The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of a morning contemporary :
Sir,—Feeling your readiness at all times to correct
any erroneous impressions calculated to prejudice the
public mind, especially in the case to which i allude,
as a brother of the unfortunate Frederick George
Manning, I feel I should not be doing justice to
myself, brother, and the rest of the family, should
I not contradict a statement set forth in your columns
of yesterday with respect to a previous marriage
having taken place between my brother and a certain
Mary Roberts, in the year 1832, at Marylebone
Church, which statement would imply that he had
been guilty of the crime of bigamy. I beg to state
that he was born on the 20th of March, 1820, which
will show the utter impossibility of such having taken
place, as he could not have been, at the period of the
marriage named by your correspondent, thirteen years
of age.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
EDMUND MANNING.
30, Francis street, Newington, Nov. 5.

THE THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS
NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY.— A district court- martial has
this day been sitting at the barracks for the purpose
of trying Sergeant John Newman, who was in charge
of the guard at the time private Moffatt escaped, early
on the 28th of October, the morning of his intended
trial for offences committed during the recent in-
subordination. Two sentinels are in custody for the
same culpable negligence, but they will be dismissed
after some slight summary punishment. The sen-
tence upon Sergeant Newman is, no doubt, of a more
severe nature, but will not be made known until ap-
proved by the Commander-in-Chief.
It was stated auout a week ago that the three men
yet remaining to be tried for insubordination—But-
terworth, Ball, and Knox—would not be brought be-
fore general courts-martial, for which application had
been made, on account of the Duke of Wellington
not being willing to impute to them so severe a crime
as trial by a general court-martial would imply. Up
to two or three days ago this impression prevailed,
but on Friday Major General Thorn, commander of
tie north eastern district, visited Nottingham, and it
was found that some mistake had been made in reading
the Duke of Wellington's letter, for directly after-
wards the general courts were ordered, and will com-
mence sitting to morrow (Tuesday.)
Whilst in Nottingham, Major-General Thorn
made very particular inquiries respecting the threats
that had been used by private Alfred Brooker—to
the effect that the 3.1 Dragoon Guards hal made
up their minds, previous to leaving Nottingham, to
maltreat every policeman who fell into their hands,
on account of some few members of the police force
having assisted in apprehending several of the privates
who broke from barracks. Finding the publi,he
statement correct, the M +kir. General, accompanied
by Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur and Major Dyson,
visited the town authorities, and gave an assurance
that every effort should be made to avert the threat-
ened collision, and to preserve the peace.
The positive, but unnecessary and somewhat vexa-
tious injunction, not to publish any portion of the
evidence taken at the five courts-martial held last
week, still remains in force, and is likely so to con-
tinue for a few days longer. Mr. Bowley is retained
to defend the three men to be tried to-morrow. One
of them, Butterworth, is the man over whose head
Sergeant Major Davis broke his sword. Re is charged
with seizing the sergeant major, and holding him
until a number of men had escaped from the
Gate public-house on the night of the great out-
break. Davis entered the house with his sword
drawn, and seeing a number of men there whom he
-wanted, he exclaimed, " If any man stirs an inch I
will run him through!" Butterworth having had
some beerduring the short time he had been away from
barracks, and being the strongest man in the regi-
ment, instantly jumped up, and seizing hold of the
❑aked sword, said, " Nay, Sergeant Major, you shall
not hurt me, neither shall you run any of my com-
rades through." A struggle ensued, the Sergeant•
Major struck him and broke his sword, and ulti-
mately he was thrown to the ground in rather an
unceremonious manner. Butterworth is alleged to
be an extremely well meaning man, though by this
indiscretion he has rendered himself a first-class
offender; and Knox and Ball, his accomplices, are
similarly implicated.
Three different members of the regiment have
made formal charges against Lieut.-Colonel Arthur,
which, of course, have been reported to the Horse
Guards; but what will be the result of any inquiry
into his conduct that may follow remains to be deter-
mined after all the courts-martial upon the refractory
privates have been disposed of.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—According to previous
arraugt merit, a meeting in reference to the intended ex
hibition of the industrial produc7s of all nations, in,1851.
took place in the Tosn hall, this afternoon. lli
Worship the Ma) or presided, and the attendance was
bath numerous and respectable. including as it did most
persons of influence in and around Liverpool. On the
part of his Royal highness Prince Albert, Messrs.
Scott and Cole attendi.d, to explain the nature and
objects of tho intended exhibition. The Mayor having
opened the proceedings, Mr. Cole gave an outline 01
Prince Albert's plan for bringing together the best
specimens of art and industry from all nations. Mr.
Russell next addressed the meeting in reference to the
favourable manner in which the matter had been taken
up in foreign countries, and named the cheering recep-
tion he had met with in the several continental cities.
especially in Germany and Prussia, the people of the
f steer being most enthusiastic in their determination to
support the undertaking. After Mr. Fuller had spoken
of the cord:al manner in which the project was received
in Ireland, Mr. Charles Turner addressed the meeting,
and in the name of himself and the merchants of Liver-
pool, expressed their determination to forward the
object which Prince Albert had in view, by every means
in their power. Other gentlemen also spoke in favour
of the project, and local committees were appointed to
carry out the objects in view.
ST. NICOLAr KIRCIIE, HAMBURCH.—Our readers
are probably aware that Cie church of St. Nicholas,
being one of the three churches either wholly or partially
destroyed by the great fire of Hamburgh in 1812, is now
being rebuilt on a sealy both of dimension and decors
ration, nearly equalling many of the ancient cathedrals.
The work, like its ancient predecessors, proceeds slowly
and gradually as funds permit, but the eastern portions
have now attained nearly to the full elevation of the
aisles. The work,-though under the direction of an
English architect, Mr. Scott, is carried out exclusively
by German contractors and workmen, and has been
superintended from its commencement by Mr. Mortimer,
an excellent and talented English clerk of the works,
who on 22d ult., while examining one of the springers
of the groining which was inaccurately worked, was
precipitated nearly 50 feet into the crypt of the church,
and killed on the spot. The committee for the church,
as a last tribute of respect and gratitude, gave him such
a funeral as is usual among their most distinguished
citizens. The workmen wished to attend en masse, but
wt.re advised not to do so on account of the jealousy of
the Prussian military at any large concourse of peop e.
About sixty of them, however, afterwards went to :ne
grave, and deposited upon it a rich and costly garland of
evergreens and silk, on which was the following inscrip-
tion:—" To Mortimer, their master-builder, from the
sorrowing stonemasons of St. Nicholas's Church." We
have inserted the above particulars from a feeling that
while such obituaries are usually accorded to persons of
higher stations, it is hardly just to deny them to those
who in humbler positions i,ave evinced an amount of
• a'ent, zeal, and uncompromising devotion to their
duties equally deserving of commemoration.—Builder.