Wednesday evening, it was thought advisable to have an extra woman in atten dance upon her. Accordingly Mrs. Randall, the woman searcher of the Southwark police station, was sent for that night to assist the two other women in watching her. Mrs. Randall attended upon her during the several lengthy examinations at the police court, and Mrs. Manning seemed very much attached to her. As soon as she was introduced to her in the cell, she seemed much pleased, and conversed freely with her on several subjects. The unfortunate woman still asserts that she is innocent, and will not be executed, and that some influential ladies will intercede for her in high quarters. On Thursday she wroth two letters, and believes that the contents will have the effect of saving her life. On being told that her legal advisers had done all they could for her, she stamped her foot on the floor, and exclaimed in a violent manner— " Done all they could ! Why, they have done nothing ; they and everybody else in the Court decided upon hang ing me before I was tried." In alluding to her husband a few minutes afterwards she said, " Ah, he is a vagabond. I never said anything about him. He knows who murdered poor O'Connor, and can tell all." She refuses all religious consolation, and pays little attention to the Rev. Mr. Rowe, the chaplain. She has been visited by a charitable lady, who attempted to instil into her mind the awful position in which she stood, and implored her to offer up her prayers to her Maker, but she listened with a deaf ear, and as soon as the lady had left the cell she entered into conversation with her attendants as un concernedly as if she were free from crime. She eats heartily, and sleeps well, but if any of her attendants would converse with her all night she would sit up and join them. During some allusion to her attorney (Mr. Solomon) and the counsel who defended her she became much excited, and, clinching her fists, exclaimed, " Oh, if I only had them here I'd serve them out. They might have acquitted me if they had done their duty." She, however, seems very confident that she will be set at liberty, and has no idea that the sentence of the law will be carried into effect. Her unfortunate husband is quite dejected. He is completely emaciated, and unable to eat anything. t,- On Friday morning, according to the special request of Frederick George Manning, Mr. Binns, his solicitor, waited upon him in the condemned cell. The interview took place in the presence of Mr. Rowe, the chaplain ; Mr. Keene, the governor; and two turnkeys. Manning was in much better spirits, and as soon as Mr. Binns en tered his cell he shook hands with him cordially, and thanked him for his kindness. He told him he was quite prepared to meet his unhappy fate, and could die happy if his wife would only tell the truth. He informed Mr. Binns that he took with him some railway shares to Jer sey, which he destroyed in a water closet before his appre hension, a description of which he handed him for the benefit of Mr. O'Connor's family. They will, no doubt, be restored by the companies who issued them. This will clearly show that the murdered man was possessed of con siderable property in railway shares, which were useless to any one except the real owner. On being asked where the crowbar was, he stated that it could be found at a certain railway station (naming the place). He directed Mr. Binns to dispose of all his property, and after paying all demands for legal expenses, to hand over the surplus to his brother Edmund. Prior to Mr. Binns leaving him he handed him the following letters, giving him permis sion to publish them if he pleased : LAW INTELLIGENCE. The bar of the Oxford circuit entertains Mr. Justice Talfourd to a public dinner next Saturday. The paper now issuing from the Excise is dated, on the water mark, 1850 ! Any wills or legal instruments made out on this paper, previous to the first of next January, will be null and void. THE RELAY SYSTEM IN FACTORIES.—At Heywood, in this county, last week, Mr. David Mills, occupier of a cot. ton factory at Heap, was fined in the penalty of £5 and costs, for having notices up in the mill, and working the relay system. Mr. Mills demurred to the decision, and intends to try the matter in the Court of Queen's Bench. THE AGAPEMONE AGAIN.-IVollidge v. Ripley.—ln the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, Sir F. Thesiger moved for a new trial, or to enter a verdict for the defend. ants in this case, all the particulars connected with which will be fresh in the minds of our readers. The present cause, differing from the one previously tried, was brought to recover the amount of the dividends belonging to the plaintiff as money had and received to her use during her confinement, whilst in the private lunatic asylum. A rule nisi was granted. INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF TIIE FAIR SWAN OF ERIN, MISS CATHERINE lIAYES. The career of this talented and truly amiable young lady. has been so unmarked by stirring incidents, that, in preparing even a sketch of her biography, the writer would have little more to do than to record the place of her birth, which was Limerick, in Ireland, and then run through a long list of triumphs in her short but bril liant musical life. Her great musical talents first deve loped themselves at the early age of nine, when her hearers were suddenly surprised by finding that the child had a most beautiful and perfect shake given her by nature. This is a gift seldom bestowed : the shake, to most sin gers, being alone acquired by unremitting and laborious practice. The good and amiable Lord Bishop of Limerick took great interest in the child, and has ever since bestowed upon her his friendly protection and spiritual care. It is a strange coincidence that Miss Hayes and Jenny Lind, whom she in so many respects resembles, should both have been honoured by the friendship of such highchurch dignitaries as the Bishop of Limerick and the Bishop of Norwich. While studying at Milan, a little incident oc curred at a party which, although a mere trifle, gave the young student great pleasure at the time, and caused her to redouble her ardour in the pursuit of excellence. Being asked to sing, she sat down to the piano ; near her was an elderly lady, sitting with her back towards her. She had scarcely commenced singing when the elderly lady, raising her head, began to turn slowly round, and did so until she, at last, was looking in admiration full upon the countenance of the fair vocalist. This old lady was the once celebrated Grassini, one of the finest singers in Europe, and aunt to Madame Grisi. She begged to be introduced, and at once foretold Miss Hayes' prosperous future. The famed Catalini also evinced great friendship for her ; and upon one particular occasion, at a party she gave at her o wn villa at Florence, where Miss Hayes sang with marked success, she kissed her affectionately, and said, what would I not give to be in London when you make your debut ! Your fortune is certain. And remem ber, whenever you come, my door shall be always open." Not only did Miss Hayes enjoy the friendship of the greatest of her profession, but also that of the most dis tinguished of the English residents abroad. Amongst others, the English Ambassador, Sir George Hamilton, and his amiable sister, Lady Caroline, showed her marked attention and respect while at Florence; upon one occa sion, Sir George did her the distinguished honour of con ducting her to the banquetting-room, while on the other arm was the Duchess of Castigliani, daughter of the Cor sini—Prime Minister. Such a mark of attention at once fixed the position she was to hold amongst the principal families of Florence. A very pretty compliment was paid Miss Hayes at Genoa, where her success had been most triumphant. The American squadron was then lying off the city, the Commander of which, having been introduced to Miss Hayes at a party, asked if she would honour his vessel with a visit, as there was much on board that might interest her by its novelty. The invitation was accepted, and a day was fixed. What was her astonishment, upon reaching the deck, to find that preparations had been made to do her honour that could not have been surpassed had the President himself been about to visit the squadron ! Colours were flying, every man was dressed in hite.best, and all the sailors arranged in lines to receive her ! and in the Captain's saloon a most costly banquet was laid out. This agreeable visit was so protracted, that she was obliged to excuse herself from visiting the second largest ship, the principal of which was excessively disappointed ; and, upon a subsequent occasion, he declared his disap pointment to Miss Hayes' mother, with true sailor-like bluntness—" Ah !" said he, " your daughter little knows the trouble she caused us ! Why, we were three whole days, all of us hard at work to try and outdo the Captain; and then to think that she never saw a bit of it was plagny annoying, wasn't it ?" MANNING TO HIS WIFE "I address you as a fellow-sinner and a fellow-sufferer, and not as my wife, since the contract must be considered as cancelled, extending as it does only until death and not beyond it, and both of us standing as we do on the brink of eternity. We may already consider ourselves as cut off from the world. The con sciousness of this truth does not, however, prevent me from expressing my earnest solicitude for the happiness of your soul as well as my own. I do, therefore, beseech and implore you to be truthful in all you utter, and that you may not be tempted to yield to any evil suggestions of the enemy of our souls' wel fare to question for an instant the solemn truth that we shall shortly appear before our God in judgment—that His eye is upon us now. The time, though not, so far as I can learn, pre cisely fixed when we are to be launched into eternity, but we may be quite sure and certain that it is close at hand. And now, by all kindly feelings we have at any time entertained towards each other, I earnestly pray that you will look to God for the pardon you need, and of which I feel my own need also, believe me, through the merits of a crucified Redeemer, being satisfied that his all sufficient atonement and intercession can not benefit us unless we repent and give proofs of that repent ance. Believe me. I upbraid you not, but trust that you will be assured that I forgive every one, as I pray and hope to be forgiven by God; and now I close, as my feelings are too acute to write more. May the Lord be merciful, and may He be so consistent with His promises. Let us be truthful and sincere in all we say and do. This is the last letter you will ever receive from me. Now let me beg of you to grant me an interview this day if possible. I have a great wish to have one before 1 depart this world "F. G. MANNING." " Written on the 29th of October, IE4, in the condemned cell, Horsemonger-lane GaoI.—FREDERICK G. NIANNINO." MARIA MANNINO TO HER HUSBAND. "I address you as my husband. I am far away from my happy native land on account of this contract and this land which you have made to me a captivity. The peace and well being of society, the laws of truth, which you have broken, have alike demanded my banishment from the country which gave me birth. But I am not going away from God; He is everywhere alike present, and at all times gracious to those that seek His mercy and His favour. What has brought me into this eternal consequence ? If you live and die untorgiven by God, though those sins will be punished by the laws of man, they are still all registered by the only God. All that I have to say is this—l never made any statement of any kind to injure or condemn you in this matter, that you well know, from first to last. I am here condemned only by your statement. If it had proved beneficial to you, I should have been satisfied. With all your doings and the great expense of your learned counsellors, that did not benefit you, but plunged me unmerci fully with you to this horrid fate. All I have to beg of you now is to state facts, as you know that I was not in the house when O'Connor met with his death ; but I was gone to see for him, and during that time he called in my absence, and was shot by that young man from Guernsey who was with you in the back parlour smoking; but that I did not know anything about it until the Saturday, and that it was all settled in the kitchen. I was in hopes that you would have brought that young man forward at the trial, but that you did not do, but only blame me, as you did, from the first day. But, my dear, as you now know that you cannot save yourselt, I implore of you to state the facts which are truth, and endeavour to save your wife. By so doing it would be satisfaction to your own heart and soul to know that you are doing right and good towards me before v on depart from this world. The Lord God will forgive you and comfort you. Believe me, I upbraid you not, but trust you will he assured that I forgive you, and every one, as I pray and hope I may be forgiven ty God. If you comply with this true statement, I shall be happy to see you until the last day. My hope and life is in your hands. You can, if you will, saveme. Remember you cannot answer for our sins or transgressions when all our secret sins shall be set in the light of His countenance, and when the wicked who carelessly lived and miserably died without the fear or favour of God shall doubtless perish everlastingly. In that day a craven conscience shall proclaim a tailing heart, and an angry judge shall point to the wicked. 41 1.1nizahly look to thee, 0 Lord. Thou halt met forth as a propitiation for the remission of sins that are past through Thy forbearance, I cannot write any longer. God bless you, and have mercy on us both. M. MANNING." " Received by G. F. Manning on the 30th of October, 1849." The following statement we have received is in sub stance the confession made by M.nning at the interviews which he has had with his relatives since sentence of death was pronounced upon him :—He declared most solemnly that a month before the actual commission of the crime his wife spoke to him of her intention to murder O'Con nor, in order that she might become possessed of the large amount of money which she knew he had. He endea voured to turn her thoughts away from the commission of such a deed, saying that she would be hung for it. She, however, said that she was determined to shoot him, and that he must help her to bury him in the kitchen. About this period she purchased a dozen bottles of brandy, and though at other times, and in the circumstances they were then living, she would have been chary of making such a purchase, she kept him fully supplied with the liquor, so that, to use his own words, " during the whole of this time I was not in my right senses." He first thought of giving information of his wife's intention to the police, but fear for his wife, who, he said, had great mastery over him, or a belief that she would not carry out her inten tions, restrained him from saying anything about the matter : but he declares he repeatedly told her that he would have nothing to do with it. Nearly about this pe riod O'Connor was invited to stay a short time with some friends at Boulogne, and she was to meet him there. She said if the opportunity did not present itself of doing away with him at Minver-place, that she would do so when they were together at Boulogne, adding that it would never be found out. With the view of accomplishing her purpose, she purchased a small pair of pistols at the shop of Mr. Blanch, a gunmaker, in Gracechurch-street, who. at her request instructed her how to load them. In order to be the better prepared for the dispasal of the body, and to destroy any traces of guilt, she directed him to purchase the crowbar to raise the stones in the back kitchen, and the lime to burn the body. Manning declares also that the hole in which the body was found was dug by Mrs. Manning with the dust shovel produced at the trial, a fort night before the murder, and that she carried the earth out by pailfuls, and mixed it with tle ashes in the dust bin. It was in June, he says, that the conversation took place with respect to what would make a person put his name to a check for £5OO. O'Connor at the time was supposed to be a teetotaller, and Massey, Manning says, suggested that morphia, which he described as a white powder, if put into his tea, would so stupify him as to ren der him a ready instrument in their hands. It was, how ever, never given to him. It may be remarked that Man ning was then in needy circumstances. Manning's atten tion was called to the state of O'Connor on the night when Mrs. Manning bathed his temples with eau de Cologne, in order to ascertain if he had been drugged ; but he declared that nothing was given to him, and that he was under the influence of brandy, which he had taken from fear of the cholera. On the night of the murder, he says O'Connor called at Miever-place, and after exchanging a few words with Mrs. Manning went away. In half an hour he came back, his demeanor evincing irresolution whether to stop or not, thus accounting for his being seen on London-bridge about five o'clock going towards the city. He must, therefore, immediately have changed his mind and gone to Minver-place. Mrs. Manning pressed him to stay, and he walked into the parlour and sat down. Immediately afterwards, she said to him, " Come down stairs and wash your hands before dinner ;" to which O'Connor replied, " No, I don't care about it to-night." " Oh," she said, " you had better do so, as Miss Massey (who Manning says she knew was not in town at the time) is coming, and you know she is a very particular lady, and you should show yourself off to the best advantage." He says this was a mere trick to get him to go down stairs. He further says he did not think so at the time, as he had no idea that in the evening she was about to perpetrate the crime of murder. He asseverates this most solemnly. O'Connor did go down stairs into the back kitchen, Mrs. Manning following closely after him. At this time, Manning was up-stairs, in the front room, dressing. In a few minutes his wife came up-stairs and exclaimed, " I have done it— he is dead enough." Manning says he was dreadfully frightened, and told her " she was a dead woman, and would be hung for the murder." She got into a passion with him. and said he was " a d—d coward ;" and point ing a pistol at him, which he says was loaded, exclaimed in a threatening manner, " If you don't come down and see him, I will serve you the same." He asked her how she did it, and what O'Connor said ? and, after drinking a glass of neat brandy, she explained that when her victim got to the bottom of the stairs, he said, " What ! hav'nt you got this drain finished yet ?" The next moment she said she pressed the muzzle of the pistol close to the back of his head, and shot him dead. We may remark that this will account in some measure for the report of the pistol not being heard by Manning himself, nor by the neighbours. After some hesitation, and overpowered by her menaces, he did go down, and he says, he was .eorri fied to find O'Connor lying on his face, partially in a stooping posture, his head hanging into the grave which had been prepared for him, and his hands up to the sides of his head. Manning, when explaining this to his brother and sister, to the governor of the prison, and the chaplain, went down on his knees in the cell, in order the better to illustrate the position of the unhappy man. This was ten minutes or a quarter of an hour after the com mission of the murder. Mrs. Manning turned over the body, and struck him on the head three or four times with the crowbar, exclaiming, " You d—d old villain, you will never deceive me or any one else any more." Manning then says he ran up-stairs; he was followed shortly afterwards by his wife, who showed him the keys she had taken from the body. She then took off her gown,—the one produced at the trial,—and which was proved to have been stained with blood, and washed her self, her hands being smeared with blood. She then went out, saying that she would be back directly. Not liking to remain in the house he went into the yard, and sat on the wall and smoked a pipe, and had a chat with the neighbours. He had told her that he would not stay in the house, but she persuaded him to do so. When she came back, having been at O'Connor's lodgings, she had some scrip, some of which she burnt, finding it useless ; the rest she kept. Manning's brother asked him at one of the interviews what had been done with the clothes and the crowbar; and he said that the clothes were burnt, and that she must have taken the crowbar with her, and, he supposed, dropped it at one of the railway stations. The next day she pledged two gold watches belonging to O'Connor, but he could not tell where. On the Monday after the murder, when he came home, she told him that two persons, whom she believed to be officers in private clothes, had called and inquired for O'Connor. These persons, it will be recollected, were Mr. Welch and Mr. Flynn, who stated in their evidence, that she trembled and looked so pale that they asked her if she was ill. Manning told his wife, who was extremely frightened at these inquiries, that she had evidently been found out, and that she would be hung. She then fainted, but Manning gave her some brandy, which soon restored her. Afterwards she said she would not stop any longer, that she would go to America, and if she was discovered she would stick out till the eleventh hour. After some delay she said, " Now, Freddy, you go to Bainbridge's, and endeavour to sell the furniture. See what arrangements you can make. Don't be in a hurry, but stop and smoke your pipe. I'll be there in a couple of hours." He did so, bat as she did not come he went to the house and found her gone. Being almost penniless, he pawned the pistols at a pawnbroker's in Bermondsey-street. and afterwards sold the furniture and went away to Jersey. She got all the money from him which he obtained at the bank. He declared he knew nothing about the Great Western Rail way robberies, but implicated Poole and others. He said, Mrs. Manning, who no doubt was in Poole's confidence, knew something about them. At the conclusion of his last interview with his brother and sister, he said when they were leaving, " Mr. Keene, I have to ask you one great favour—that you will not, for the sake of my family, allow any one to take a cast of my head, to be exhibited at Madame Tussaud's. Mr. Keene assured the unfortunate prisoner, and also his brother and sister, that if he could prevent this being done he would do so. Manning reiterated the assertion that, so help him God, he had never injured a hair of O'Connor's head, adding, that the statement as given above, was true in every respect; and that if he were executed the life of an in nocent man would be taken. All the persons present. at the request of Manning, knelt down and engaged in prayer. _ _ . At four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the convict's brother, Edmund Manning, had an interview to take his final leave of the wretched man. He was introduced to the condemned cell by the chaplain and Mr. Keene, the governor. On observing his brother enter, the convict rose, and advancing towards him, said, " How do you do, Edmund ? I am glad to see you." In reply to his brother's inquiries he said that he felt perfectly happy and resigned to his fate. He added that he slept well, and was not at all disturbed during the night, in proof of which he appealed to the turnkeys in attendance upon him. He asked his brother if he had seen Mr. Binns, and whether be was aware of the unfavourable result which had attended the applications made in his favour to the Home Secretary. He then told his brother that he had written another letter to his wife, soliciting an inter view •, but he feared she was as hardened as ever, and would not grant it. Referring to the subject of the murder, he produced a pencil sketch of the back kitchen, showing the position of O'Connor's body when, as he alleges, he first saw it. He took especial care to explain this sketch to his brother, and evinced great anxiety to satisfy him that he was not a participator in the actual murder. After some other con versation on general matters, he requested his brother to give his love and last blessing to his relatives, especially the sister who visited him on Tuesday, after whom he in quired most particularly. He also desired his respects to his former master, Mr. Reeves, a coach-builder, of Taun ton, and requested that his best thanks should be given to that gentleman for all his kindness to him when a boy. His brother being about to leave, Manning requested Mr. Row to offer up a prayer before they parted, which the reverend chaplain did in a very impressive manner; all present kneeling and joining in this act of devotion. After the chaplain had concluded the prayer, his brother asked him if he should come and see him again. Man ning replied that he thought it would be no use for him to do so ; in fact, he would rather that he did not. The final separation then took place ; the convict remarking to his brother that he was only going a short time before him, and hoped he should meet him in another and a better world. In the course of the afternoon the visiting justices con nected with the gaol applied to the Commissioners of Police for four or five lniiidred constables to assist in pre- venting an unnecessary crowd round the gaol on the morning of execution. Strong barricades have been erected by the authorities; the visiting justices being afraid that unless such precautions are used, the loss of life may be great, as many thousands are likely to be pre. sent to witness the execution of the Mannings. During Saturday, Mr. Keene received direct orders from the Secretary of State that no person be admitted within the walls of the prison on Sunday, and the morning of execu. Nov. 13, 1841• th e tion, excepting ministers of the Established Ch urch ' s ob visiting justices, the authorities of the gaol , and sad police constables as may be required to assist t he MI rities. Taunton had interviews with both prisoners. 11 1 of On Friday afternoon a Roman Catholic priest fro n d known them whilst living at that place, and Mrs. Manning's stubborn conduct, he felt an wall o p see her, and endeavour to soften her heart. She P 0 her attention to his remarks, and was rather rough e _,ds manner towards him. The rev. gentleman aft r7 ll i i , visited the male convict, who seemed pleased to see" but refused any religious consolation at his hands. r i4 On Monday last the female conduct drew up a me the to the Queen imploring her Majesty to save her from ./ 5 scaffold, and reiterated her innocence of O'Coml°:ed death. This memorial she enclosed in a letter, ad dre ;os to the Duchess of Sutherland, in which he r h e aring to asked to lay it before the Queen. The letter was posted it it appears, but being unpaid, was rejected on P_, sentation at Stafford-house, and was opened in due col; at the Dead Letter-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand° 00 wretched woman, impatient of a reply, had written. 0. Friday last to Sir George Grey requesting his intercess,Vol The whole space in front of Horsemonger-lane u 0 has for the last two days been crowded with people dr i e c rel thither to view the scene of the approaching 8 i d ol execution, and probably that each persln might de c j id beforehand upon the position which he or she st° o l se occupy (this) Tuesday morning. Nor are the lal rn ithe numbers of persons thus collected the only proofs °` extraordinary curiosity which the fate of the eond . „ ew nr ral murderers, and the desire to witness their last '', - , 0 0(1 agony, excite. All the windows in the neighbourcett whence a view of the execution can be obtained hale,"eo. grace dull let at prices of one guinea to two guineas for ea u' -- ing The house tops will also be occupied by spectators, Ilheir exorbitantly for the unenviable privilege of taking, ro e. stand there ; and every patch of enclosed groUnd w r glimpse of the drop can be had will realise to its own_ e of good round sum. The demand for accommodation isthe significantly illustrated by an application made bY Tbs Rev. Mr. Rowe, the chaplain, to the magistrates . t he rev. gentleman said that nearly all the inhabitants in to neighbourhood were erecting scaffoldings to accomm ° ,, o f persons anxious to witness the executions. Ilan pots them were so flimsy that he was ire serious ae el ; er e would occur. The magistrates said that as they erected on private property they could not interfere.of On Saturday afternoon Mr. Adams, the pawnbroker'de, Bermondsey, attended at Soutawark Police-court ,-O tng mand the pistols used by M rs . M ann ing, in s b°° ,. i o . of O'Connor. He contended that there had been noyi t e that they were theinstruments u s e d o n th e occasion, an" p le p they were not stolen, and were received by him in B „;.iat ful manner. The magistrates said that the male T - 8 0 had confessed that the pistol was that actually used, jt as it was the instrument used in committing a er' sl ;"; te belonged to the crown, but the applicant could aPP" the treasury, which he said he wo'uld do. the On Sunday morning the Rev. W. S. Rowe, .A."—" t op chaplain of Horsemonger-lane gaol, preached the Ger - so p, to the condemned convicts in the chapel of the Pr i ,, o . Shortly before ten o'clock the whole of the prisoners'''o, fined in the gaol, accompanied by the officials, were as? e d bled at the chapel. The prisoner Manning ocelT le he seat in the enclosed gallery on the left of the PulP l n . i t wore the same dress as he appeared in at the Old on the day of his conviction. The female culprit info pied a pew in the centre aisle, immediately faei n g.bied pulpit. The positions the prisoners: occupied ell' a le them to see each other, but, notwithstanding the n i let prisoner kept intently turning towards his wife, she L n e ref , returned his gaze, but kept her eyes fixed upon tue,,a gentleman during the discourse. Both the prisonersriii, the most marked attention to the sermon, and were 'jibe bly affected, the female prisoner frequently sobbing• in g usual prayers, and the prayer for the condemned, litt r t bp been read, the rev. g e ntl ema n sele c ted for his W oo ' $• second verse of the 65th Psalm, " 0 Thou that b e prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come." POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. ettil* MR. DISRAELI'S POLICY.—The first general in rt y • of the Bucks Association for the relief of real grope was held at the George Inn, Aylesbury, on Wethl e The attendance was not very numerous, not more,: iroi . 200 farmers and townspeople being present. Mr. a- Lowndes, of Cheaham, occupied the char, and after all ing the business called on Mr. Lowman, who nlov u i c h resolution respecting the injustice of the land tax , w`Leit '" was seconded by a Mr. E. Stone. Mr. Disraeli to, spoke at considerable length, in support of his poli c p,. declared at Hesingham Castle, to which he still adh e rio He contested the notion that it was useless to attetoPy'r, s , get relief to agricultural interest from the present P sr ,r . ment, seeing, as he said, that it was not the presel t .2el liarnent which had repealed the corn laws. No res“...' — of could be obtained by the repeal of any tax" c h• present pressing on them, and, as this was a tres. oo erous hope, they should oppose the powerful organita ti who were clamouring for financial reform, which tina in fact nothing but direct taxation, and direct to p i le d must always fall chiefly on real property. He reconvn e . them not to mix up the agricultural question with I— .o- politics, or seek to make it a machine to overturn theuta vernment. He then entered on his plan of a si n ha o fund, and defended it against the criticism it had 11 ,,, subjected to. The honourable member concluded by Frio posing, " That it is the opinion of this meeting that t u , expedient in the present state of the country that a d al ing fund should be established, to be supplied by a _„3 on foreign imports." This resolution was passe d ' ti lr af after other resolutions had been adopted, the inees broke up, and the members of the association W . W . I"' dined together. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. — A young man, named Martin Collins, was fine d rrid and costs, on Tuesday, for driving a butcher's shauo, furiously down Ranelagh-place, overturning an old wor a and doing other injuries. rid ROBBERY OF MONEY.—A case WaS hear d 0n - F moq against Catherine Smith , who was charged by the >ne g a vessel, now in port, with stealing £3 10s. in gold , a ri ip promissory note for £47 10s., from him in a hour Tithebarn-street. ° I STEALING MONEY.—A man named John Carr°,, ll ,: eti s, two women named Rose Molineux and Mrry 3. l °' were remanded on Friday on a charge of robbing a °l b, st named Benjamin Bolton of £99. Mr. Bolton stated 110, he was an engineer, and had lately arrived from All' er i iet, where he had been ten years. He met the male priso e/y who took him to a house in Eaton-street. The y ° morning he found that his money had been stolen f# him. „of AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.—On Tuesday a l i iiir woman, named Ann Smith, was brought before the 10 ; gistrates on charge of John Whittaker, of York, w h lif39 , sent her to bridewell for robbing him in a brothel of hol as appeared by the police-sheet. As the prosecutof t he left by the morning train the woman was dischargeav so magistrate remarking that it was a serious thing toe d of, lightly dealt with, After the case had been disp o- . it turned out that the £lB9 should have been £l. t e d to the officer who booked the woman having Orot" place the dots between the figures. g,0 1. ; ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO CUT HIS W yr.IFE'S 0,1--itteP —On Saturday John Scholes, an old man, was corn, ,ife, on a charge of maliciously cutting and wounding corn, on Friday night. It appeared that they had bau,•100! quarrel, and that he had dragged her from the _,P" (but into a bed-room, when he inflicted several woun d l•, in not dangerous) on her throat with a razor. He, s ' h i roft t ' his defence, that she had taken the razor to cut his car' and that in attempting to wrest it from her, she wa s , for The prisoner had previously been before the O ur other offences. 0, bout ALLEGED OUTRAGE.—On Thursday a you.-- , Apr i.- 3 eighteen years of age, applied to Mr. Rushton u n " 7 o til e following circumstances :—He said he stowed awa7ll,,hich packet-ship Queen of the West, Captain Hallet, ;451 was then lying in the river ready for sea. On Isr The iaa t : he was discovered and brought on deck. Wit" (Gibson) took hold of him and rubbed his face occebnelis' caustic, burning very badly his nose, brow, an d Said The captain was standing by at the time, and ,fie b , n ot e 01 the mate, " give him the sign of the cross." K ith accordingly made a cross upon the forehead 001; caustic. The face of the boy had a shocking apP e r pa r l the flesh on his nose being lain bare, and the othecen of much injured. Mr. Rushton ordered an exainins.„lo.o the youth by a surgeon, and upon his evidence a , il ow was granted for the apprehension of the captain anuosbtoa' Shortly afterwards a female applied to Mr. tier lias:o She said she went on board the same vessel to see feu roe 00 band. The captain called her improper names , ° a ct 0 rope to be tied round her waist, and threw he r fro l ' l et side of the vessel. She appeared to be suffering° o tb . ,, pain in her back. According to her statement , t'e c n $CC'? boys had had their faces burnt with caustic. Tbe t ode r , tion of the warrant was entrusted to Mr. Superinroor Abraham, but on his proceeding to the river he.bob°' tamed that the vessel had sailed. [lt is said that ti° • was mistaken as to the parties.] pPl ico BILLETING OF SOLDIERS.—On Saturday an al 0 0 was made to Mr. Rushton, at the police-cour"oiers,.4, Bremner, solicitor, relative to the billeting of s° , o bWitO publicans. On Friday Mr. W. Liversedge, jolt' Burlington-street, was summoned before the Im o 0 for refusing, on the previous Sunday morning , t° oc l a soldier, who had just arrived from Ireland , 1 !_„ o t 5 J r billet upon him. He said he could not admit Inowoolii, an hour, and was not prepared to find him ac b e tions. Mr. Rushton had no option, and fined ",, e Acsid can the lowest penalty, 405., and 4s. costs, but P ille r . eo t to hear the case again on Saturday. Mr. Br e , ° , o ffi ct e , that Mr. Liversedge told the soldier he had OR no t t y , room in the house for his own family, and Nl% lO , fi l".j• veniently receive him at that unreasonabl e ' n ob but Rushton said that though there appeared to be s no t, ship in the case he had no discretion under th . e ciog r t y (as suggested) he had no objection to the case being resented to the Secretary of War. Mr. Brenibu t b° the nature of the Act of Parliament as state. o : 3y . 4 0 matter affected the licensed victuallers as a to 16 : 0 question was whether they were compelled ill solders after 12 at night, or rather on Sunday u.',.„010.40/ r unreasonable hours. Knowing the stringent o 7 against publicans opening their houses at add 4 , r efil n ila' morning, his client considered himselfjustifie c'onriaL, and he could not at that hour go out and get a the ca' t tion elsewhere for the applicant. He wishe a nn ia be laid before the Secretary of War. He • c tuan` also appeared in behalf of all the licensed old this matter, and he pointed out the large s u trad e l4; to pay for the privilege of carrying on th lent V ia r ip their liability to heavy penalties for any neg IiP.A p se r l e v s e e s n o t r th se e r c v a a p n t t a s in l o i t e th tl e iou ve g s h s t el th s i i i l t ou i l n d Il be c :r o e ti a r nr et i o r: keep the soldier on board until a reasonable lie 0 . 00 4 morning. Finally, it was understood that ,'L s set . . l ..A will be taken up by the Licensed Victuallers ;tors, and a memorial be presented to the prope r a the army department. N( It h Watch the tov On house, fterv,:a At tained n Tuck,; , . On 7 the C a inche s shirt, DE A . clothes in Jort 4 readfu Onti loader, Ivith of In the 3 •thigh. GAL , Wrough Which I tar. 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