The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.

Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a messenger from the
Home-office arrived at Horsemonger-lane Gaol, bear-
ing a respite, during her Majesty's pleasure, for the
convict Alfred Stephen Jordan, alias Dowland, capi-
pitally convicted of attempting to murder a woman
with whom he cohabited, in Dulwich-wood. The act
of clemency was communicated in a letter from Sir
George Grey addressed to the High Sheriff of Sur-
rey, who lost no time in forwarding the intelligence
to the Rev. William Sloman Rowe, chaplain of the
gaol, who immediately visited the convict and informed
him of the fact. The wretched youth received the
intelligence with stoical indifference, betraying no
emotion of gratitude, and appearing perfectly careless
as to what became of him.

The convict Manning was yesterday permitted to'
have another interview with his brother Edmund
Manning, who arrived at the gaol about one o'clock,
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 extremely 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 readiness
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
Minver-place, and that he had 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
imtnediately atterwards he heard the report of a
pist)l, and then a heavy fall on the floor. The
wretched man, in answer to other questions 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 of the day his wife left town,
being at the time almost penniless. He has also
confessed where the watches belonging to the late
Petrick O'Connor, and the crowbar with which the
murder was completed, may be found. The brother,
Edmund Manning, on taking leave yesterday, pro
raised to see the convict again on Saturday, 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 now 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 yesterday, sought to obtain an interview 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 con-
viction.

TEE PEW SYSTEM.--A correspondent of the Chel-
tenham Examiner writes thus:—" I was present at the
parish church on Sunday evening, and witnessed the
following scene, which took place during the per-
formance of divine worship :—The churchwarden (walk-
ing up to the large pew which was only half-tilled,
and the door of which was firmly held by a gentleman
inside). Mr. —, you have no right to keep that
p-w while there are parishioners who cannot obtain
seats.—Mr. : It is my pew, and I shall admit
whom I please.—Churchwarden : You have no right
to admit strangers while there are parishioners who
cannot get seats.—Mr. —: This pew is my property.
—Churchwarden: If you do not open the door, sir, I
shall order the beadle to force it open.—Mr.
You have no right to do so; you may as well order a
man to break open my house.—Churchwarden: It is
not your pew, and I shall insist upon its being opened.—
Mr. : This is not the place to settle that ques-
tion.—Churchwarden : I will have it settled here.
Russell, I order you to break open th© door.—Pew
Opener : Very well, air. Mr. , I insist upon
the door being opened. The door was burst open,
and the pew immediately filled by the parties standing
outside. Was this a fitting scene to be enacted in a
place of worship?"—[The Cheltenham Parish Register
states that the pew is Mr. llarford's, and that he is the
gentleman who was in possession on Sunday night.]
CONVOCATION OF BIRDS.—On Tuesday, the 25th
of September, a large number of swallows and martins,
supposed to between 2,000 and 3,000, assembled at six
o'clock in the morning near the Plymouth station of the
Slinopyupste.hirdev,Diiirsievon Railway, and eventually pitched on the
closeof theaseltehcetriccoteulledgsrtaopwh;
thlleesrweathoeywssatto the
westward nearest theyatation, and the martinsll on the
east towardmsorntheingbr.ittebover Union-street. It was a
ge slniun, and all'
veryrisin
tweebirds had their heads facing the
and occasional faint clurraied,
measure. Ito 13
by their grave deportment
in deep consultation
a message up the line, the station
on some important
being necessary to send
clerk, wholly uncon-
scious of the position of the featheredas touched
the electric wire, and suddenly dissoslevmedbltardmaeeting.
The swallows and martins jostled and tumbled
each other, and fluttering off their mysterious resting_
place, shortly resumed something like order, and quickly
flew out of sight.— West Briton.
The Duke and Duchess de Netnours arrived at
"Eisenach on tho 31st ult., on a visit to the Duchess of
.Qrleans.

LtST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prier
Annum. Share.
- -
Z s. d. Z s. d
Bank of Scotland
arittsh Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 205
Jaledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank .W. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1151
.11ydesdale Bank • ... •• 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Jommercial Bank • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 163
Eastern Bank •.-.• •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 0 8x
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5%
Exshangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 20%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
:iational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
North of Scotlandßank • 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.0 s
North British Bank - - - _
[loyal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 125
froion Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85
Western Bank •••• • • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73i,
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 e 2
B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 ,
00
00 102310 d
1011
„Iciar
li
et idsohn
ian GuaranteeFireinlsunrs:
14011..ppeerr
cent.tent. 10100
00
00
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 ' -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 021. 70
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 I 18%
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 0 15 0 93.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 I -
Bercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
[limn Co. of Scotlnd• • SI. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland W. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 7,
stlercantile Life ...• . 41. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 3s. 3d.
National Fire and Life bl. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 203.6 d
North British Incur. •• 5)61.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 23%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
icottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. 3fas. and Gen. Life - 0 0 0 15 0 , -
3cottish Union Insrnce. 641. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 '218.6d
standard Life • ..... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 14s
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
Z. s. 4.
Australian Agricalturl 11.. 100 od. s. d.
0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 40. 10 0 0 10 0 0
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 -
Canada ............. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 26
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. pee_cent. - - -
City Navigation . .. _
- - 90
Comp. Cppr Alan Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0, 70 0 0 Gen. Revers. Sc Invest. sp. c.fcbs, 2/ 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversionry 51, pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 103
Gen.SteamNavigation 11.8 s. 15 00114 0 0 25
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 01 50 0 0 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam•• .. 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 49
South Australian ... .. 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17
Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 00i23 0 0 2

How CARDINALS ENCOURAGE RAILWAYS.--The
Papal Triumvirate have decided that the railway to
Naples is a useless scheme, " tending to inundate Rome
with worseless foreigners;" they have, therefore, defini-
tively suspended the works, and thereby thrown thou-
sands out of employment.—Railway Times of Saturday.
Men speak too much about the world. Each one
of us here, let the world go bow it will, and be victorious
or Rot victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead?
The world's bring saved, will not save us; nor the
world's being lost, destroy us. We should look to our-
selves; there is great merit here in the "duty of stay-
ing at home."—Eliza Cook's Journal.
THE SCOTCH JACK KETCH.—lmmediately after
" working off" Wilson at Jedburgh yesterday se'nnight,
Murdoch, the Glasgow hangman, proceeded to Melrose, to
view its matchless abbey and beautiful environs, and
seemed quite unconcerned about the awful work in which
he that morning had been engaged. He remained In the
town during the following day, and spent the evening with
a few of his friends with the greatest conviviality, when
he gave them a short history of his life. In his youth
he was a biker, and worked both in Jedburgh and
Glasgow. For many years he has held the office of
finisher of the law in Glasgow, for which he has a salary
of 121. pnr week, and what with this and an occasional
" job" in the country, he says he lives very comfortably
in his old days. lie is 82 years of age, and is allied to
a second wife.—Kelso Chronicle.

SOYER'S ANTI• CHOLERA DIET.---ANOTHER.—BoiI
a pound of rice in a gallon of water till quite a pulp, add
two tablespoonfuls of semolina at the same time as the
rice, when in purge add an ounce of butter, a little salt,
two ounces of sugar candy, and grated nutmeg; drink it
, warm with a spoon. I also put a little ground rice in my
breakfast rollo.—Soyer'B Modern Housewife vr Menay&e.