The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

RaLMONDSEY MURDER.
Yestvelay aAernoon, at the Southwark Police-court,
Mr. Col Teen, tte landlord of the house in which Mr.
O'Connor was murdered, attended before Mr. Seeker
for his advice under the following circumstances :
He had to complain of the unjust remarks made re-
specting him in the morning papers of that day—
" that he had refused to assist the police by allowing
them to search the house No. 3, Minver-place, Ber-
mondsey." One of the inspectors certainly did call
upon him on Monday morning, and wanted him to dig
up the garden and search the watercloset. He told
him that the latter communicated with the common
sewer, and to make a minute search at the bottom the
whole of the garden and lower part of the house must
be pulled to pieces, and that if they wished to do so
they must employ their own labourers and put the
place in proper order. He had allowed them to in-
spect the house several times, and eetensive injury was
done to his property, which he h 4 d to repair at his
own expense ; and he considered it but fair that if the
authorities required to pull his place to pieces again
they should employ their own workmen or compen-
sate him for the injury committed. Applicant then
produced a copy of one of the morning papers, con-
taining a report which, if allowed to go before the
public uncontradieted, would injure him to a great
extent. In the first instance, when the body was dis-
covered by the police, he sent two labourers to assist
them, and all the way through he had done all he
could to aid them in finding any property which
might be concealed.
Mr. Seeker said, that some conversation certainly
took place on the previous day with an officer of the
police, respecting his house, but he distinctly told
him he could not interfere in the matter. If they-
wanted to pull his house to pieces, it would be no
more than reasonable for him to expect that they
should put it in proper order.
Mr. Coleman observed, th it the papers asserted that
the house was let. Such was not the case. He her]
placed one of his workmen in it until the horrid affair
had blown over, but he had not in any way obstructed
the authorities.

Mr. Seeker told him he could not be troubled with
any further observations on the subject. He bad no
doubt that the Commissioners of the Police would
consider the propriety of again searching his house,
and if they did thy would no doubt put it in proper
order.

During the day a letter, addressed to Maria Man-
ning, 2N o. 3, Minver• place, Bermondsey, bearing the
pov• ma k of a French inland town, was sent to the
above house. It was instantly forwarded to Horse-
monger-lane Gad, and on being opened subsequently,
in the presence of Mr. Seeker, it was found to be from
a sister of Maria Manning ; and from its contents it
would al-Tear that the write-r was totally unacquainted
with the tact (~f a murder having been perpetrated,
and the awful position in which her wretched sister
was placed with legard to her participation in the
dreadful deed. As the letter made no allusion to the
murder, and merely referred to domestic matters, .
t
was handed
to the prisoner, who perused it with g.reat
eagerness, and seemed to derive much pleasure from
its con tents.
In the course of the afternoon Mr. Binns, the soli-
citor to the male prisoner, waited on Mr. Seeker for
his answer to the application made to him on the pre-
vious day, that a portion of the 201. granted to Mr.
Solonl,-.1-,s, the legal adviser of Maria Manning, should
be handed 0v...r to him (Mr. Binns) to enable him to
cord :ct his defence.

Mr. S,cl er said that he had maturely considered
the application, and was of opinion that he could not
intcrltre any further in the matter, lie should re.-
commend 111 r. .13-nns to apply to the Commissioners
of Police, and if they refuse), an application to the
Solicitcr cf the Treasury might be more successful.
Mr. &n.cs thanked his worship for his courtesy,
and withdrew, intending forthwith to follow his
advice.

At a later hour Mr. 'Enos served a notice on Mr.
Solomons, requesting him to deliver up 71. 8s , and
threatening him viith legal proceedings unless he
complied with the demand.

In the cuurs of yesterday a number of influential
gentlemen c:mr.ectEd with the magistracy waited upon
Mr. Seeker, requesting to be admitted into the court
during the examination Of the prisoners—among
whom were several Protestant and Roman Catholic
clergyrn,:.n. The Chief Clerk intimated that every
accommodation would be afforded, consistent with the
sizJ of the court.

HUNGARY IMPERISHABLE.
TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The patriotic efforts made by your spirit-
stirring journal in the cause of civil and religious
liberty and national independence, involved in the
Hungarian question, are not likely to fail of their
reward in the gratitude and consideration of every
lover of his country, wherever truth and justice
reign.

The real victory of Russia has been the hoax prac-
tised on the people of England, through the servility
of the press, that Hungary has fallen.
Hungary fallen ! ! Such an idea can only
originate in' a perfect ignorance of the num-
ber and strength of the fortified positions
still occupied by the patriots, the immense
populatiAn and mighty resources of the country, in-
dependeutly of the sympathy of millions in the cir-
curnjacent states, amongst whom the name of Russia
is associated with everything most revolting to reli-
gion, humanity, order, liberty, and peace.
Admitting, however, the hypothesis of the submis-
sion of all Hungary, and the complete occupation of
its fortresses, towns, and villages by Austrian troops—
the most improbable of all the conjectures as to its fu-
future fate—is it possible to suppose that a nation of ten
millions of men, every family of which may boast a
soldier, end which possesses in the magnificent
Danube a high road of navigation, can submit to the
extinction of its laws, rights, liberties, and commerce
at the hands of a soldiery speaking a foreign
anguage; or can it be imagined for a single instant
that the soldiery of Germany, interested, as they
must be, in the protection of Germanic rights against
Russian menace, will be the willing gaolers of those
whose only crime has been the inalienable birthright
of self-defence

Be certain that the cause of Hungary is safe, that
the Autocrat, in the invasion of that country, has
compromised his prudence, and stands practically
committed to a dilemma from which there is no ul-
timate escape, where retreat is impossible, and ad-
vance must be double or quits—the possession of Con-
stantinople or tot ;1 ruin .

The immutable conviction that the latter will be
the reSult, and that you will shortly hear of Persia
moving against TuTkey, prompts the request of the
insertion of the above lines, which your readers may
look hack upon three months hence as those of
London, Aug. 80. A PROPHET.

ALLEG,•;D ENBEZZLEIVEKNT ON TILE LONDON AND
BRIGHTON RAll,WAY.—Yesterday Henry Leeks, Charles
Chet eeuv,n, aeci Stephen Springate, were charged before
the Brghten magistrate-1 with having engaged in a
systematic course of emberientent on the abov*ailway.
Mr. Faithful, the attorney for the company, stated that
Leeks was oee of the clerks employed to issue tickets at
the London-bridge terminus, Cheeseman ticket collector
at Brighton, end Springate one of the guards. Some
irregularity was discovered in the numbers of the tickets
reported by Leeks as having been issued, and on his
being questioned ho confessed that be and the other
prisoners had been for some time past using tickets a
second time, and rocketing the money paid for the second
use of each ticket so used. The magistrates, after hear-
ing evidence, oickred the discharge of Cheesman and
Springate on the ground that there was no proof against
them (the only evidence implicating them being that of
Leeks), and Leeks was remanded for further examine
tion till Friday.
STRANOE I
TRUE.—Connected with the appalling
tragedy in Leviaon-street, and the expected arrival of
Captain Henrichson, we have recently heard a statement
of so singular a nature, that we should hesitate to pub-
lish it but that our informant expresses no doubt what-
ever of its authenticity. At this moment, when the be-
reaved mariner, for whom there is such large sympathy,
is hourly expected to enter our port, we would not wil-
lingly publish anything that could give rise to idle gossip
or childish comment. But the circumstance related to
us holds so close an affinity to the mysterious that we
shall make no further apology for giving it as we have
heard it, without offering any opinion as to the degree of
credence to which it is entitled. Oar informant states
that he wee told by a captain of one of our merchant
ships that, when in Calcutta, a number of the captains
there took luncheon together one day. Amongst the
guests was Captain Henrichson, who during the repast
was seized With sudden indisposition, and, upon inquiry
being made as to his aliment, declared that he was con-
vinced—by some feeling or impression not explained—
that s, naething disastrous to him had occurred at home.
It wes add( d, by the captain who related the circum-
stance, that this occurred on the very day when Mrs.
Ilemichaon and her children were murdered.—Liverpool
Albion.

Yesterday week a fine young dog otter, weighing
rilhs., was caught near AM)
oston
t, a Reading, H
Atkinson, avertb-
waite, Farness. by James
gamekeeper to G.
I'. Dickson, EFq. Th 3 same otter was afterwards let
loose in the prusce of a large concourse
and hunted ,m
by twelve dogs, seven of which,
of persons,
however
could not stacci the water into which the otter odwaseied
vier'
but precipitately retreated. The remaining five co
tinucd the pursuit, and after about three hours, succeeded-
'
in recapturing the game. About 20 of the sportsmen in
the course of the chase were at different times soused
over head and ears in the pool.—Cumgerland Paegeseik
MRS. Tnot.Lora—A new work is announced from
the pcn of this popular authoress, bearing the title of
"The (Yd IVorki and the New ;" but whether its pages
are to afford us one of Mrs. Trollope's caustic compari-
sons between cur European world and that of our
Transatlantic brethren, as has been conjectured, is not
c,-rtain, for it has also been rumoured that the theme of
this now work is founded on the state of society during
the rtc?rt political convulsions. In any case, "The
Old World and the New" will be eagerly looked for by
• the admirers of an authoress, who, in the words of the
- Quarterly Review, 'is beyond-a loubt one of the clever-
sat Atod moat remarkable writers of the day."