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London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

of meeting any one at Manning's, and I understood
him to go there as a friend.
William Patrick Keating recalled—When I heard
Mr. O'Connor was missing I went on Sunday, the
12th, in company with Mr. Graham to Manning's
house, and there saw Mrs. Manning, and I asked,
"Did not Mr. O'Connor dine here on Thursday ?"
and she replied, "He did not." That struck me as
rather strange, but she did not display any anxiety.
I pressed the question gather anxiously, and said,
" You have been down to his lodgings on Thursday
evening and the following evening ;" and I asked her
at what hour, and I mexttioned that she was there at
six, and she said, "I was' not there till seven on the
Thursday," and she acknowledged she was there on
soth days. I then said, " Air. Manning may
perhaps know something of him ; can I see him ?"
She said that when she went to Mr. O'Connor's
lorlgings, it was to inquire after his health. She also
said Mr. Manning was not within, and that he had
gone to church. I asked her if I could see him in
the evening if I came over, and she said "No, we
are asked out to tea, and we shall not be at home." I
looked into the garden, but saw nothing. I observed
she wa very nervous. I then asked, have you not
got a lodger here, and she said •' Yes, but he is in
the country, and is not to come back for two months.
This closed the evidence.
After some observations from the CORONER,

The jury deliberated for about one hour, after
which they returned the fo:lowing verdict—" That the
deceased Patrick O'Connor was brutally murdered
by Frederick George Manning and Maria his wife."

MRS. MANNING.
Yesterday Mr. J. Solomon attended the Southwark
Police Court for the purpose of making an application
with reference to Maria Manning, charged with
being concerned in the murder of Patrick O'Connor.
He produced a document authorising him to act as
solicitor to the accused, with her signature attached,
which he had procured from her that morning in an
interview he had with her in the infirmary of Horse-
monger lane Gaol. Having exhibited the authority
referred to, Mr. Solomon, then addressing the magis-
trate (Mr. Seeker), said that acting in conformity
with his instructions, he waited on his Worship to
make a request on the behalf of his client to be fur-
nished with a copy of the depositions of the witnesses
who were examined at that court on Friday last. He
was the more anxious to procure the evidence already
adduced against the prisoner as he was not present on
the occasion, and was therefore not in possession of
the circumstances alleged against her. He was
aware that it was not customary to be fur-
nished with depositions at so early a stage of
the prosecution, but in a case of this description,
where so serious and dreadful a charge was preferred
against a woman in the prisoner's situation, he trusted
that the usual rule might be departed from, and that
his application on her behalf might be acquiesced in.
Mr. Solomon added, that when the prisoner was
placed at the bar, on Friday last, it was shortly after
having performed a long journey from Scotlard, and
that in the fatigue consequent upon it, together wi▪ th
the dreadful nature of the accusation preferred against
her, she could not be presumed to have a recollecti▪
on
of what did transpire on the occasion with respect to
the hearing of the evidence, as applied to herself, and
this it was that made it incumbent on him to apply
for a copy of the depositions already taken down, in
order that she might have an opportunity, through
him, of putting any questions that might be thought
necessary to the witnesses previously examined.
Mr. SECKER said that very little evidence had been
taken as yet at this court against the prisoner; merely
what was considered sufficient ground upon which to
justify a remand. It was nut the rule, certainly, to
furnish the professional adviser of a prisoner with the
depositions at so early a stage of the investigation ;
but, under the peculiar circumstances of the case in
question, he should permit the applicant to have
access to the minutes of the evidence already taken
down, in order to guide him as to his future conduct,
of the de#enca intrusted to his management by the
arty accused.
Mr. Solomon, having expressed his thanks, then
withdrew.

Although it appears that Maria Manning has been
placed in the infirmary of the county gaol since her
cwnmittal from this court, yet it is not in consequence
of indisposition, for she soon recovered from the
fatizues of the journey from Edinburgh, and is at
present in the enjoyment of her usual health. There
are other persons confined in the same ward with her,
with whom, however, she holds no conversation, and
since her incarceration she has never been heard to
utter a word on the subject of the late murder, nor
has she made the least inquiry about her husband.
She takes her meals regularly (the usual prison al
lowance) and seems in good spirits, and from her
general appearance and conduct there is nothing in-
dicative of her having been a party concerned in an
atrocious murder such as that so recently perpetrated
in Bermondsey.

Another day has passed without any intelligence
having been received from the officers in pursuit of
idt.nning. The Jersey mail boat arrived at South-
ampton I:1st evening, but brought no news from
Lar!,ley, who arrived in the island on Saturday
morning. The next mail is looked for with great

arixtty.
I,spector Field and Sergeant Whitch.-ir, of the
detective force, who went b the continent in pursuit
of Mrs. Manning, returned to town yesterday. They
are loud in their praises of the French police, who
rendered them every possible assistance. Within a
few hours of their arrival in Paris every lodging-
houe and hotel in the capital was examined, all the
railway trains were watched, and every station
within thirty miles of Paris was placed under close
survelance. Nothing, in fact, could exceed the
adiness of our French neighbours in affording as-
sistance to the officers.

List evening Mr. Field again left London for
Plymouth, with instructions to board an Australian
emigrant &hip, which is expec:ed to arrive off that
port to- morro •

THE ABERDEEN CATTLE SHOW. The competi-
tion and sue w of the Royal Northern Agricultural So-
ciety to k place ~n Thursday last on the Links at Aber.
deen. Toe Aberdeen Herald states that " the number
of entries was not quite so large as on some former oc-
casions, }itch is partly attributable to a ligering dread
of tee di-rase' and partly to the circumstance, happily
alluded to by Mr. Simpson, of Cobairdy, that parties are
beginning to know better what beasts are likely to get
pries, ard only send forward such as they have reason
to hope may be successful. There was no deficiency of
quality, however. Gentlemen capable of judging, and
who, coming from a distance, could have no de.ire to
show pariality, gave it as their candid opinion that the
stock might compete at any show in the kingdom. As
may be imagined, the most prominent feature of the ex-
hibition was the native pulled breed of cattle. They
were truly admirable. Of the horned breed, the speei
inens were neither so numerous nor so striking ; and
there was a considerable taliing off in the short
horns, owing, in no slight degree, to the fact
that Captain Barclay—the father of the short horns, as
e has been felicitously called—has ceased to compete.
Br. Eding stock was rather scarce too; but there was a
capital di Vey of stresses of all ages, and the best sorts.
Every body seemed surprised at the number and quality
of tt e horses exhibit. .d This is a departm nt itt which
our cal shows have hitherto been considerably behind;
but, on the present occasion, there was really a magrefi
cent display. The successful exhibitors have reason to
be proud cf the prizes they carried off in the face of such
competition; and those who entered extra stock could
no:, but be gratified with the admiration wbich their ani-
mals called forth." The Earl of Aberdeen occupied the
chair at the dinner. In the course of the evening the
Noble Earl proposed that they should drink " A hearty
welcome to her Majesty's arrival in Braemar," and stated
that he had reason to know her Majesty was sensibly
and highly gratified with all that she had seen and ex-
perienced in Scotland, and that, in particular, she had
been struck with the considerate attention which had
been paid by ell ranks in respecting her privacy.
Men of the world hold that it is impossible to do a
disinterested action, except from an interested motive;
for the sake of admiration, if for no grosser, more tan-
gible gain. Doubtless they are also convinced that, when
the sun is showering light from the sky, he is only
standing there to be stared ea.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
IiAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A collision between a lug•
gage and a passeegetts train took place last Friday even-
ing, the 24th inst., a little after dusk, on the Leicester
and Swaimington line. It appears that a train from
London was proceeding at a rapid rate along the
Leicester line, and when near the Swannington branch
the usual signal was attempted to be made, but without
effect. A luggage train coining along the latter nee at
this moment, and no signal being heard, and the dark-
ness of the night rendering it impossible for the man at
the engine to seethe London train, a fearful concussion
took place. The utmost alarm prevailed for a time, and
it was shortly afterwards discovered that a stoker on
the luggage train was shockingly bruised, in addition to
v, hic 1? several of his ribs were broken. He was conveyed
as quickly es possible to the Leicester Infirmary, where
he is slowly recovering. A navigator in the same train
jumped out of one of
the carriages, and was, as a natural
CODEI,CPU'nee, terribly bruised and shaken. carriages were
age wascompletelysmashed to atoms. Two of the
no other ,eriou damage
sustained. Fortunately
MR O'CONNOR AND D 1
3 CONSTlTUENTS.—Yester-
day,aot Mr. O'Connor, M.P., f
Nottingham paid his
anuual visit to his constituents, N
pod s, tieving made a
proceedings statement, as usual, relative to hispub
during the last twelve months, was re.electedP
sal suffrage. Mr. O'Connor, in an address to tiyieupneie"prle
assembled in the Market-place, said, "As long as he
had sat its Parliament, at the close of each session of
Parliament he had tendered his representation into the
hands of his constituents.—(Cheers.) If he were capable
of holding with dishonour a trust which they had vested
in him, he should consider himself unworthy the name
of man. They did no buy him, be did not buy them,
therefore he would not sell them. He was determined
to struggle on every session, and as soon as his views
were not in accordance with theirs he would surrender
his seat." The meeting only lasted about three-quarters
of an hour. Mr. O'Connor said not one word about the
state of the land plan. •
The only way to be permanently safe is to be bsbi-
ually honest.--Eliza Cook's Journal.