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THE PACIFIC.
SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.
Another day has past, and still the arrest of
Manning has not been accomplished. It might almost
___now be believed that he has placed himself beyond the
reachof pursuit, were it not that the exertions of the
police authorities continue unabated, and that the
heads of the detective force, while observing the
strictest secrecy as to the steps taken by them, express
themselves most confidently as to the result. Yester-
day several constables were dispatched to Southamp-
ton, but we have been unable to ascertain whether any
tidings have,been received from Jersey. In point of fact
nothing that can at present be stated as to Manning's
whereabouts leads to any certain conclusion ou the
subject; and with this preliminary we may mention
that Inspector Field was dispatched on Monday to Ply-
mouth in consequence of a communication received
by the Commissioners of Police, stating that there was
every reason to believe that Manning was on board
the Constant emigrant ship, bound to Australia.
Yesterday for Wight a person, corresponding in
every respect with Manning's description, called at
the office of the shipping agent for the purpose of
taking his passage to Australia, and when told the
price would be 151., he said he would pay 131., being
all the seoney he had in the world. lie went away,
and said he would call again in the course of the day
to see whether they would take the 131. The gen-
tleman %horn he saw on that occasion does not recol-
lect seeing the person again, but he has every reason
to believe that the party referred to is on board the
vessel, from the fact of a person paying the sum at '
the office for his passage. It was expected that the
Constant would be at Plymouth yesterday, or to-day,
and should Manning be on board he will beimmedi-
ately apprehended by Field.
The following details connected with the murder
and its supposed perpetrators may he found interest-
ing. It appears that Mr. Moxey, the superintendent
of the Edinburgh police, was prepared to furnish the
jury, at the inquest on Monday, with information
respecting Mrs. Manning, which the Coroner refused
to allow him to give. It appears that in the course
of a conversation he had with Mrs. Manning, he told
her that it was asserted that the murder had taken
place on Thursday night, the 9th of August. She
said,, " Well, if a murder was committed in the house
on Thursday, it must have been during my absence,
for I went out at four o'clock, and did not return till
late in the evening." Mr. Moxey said, " You are
charged with going to Mr. O'Connor's lodgings, and
stealing his property on the Friday, and it is stated
that it was impossible for you to have got at that
property without Mr. O'Connor's keys, which he
always carried with him." Mrs. Manning' said,
" Well, I know nothing about the keys, but hearing
he was missing I certainly went to his house and took
the property, which was my own."
Mrs. Manning, while sitting in the charge-room
at Southwark police-court on Friday last, was ob-
served by one of the constables to be reading the bill
offering a reward for her husband. The constable
asked her if she knew where Mr. Manning was.
She said, "No; but it's no use your looking after
him, for he's a long way from here ; in fact he is out
of the country." One of the female watchers asked
her whether she intended to have any person to defend
her. She said she did not care about a solicitor, but

she was determined, if possible, to have Mr. Cock-
burn, who conducted the defence of Poole and
Nightingale at Exeter.
There appears to be no doubt that arrangements
were made for perpetrating the murder on Wednesday,
the Bth inst. It will be recollected that Mr. O'Con•
nor was on that day invited to dine at Minver-place,
but for some cause at present unexplained he did not
go until the evening, when he was accompanied by
Mr. Welsh, which circumstance, of course, prevented
them from carrying out their design. The supposition
that such was their intention is borne out by the
following letter from Manning to Miss Massey, sister
to the witness of that name, in which it will be seen

that he strongly impresses upon her the necessity of
letting him have the money he claimed by Wednes-
day, the Bth inst.
" London, August 5,3, Minver-place, New
'Weston-street, Bermondsey.
" Dear Miss,—l called at:your brother's lodgings
on Saturday evening, and he informs me that he in-
tends to go home on Monday. The reason, I be-
lieve, for his delay in London is, he could not register.
Respecting the Ns. I paid to Mr. O'Connor, your
brother knows he was indebted to him for that
amount, and Mr. O'Connor called several times at

my house for the money, which I paid him, knowing
that your brother had no money. If you wish for a
receipt ]Toni Mr. O'Connor I can obtain one from him

immediately. I trust you %%ill not fail in forwarding
me the money on Wedneiday.—l am, Miss, yours
most respectfully,

FREDERICK GEORGE MANNING.
" Miss Massey, Swanstone hall, Derbyshire."
Miss .lassey did not send the amount, her brother
(who had in the meantime arrived in Derbyshire)
having advi,ed her nut to do so, as the bill, which was
originally 131, had been altered to 15/ On the
morning of the 9th Mr. Massey received the following
letter :

" 3_, Minverenlace.New
" bad-aiater 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. I 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. ' Has' regards
the 10s. I paid to Mr. O'Connor, you knew you
were indebted to him for that amount, and also
7s. Gd. due to me. If the bill is not paid by return
of post I shall take immediate proceedings, and
then I shell prove to your friends what you are
capable of doing.-- Yours, respectfully,
" FREDERICK GEORGE MANNING.
" Mr. W. Massey, Swenstone-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
Maunings 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
a-certain 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 toiled in carrying out their object 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 how it was to be
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, «s 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, am' 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
recollection of
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ON THE PRESERVATION Or WATER, BY M. PE.
ersr.ET.—M. Perinet, ex-Professor of the Hospital Mili-
taire &Instruction, has succeeded in preserving water in
a sweet state by placing a kilogramme and ahaclofnotlabinlaitcikg
oxide of manganese in each cask of
water
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We are informed that the vacant place of gauger
in the Customs in London, which was held by the
elate
Mr. O'Connor, together with another vacancy in the
same class of officers, occasioned by superannuation, will
be filled up by selection from the list of redundant (,11i-
cera, which, in coast quence of the late reductions, is now
much increased. And it is also reported that a reduction
of nine persons is likely to take place in the class of
gaugers in the Customs at Liverpool, who will be re- em-
ployed in other ports as opportunities occur for replacing
them in the service.
WANTED A NAME !—A letter with the following
address, and bearintr the postmark of Kingstown,
Jamaica, came through the pest-office last week :
" Mr. and M Ts. -- who keeps first Lodging house low
flat right baud side first lane above Old Steeple leads
through from Overgate to Nethergate Dundee Scotland
N,8."42).1;:d0e Courier.

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