The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

-‘‘ FREDERICK GEORGE MANNING.
" Miss Massey, Swanstone-hall, Derbyshire."
Miss Massey did net send the amount, her brother
(who had in the meantime arrived in Derbyshire)
having advised her not to do so, as the bill, which was
originally 131., had been altered to lot On the
morning of the 9th Mr. Massey received the follov, big
lotecr

" 3, Minver•place, New Weston street,
Bermondsey, Aug. 8.
" Sir,—l had a letter from your sister on Monday
morning, stating that she would remit me the amount
of my bill on Wednesday without fail. She has not
acted to her word. 1 must really be candid with
you, for I think you are the instigator of it by false
representations to your friends. You're well known
being guilty of telling great falshoods. I-las' regards
the 10s. I paid to Air. O'Connor, you know ycu
were indebted to him for that amount, and also
is. 6d. due to me. If the bill is not paid by return
of post I shall take immediate proceedings, and
then I shall prove to your friends what you are
capable of doing.—Yours, respectfully,
" FREDERICK GEORGE MANNING.

" Mr. W. Massey, Swanstone-hall, Derbyshire."
Manning, it appears, had endeavoured to raise
from Bainbridge, the broker, a few days prior to the
murder, 101. on Massey's hospital certificate, but Mr.
Bainbridge refused to have anything to do with it.
The following facts as to the connexion of the
Mannings with Poole and Nightingale have not yet
been made public :
As soon as the extraordinary robberies of the mails
on the Great Western Railway, on the 2d of January
last, were communicated to the Post-office authorities,
they immediately employed two detectives (Langley
and Field) to investigate the matter, with a view to
ascertain whether any other persons besides Poole and
Nightingale (who were then in custody) were impli-
cated in the matter. These officers satisfied them-
selves beyond a doubt that the robberies were con- ,
cocted at the White Hart Inn, Taunton, some three
months previously; but that Poole, Nightingale, and
'Manning were foiled in carrying out their objrct by
Mrs. Manning, who it appears had had a violent
quarrel with her husband, and out of revenge com-
municated to Mr. Hive, the brewer, and another
gentleman at Taunton, the intention to rob the mails,
at the same time disclosing to them haw it was to to
done, and the disguises, &c., the parties intended to
adopt on the occasion. Before the robberies were
perpetrated Manning and his wife had disposed of the
White Hart Inn. Of course the robberies, when
they became known at Taunton, excited suspicion,
as they were perpetrated precisely in the man-
ner Mrs. Manning had described. When the
officers made inquiries at Taunton, they could
not succeed in finding any person who knew the
Mannings' whereabout, as they had disappeared from
that place most mysteriously. After several weeks'
search they were traced to a lodging in the Mile-end-
road, near to where Mr. O'Connor lived. The officers
on going to the house, found Mr. and Mrs. Manning,
whom they at once made acquainted with the object
of their mission, and requested permission to search
the apartments. Mrs. Manning said, " Oh, by all
means; here are our boxes ; you are at perfect liberty
to examine all we have." The officers did so, but
nothing was discovered relating to the robberies.
Mrs. Manning denied that she had ever given any
information as to the robberies, and when interro-
gated next day on the same point by Mr. Peacock,
the Post-office solicitor, she had no recollectionnitoef
having e so. It appears that Manning has .
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in October last year. Mrs. Manning once paid a
visit to the brewery and made an unsuccessful attempt
to get possession of this property.

ON THE PRESERVATION OF WATER, BY M. PE•
RINET.-M. Perinct, ex.-Professor of the Hospital Mi
ii-
mire d'lnstruction, has succeeded in preserving gat( r in
a sweet state by placing ukilograrnme and a half of black
oxide of manganese in each ersk of water containing
250 litres. lie has kept this wicer for stye:, years iu
the same barrels, and exposed them to various tempra
turd;; at the end of that time he found it as limpid, face
from smell, and of as good a quality as at the beginning
of the experiment.—Mining Journal.

We are informed that the vacant place of gauger
in the Customs in London, which was held by the lato
Mr. O'Connor, together with another vacancy in the
same class of officers, occasii,ned by superannuation, w ill
be filled up by selection from the list of redundant (
fli-
cers, which, in cons( quence of the late reductions, is now
much increased. And it is also reported that a reduction
of nine p,rsons is likely to take place in the clubs of
gaugers in the Customs at Liverpool, who w ill be re em-
ployed in other ports as °ppm tunities occur for replacing
them in the service.
WANTED A NAME !—A letter with the following
address, and bearing the postmark of Kinqstown,
Jamaica, came through the post office last week
" Mr. and Mrs. -- who keeps first Lodging house low
flat right hand side first lane above Old Steeple leads
through from Orergate to Nethergate DundeeScoblaud
N.B."—Dundee Courier.