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 furniahed 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. Air. Solomon added, that when the prisoner was placed at the bar, on Friday last, it was shortly after having performed a long journey from Scotland, and that in the fatigue consequent upon it, together with the dreadful nature of the accusation preferred against her, she could not be presumed to have a recollection 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 not 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 defer.ca intrusted to his management by the party accused.  N. Solomon, having expressed his thanks, then withcirf-w.  Although it appears that Maria Manning has been placed in the infirmary of the county gaol since her committal from this court, yet it is not in consequence of indisposition, for she soon recovered from the fatigues 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 allowAnce) and seems in pod 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 :Manning. The Jersey rn>.il boat arrived at Southampton last evening, but brought no news from Langley, who arrived in the island on Saturday morning. The next mail is looked for with great  anxiety. Inspector Field and Sergeant Whitchdr, of the detective force, who went ta the continent in pursuit of Mrs. Manning, returned to town yesterday. They a're loud in their praises of the French police, who rendered them every possible assistance. Within few hours of their arrival in Paris every lodginghouse 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 surveillance. Nothing, in fact, could exceed the readiness of our French neighbours in affording assistance to the officers.  Last evening Mr. Field again left London for Plymouth, with instructions to board an Australian emigrant ship, which is expected to arrive off that port to-morrow.