The Sun. — 1849-11-19 (London, England)

THE LAST OF THE MANNINGS. The bodies of the two convicts were placed in shells, after casts of the head and synopsis of the brain of each had been taken, and in the evening both were deposited in a grave prepared for them in the corridor leading from the yard to the chapel. The coffins were partially filled with lime in order to insure an early decay of the remains, this plan being invariably adopted within the walls of a prison. The phrenological development of the heads is said to agree in a very remarkable manner with the character of the convicts as at present known ; and Mr. Donovan, who has prepared the synopsis, will shortly publish the result of his examination for the information of the more curious in these matters. It will have been remarked that Manning stated that his wife was an Atheist, and that her belief was that, after death, the living individual became a lump of clay. How far this may be true it is, perhaps, difficult to say, but one thing is certain, viz., that the wretched woman exhibited no Atheisticalleelings during her confinement in llorsemonger-lane Gaol. She was always punctual in her attendance at chapel, and, as far as outward form could indicate the fact, she was imbued with religious feeling. In her letter addressed to her guardian, and written only a few hours before her execution, she expresses very confidently her hope of obtaining in another world that mercy which had been refused to her in this. It is worthy of remark that she thus commenced it :—" The Queen, like all judges, has a heart of rock, and it is determined that I shall die." She then goes on to state that she has been murdered by her husband, and that he would have to answer to God for her blood. This statement is not very consistent with her apparently affectionate conduct to Manning in the chapel and on the scaffold ; but this again may be only another phase in the scheme of hypocrisy, induced by a desire to create an impression of her innocence. The whole of the property found in the possession of Maria Manning, and that discovered at the South-Eastern Railway station, still remain in the hands of Inspector Yates, and Bur. ton, the police-constable. The latter only holds a few trifling articles; but the former has property in the police-station said to be worth nearly 2001. Mr. Binns, Manning's solicitor, has laid an embargo on the whole of it, by a suit against Manning, for money lent in defending him ; and the Secretary of State has directed it to be detained until the bill of costs be sent in. The property will be sold in the course of a few days, and, after paying the legal gentlemen who defended the convicts, the surplus will be handed over to Mr. Edmund Manning, the brother. Among the property are several valuable satin dresses, a number of lace veils, ruffles, two gold watches, some French Rentes worth 701., and a large assortment of female wearing apparel. The property which belonged to O'Connor is being administered to by his brother, and will shortly be given up.—Weekly Chronicle.  INNER TEMPLE, Nov. 16.—The ordinary course of exercises, &c., required of the students of the Society of the Inner Temple to qualify for their call to the bar in the present term having terminated, the undermentioned members were called to the degree of Barristerat-law on Friday evening last:—Benjamin Bright, of University College, M.A.; Henry Thurston Hollanri, of Trinity College, 13. A.; George Arthur Knightly Howman, of Balliol College, Cambridge, M.A.; George Hailey Prentice, of Trinity College, Cambridge, ALA . John Maurice Foster, of Lincoln College, Oxford, B.A.' .: Alfred Walker Simpson, of Jesus College, Cambridge' M.A.; George Cooper Butler, of Oriel College, Oxford, B.A.  MR.