The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

B. Bell

J. Ferguson 2
J. C. Fernihough 3
8. PITT-STREET WARD.
Alderman T. Sands 1
T. Rimnzer .. .
T. Robinson 2
T. Toulmin

There are, therefore, now
Advocates of the Pike—.

Opponents of the Pike.

Majority against the Pi

rating the Docks

The following gentlemen were returned unopposed :
Thomas Chalmer, jun., for Everton ; James Tyrer, for
Exchange; Thomas Toulmin, for Pitt-street; J. Rogers,
for Great George ; Bernard Hall, for Abercromby ; J. A.
Picton, for Lime-street ; W. Bennett, for St. Ann's ; and
T. Lloyd, for North Toxteth.
Though the result in Rodney-street and South Toxteth
Wards was partly looked for, yet the majorities are very
much larger than even the friends of the successful candi-
d.t.. antlclpatea.

There can be no question that Mr. Richard Harbord
owes his defeat in a great measure—if not altogether—to
the interference of the Confederation in his behalf. Had
the leaders of that meddling body not attempted to dic-
tate to the electors, Mr. Horsfall (as he stated in his ad-
dress) would not have come forward ' • but so disgusted
have the constituencies become with the officious dicta-
tion of such people, that wherever they appear their
friends are sure to lose.
SCOTLAND WARD.
• -

A protest has been entered against Mr. Bigham's re-
turn, for want of qualification.

THE LIVERPOOL PENITENTIARY

At the beginning of the present year, the charitable in-
stitutions of Liverpool were in a condition most affecting
to every humane mind. Loaded with debt, crippled in
all their resources, and their efficiency grievously dimi-
nished, the very possibility of the continued existence of
some of them became questionable. How this melan-
choly state of things arose is sufficiently evident. Hard
times and falling fortunes had compelled many of the or-
dinary supporters of charitable funds to diminish or with-
hold their usual contributions, nor did the different com-
mittees well know where or in what way to apply for re-
newed support. It was in this emergency that our
worthy mayor made his fellow-townsmen so largely debtor
to him for the tact with which he sounded the resources of
the town, and the spirit with which he developed them.
By his suggestion and energetic direction of the Fancy
Fair, the Infirmary and the Southern and Northern Hos-
pitals not only obtained sufficient to pay off the whole of
their debts, but have each had a large sum invested per-
manently for a future provision. Again, by the simulta-
neous and appropriate collections made in the churches,
on the fast day appointed in reference to the cholera, a
most welcome sum of about £690 was received on behalf
of the Dispensaries. These noble results are not more
encouraging on account of the immediate relief conferred
on valuable and necessary institutions, than for the unan-
swerable demonstration they afford of the power and the
readiness of the inhabitants of Liverpool to supply the
needful wants of charity, whenever rightly solicited.
These remarks have been called forth by the interest
with which we have read the following letter, addressed to
us by the Rev. J. R. Conor, incumbent of St. Simon's,
referring to the depressed condition of the funds of the
Liverpool Female Penitentiary. This excellent institu-
tion has, for nearly forty years, been exercising a benefi-
cent influence upon those who, by their sex, their mis-
fortunes, and their miseries, have claims, unsurpassed by
any, upon the Christian and the philanthropist. While
individuals naturally shrink from the personal exercise of
the duties of humanity and religion towards this most un-
happy and often most repentant class, and while society
pronounces against them an almost irreversible doom of
exclusion, this and similar institutions alone endeavour to
reverse the sentence, and to announce, in its stead, the
invitation of the Saviour, " Come unto me all ye that are
weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest ;" and
through their agency many have exchanged despair for
hope, have quitted a loathsome and hated life for one of
honest industry and virtue, regained comfort for them-
selves, and restored happiness to their sorrowing parents
and relations ; and in many instances, we are well a.urod,
have cheerfully yielded up the last moments of a sad and
weary existence, with bright and well-grounded anticipa-
tions of another and a better, with grateful thanks for the
incalculable benefits they had received in those asylums,
and earnest prayers with their last breath for their pros.
perity.

- How much, then, must we regret that such institutions
should languish for want of the moderate funds necessary
for their support. The Liverpool Female Penitentiary
has suffered in this respect in common with the other cha-
rities of the town, and while numerous applicants seek
earnestly for admittance, the committee, with aching
hearts, are forced to multiply rejections. For two years
the number of inmates has been reduced to little more
than one half of what the house could hold, and were it
not that the institution is partly self-supporting, and that
the labour and industry of the penitents have eked out its
scanty means it must in all probability have been entirely
closed. This state of things cannot, must not continue
in the midst of a community where the need of the insti-
tution is so great, yet not greater than ought to be the
means of its support. We recommend our readers to pe-
ruse the pathetic appeal of the Rev. J. R. Conor, and then
to follow up the promptings of their charitable feelings in
such way as they may think best.

TO THE EDITOR 01? THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
MR. EDITOR?—WiII Nou allow me, through the columns of
your paper, to inquire how it is that one of the most useful
and most necessary institutions of the town, the Penitentiary,
is almost in a state of bankruptcy ? The streets and lanes
teem with arguments—living arguments—to prove the neces-
sity of such an institution. The faithful and affectionate
labours of the. committee of management may be, in some
measure, estimated from the reports which have, year after
year, been issued, and which also prove the utility of the insti-
tion, and the blessing which has been vouchsafed.
The energies of the institution are now much crippled, and
the committee lave been forced to limit the number of inmates
to 45.

The condition of it must be a most melancholy contempla-
tion to all who love the souls of their perishingfellow-creatures.
As minister of St. Simon's parish, I feel it keenly. In 1847,
when the last census of my parish was taken, there were found
89 houses of ill-fame, inhabited by about 446 females. In times
past I had these houses regularly visited, and we have had the
pleasure of bringing many a poor girl to the right path. All
such visitation is now at an end, becalm of the crippled ever.

NOV. 6, 1641._

beleet
Ries of the Penitentiary. Poor girls have come to TOL. 1,01,:
mg me, with tears, to rescue them from their lost s!'.: ea.
I have been obliged to answer them coldly,
crippled energies of the Penitentiary.
Recently the cholera has been among them :
trembled as they saw their companions cut offin thenoota,
What an opportunity for me to say, Behold the open
feet a
the Penitentiary. You may go there, and sit at %e:7_4
Jesus" ; but I could not, because of its crippled eye
I hear of willing being unhappy in their polluted 8.?:01,
their being to come out ; bat I could institaw
qui ry, or make no movement, for the above reason. %
stszty
I have wrten tse few hasty in hope that
meet the eye of some of those whomlines the Lord has bi tool).
means, and I pray that He may put it into their hello ite'
scribe to the Penitentiary—to work for it—to pray
Respectfully yours, JOHN R. CONOI -
4
'‘ Par,

Incumbent of St. Simon'B
in Liverpool.

St. Simon's, Oct. 22, 1849.

COURT AND FASHION.
The court remains at Windsor, and we are rejoicesfte
say that her Majesty is so perfectly convalescent _boo.
attack of chicken-pox, under which she has been
mein'
Of
ing, as to rejoin Prince 411bert and the junior rneln'
the royal family in their airings in the park. the
Lord Augustus C. Lennox Fitzroy, Capin lord,
Coldstream Guards, and second son of the Duke of
ton, is to be Equerry to the Queen. °I
The Earl of Strathmore expired at Holyrood Psince
week, in his 77th year.
Amongst the passengers by the Canada is lqrs. Faetetti
son, who was married in 1810 to Jerome BuonsEeo
but whom, by a decree of Napoleon, he was comPelter-
divorce. Jerome is in Paris. Mrs. Patterson is Sesi
in-law to the Marchioness of Wellesley and the Do'"
of Leeds.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER

Since the conviction of the Mannings several oOe
stances of very considerable importance have °legit
light, which, if any doubt could possibly exist as t° sub-
, guilt, would appear to be almost conclusive on the bse
ject. It will be remembered that, after the verdiet„jog
been pronounced against the prisoners, the woman %of
a violent speech, in which she asserted her innocence: she
appeared to make it a strong point in her favour that his'
loved the deceased, and could have been married tD
if she had pleased. It has, however, since bee:l_loe
tamed that for some time before the murder 0-,°ool
had been paying his addresses to a young woman' 0
it •
they were on the point of being married ;Is kno a it
that Mann;pg and his wife were aware of the fact, 8:00,
is probable that, feeling the marriage would in all.P he.
bility have the effect of breaking off all connexion
sure
tween them, they determined upon the desperate mess
of getting possession of his property by murder. trig,
Another curious fact has also come to light. Tbe.ssle.
as our readers are aware, lasted two days, and the Ptl.„ to
ers each day retired from the court for a short time
take refreshment. Of course when the prisoners Zed,
first received at Newgate they were narrowly seare."arp
and every instrument with which they might inflict inliewe
either upon themselves or others, taken away frown t, of
Upon the second day of the trial, in consequen'Tsee
something that came to the knowledge of the Pr.:,o
officials, it was considered prudent to search the fellers
prisoner, and in her pocket there was found a large toed
of broken glass, a most dangerous missile, well cal° who
to have inflicted very deadly injury upon any pers°,ll:.teli
might have been struck with it. It was irnmetTower
taken from her, and thus no doubt, from the
subsequently exhibited by the prisoner, some dese',:si
mischief was prevented. How she obtained possessid°
the glass remains a mystery.
The counsel for Mrs. Manning have resolved to show pfr
don their application for a writ of error. The P°lshe.
D.
however, whether she stands in the position of an
flak
will still be submitted to the Criminal Court of AR :f
The next sitting of the Court will be on the 100,41
November, and if the question should be sent before"
tribunal it will, of course, be disposed of on that claY:.,e,
Manning has made some extraordinary disclostro
relative to the murder and his former connexion ^the
O'Connor, which will not be made public until after Jed
execution. He persists in the statement which was hall big
to his learned counsel, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins—" That of
wife shot O'Connor, and afterwards threatened to s°
him unless he helped her to bury the body." Heine,
more composed on Monday, after his interview wit' ei
chaplain, and several times wished to see his brother aos
his solicitor, Mr. Binns, to whom he wishes to rnake‘gs°oo,
communication. His brother called at the gaol on o'•
day, and delivered a letter from his sister in the co""ths
The letter was shortly afterwards delivered to him bYeeo
governor, and the contents seemed to affect him in a g
degree, as he wept several times on reading it. bif
brother did not see him. Prior to the trial, and while of
unhappy wife was confined in the gaol where she
remains, she wrote several indecent letters to herb o'',
band, couched in the most obscene language and writ be
in broken English. In none of them, however, does 544
allude to the murder, but she defies him to get her C,it.,
watches. Copies of these letters were shown to to
Ballantine and Mr. Parry during the trial, likewise to
Attorney-General, but no attention was paid to them; big
The contemplated interview between Manning an the
solicitor, Mr. Binns, took place on Wednesday, when 00
former gave some important information relative to soi.,
shares which belonged to O'Connor, and which were 0;
stroyed by Mrs. Manning on the evening after the °elle
der was committed. The shares were of consideraAs
value, and their worth will no doubt be restored by !,,Pg
railway company that issued them. Mrs. 31annieo
burned them in tkv, bgtelr Htplipn. *Ad lan.
and some rags. hue conversing with Mr. Binns, „;tg
fling appeared quite resigned to the awful fate that awrier
him. By the advice of Mr. Binns, he wrote to his wir
appealing to her feelings, and calling upon her to Conte ,
everything connected with the dreadful crime. Thei4e rbe
ter was handed to her by the female turnkey, not
some time she refused to read it. She, however, at
perused it, and requested to be furnished with wri"---
materials for the purpose of answering it. t°
The disclosures which day by day come to light ten,ebe
remove all doubt as to the guilt of the Mannings. to
male prisoner has acknowledged that the pistols use of
commit the deed were those found in the possessiono
Mr. Adams, the pawnbroker of Bermondsey-street ;lora
that tradesman could not swear as to the party, the
pledged them, although he was in attendance
Southwark police-court. Manning asserts that his ith
loaded both the pistols, and having shot O'Connor blO
one presented the other at him, threatening to serve tinethe same unless lie assisted her. The statement rely 0,
to the pistols corroborates Mr. Lockwood's oPi,°,l,liet
That gentleman, it will be recollected, extracted a "" ef
from the murdered man's head, which he fitted to onfLo
the pistols, and found it to correspond. Manning
has stated that the clothes taken from the murdered e
were all burnt in the back kitchen, with his private Tics
moranda and some rags. It was supposed by the P°o3(l
that the clothes were wrapped up with the crowhard 00
thrown into the Thames ; such was not the case, all„ag
doubt the crowbar will be found, as some informati°,;oo
to its hiding-place has been given. Manning dew, so
that the grave in the back kitchen was dug as early
May last, and the murder had been contemplated ';tet
then, but somehow or other his wife could net r" iO%
courage enough to commit the murder until the el`i,-scX
of the 9th of August. A shutter belonging to the
net;
kitchen was placed over the hole, covered with a car big
and O'Connor must have several times walked overejeo
grave, on going to the sink to wash his hands, as was
custom prior to partaking of dinner at Manning'S " sod
On Friday, during an interview between Manning 10•0
his brother, the latter said, " Surely, Frederick, teal'
not guilty of this horrible charge ?" Manning Frederick,,
ately replied, " No, lam innocent. I have told 31r; gr.
everything. I have confessed all to him ; have I not' of;
Roe ? (Mr. Roe nodded assent.) Edmund, she „," '
dered him. I did not know she was going to do 5.";;00'
had no hand in the murder. Mr. Roe knows I ar°ll4
big
cent." The unfortunate man continued to assert spi
innocence with much vehemence and excitemen''seed
then added, in consequence of his brother having :00
him if he had not written to his wife to cleanse her r led'
by a full confession, " Yes ; and I have authorixe",er td
Mr. Roe, have I not, over and over again, to 'et that
see me, because I could put such questions to her bsd
she could not evade ?" Mr. Roe replied, that PP;
P
done as he said, but that she had declined to see, ha
Manning then handed to his brother the letter
oe' of
written to his wife, beginning, " I address you ce
wife," and couched in the most endearing terms,
.t
fess, so that the world might know the great dleplf
between their guilt, how innocent he was, and how
6, fOr
guilty was the part she had played in the awful drar°,elit,.
upon the truth of her statement depended the isole-t, P
or death to him ; and as she knew he was innoeehwpore
implored pgl or: en dt toirm asn vi eavien
theirmfrwo. The 1,11 three
to an ignominious e
letter
tr
the scaffold. The letter concluded by imploring "
metre
pages of lett
ninger-paper. oofde.
Mrs. Man, soon after the receipt of theAetw-
called for pen, ink and paper, and indited a long per'
to her husband, which covered four sides of letter-e: 3rod
closely written. She began by saying, " I addrofaiot!
as my husband." and more than once used the exP7,,eoDt
"my dear." She said, in effect, that she was i°,.„efellY
of the diabolical charge of which she had been sue`
convicted, and that he alone could save her. 1145 bet
braiding him with the course he had pursued toews_nt
from the period of his arrest up to the trial, sh
to say that he alone could save her, and that ghee
i bed
not think of granting him an interview unticnipf,
stated in writing that she was innocent of 0 'f.;
murder. Then followed this remarkable stater" Jose/
" You know that the party who went with you t° ,
committed the murder, and that I was from bolo VI
it was committed" ; adding, that if he would !let, od
statement in writing, she would grant his reil°
see him. lettee;
Manning's brother, after he had perused the„ t,,
exclaimed, " Frederick, she exculpates herself f_ruel-00..,
charge, and accuses a third party : who does shea,Togetht
He replied, " My dear fellow, the statement is '`w, sl'o,
false. No one accompanied me to Jersey. I krw..„, ial(11
round, you will believe me when I assert that I al:: sp
~1
cent, for you have always been my best Incino,istern
should never have married that woman if I bad
to your advice." After a long pause, the brother obv
his unhappy relative to make his peace with:3o°dd;
would receive his soul if he was, as he said, i n.n,
the awful crime. He immediately exclaimed alpierfeplf
dear Edmund, lam innocent, as Mr. Roe know to
well. I hope God Almighty will commit my s°o ip
flames if lam guilty of this murder. Mr. Itc,e told gi
session of the whole of my statement. I have t 0
all. I declare most solemnly that I shall die of
Mr. O'Connor's murder. I never hurt a ha_ird he"
head." He asserted his innocence, and declare ale
perfectly prepared to meet his Maker.
execution
iff ia
Monday has been the usual day for
metropolisdthsey nnei
geehstsiiryebocuef
dtainnyg. preparations
Tuesday
being
m inad
made
rod: o;