The Sun. — 1849-08-28 (London, England)

MRS. MANNING. Yesterday Mr. J. Solomon attended the Southwark Police Court for the purpose of making an application with reference to Maria Manning, charged with being concerned in the murder of Patrick O'Connor. He produced a document authorising him to act as solicitor to the accused, with her signature attached, which he had procured from her that morning in an interview he had with her in the infirmary of Horsemonger lane Gaol. Having exhibited the authority referred to, Mr. Solomon, then addressing the magistrate (Mr. Seeker), said that acting in conformity with his instructions, he waited on his Worship to make a request on the behalf of his client to be furnished with a copy of the depositions of the witnesses who were examined at that court on Friday last. He was the more anxious to procure the evidence already adduced against the prisoner as he was not present on the occasion, and was therefore not in possession of the circumstances alleged against her. He was aware that it was not customary to be furnished with depositions at so early a stage of the prosecution, but in a case of this description, where so serious and dreadful a charge was preferred against a woman in the prisoner's situation, he trusted that the usual rule might be departed from, and that his application on her behalf might be acquiesced in. Mr. Solomon added, that when the prisoner was placed at the bar, on Friday last, it was shortly after having performed a long journey from Scotlard, and that in the fatigue consequent upon it, together wi▪ th the dreadful nature of the accusation preferred against her, she could not be presumed to have a recollecti▪ on of what did transpire on the occasion with respect to the hearing of the evidence, as applied to herself, and this it was that made it incumbent on him to apply for a copy of the depositions already taken down, in order that she might have an opportunity, through him, of putting any questions that might be thought necessary to the witnesses previously examined. Mr. SECKER said that very little evidence had been taken as yet at this court against the prisoner; merely what was considered sufficient ground upon which to justify a remand. It was nut the rule, certainly, to furnish the professional adviser of a prisoner with the depositions at so early a stage of the investigation ; but, under the peculiar circumstances of the case in question, he should permit the applicant to have access to the minutes of the evidence already taken down, in order to guide him as to his future conduct, of the de#enca intrusted to his management by the arty accused. Mr. Solomon, having expressed his thanks, then withdrew.  Although it appears that Maria Manning has been placed in the infirmary of the county gaol since her cwnmittal from this court, yet it is not in consequence of indisposition, for she soon recovered from the fatizues of the journey from Edinburgh, and is at present in the enjoyment of her usual health. There are other persons confined in the same ward with her, with whom, however, she holds no conversation, and since her incarceration she has never been heard to utter a word on the subject of the late murder, nor has she made the least inquiry about her husband. She takes her meals regularly (the usual prison al lowance) and seems in good spirits, and from her general appearance and conduct there is nothing indicative of her having been a party concerned in an atrocious murder such as that so recently perpetrated in Bermondsey.  Another day has passed without any intelligence having been received from the officers in pursuit of idt.nning. The Jersey mail boat arrived at Southampton I:1st evening, but brought no news from Lar!,ley, who arrived in the island on Saturday morning. The next mail is looked for with great  arixtty. I,spector Field and Sergeant Whitch.-ir, of the detective force, who went b the continent in pursuit of Mrs. Manning, returned to town yesterday. They are loud in their praises of the French police, who rendered them every possible assistance. Within a few hours of their arrival in Paris every lodginghoue and hotel in the capital was examined, all the railway trains were watched, and every station within thirty miles of Paris was placed under close survelance. Nothing, in fact, could exceed the adiness of our French neighbours in affording assistance to the officers.  List evening Mr. Field again left London for Plymouth, with instructions to board an Australian emigrant &hip, which is expec:ed to arrive off that port to- morro •