The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

SAID.—A wealthy farmer in Kentucky says, " I
would rather be taxed for the education of the boy, than
the ignorance of the man. For one or the other lam
compelled to be."
A POSER.—What is that which, if a man has, he would
not wish to lose ?—lf he has not, he would not wish to
have ?—And which, when he has gained it, he has no
longer.? D'ye give it up ? [A law-suit.]
TAICING THINGS COOLLY.—A paper " out west" makes
the following announcement to its numerous subscribers:
—" In order to enable us to get through with some job
work on hand, there will be no paper issued from this
office next week."

A POPE'S BENEDICTION.—" The Pope is to visit Al-
bano," says the Times, " and give his benediction there
to the French army." We thought the disgrace of the
French army was complete, but there seems no end to its
degradation.—Punch.
KIND, VERY.—A. " gentleman," advertising in the
Waterford Mail for a wife, says, " it would be well if
the lady were possessed of a coinpct—ney sufficient to se-
cure her against the effects of c.ce ;sive grief in case of
accident occurring to her companion." Amiable fore-
thought!
WORTH KNOWING.—As a general rule, noisy women
do much less than they seem to do, and very much less
than they believe, and quiet women often do more. But
it does not follow that all quiet women are active ; on the
contrary, six out of ten are indolent, and work only on
compulsion.
Among the amusing incidents which attended ber Ma-
jesty's visit to Ireland, may be enumerated the exclama-
tion of an old lady, as the Royal party were entering
Dublin. " Och, Queen dear," said the lady, " call one
of them (the Royal children) Prince Patrick, and all Ire-
land will die for you."
A TOUGH Jos.—A fellow writing from somewhere out
West says—" We started from some little town in the
vicinity of Holstein ; I would not undertake to spell or
pronounce the name ; but if you would take Kickapoo
and Ojibbeway, mix them up with Passamaquoddy, and
pronounce the whole backwards, you will get within about
six miles of the name."
EFFECT OF CALVINISTIC TEACHING.—Sir Jas. Macin-
tosh says, in his journal, " The Calvinistic people of
Scotland, of Switzerland, of Holland, and of New Eng-
land, have been more moral than the same classes among
other nations. Those who preached faith, or, in other
wordi, a pure mind, have always produced more popular
virtue than those who preached good works, or the mere
regulation of outward acts."
LADY H AMI LTOW. —This remarkable individual—as re-
markable for her sufferings and great sorrows as her great
-errors'—who was in a certain degree the cause of breaking
up the indifferent home which Nelson found in the com-
panionship of his wife, may be said to have been the last
of a race proverbial for bewitching and irresistible
beauty, viz., the Lancashire witches. She was born at
Preston, in 1764 ; her father's name was Lyons, and her
parents were of menial condition. The child, named
Emma, was, on the early death of her father, taken by her
mother to Hawarden, in Flintshire, where ter remaining
parent sought to support both by industry, and where
Emma grew every day in beauty and ignorance. When
old enough she was sent forth to earn her own livelihood.
She commenced life in the humble position of a nursery
maid in a family at Hawarden ; subsequently she was en-
gaged in the same capacity in the family of Dr. Budd,
Chatham-place, Blackfriars. The good doctor little sus-
pected that he possessed two servants in the house des-
tined to achieve celebrity for themselves, and thus lend
something of perpetuity to his own name. The nursemaid
was Emma Lyons ; the housemaid was Jane Powell, who,
in her after career, as an actress, was a fine interpreter of
Shakspere, could give interest to the bombast of Nat. Lee,
and make endurable the platitudes of Rowe—just as Ra-
chel, in our own days, interprets Racine and endows with
life the metrical dulness of Aferope and Chimene. From
Budd's to the family of a dealer in James's Market was a
change from the east to the court end of the town, and it
had its consequences. She attracted the attention and
-won the good-will of a lady of fashion, who withdrew her
-from servitude, and elevated her to what is often more de-
grading and worse paid, the dignity of a companion. The
education she received i.ere was such as might be expected
from the hands of a fine lady of the last century. She read
all the stilted and not too delicate romances of the day—
a course of reading which not only kills time, but which
generally destroys the student. It at least did not im-
prove the spelling of the now " young lady," for to the
last, though' she talked like Aspasia, she spelled as badly
as Caroline of Brunswick—a light fault in a day when
countesses spelt physician with an f, and thought G was
the first letter of Augustus! The house of Emma's pa-
troness was the resort of all the great players, poets, and

literati of the day. It was the " Gore House" of its time;
perhaps its glories ended as ignobly. As a home and an
asylum for a young girl full of beauty, and given to im-
pulses which she knew not'how to'govern, it deserved not
the name. The poor thing was made the Cynthia of the
minute; the Tressolins dedicated sonnets to her; her
beauty was deified : incense was daily offered to her by
fools and knaves, and even by those who were neither:
but yesterday she was toiling for wages, and perhaps com-
placently receiving the coarse compliments of liveried
worshippers : to-day she was tended on by delicate hands,
her smiles eagerly sought after, her presence acknowledged
by a buzz of admiration, her wit celebrated by the ecstatic
praises of the witty, and her intellect directed to every-
thing save the study of divine things. She loved the re-
finement which concealed the vice yet unknown to her:
what was so pleasant could hardly be sinful, for it brought
no remorse. The foolish virgin lacked a man at hand to
tell her that she was neglecting her lamp ; and it was only
in after life, when intellt ct was superseded by cleverness,
and reflection made matured beauty all the more radiant.
that she sorrowingly acknowledged that to her first patro-
ness had been sacrificed the morning of her youth, and
that every opportunity neglected had been fruitful in a
multitude of after sorrows.—Church of England Quar-
terly Review.
A MIDSHIP FROLIC.—Two of the officers in the m'd-
shipmen's berth had, like myself, been enjoying the no-
velty of our night's ascent of the river, and instead of re-
tiring, like my lazy self, to a hammock, had arranged to
have a sumptuous supper at one a.m., off a cold tongue
and a bottle of brandy. The unfortunate berth-boy (for
all midshipmen's boys are unfortunate) turned out of his
bed sleepy and careless, borrowed the sentry's lantern,
spread the supper, nodded his head, and slept as he leant
against the cupboard. My worthy shipmates ate a little,
and drank more; descanted in glowing terms on the plea-
sure of the trip ; and whilst deep in their argument, which
I was inwardly cursing, the purser's cat stole into the
berth, and favoured by the glimmering light of his mas-
ter's lantern, jumped on the table and abstracted the re-
maining portion of the tongue. Suddenly the argument
ceased, and one proposed to go on deck and fetch " old
somebody" down to ]lave some supper ; which having
been done, a scene somewhat as follows occurred :
" Why, what infernal nonsense! why have you hid the
tongue ? Come, out with it."—" Oh ! that won't do,
my friend ! I thought I heard you humbugging the dish
about. I'm shot if you shall not pay for the supper."
—" I take the tongue ? the devil a bit ! I've not touched
it."—" Well, then, somebody must. I'm shot if we do
not find the thief out !"—The door of the lantern was
then opened, and its solitary pencil of rays, as Dr.
would call it, sent shimmering about the steerage and
berth--when, lo and behold, the unlucky boy was found
leaning against the cupboard ! "Ah ! you d—d young
thief, so you steal tongue, eh ?" cried one. No answer
beyond a snore. "Oh ! he is asleep," replied the other,
"it could not be him." " Well, then," said the first
speaker, " he ought to have seen that no one else robbed
us"—a piece of reasoning that allowed of no argument,
and accordingly it was decided that summary punishment
was to be inflicted on the unconscious culprit. Whereon,
with that fertility of conception for which young naval of-
ficers are so remarkable, the hair was quietly removed
froth the crown of the boy's head, and his face carefully
blackened, which being done, the light Was'throwninto
his eyes, and, with mock gravity, one said, " Well! you
ungrateful scoundrel, so after living all day on the fat of the
land you must steal tongue at night, eh ? But Providence
has punished you, sir : all the hair has fallen off the top
of your head, and you will be a negro for the rest of your
days !" "Oh Lord, sir !" blubbered the boy, putting
one hand to the crown of his head, and squinting at his
nose, which shone of lamp-black. "Oh ! I never stole
never no tongue, sir! somebody else tuked it. Perhaps
it was that cat, sir! I gets all her thrashings !" A hunt
at once commenced for the pilfering Tommy, who was
soon found, still purring over the remnants—caught, and
condemned to be converted into a lion. This novel pro-
cess was executed by shearing and shaving the hair from
the underneath part of the neck, and from the shoulders
within three inches of the tip of the tail. Puss was tied
securely down, and, amid much mewing, biting, and roars
of laughter from a numerous audience. (who, not being
able to sleep, joined in the midnight prank,) and the sen-
try's " Not so much noise, if you please, gentlemen," the
operation was successfully performed, and puss liberated
to fly about quite frantic with fear, whilst I almost cried
with laughter at his appearance, so totally was it changed
—even the lady cat did not know her better half, and, in
her astonishment at the transmogrification, curled up
her tail, spat, and grinned in a very unmatrimonial man-
ner. The robber finding himself the subject of general
contempt, flew up the ladder and bolted into the coal-
bunkers
to conceal his shame. Old Gregory, the quarter-
_master, assured me, with a very demure face, that no
doubt Tommy would commit suicide, " for he is a wery
high-minded cat, sir, and never disgraced himself before !"
—Walpole's Four Fears in the Pacific.

A DAY OF HUMILIATION.

TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Snt,—lf you think the following worthy the attention
of those whom it may concern, I think you will do well
to give it a place in your excellent journal.
' Much has been said and written, but nothing done in
,the matter of a special day for prayer to God to avert the
judgments which are pending over our beloved nation.
Can we wonder at this awful visitation when we think
of the enormous profanation of the Sabbath day ? Is it
kept as " a day unto the Lord?" No! The sanctuaries
of the Lord are nearly forsaken, and the masses repair to
their various places of amusement—profligacy seems ram-
pant—licentiousness is crowned, as it were, with laurels
—murders, clandestine and open, are innumerable—reli-
gious hypocrisy quite fashionable—and wickedness of all
sorts perpetrated in the most daring manner.
Now, Sir, is not this enough to vex a Holy God ?
Does he not now speak to us with a voice mere terrible
than thunder ? Death is commissioned, and he quietly
applies his deadly lance. Thus we can hear the Almighty
saying, "Be still, and know that I am God." How
highly exalted has this nation been by privileges, but to
what depths of suffering has it reduced itself by its ini-
quities !
Of those whose prerogative it is to call the attention of
the nation to an universal humiliation " beneath the
mighty hand of God," I would inquire how much longer
will you procrastinate? Has not death mowed down
enough yet ? Are not the sins of the nation what we re-
present them to be ? And is not this disease a judgment
from God ? If not, what is it ? If we appeal to our me-
dical bodies, they confess their inability to cure, and, in
most cases, even to touch it. Their skill is baffled, and
their conferences a " confusion of tongues." Scripture
here is applicable to us. "Thy bruise is incurable, and
thy wound is grievous, thou hast no healing medicines."
—Jer. xxx.. 12, 13. Surely the charge against the " nine
lepers" would apply to us. At our last special day of ge-
neral humiliation we prayed, and were answered, but no
special day of thanksgiving followed (a Sunday was sub-
stituted ;) can we say it was not even for this act of ingra-
titude that we are now suffering ? Notwithstanding, we
can truly exclaim, " All this evil is come upon us, yet
made we not our prayer before God."—Dan. ix., 13. Let
us one and all bow down before the Lord and confess our
sins, and God will hear us as he did Daniel, when he cried
" 0 my God, incline thine ear, and hear ; open thine eyes
and behold our desolation."—Dan. ix., 18. And if we
repent and believe, mercy will come as Gabriel to Daniel,
and say, " At the beginning of thy supplications the co►n-
mandment came forth, and I am come to show thee," &c.
0 come, then, let us worship and fall down before God.
It is high time. Let travelling by railroad and water be
suspended for one day, that all, both employer and em-
ployed, may have the opportunity to worship. Let ma-
chinery keep silence—counting-houses be forsaken—and
trade of all sorts be laid aside, and the silence of a justly
suffering nation be broken only by the cries of the people.
" 0 Dirci hear, 0 Lord forgive, 0 Lord hearken, and do,
defer not."—Dan. ix., 19.
August 24. J. T. L. A Working Man.

LAW INTHLLIGENCE.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Tuesday, at the Sheriff's
Court, London, a commission de lunatico inquiretzdo was
opened for the purpose of ascertaining the state of mind
of Mr. Edward Vicars, who has long been a partner in the
firm of Moore, Vicars, and Co., carrying on an extensive
distillery business in-Liverpool. The petitioner was Miss
Anne Vicars, the alleged lunatic's sister, and carrying on
business in Liverpool as a licensed victualler. The learned
counsel (Mr. Rult) then gave a brief outline of the life of
Arr. Vicars, commencing with his birth, in Cumberland,
in the year 1803, and concluding with his joining the firm
above mentioned in the year 1835. It appears that he was
a man given to habits of intemperance. Amongst many
strange hallucinations by which his mind became possessed
was one that he had no stomach, and that consequently
he required no sustenance, refusing at that time to eat any
food. He protested that his cranium was devoid of brains,
and asserted that it was in the power of man, by tneans of
electricity, to deprive human beings of their rational
senses. After hearing the evidence of several medical
men, among others Dr. Formby, the jury stated that they
were all satisfied that Mr. Vicars was not of unsound
mind. The announcement was received in court with
much cheering. The result of this verdict will be to give
to Mr. Vicars the management of his person and his pro-
perty, and to set him at liberty.
ENORMOUS DAMAGES.—At the Croydon Assizes,
Messrs. Harris and Co., of the Naval B ink, Plymouth,
brought an action against Mr. G. Sackville Lane Fox, the
son of Colonel Fox, M.P.. to recover the amount of cer-
tain bills of exchange, some of which purported to he
drawn by the Colonel, and accepted by his son, others to
have been drawn by Leon Solomons, and accepted by the
defendant, and the whole of which bore the endorsements
of Solomons, and a person named Benjamin Joseph, and
also to have been endorsed by the latter to the plaintiffs'
bank. The defendant was an extremely young man, an
officer in the Royal Horse Guards, and it happened on an
evil day that he became connected with Joseph and Solo-
mons, and, having some expectations, it appeared that
Solomons resolved to make a terrific example of him. The
fact was. that whereas the defendant, a cornet in the
Royal Horse Guards, had only come of age in the begin-
ning of the present year, the total amount of the bills for
which he was now sued was £14,720, and not more than
£2OOO had been advanced upon them. The bills had been
obtained from him upon the representation that a larger
sum should be advanced, but he had never received one
farthing. The evidence bore out the imputation that
Joseph and Solomons had not given the value for the
bills, but it was proved that the bank had discounted the
bills, and given the full value for them.—The Chief Baron,
in summing up, said the jury was bound to find a verdict
for the plaintiffs, as they sued as bona fide holders of the
bills ; but he would add, that if respectable parties did
not lend their assistance in this manner, persons would
not be able to scramble through dishonest transactions so
easily as they often did, by such means. A verdict was
then recorded for £14,470, the jury refusing to give any
interest for the period the bills had been over due. A
verdict, with £6788 damages, was also obtained by the
same parties against Colonel Fox, M.P., on bills.

THE FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT BERMONDSEY.

The' Tifiiis says that the.interest attached to this fearful
occurrence -exceeds that of any similar atrocity of the last
century. •

Mr. Odling, the surgeon, has completed his post mortem
examination of the body of the deceased. On examining
the head over the right eye, he found a one-inch bullet
had entered the skull, supposed to have been fired from an
air-gun, and had shattered that part into sixteen splinters,
but he was of opinion that the bullet did not cause death,
as lie found upon examining the back of the head that the
deceased had been fearfully beaten, and, from the nature
of the wound, he believed the instrument used was what
is called a plasterer's hammer, -at one end of which there
is a sort of chopper. Mr. Odling has ascertained that
poison had been administered to the deceased previously.
The shovel with which the grave of the mnrdered man
was in all probability dug was, it seems, purchased by
Mrs. Manning, on Wednesday, the sth instant, from Mr.
Langley, ironmonger in Tooley-street. She told the shop-
man that she wanted an iron shovel, and that it must be
a strong one. lie asked her if she wanted a regular
shovel, and she replied that she would make a short-
handled one do. The price was Is. 2d., which she paid,
and had the shovel sent to No. 3, Minerva-place. With
reference to the boxes discovered yesterday at the South-
Eastern Railway terminus, they furnish one of those curi-
ous incidents which are perpetually occurring in the his-
tory of great crimes. When brought to Scotland-yard
one of the heads of the detective force immediately re-
cognised them. " I've seen these boxes before," said he,
"We searched them at the time of the Bristol mail rob-
bery."
The apprehension of Mrs. Manning took place through
the active agency of the police, who succeeded in tracing
her in a cab in which she left Minerva-place the Monday
after the murder. She drove to the South-Eastern sta-
tion, and there left two boxes, one directed to " Mrs.
Sniith, passenger to Paris; to be left till called for;" and
the other, " Mrs. Smith, passenger ; to be left till called'
for." She then drove to the North-Western station, and
there dismissed the cab. The boxes had not since been
called for, and on being forced open by the police were
found to contain a quantity of female, wearing apparel,
which, upon examination, proved to be marked with the
name of " Maria Rue," the maiden name of Mrs. Man-
ning. A further examination discovered a quantity of
articles belonging to the deceased Patrick O'Connor, and
several letters written by him to the supposed murderess.
At the North-Western Railway it was found that she had
taken 11:..r place right through to Edinburgh, and the tele •
graph being used, within an hour an answer was returned
communicating her arrest. She was found at a respecta-
ble lodging-house, under the name of Smith, reading the
Times with an account of the murder in it. She denied
her identity, but upon being taken into custody, after a
search of her person and luggage the following property
was found upon her : —seventy-three sovereigns in gold,
one £5O note and six £lO notes—five of these latter bear.
ing the numbers advertised as having been paid to Man-
ning on Saturday, the 11th instant, on the presentation of
one of the deceased's checks. In addition to this money,
there was also found in the woman's possession all the
missing scrip of the Sombre and Meuse and Ihulogne and
Amiens Railways, known to have been in the possession
of the deceased, and some articles of wearing apparel be-
longing to him. Two bottles have been found containing
laudanum, leaving no doubt that the deceased was drug-
ged before the brutal murder was committed.

- The Caledonian mail-train, which arrived at the Euston
station on Friday brought Maria Manning to London.
Inspectors Darkin and Sheppey, of the A division, were
in attendance at the railway terminus to receive the pri-
soner, and upon the train drawing up alongside the plat-
form the accused was hurried into a cab. Mr. Moxhay,
the chief of the Edinburgh constabulary, in whose cus-
tody the-prisoner arrived, with the two inspectors, accom-
panied her in the vehicle, which drove off at a rapid rate to
the Southwark Police-station, at Stone's-end. On arriving
at the Police-station, she was taken into the prisoners'
room, when Mr. Superintendent Evans took the charge.
The prisoner, before he commenced to do so, complained
of being faint, and requested that some coffee might be
procured for her. This was obtained, and the accused
having partaken of two or three cups, was accommodated
with a chair while Mr. Evans entered the charge. In reply
to the questions of the officer she stated that her name
was Maria Manning, that her age was thirty, and that she
resided at No. 3, Minerva-place, New Weston-street.
When the latter question was proposed to her she hesi-
tated, and appeared to affect not to hear what the super-
intendent said ; but upon the question being repeated by
Inspector Darkin, she acknowledged that her residence
was correctly described as No. 3, Minerva-place, New
'Weston-street. In reply to the last question, as to whe-
ther she was a married woman, she replied firmly "Yes."
She has been wrongly described as a tine-looking woman.
She wore a black figured satin dress and visite, with a
plaid shawl and plain straw bonnet. As soon as she en-
tered the Police-station she threw up her veil, and tied it
over her bonnet with great sangfroid.
A very strong impression prevails among the police au-
thorities that Maria Manning intended to " do " her male
companion—that having packed off the murdered man's
valuables in her boxes, and finding the officers on her
track, she decamped while Manning was at the broker's,
with the full purpose of leaving him to his fate. It has
been ascertained almost to a certainty that except what
he received for his furniture, he had no money when she
fled, and the principal grounds for the hope which is en-
tertained that he will soon be arrested are, that he has no
means to reach a foreign country, and that he drinks to
excess.

To show the extraordinary nerve of the Mannings, par-
ticularly the female, she on Sunday prepared her dinner
in the back kitchen. where she roasted a goose over the
spot where her murdered paramour was lying, and when
the police called at the house on the following Monday, to
inquire after the deceased, she coolly asked them in, bade
them take a seat, and answered all questions with the
greatest composure; but a nephew of the deceased who
was with the police, fancying he saw a slight tremor, said
to Mrs. Manning, " Why you appear to be ill." She
said, " No, no ; I had an attack of illness about six weeks
ago, and I have not quite recovered yet." Her coolness,
quite threw the police off their guard ; and although the
nephew said he was convinced some foul play had been
practised, and that he should like the police to take Mrs.
Manning, they refused, as there was no charge against
her. Almost immediately after the police left the place a
cab drove up to the door, and Mrs. Manning put into it
three boxes lightly packed up, and drove off, the woman
putting her head out of the window, and saying, " Be
quick, drive fast." From one fact which occurred after
Manning left the house, it would appear that he does not
possess half the nerve exhibited by his wife. On proceed-
ing with the broker to whom he bad sold the furniture in
Minerva-place, he objected to enter the house, saying he
would not do so for £2O, and waited at the Leather-mar-
ket public-house, opposite, until Bainbridge's return.
The police are now of opinion that Mrs. Manning has
made off with the booty on her own account, giving her
husband the slip as she did on a former occasion, when
they kept a public-house at Kingsland. Ho inquired
eagerly after she had left amongst the neighbours, and
seemed surprised at her departure.
The following particulars in reference to Maria Man-
ning will probably be read with interest :—Her maiden
name is not " Rue," as has been erroneously stated, but
" De Roux." She is a native of Lausanne, in Switzer-
land, and inherited some small patrimony from her pa-
rents, both of whom are deceased. About six years since
she served in the family of Sir Lawrence Palk, at Haldon-
house, Devonshire, as maid to Lady Palk, and while
travelling to and fro with his family she appears to have
made the acquaintance of Manning, who was at that time
a guard on the Great Western Railway. At Lady Palk's
decease, in 1846, she obtained a situation as maid to Lady
Blantyre, second daughter of the Duchess of Sutherland.
She came to reside with her Ladyship at Stafford-house
in July, 1846, and accompanied her to Scotland in the
autumn of the same year. While attending her Lady-
ship on a brief continental tour, before proceeding to
Scotland, she met with the deceased, O'Connor, who
seems to have been struck with her appearance and man-
ners—so much so as to have offered her marriage. In
the early part of the season, 1847, she returned to town
with Lady Blantyre, and it appears was frequently visited
at Stafford-house by both Manning and Mr. O'Connor,
the latter of whom appeared to entertain a very warm
affection for, her. Manning, however, seems to have
been the most favoured suitor, and on the 6th of August,
1847, she left Stafford-house with the avowed intention of
marrying him. Whether the ceremony was ever per-
formed is not known at present, but it is certain that
she urged an old nurse in the establishment to be present
—a request, however, which was not acceded to. As an 1
illustration of the woman's finesse it may be mentioned
that upon her leaving Stafford-house handsome presents
were made to her ; and not only was this kindly interest
in her own welfare displayed, but a relative of her sup-
posed husband, Manning, recently received a public
appointment. After her marriage she accompanied
Manning into Devonshire for a week or ten days, and
then, returning to Stafford-house, went with Lady
Blantyre to the Continent a second time, one motive
for her doing so being, as it is alleged, the oppor-
tunity it afforded of arranging her own affairs abroad
previously to settling down to married life in Eng-
land. All this time she had been deceiving Patrick
O'Connor as to her marriage with Manning; and when
O'Connor ascertained that she really was married. he
manifested the greatest distress of mind, tore the hair
from his head, and conducted himself altogether in a most
extraordinary manner. On her return from the continent
she went to reside with her husband in lodgings at No. 2,
Church-street, Paddington, Manning at this time still
filling the situation of guard on the Great Western Rail-
way. We should here state that it is believed Manning
in prosecuting his addresses succeeded in persuading
Maria de Roux that he was entitled to property under his
mother's will, amounting to between £6OO and £7OO.
This was of course only a fiction ; but so deeply did he lay
his schemes that he actually drew up a will, which has
been found among the papers in his wife's possession, by
which lie bequeathed his property to his " very dear and
beloved wife," to the exclusion of all other claimants,
appointing her executrix, conjointly with Henry Poole,
recently convicted of the mail robberies on the Great
Western Railway, who is one of the subscribing witnesses
to the deed. There does not appear to be the least reason
to believe that Manning had any property himself, but
with the money he obtained from his wife, very shortly
after their marriage, he took a public house or hotel at
Taunton, which promised at first to do well; but partly
owing to the bad associates with whom he became con-
nected, and partly to the unfitness of his wife to play the
hostess, the business soon fell off. While they lived toge-
ther here Mrs. Manning, on one occasion, left her hus-
band, pretending that she had to go to the continent to
receive some money. She remained absent about five
weeks without communicating with her husband, and
Manning finding that the business of his house was
falling off, made over the lease to another party, and left
Taunton. At length Mrs. Manning returned, and pre-
sented herself at her former house, and was of course re-
fused admission. She then hastened to London, and

found her husband living- with his brother in Francis-
street, Newington. She remained with him only a short
time and then decamped again, and was at length disco-
vered living with O'Connor. A second time their differ-
ences were healed, and they next appeared as the host and
hostess of the Old King John's Head, in the Kingsland-
road, where they remained only a vc,ry short period, and
on leaving Kingsland they went to live at Minerva-place,
the scene of their diabolical crime.

Some say it was at Boulogne, whither the deceased
used to go frequently during his annual month's holiday,
where he first made the fatal acquaintance of Maria de
Roux, who, it is rumoured, is cousin to Courvoisier, the
well-remembered assassin of Lord W. Russell. It is cer-
tain that he used to visit her at Stafford House.

Mr. O'Connor was excessively fond of money, and en-
deavoured at all times to increase his store, yet he was
not penurious, and had for years paid for the education of
a niece at Thurles, in Ireland. His brother, the Rev. Dr.
O'Connor, a highly-respectable Roman Catholic clergy-
man at Thurles, arrived in London on Friday. His pro-
perty could not be less than between £7OOO and £BOOO.
Singular enough, there were found in one of the boxes
of Mrs. Manning, conveying away the property of the
murdered man, the Psalms of David, in French, a collec-
tion of sacred poems, and.a werk entitled, " Family de-
votion for every day in the Year." This little incident is
nearly on a par with Rush's family worship. Among
other matters found in the prisoner's boxes were letters
of recommendation for situations in or near London,
given by two distinguished personages, and in which she
is described as being kind, affectionate, and piously in-
clined.

Among the letters found in Mrs. Manning's luggage
is one in the hand-writing of Mr. O'Connor, the con-
tents of which are curious. It covers three sides of a
large sheet of letter paper, and seems to have been
written about that period of their connexion when
O'Conner discovered to his surprise that Mrs. Manning
was married. It is dated "Custom -house, St. Katharine's
Docks," and commences, `• My dearest Maria." After
reproaching the accused with her faithlessness to him,
the writer proceeds in a lachrymose strain to bewail his
fate in having lost "an angel who might have been his
guiding star through life." In one part of the letter his
own deceptive character creeps out in a remark to the
effect, that if he were a rich man, and could afford to pay
for the journey, he would hasten to Erskine-house, (Lord
Blantyre's seat, in Scotland) where Mrs. Manning was
then staying, and upbraid her, personally, with her
cruelty to him. The signature to this letter, which was
written in the corner of the third page, has been neatly
cut out, but of the identity of the handwriting, there is
not the slightest doubt. The letter is directed to 1• Mrs.
Manning, care of Lady Blantyre, Erskine-house, N. B."

Some curious mistakes have been made in the endea-
vour to apprehend the male accused. The governor of
Bath gaol fancied he saw Manning pass Basingstoke in a
third-class up-train to London. The fact was telegraphed
to London, and information forwarded to the commis-
sioners of police, who sent Inspector Haynes to the Wa-
terloo station immediately with two or three officers, to
whom Manning's person was known. Mr. Stovin, the
manager of the railway, pla' ed a special engine at the dis-
posal of the officers and accompanied them to Wimble-
ton, where the up-train was stopped and examined. The
suspected party, who had been not a little alarmed at the
observation his presence excited at all the stations where
the train stopped, was at once ascertained not to be Man-
ning, and the officers returned to town. In the evening
another individual was taken into custody at a leer-shop
in the Caledonian-road, Islington, on suspicion of being
the supposed murderer, but this also proved to be a mis-
take. On Friday afternoon a man somewhat answering
the description of Manning was observed entering a wood
in the neighbourhood of Carshalton. One or two persons
instantly gave chase, and were speedily joined by others
equally anxious to share in the capture. The individual,
ascertaining from the cries of the crowd the nature of
their suspicion against him, led his pursuers a run of two
or three miles, and then turned round and laughed at
them.
MANNING'S WHEREABOUTS DISCOVERED.

Intelligence reached London, on Thursday morning,
that Manning had made his escape via Southamtiton and
Jersey. The police are now put on the right track, and
although he has many days the start of his pursuers, yet,
unless Manning be a good French scholar. he will have
much difficulty in eluding the vigilance of our detectives
in whatever part of France he may have escaped to—for
thither he has in all likelihood secreted himself. The
French police.will be furnished with a correct description
of his person, and that added to his English tongue and
appearance, will, doubtless, before long, place him in the
hands of the law. If Manning had not furnished himself
with a French passport before leaving this country, he
could have got one at. Jersey.