The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

Oa the night of the gnaw he says O'Connor called at
, sad after exam:gine few words with Mn'
I"weent away. In half as hoer ems back, his de-
menus sharing inesolutico whether to seep or not, thus
asimmting for his being seen en Loodeo-bridge aboutd °Week
grin teweeds the City. He mut, therefore, immediately
have shagged his mind, and gone to Minter-plus.
Manning pressed hiss to stay, and he walked into the parlour
sad sat down. Immediately afterwards the mid to him,
" Come down stairs, and wash your hands befogs
dinner;' to which O'Coanor replied, "No, I don't
sere about It to-night." " Oh," she said, " you i
hod batter do ee, as Miss Massey (who Meanies
says she knew was not In town at the time) is
wade& sad you know she is a very particular lady,
end you should show panel: off to the best advantage.'
Ha says Ws was • ewe trick to get his to go down stairs,
He Assiut says he did not think so at the time, rbe had use
Meta that in the evening she was about to perpetrate the
Wino of murder. He asseverates this most solemnly. O'Cou-
ner p down stairs into the back kitchen, Mrs. Manning
following closely after him. At this time Manning was up
etas, in the boat room, dressing. In a few miners his with
ease up stain and exclaimed, " I have dons it—he is deed
erfugh." Manning says he was dreadtelly bighteaed, sad
t ild her " Abe wee • dead wow n, end would be bug lir
the murder." She got into a passion with him, and said be
was " A d—d cower d;" end polatieg a pistol at him, with&
he says we. loaded, exclaimed in a threatening manner, " If
you dcn't come down and see him, I will terve you the
same." He asked her how she did it, and what O'Connor
said? and, after drinking& glass of eat brandy, the explained
that when her victim got to the bottom of the stairs be
said, " What! hav'nt you got this drain finished-
yet r' 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 meanies for the report of the pistol sot being heard by
Mann rag himself, net by the neighbours. After some hesita-
tion, and overpowered by her menaces, he did go down, and
he says, he was horrified to Sad O'Connor lying on his face,
partially in a stooping posture, hie head banging into the
grave which had been prepared for him, and kis 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 pz•ition of the unhappy man.
This was ten minutes or a quarter of an hour after the cola
mission of the murder. Mrs. Manning turned over the body,
and struck him ,is the head Abrce or four times with the
crowbar, cecleirting, " You 3—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.
Sae thou took off her gown—the one produced at the trial,
and proved to have been stained with blood, and washed her.
self, her hands being smeared with blood. She then went
out, saying that the would be back directly. Not liking to
remain in the house, he went into the yard, and sat en the
wall and smoked a pipe, and had a chat with the midghbeene
He had told her that he would not stay in the hews, but
the persuaded him to do so. When she came bask having
been at O'Connor's lodgings, she bad some 'nip, ems of which
she bunt, 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 tI at she must have taken the crow-
bar 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, who she believed to be onions in
private clothes, had called and inquired for O'Connor. These
persons, it will be recollected, were Mr. Welch end Mr.
Flynn, who stated, in their evidence, that she trembled and
! looked so pale that they asked her if she was ill. Manning told
I his wife, who was extremely frightened sobers inquiries, that
the bad evidently been 'condos; and that the 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 that if she
were discovered she would stick oat till the eleventh hour.
After some delay she said, '• Now, Freddy, you go to Bain-
bridge's, and endeavour to sell the furniture. Ste 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, but 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 Ber-
mondsey street, and afterwards sold the furniture and went
away to Jersey. She got all the money from him which he
obtained at the bank. lie declared he knew nothing about
the Great Western Railway robberies, but implicated Pools
and others. He said, Mn. Manning, who no doubt was la
Poole's confidence, knew something about them.
At the conclusion of his last interview with his brother
and sister, be 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 oast 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 • 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 innocent man would
be taken. All the persons present, at the respect of Man-
ning, knelt down and engaged in prayer.

THE RECENT CHURCH APPOINTMENTS. The
Oxford Cd.ronicie of this day, says : "It is understood that
the new Bishop of Llandaff, Dr. Meant, holds what are
termed Evangelical opinions, which sufficiently recounts for
the disapprobation of his appointment evinced by the Tar:-
twins press, and will produce corresponding Batista:lion
among the great body of the laity attached to the principles
of the Reformation. The Rev. Mr. Caritas, who succeeds
Dr. Mi.men in the vacant canonry of Westminster, is the
author of a valuable work entitled Vindicia Ignatiane, and
has incurred the dislitte of the high church party by a defence
of the genuineness of a Syriac version of Ignatius's
Epistles, from which it appears that the high episcopal
doctrine of 'Do nothing without the Bishop,' attributed to
'PIO father, is a forgery. Mr. Cantos was formerly a chap-
lain of Christ Church in this University, and one of the se-
lect preachers at Bt. Mary's. He is said to be indebted for
his preferment to the Priam Consort. Like Dr. Tait and
Dr. Haman, he is claimed, we know not with what truth,
u a conservative in politics. In Mr. Cureton's appointment
as well as in that of Bishop Olitreat, it affords to pleasure to
acknowledge the selection of men of eminence, irrespective
of birth or family connection ; at the same time, while
eminent was seeking out meritorious characters on whom
to confer patronage, we should have been more satisfied had
the claims of churchmen of their own party bees len point-
edly overlooked."
DEATH OF LORD ALVARLET.—Lord Alvakley, who
had for some short time ban 01, expired yesterday (Friday)
'bast one o'clock in the afternoon. The hie of the late Lord
Alvenley presents but few features to the biographer. His
existence was passed rather In social enjoyment than in po-
litical strife or active exertion. Lord Alvenley (William
Arden) was the son of a personage when name frequently
occurs in the political sad parliamentary history of the latter
pert of the last century. Mr. Arden was a successful lawyer
is his day ; in 1782 he was nominated solicitor general ; in
1784 attorney-general ; in 1788 muter of the rolls ; and
in 1801 he was raised to the beech es Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Ps, and at the same time
raised to the peerage wi lea
th the title of Baron Alvenley.
To this peerage the subject of the present sketch
succeeded in 1804. He was born in 1789, and a
an early age entered the way, where he attained the reiffi
of lientenent•colonel. For some years before his death, how-
ever, he had ceased to hold kis cionasieslas, having retired.
Beyond a tolerably regular at andana in the Hare of Peers,
and an occasional path: in the debates there, Lord
Alvealsy took no part in public life. It was rather as a
hersoarist end u a convivial sompenion that he shone; and
in this capacity he will be pleasantly remembered by those
who enjoyed
_his . Iced Alvagey never married.
wasHe elated to thle Wilbraham family—his mother having
been a daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle, Ea., and a
sister of Lord filkebnendals. Lord Anemia is succeeded in
kb title by his bather, the Hee. Richard Arden, who was
formerly a lierameat-ooketel in the army, bat, like his
brother, he ebbed. He was born in 1792, and married, in
1831, tiect liachealsella Vane, youngest daughter of the Rut
dDake
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