The Welshman

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. I .i"u.I J. J. J.J. JI..i.A"" \I .J. FRANCE. I PARIS, FRIDAY.—The Moniteur publishes a decree of the President of the Republic, appointing General D' llautpool Commander-in-Chief of the French army of Italy, in place of General Rostolan, who is permitted to return to France on his own application. The General has been accused of a tendency to Legitimist principles, but it appears probable that the appointment. has been made without refercnce to party. General D'Hautpool stands high in the estimation of the army, and persons whu know him well speak of him as a man of firm cha- racter, of excellent religious and moral conduct, and of conciliatory manners. THE ICARIAN BUBBLE.—M. Cabet, the Socialist, has been condemned, par contumace, to two years' imprison- ment, 50f. fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights, for swindling the Icarian emigrants, under the pretence of having obtained the concession of a million acres of land in America, whereon to establish a society on Com- munist principles. The unlucky dupes paid their funds into the hands of M. Cabct's agent, and on arriving in the New World found themselves destitute, no arrange- ment having been made with any company, and they underwent the most severe deprivations. By the evi- dence given it appears that, out of one band of 500 emigrants, only 280 remained on the 1st of March. Of these, 110 were invalids; GO were perfectly passive instruments, without any opinion of their own 90 were men who, by choice or force, had followed the band in the hope of getting something out of it and the remain- ing 20 were Cabct's body-guard and attendants. This band was sent up the Mississipi in a steamer, in which they were stowed like merchandise, while Cabet, who accompanied them, was lodged in a comfortable cabin. They went to Nauvoo, the city of the Mormons, where Cabet had purchased sixteen acres of land, the Mormon temple and arsenal, for 15,000f. He had there esta- blished his society but it was speedily noticed and dis- solved by the local authorities. The Democratic l'aci- Jiqite and La Hepnblique were seized on Tuesday, by order of the Attorney-General, for having published a letter dated London, and signed by Louis Blanc and others, protesting against the conviction of M. Cabet for I having coUected large sums of money under pretence of founding a colony at Icaria. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. On Saturday the Journal des Debuts of Paris puh- lished a telegraphic despatch from General de Lamori- ciere to the French government, dated St. Petersburg, October 18, announcing that the Emperor of Russia, taking into consideration the letter of the Sultan, con- fined himself to demanding that the refugees should be expelled (chasses) fi-oiii Turkey. The despatch added that Fuad Effendi regarded the affair as settled. The Moniteur of Saturday did not publish the despatch textually, but merely mentioned the fact, suppressing entirely the offensive term chasses of the despatch, and making it appear that the condition of the Emperor was that the refugees should quit Turkey. From the tone of the ministel'ialjo\Hna\8 in their notice of this commu- nication from (;"lIeral de Lamoriciere, there can be no doubt that the French government, as well as the Turk- ish Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Fuad Effendi, regards the question as settled. The news produced a slight rise in the French funds on Saturday. HUNGARIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY. It was reported in Paris on Friday, that the Freneh Am- bassador at St. Pctersburgh had forwarded despatches to his Government, intimating a change in the hostile de- terminations of Russia in its disagreement with Turkey, upon the subject of extradItIOn So far from forcing matters to extremities, Russia expressed itself anxious to settle the differences quietly, provided that no warlike interference was threatened on the part of England. The same rumonr was prevalent at ienna on the 21st instant. CENTRAL GERMANY. The Kolncr Zeiiung announces that the Central Com- mittee of Administration, with the exception of the re- presentatives of Hanover and Saxony, are agreed that the elections for the German Parliament shall take place on the 15th of January. The Parliament, is to sit at Erfurt. The Ilannoterische Zeilnng publishes a decla- ration of the dissentient Plenipotentiaries of Hanover and Saxony, protcstiu that any decisive steps, sneh as the convocation of a German Parliament, must tend to increase the difficulties and divisions of Germany. SPAIN. From Spain we have accounts of the dissolution l'i-oin ?', I ),-t i n ive of the Narvaez Cabinet, and the formation of ano- ther, composed of men whose names have not hitherto been familiar in connexion with Spanish politics. This change of administration has not the political sig- significancc derived from an expression of public opillioii it seems to hayc been but the result of a pa- lace intrigue. It is probable that it may lead to a re- newal of diplomatic intercourse between this country and Spain, because the new Ministry may feel them- selves more free to offer such explanations as will be satisfactory to the insulted honour of England. The news cf this ministerial change has not yet received official confirmation. OCTOBER 21.—The intrigue was brought to an end last night. General Narvaez has been sent fur by the Queen, who entreated him to regard the fall of the previous Cabinet as if it had never occurred. After some resistance Narvaez yielded to the Royal prayer; the old Ministry was reinstated as it existed the day before yesterday, and the new one was instantaneously dismissed. This decision was come to after a long and seiiotis conference between the Queen and her mother. IONIAN ISLANDS. We have received the following from Corfu, dated the the UJth Üy the arrival this morning of II. M. S. Sharpshooter from Gephalonia, bringing a detachment of the ;j(itli Regiment, which was despatched from this on the first outbreak, we hear of the capture of the priest Nodaro and one of his companions, aud the surrender of Viacco at Luxuri. Martial law has been taken off all the districts except Luxuri, where the trials are now going on. His Exccllcncy Sir Henry Ward, the Lord High Commissioner, is still there, and the Sharpshooter sails again to-day for Cephalonia, to bring up his Excellency and staff. The Corfu Gazette contains nothing of im- portance, except a letter of the Lord High Commissioner, Sir II. Ward, to the President, in which, after stating the existence of a secret society, to which several Italian refugees had united themselves since their arrival at Corfu, and detailing some of the proceedings of the so- ciety, he declares that he takes upon himself the respon- sibility of ordering those foreigners who had violated the rights of hospitality by their intrigues, to quit the Ionian territory, and to place those Ionian subjects who belonged to the society under the surveillance of the police, until ulterior measures should be decided on." I INDIA AND CHINA We (The Times) have received by our ordinary semi- monthly express from Marseilles our despatches in anti- cipation of the mail from India which left Calcutta on the tllh, and Madras on the 16th ult. We have received no papers from Bombay. Our intelligence from China is to the 30th of August. From India there is no news of great importance. The most perfect tranquillity prevailed, and the rumours of Sir C. Napier's retirement in the spring of next year had accordingly acquired increased circulation. The sentence upon Moolraj had been commuted from death to transportation, and the Court by which he was tried had published a very able statement of the grounds upon which they had arrived at the conclusion of his guilt. The only exception to the general tranquillity of India had occurred in the Madras Presidency, usually so pacific. It seems that a fanatical caste, called Moplahs, after committing several depredations, upon being pursued by the police took post in a strongly fortified temple, wlience the police were unable to dislodge them. Application was made for military assistance, and a detachment of the 43rd Native Infantry, under Captain Wiiite, was sent to disperse them, but from some unknown reason, the sepoys, though bravely led by their officers, took to flight, after one ineffectual discharge, leaving Ensign Wise and some few men who stood by him at the mercy of the enemy. They were all, after a gallant resistance, cut to pieces, and the Muplahs returned to their strong- hold. Their triumph was, however, of short duration a requisition was immediately sent to Cannanore, and a portion of the Dith Regiment was promptly sent against them. The Moplahs were completely routed, with the loss of Gl of their number, the 91th losing only 3 men. The cholera had broken out at Bombay, and was con- tinuing its ravages in other parts of India. A terrible loss of life had occurred at Tricninopoly At an idolatrous festival-, held at the top of the Ili rock, which was attended by an immense concourse of people, a sudden panic occurred, and the multitude from above pressing upon those below, upwards of 100 were suffocated or trodden to death. Our correspondence from Hong Kong is to Aug. 30th. A must atrocious act of barbarity had been commuted at Macao on the 22nd of that month in the assassination of i ?iior do %.tnar;i l ?Viiilc his Excellency the Governor, Signor do Amaral. While taking his customary ride in the evening, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, about half a mile from the fort, and ;)00 yards from the barrier gate,he was suddenly attacked by eight Chinamen, and dragged from his horse, when the murderers hacked off his head and hand, and disap- peared through the gate. The aide-de-camp was also thrown from his horse, and severely wounded. It was well known that rewards had been offered at Canton and elsewhere for the Governor's head, and no doubt is en- tertained that the murder has been instigated or con- nived at by the Chinese authoiities, to whom the late Governor had made himself obnoxious. The Portuguese soldiers, impatient to avenge the death of the Governor, had taken possession ot the barrier-gate, and beyond the gate had destroyed a small fort, the fire from which mo- lested them In effecting this seven Portuguese soldiers were wounded, and, it is said, 74 Chinese killed. So soon as the intelligence of the assassination of the Go- vernor reached II ongkong, Her Majesty's ship Amazon and steamer Medea left for Macao, for the protection of British subjects, and by their presence to give counte- nance and support to the Portuguese authorities. A French and two American vessels of war were at Macao for similar purposes About GO British marines were stationed on shore and a party had charge of the Francisco fort. Marines from the American and French vessels had also landed. It is to be feared, however, that on their removal further outrages will be committed by the Chinese, unless conciliatory measures are adopted by the Portuguese. Senhor Amaral's death had caused universal regret among the foreign community. IIis vigour, courage, and firmness in dealing with the Chinese nation secured him the respect and admiration of all, but his very emi- nence in this respect marked him out for assasination. We have no particular incident to report from Canton.

THE FIU2SBXT 'i'l.Mli. I .£. i\ l_' 1. 1 .0. Full many a bard of Memory sings. Ati(I hope hath oft inspired the rhyme But who the charm of music hrinr::s To celebrate the present time. L,?t the pt?t?u!.)t\<?f' future cheer, Wni'e youth and health .ire In their p:i']1"; :iii,l lic:ilt?, .?r,? ?n t?i?lr That awful point —tlu present time Fulfil the ollt;es of the ,lav- The next mav hear thy funeral chime So shalt thou wing thy glorious way Where all sha'.i be-the present time. -(I'(, I.-ilei-s'sI

CLEVERLY TURNED. I In 1771 Hebrew brokers were limited to twelve and the privilege was always purchased by a liberal gratuity to the lord mayor. During this year, the mayoralty of '■V'ilks, one of the privileged being at the point of death, Wilks, with characteristic boldness, openly calculated on ilie advantage to he obtained, and was very particular i'lhis inquiries after the sick man. The rumour that Wilks had openly expressed a wish for the death of the Hebrew was spread by the wags of Change Alley, and the son of the broker sought, his lordship to roproacn him with his cupidity. "My dear fellow," replied Wilks, with the readiness peculiar to him, "YOU arc greatly in error. I would sooner have seen all the Jew- brokers dCJ.<1 than your father." MAI.TITU.-J AT A DISCOUNT IN" RUSSIA. I A numerous family is quite a treasure to a Russian peasant. The number of his sons increases the number of acres of land which he farms, and his cbu!1;hters are married off-hand. lie is not asked to provide them with a marriage portion nay, he is sometimes even pad for them. The lower classes, in almost every part of Europe, think it a curse to have many children in Russia they are a royal road to wealth. Hence the population in- creases very fast, and would do so much faster if the children were not killed by over-feeding. Ten or twelve .children are what one might call the usual allowance of a married couple in Russia, but one-third of them die in their infancy. The extraordinary abundance of the ne- cessaries of life is a powerful encouragement to mar- riage, and old bachelors and old maidships arc things one scarcely ever hears of. Some frightful abuses result from this state of tilings. A late traveller in Russia tells us of boys of six and seven years of age who were actually married to bouncing young women of four-and- twenty. lIe states the case of wives who carried their husbands about in their arms. These unnatural mar- riages were a source of the most disgraceful connexions. Though the child, was husband de jure, his father was husband defacto. When the boy grew up he found his wedded wife an old woman, and made all haste to have one of her sons married to some girl whose acre and ap- pe irance were more congenial to his taste. Baron Hax- thausen confirms this statement, and informs us that though the practice has of late been forbidden by law, it is still upheld by t11. custom of the country and by mo- tives of interest.— Frazer's Magazine. A TELL-TALE BURNED. Under the Pl.lham ;vlmin!stration members received regular stipends in bank-notes.fron E-500 to £ S00 yearly, varying according to the influence or ability of the senator. This largess I distributed," added the per- son who took charge of the delicate department—and the particulars are w,)rtli enitineratino: in the court of request on the day of the prorogation of parliament. I took my stand there and as the gentlemen passed me, in going ur returning from the house, I conveyed the money in a squeeze of the hand. Whatever person received the ministerial bounty, I entered his name in a book which was preserved in the deepest secresv, it being never inspected but by the King and Mr. Pelham." This book was afterwards demanded of Mr. Roberts, the almoner, but he rcso'utely refused to yield it except by the King's express command, or to his Majesty in person. In consequence of his refusal the King sent for him to St. James's, where he was introduced into the closet. He was then ordered to return the book in question, with which injunction Mr. Roberts imme- diately complied. At the same time, taking the poker in his hand, his Majesty put it into the fire, made it led hot, and, while his ministers and Mr. Roberts stood around him, he thrust the book into the flames, where it was immediately reduced to ashes.—Ibid. THE FUNBll.VT, OF HOWARD. ) His death fell on the mind of Europe like an ominous shadow the melancholy wail of grief which arose on the Dnieper was echoed from the Thames, and soon re- echoed from the Tagus, 1111,1 the Neva, and the Dar- danelles. Everywhere Howard had friends-more than could be thought till death cut oiF restraint, and threw the flood-gates of sympathy wide open. Then the afflu- ent tide rolled in like the dawn of a summer day. Cber- sonwentir.to (leep mourning for the illustrious stran- ger; and there was hardly a person in the province who was not greatly affected on learning that hehad chosen to nxhisnnalrestln?-place on the Russian soil. In defiance of his own wishs on the subject, the enthusiasm of the people improvised a public funeral. The Prince of Moldavia, Admirals Priestman and MordvinofF, all the generals and staff officers of the garrison, the whole body of the magistrates and merchants of the province, and a large party of cavalry, accompanied by an im- mense cavalcade of private persons, formed the funeral procession. Nor was the grief by any means confined to the higher orders. In the wake of the more stately band of mourners, followed oil foot a concourse of at least three thousand persons—slaves, prisoners, sailors, soldiers, peasants —men whose best and most devoted friend the hero of these martial honours had ever been and from this humble train of followers, arose the truest, tendercst expression of respect and sorrow for the dead. When the funeral pomp was over, the remains of their benevolent benefactor lowered into the earth, and the proud procession of the great had moved aivay-thei would these simple chilùrc-II of the soil steal noiselessly to the edge of the deep grave, and with their hearts full of grief, whisper in low voices to each other of all that they had seen and known of the good stranger's acts of charity and kindness. Good indeed he had been to them. Little used to acts or words of love "rciii their own Ionls, they Lad felt the power of his mi id. manner, his tender devotion to them, only the more deeply from its novelty. To them how irreparable the loss The higher ranks had lust the grace of a benignant presence in their high circle; but they—the poor, the friendless, had lost in him their friend, almost their father. Nature is ever true thev felt how much that grave had robbed them of. Not a dry eye was seen amongst them and looking sadly down into the hole where all that now re- mained of their physician lay, they marvelled much why he, a stranger to them, had left his homo red friends mid country, to become the unpaid servant ,,i' "i(, poor in a land so far away; and not knowing how, in their I simptchearts,to account for this, they silently uroppeu their tears into his grave, and slowly moved awav —won- dering at all that they had seen and known of him who I was now deakl, all thinking sadly of the long, long time, ere they might find another friend like him The hole s.va.sthcnnUedup—and what had once been Howard was see n of '.nan no more. A smalt pyramid was raised above the spot, instcad of the sun-dial which he had himself su??cstcd; &nd the ca-u?! tmveHer in Russian Tartary is still attracted to the piacea'soneof the holiest shrines of which this earth call boast—Howard and the I Prison World of Europe. CAREER OF A MOSEY I!TALES. I Bred a hosier at Aberdeen, Alexander Fordyce found the North too confined for any extensive operation and, rcpairill to L¡ol¡ÙOI1, as the only place worthy his genius, obtained employment as clerk to a city banking-house. JIcre he displayed great facility for figures, with great attention to business, and rose to the post of junior part- ner in the firm of HuSey. Neal, and James. Scarcely was he thus established, ere he began to speculate in the Alley, and generally with marked good fortune. The devil temp's young sinners with success, —and Mr. Fordyce, thinking his luck would be per- petual, ventured for sums which involved his own character and his partner's fortune. The game was with him, the funds were constantly on the rise; and, fortunate as daring, he was enabled to purchase a large estate, to support a grand appearance, to surpass nabobs in extravagance, and parvenus in lolly. He marked the marble with his name," upon a church which he ostentatiously built. liis ambition vied with his extra- vagance, and his extravagance kept pace with his ambi- tion. '1 he Aberdeen hosier sent thousands in attempting to become a senator, and openly avowed his hope of dying a pier, lie married a woman of title made a fine set- tlement oil her ladyship; purchased estates in Scotland at a fancy value buiit a hospital and founded charities in the place of which he hoped to become the representa- tive. But a change came over his fortunes. Some political events first shook him. A sensible blow was given to his career by the a (lair of Faulkland Island and he had recourse to his partners' private funds to supply his deficicnces. Like many who are tempted to appropriate the property of others, he trusted to replace it by some lucky stroke of good fortune; and redoubled his speculation on the Stock Exchange. Reports reached his partners, who grew alarmed. They liarl witnessed and partaken of his good for tune, and they had rejoiced in the far ken which lizt(I d the fcrvices of so clever a person but when thy saw that the chances were going against hiin, they remonstrated with all the cncrgv of men whose fortunes hang- on the success of t}¡.,ir remonstrances. A cool and insolent contempt for their opinion, coupied with the remark, that he was quite disposed to leave them to manage a concern to which they were utterly incompetent, startled them ar.d when, with a cunning which provided for everything, an enor- mous amount of Lank notes, which Fordyce had borrowed for the purpose, was shown them, their faith in his genius returned with the possession of the magic paper —am! it is doubtful whether the plausibility of his manner or the rustle of the notes decided them. But ill fortune con- tinued to follow Mr. Fordyce. His combinations were as fine, his plans as skilful, as ever. His mind was as perspective as when he first began but unexpected, f.ct upset his theories, and the price of the funds would not yield to his combinations. Every one said he deserved to wii but he still continued to lose. Speculation suc- ccetlnl speculation and it is remarkable that. with all his great and continued losses, he retained to the I .st hour a cool and calm self-possession. After availing himself of every possible resource, his partners were sur- prised by his absenting himself from the banking house. This, with other causes, t.^casioned all immediate stop- page, and a bankruptcy which spread far and wide. But Mr. Fordyce was not abseut long. He returned at the risk of his life the public feeling being: so viol: nt that it was necessary to guard him against the populace, while lie detailed atissue of unsurpassed fraud and folly. He inanfuilv took the blame upon himself, and exonerated his partners from all save an undeserved confidence. The failures continued in the commercial world, lie broke half the people in town. Glyn and Halifax were gazet- ted as bankrupts; Drummouds were only saved by General Sn yth, a nabob-the orininal of Foote's Si. Matthew Mite—supporting their house with 150,000, Two gentlemen ruined by the extravagance of the city banki r, shot themselves. Throughout London lite panic, tq .al !o anything of a later date, but of shorter duration, jj'. ta.d with the velocity of wildfire, and part of the press u. muted to the Bank the merit ofsllp(Jortir.i{ the credit ()f the city, ",hile part asserted that it causeu the panic. 1' first families were in tears; nor is trie consternation «') :>r i i :.g, when it is llii,,t bills to the amo. o: ':I¡:; U: ::Ill: !¡r: J.¡¡¡ v II 1J I L" ¡ t:) It,nt}II: iz verk, ?ll Lill find Chn- T? 1 T   'I-(. r;L'.rí't.

l'¡l-'I(-)T; 'W-'I)V" "J' r \.YI) TH1-: iiERMOXDsEY MURDER.—'i RIAL AND CONVICTION OF THE MANN IN JS. On Tuesday nil the property found in the possession ,.f Mr- Manning (not identified as belonging to O'C"II- nor) was seized by a process issued fronl the Sheriff's office, at the suit of lr, Binns, Manning's solicitor. Mr. iiinns retained 1.. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Charnock and Mr. Sanders, ami on Monday delivered to them their voluminous briefs, with their fees, amounting to nearly GO folios, which, with other expenses, %vill exceed L:))f) and all the money which had been :1110\('1\ l,iEl to defend Manning is £ •> 10s. which amount was also delivered up to Mr. Solomon, Mrs. Manning's solicitor, who merely retained the usual counsel attending the Old Bailey sessions. Mr. Binns submitted to the commissioners of police and to the Secretary of State the names of the counsel he had retained, and informed them that the sum he had recei- ved would nnt pay the fees to Mr Sergeant Wilkins alone. He, therefore, demanded the whole of thc property taken from Mrs. Manning, so that he might dispose of it, and raise sufficient money to enable him to do justice to him- self and his client. Not receiving an answer in the affir- mative, Ir. ninn, served a ii-rit oil bnnin for £10:) expenses paid for liiin, aiicl informed the magistrate at the Southwark Police Court, the commissinners of police and Secretary of State of his intention to enforce his demand in a lztivftil iiiaiiner. On Monday a judge's order was obtained, and on Tuesday evening the sheriffs Inri orders to seize the property but the police authorities expressed themselves determined not to lose sight of the property until they received a distinct order from the judges or the Crown to deliver it up. The property con- sisted of a quantity of female wearing apparel of consider- able value; gold rings, brooches, and trinkets two gold watches, chains, &c. Mr. Binns contended that the pro- perty in question had nothing to do with the charge against the prisoners, and that it ought to be handed over to Manning, for the defence of himself and his wife. In the course of Tuesday the grand jury found true bills for wilful murder against both the prisoners. THE TRIAL. On Thursday the trial commenced and the Central Criminal Court was crowded, the judges, the Chief Baron and Justices Maule and Crcsswell, had little more than elbow-room on the bench itself. Very many, moreover, in spite of coaxings, threatenings, and even the offerings of bribes, hail to go away without so much as the pleasure of a glimpse at the accused. Before the judges took their seats and the business commenced, there was a busy handing of ladies to seats, while a merry conver- sational hum generally prevailed, most of the audience seeming in high spirits. Toutas were running about to tempt people (they do the like, or used to do it before a better system prevailed, at gambling-booths or race- courses, only less rorivarcllv)-to tempt peopie.we say, to buy disengaged seats in the gallery, fanned out for these occasions by the wisdom of our civic conscript fathers prices were very high about those of the Ita- i lian Opera on a Jenny Lind night. Some of the ladies were in very gay attire. Among the distinguished visitors" were the Swedish Minister and his secretaiy the Austrian Mini-tor and his secretiry the Secretary of the Prussian Legation the Marquis of Azeglio, bro- ther to the Sardinian Minister; the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires; the Marquis of Hertford; Lord Strailgford rector of ?S t. '?\ l ?Lr y Lord llowden the Rev. Mr. Gibson, rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey the Lady Mayoress, and Mrs. Wilkiii,, the wife of the learned sergeant. Soon after the judges arrived, opera-glasses were directed towards the stage -we mean the dock-for Mr. and Mrs Manning were conducted thither. Mnnnini* was dressed in blnek and looked pale, and thinner, ami downcast. His wife hIlt we will be here indebted to the Sunbae is considerably altered, the blooming appearance and flesh- ness of her countenance, which was so much remarked before, having given p lace to a pale Hue, and to an anxious expression. Her dress was .->imi ar to the one she has hitherto worn, with some sligut exceptions. She had on no bonnet, and a better view, therefore, of her countenance could be obtained. Her hau was dressed with long crepe bands, a small plain cap p aeed far back on the crown in the French fashion, and a long sash of white muslin placed on the head and tied under the chin the ends hanging down. A light-C'i.ourei plaid shawl hung loosely over her shoulders, and she wore a very fine pair of straw-coloured kid gloves, which were set off by large ruffles round the wrist." The counsel for the Crown were the Attorney-General, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Clarkson.and Mr. Manning was defended by Mr. Sergeant W llkins and Mr. Char- nock, and Mrs. Manning by Mr. Ballantyne and Mr Parry. The solicitors for the prisoners, Mr Linns and Mr. 'Solomons, were present. Manning having been called upon to plead answered loudly and confidently, "Xot guilty." Mr. Ballantyne then said Ihe tcmale prisoner, Maria Manning, prays your lordships to award her a jury dc mcdietntt linguce, on the ground that she is an alien, and ought to have a jury composed half of fo- reigners. A short discussion followed the result of which was that the question be deferred until the pnsoners had both pleaded. The male prisoner was again asked if he \Va" guilty or no. O'uiltv aud in a low('r but still conti- dent tone he said, Not guilty a similar question was also put to the female prisoner, and her reply was Not guilty," but so low that it could scarcely be heanl, Mr. I^llantyne then renewed his application, which was supported by Mr. rarry and opposed by the Attor- ney-General. The court ruled that the trial should proceed, but a demurrer was allowed. Whilst this matter was being discussed, Mrs. Manning grew paler and was allowed a chair. The Alton. y-Gcneral then stated the case, going through the pa, ticulars which are familiar to the public; and he then called the following witnesses Policeman Barnes proved the finding of the body of Patrick O'Connor buried in the back kitchen of the house occupied bv the prisoners, 3, Miniver-place, Lermondscy it was in th? midst of quick lime. IIea]sodetai)ed nndin'? a cash-box at O'Connor's lodKin?s (20, Green-I wond-strcet, Miic-end). in which were 1. 0. U.'s, but no money.—Policeman Burton ?ave similar and coiroboia- tive cvil(,Ilce. i. -,)od, the surgeon, proved that O'Connor had been shot through the head, and that liis skull had also been battered with some blunt, neavy instrument, 16 pieces of bone having been extracted. O'Connor's false teeth were identified by Mr. Tomlin, the dentist, who made th -m.—Mr. P. Walsh then repeated his evidence as to having accompanied O Connor on a visit to the prisoners on the night before the murder is supposed to have been committed.—Other witnesses proved having seen O'Connor alive on the evening of Aug. 0 deposing also to O Connor s intimacy with the Mannings and the purchase of the lime and crow- bar. Some of the witnesses were cross examined, but no new facts of the slightest interest were elicited their evidence is well known to all news- paper readers, so that to republish it would be mere waste of space. Sophia Payne, who lived next door to Manning, proved letting him through her house into his (ho getting over the garden-wall) on the Monday after the murder. On the (alleged) evening of the murder, she had some talk with Manning on indifferent matters, as he sat smoking on the garden-wall. She left home at half-past seven, and did not return until eleven. — Cross-examined bv Mr. Sergeant Wilkins When I first saw him it was light, lie appeared as usu 1. I do not know that they paid particular attention to the flowers in their gard -n, nor did I ever observe any particular flowers in the garden. We can hear persons moving about when there is a bustle in the next house, but we arc rather quiet. The lithographing business is carried on in our house. We had our tea about five, and then we were very quiet. It was half an hour before I left home that I saw Manning. Mr. Flynn, an officer in the customs, proyed calling on Mrs. Manning on the Saturday, O'Connor having been lost sight of on the Thursday evening. Mrs. Manning said she knew nothing as to where he was, adding that he was a fickle-minded man, but the best friend they had in London. She accounted for turning pale, by saying she had been ill. Her last remark to witness was; You gentlemen are very susceptible." ,Ir. Flynn tI):o:o corroborated the police it's eviderice as to the state of O'Conner's cash-box. Ann Armes, O'Connor's landlady, proved his inti- macy with the Mannings, and that after his uisappcar- ance no one had been in his room but the female prisoner, who was alone in the room for some time on the Friday. Witness and her sister also deposed as to the cash- box, the key of which O'Connor always kept on his person. William Massey, medical student, resided with the Mannings for II weeks; left on the 28tl, July, as they were anxious he should leave; saw O'Connor frequently there. The male prisoner asked what would produce stupefaction, w hether chloroform, or laudanum lie said O'Connor was afraid of the cholera, and bade me frighten him about it, aild persuade him to take brandy as a cure for it. He asked what part of the head would be most fatal to strike, also what put of the head the brain was. Mary Wells proved the male prisoner purchased lime in the latter end of July, as lie said I'tv kill slugs in his garden. Richard Welsh proved he delivered the lime to the female prisoner, and made him put it iii a basket in the kitchen. Mr. Cahili then proved that on the 8th of August he sold Mrs. Manning a shovel, and carried it to her resi- dence (shovel produced and identified). Eliza Firmer, a girl of twelve years old, proved assisting Mrs. Manning to clean the house on the Saturday, washing away lime, ftc. but Mrs. Manning did not let her clean the Lack kitchen, savine she had done it herself. Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantyne: TIley kept me till seven, and gave me Gd. They were not angry with n.. I took something away with me I'll tell the truth, and that will go the furthest. (Laughter.) I can't !ell everything. (Lat,h'cr. ) I took an egg and a r;wr. I took the egg out of the larder when their backs were turned. I took also a purse that came out o! the drawer. I took also some stockings. 1 hey came out of the cupboard in the kitchen. There wa? no dress nor petticoat. I don't remember if there was a bottle. Mr. Coleman, the landlord, then proved that the Man- nings were his tenants iu Mmiver-place. William Danby proved that the male prisoner ordered a crowbar at his master's, Mr. Evans, of Kiug William Street; said as he was taking it to 3, Minver Place, he met the male prisoner, who said be ought to have cove red it, as he did not wish everybody to see what he was pur- chasing. He then bought some brown paper,and covered the crowbar, and tohl hir.) to take it to his house, which he dicl, (lelivered it to Mrs. Manning, who paid him 3s. fill. for it. Identified the crowbar. Superintendent IIaincs ?ave cvidence as to the con- tents found in the two boxes at the Brighton station, and also as to his conversation with the male prisoner whi:" on his way by the railway from Southampton to London and the cjurt then adjourned. The court continued filled un'. the conclusion of the proceeed:ngs. At fhe it was lige .ci. up, and presented an imposing appear- ance. Several persons were comfortably accommodated with seats in the (hick, close to the prisoners and kept staring at them iuten'.ly. This was only of a piece with lettiii'/ seats in the gallery; why not to the other parts of t.ie house ?" Let it not bethought, that wc mock the solemnity of our courts of justice the mockcry is with them who encourage or allow such batterings of seats. Tin was d at tcu nYiod; on Fri-l. y morn- i irr, :.t,¡._I(J v.i'b u': Ihuiniii.rd c \ciu iu.. Ht and an audience no less crowded than on the first day. The I jury, who passed the night under lock and k, v in tic London Coffee-house, were brought into court under the guardianship of three officers in whose charge they had remained since the preceding evening. The first witness examined was Mr. W. Odling, who said—I am a chemist. I have examined a dress which was given to me by Superintendent Haynes. I have submitted the stains upon it to III,. usual chemical tests, and I have come to the conclusion that they were made by blood. By the Court.—The experiments I tried excluded the opinion that the stains were anything else than blood. There is no direct or positive test to ascertain the pre- sence of blood. Mr. F. W. Stevens said —I am a stock and share-bro- ker, and was acquainted with the late Patrick O'Conifor, and did business for him. On the 0th of August I de- livered to him ten shares of the Sambre and Mouse Rail- way. On the 11 th of May I had delivered to him ten shares in the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. The shares produced by Mr. Moxhay are the same I pur- chased for the deceased Mr. O'Connor. Mr. John Hayward saiù-I am clerk in the office of the solicitur fur the Treasury. I was present when a person named John Bassett was examined at the police court. I believe that he is since dead. I saw him pro- duce a scrip certificate and an assignment on the 7th of September last. They have been in my possession ever since, and I now them. Mr. Green —The certificate produced is the original one granted to Mr. O'Connor, and the assignment pur- ports to be an assignment by him. Mr. Shillibeer—1 am an attorney. I know the male prisoner. I do not believe that the signature to this assignment is his. There is no resemblance whatever. Mr. Hammond said—I am clerk to Messrs. Killiek and Co., stock-brokers. The assignment now produced was brought to me by John Bassett. The male prisoner was present. Ile produced the shares, and he said he wanted £ 110 for them, :tnd I gave him that amount in a £100 note, a E,) note, and five sovereigns. This was on the 11th of August. The prisoner represented himself to be Mr. O'Connor. The money was handed over to him by Bassett. I did not hear the name of O'Connor mentioned, but I took it from the transfer paper. On 20th of August I went to the Bank of England, to stop payment of the note, and I found it had been changed. Mr. Griffith, a clerk in the Bank of England, said the jLlOOnotcnowproduced was brought to the Bank to be changed on Saturday, the 11th of August. The prisoner, who brought the note, wrote upon it Frederick Man- ning, 7, New Weston-strect, Bermondsey." Mr. J. 11. Adams, another clerk, in the Bank of England, deposed to giving the prisoner E-50 in five LIO notes. The notes found upon the female prisoner by Mr. Moxhay, were produced and identified by the witness. Henry Barnes recalled —I have expressly gone from Miniver-place to Greenwood-street on foot, in a cab, and in ail ominbus. On foot the time occupied was 42 mi- nutes, in a cab 2-5 minutes, aud in an omnibus 35 mi- nutes. The Attorney-General said that was the case on the prwrt of the prosecution. Mr. Serjeant Wilkins addressed the jury on the part of tile male prisoner. Ile stood in a most diiffcult posi- tion, having to answer the first counsel in the land, having to defend his client against a most atrocious charge,and having to be tullowed by a learned friend whose duty it would be to repudiate all he could advance, and use his utmost efforts to ensure the conviction of his unfortunate client. What was the nature of the defence which he intended to set up ? Why, the same set up by the prisoner at the moment of his arrest, and in which he had persisted ever since. It was quite clear that O'Connor had been murdered by some one, and the pro- bability was that the murder was committed on Thurs- day, the 9th of August. As to the place there might be some difficulty. But the important question was, by whom was the murder committed? Theontysusptcious eircumstance against the male prisoner was the fact of his purchasing the lime and crow-bar. But he had no doubt that lie had been the dupe and instrument of his wife, who had employed him on various occasions for purposes with which he was wholly unacquainted. \V ith respect to the purchase of the lime, the probability was that Manning's wife had desired him to procure it for the destruction of slugs and other vermin in the garden. And as to the crow-bar, was there any appearance of mystery connected with the purchase of that article ? He went to a respectable shop and gave his name and address without the slightest hesitation. If he had sought secrecy why did he not take the crow-bar home himself? Instead of doing so he allowed it to be taken home by another person. It was quite clear that Mrs. Manning knew all about the purchase of the crow-bar. Now there was not the least appearance of concert between the two prisoners in the commission of this murder. Then could it have been committed by one person ? Most certainly. Could one person have effected the concealment ? Undoubtedly. Then if one person could have committed the crime, let the jury consider the motive by which the perpetrator must have been ac- tuated. It was said that Manning was jealous of his wife, but all his actions showed that lie was much too easy with respect to her visits to O'Connor. All the evidence went to show that the male prisoner was not guilty, but that the murder had been committed by the wife, and he would show that she was fully capable of committing such an act—that she was capable of the most consum- mate wickedness, and was able to conceal her actions in a most extraordinary manner. The learned gentle- man then proceeded to analyse the evidence. Everything went to show that the influence exercised upon Mr. O'Connor was the influence of Mrs. Manning, for she it was who invited him to dinner, who visited his lodg- ings, and who had been actuated throughout the whole of their connection by feelings ofcupidity. She knew the na- ture of his property, was aware of all his secrets, and was afterwards found in possession of various articles which were proved to have been the property of her unfortu- nate victim. He did not mean to say that the male I prisoner might not have assented to the concealment, from the regard which he felt for his wife; but there was nothing to show that he knew the murder was in- tended to be committed, or that he participated in the act. He had been coinplc ely deceived throughout the whole transaction by his wife. who eventually left him without his knowledge, taking away everything she could lay her hands upon. The account given by Man- hingof the mode in which the murder was committed bore every appearance of probability, and showed that he had been completely duped by his wife, who had evidently long been preparing to leave him. The learned gentleman concluded by saying, that he had been called upon to do what had been to a him a lacerating and agonising task, that of acting as the representative of the husband, who sought to criminate and convict his wife. Ir. Ballantyne then made his address on behalf of Mrs. Manning. He s;ticl the p,.t.),;ent was a most unpa- ralleled proceeding in a criminal court—a husband, who ought to have been the protector of his wife, was her denouncer, aii,,l Ile endeavoured to cscape by consigning her to the scaffold. He must confess that he was sur- prised that his learned friend should have felt himself compelled by his duty to tak"tlie course he did in at- tacking the unfortunate worn;.a at the bar in the manner he did, and he could assure him he did not intend to follow his example. He should proceed as shortly as possible to comment upon the evidence. He should accuse no one—he should denounce no one—but he should ask them whether the evidence satisfied them of the guilt of the female prisoner for whom he appeared. The learned counsel then commented on certain points 111 the evidence. O'Connor was seen twice on London- bridge, the first time about five, and again at half-past five, as if wavering whether he should go or not to Min- ver-place. The dinner hour of the Mannings was about five, and most likely it was before half-past five; and the female prisoner finding that O'Connor did not come, was it not probable that she left the house with the ill- tention of going to the residence of O'Connor? The Misses Arnus stated she reached his lodgings at a quarter before six, and left at a quarter to seven. The distance had not been measured, but it had been proved that it was three miles. It was probable that she walked, and to do so she must have left Minvcr-place at five, so that if the murder was committed at half-past five Alrs. Manning could net have been present at its commission. This was an important matter for the jury to consider, for upon it huns; the life or death of the accused. Then arose out of this these questions Was O' Connor mur- dered when she was absent, or after she came back ? Before she went out she might have been a guilty ac- cessory to a murder which was to be committed. Was she really an accessory bef ore the fact ? lie argued that she was not. The shattered head of the murdered man, and indeed the whole violence connected with the murder, were more the acts of a man than a woman. With respcet to the crow-bar, as it was called, it was a common tiling for persons to say, when about to make a pure!, se, "I shall send so and so home;" and he mirht have said I shall send a chisel home for some work I have to do." Manning stopped the man who was carrying it, and had it wrapped in paper, and Mrs. Manning might be utterly ignorant of what the parcel contained. Then the spots upon the dress were proved to be ironmoulds and not marks of blood. It was true there were mark's of blood on the toilet cover, bit, there were a hundred ways of accounting for blood upon such an article with nit an in fere ties of crime. Respecting the plunder of O'Connor's boxes by his client, the learned counsel argued that she had only taken her own lj;t, l lived in tile property out of them. Mrs. Manning bad lived in the service of families of distinction, and had no duubt saved some money,and hence the conversation with O'Connor about investing a small sum of money in Sambre and Mouse shares, which she wished to possess without the knowledge or her husband. Shortly bc-fore the munlr they found O'Connor purchasing Sambre and Meuse and Amiens and Boulogne and it was not unreasonable to suppose that the shares were purchased with her money. It was shewn that she had taken nothing but s hares or she might liave gone to see if there was the wi!! of which they had heard something, and that O'Connor intended to h'ave her his property. Admitting that there wire some facts, not, however, clear, that she knew of the intent to murder vet the balance of facts tended the other way. The learned counsel concluded an eloquent at four o'clock, by imploring the jury to give the prisoner the benefit of anyA>ubt that rUlght sllgest itsl'lf to them. The Attorney-General having replied, the Tjord Chief Baron proceeded to sum up. The questions they had to decide were, first, whether the deceased came by his death fiom violence and. secondly, whether either or both prisoners inflicted it. Whether both committed the act, or only one of them, did not much matter, if the jury thought there had been any previous connivance between them. If they did, then the two prisoners were both equally guilty, although only one oi taem iufiictcd the violence on the deceased but if they thought the act was committed by one, without the knowledge or concurrence of the other, then their verdict must he only against that one. In deciding who it was that in- flicted the violence, the jury must not be gaicled by minute circumstances; they must look rather at the direct evidence which hore. upon the case. He would not go through the evidence in detail, but should con- tent himself by directing their attention to some of the chief circumstances disclosed. The male prisoner had admitted that he was present when the woman fired a pistol against the deceased, and :1.S against him that was conclusive. With regard to the act itself there- was only direct evidence that the deceased was rOlli,1! dead in the prisoners' house the other evidence was •purely of a circumstantial character. The deceased was 1:It seen alive on Thursday afternoon, the 9th of Au- gust, ami the evidee.ee which they had to consider related Cll(nV ?•> :;roc:ccJi!11S occurring nuh&ty: .eutly tv tllüt ( event, such as the fcenale prisoner's entering the de- ceased's lodgings, and his box, though locked, being afterwards found empty of anything valuable, tiie sale of shares which were known to belong to the deceased, and the flight and confessions of the prisoners. It would be their duty to well weigh all the evidence, and if, after looking at it in a common-sc-nsc point of view, it established the conclusion that the prisoners concocted and carried out, either singly with the connivance of the other, or together, a scheme to commit this murder, when they must find them guilty accordingly. It was their province to decide whether it was withill the scope of probability that this murder could have been com- mitted hy one prisoner without the knowledge of the other. Should they think that were possible, then they must acquit the one and convict the other; but if, on the other hand, they did not believe it was, then they must find them both guilty. The jury retired at six o'clock, and, after a consulta- tion of three quarters of an hour, returned a verdict of "GUILTY" against both prisoners. The prisoners ha,ill been asked in the usual way whether they had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon them, Mrs. Manning, in a state of great excitement, ad- dressed the Court, as follows. She spoke with a strong foreign accent, and with remarkable vehemence, her ex- citement appearing to supply her with fluency of speech —" There is no justice (she said) and no right for a foreign subject in this country. There is no law for me. I have had no protection-Iwither from the judges, nor from the prosecutors, nor from my husband. I am un- justly condemned by this Cuun. If I were in my own country I could prove that I had money sent from abroad, which is now in the Bank of England. My solicitors and counsel could have called witnesses to identify shares that were bought with my own money. Mr. O'Connor was more to me than my husband. He was a friend and brother to me ever since I came to this country. I knew him for seven years. He wanted to marry me, and I ought to have been married to him. I have letters which would prove his respect and regard for me, and I think, considering that I am a woman and alone, that I have to fight against the prosecutors, and that even the judge himself is against me, I think that I am not treated like a Christian, but like a wild beast of the forest, and the judges and jury will have it upon their consciences for giving a verdict against me. I am not guilty of the murder of Mr. O'Connor. If I had wished to commit murder I would not have attempted the life of the only friend I had in the world-a nun who would have made me his wife in a week if I had been a widow. I have lived in respectable families, and can produce testimo- nials of character for probity in every respect, if inquiry is made. I can account for more money than was equal to the trifling shares that were found upon me. If my husband, through jealousy and a revengeful feeling against O'Connor, chose to murder him, I don't see why I should be punished for it. I wish I could have ex- pressed myself better in the English language." Manning said nothing. Mr. Justice Cresswell (who, in the absence of the Chief Baron, delivered judgment) then put on the black cap and addressed the prisoners as follows:—Frederick GeorgeManning,and Maria Manning, you have been convicted of the crime of murder,— Mrs. Manning (vehemently).—No, no I won't stand it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. There is neither law nor justice here. (She then turned round as if to leave the dock, but was prevented by Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, who stood behind her.) Mr. Justice Cresswcll.—You have been defended by able counsel. Every topic which ingenuity or experience had taught them would be at all available for your de- fence has been urged by them. You have been found guilty by a jury upon evidence which, I will venture to say, could leave no rational doubt upon the mind of any human being who heard it. A verdict of guilty is the only one which the jury could conscientiously return. Had they failed to return that verdict, it would have been very difficult indeed to convince me that they had not shrunk from their duty. (The female prisoner again attempted to speak, but the judge, without noticing the interruption,proceeded.) Murder is the highest crime that one individual can commit against another in this country. It is at all times a horrible ofience; the present murder was one of the most cold-blooded and deliberately calculated I ever remember to have heard or read of. Under the pretence of friendship, or rather affection—for such was the description of the invitation of the tith -under that pretence you unhappily deluded him to a place where his grave was probably then pre- pared, and wheie the deed was afterwards committed which had, no doubt, been for days contemplated. It is one of the most appalling instances of human wicked- ness which the annals of this court can furnish. It has been suggested that the deceased led a vicious course of life with one of you prisoners; but, whether that was so or not I profess not to judge; that rests with your own conscience. But, whatever was his course of life, without a moment's warning or preparation, without the slightest opportunity of thinking of futurity, or en- deavouring to seek pardon for any offences lie had com- mitted, that unhappy man was hurried into eternity. The law, more merciful, allows to you a space of time fur preparation. It appears that on a former occasion a conversation passed between one of you and the witness Massey as to where the soul of a person who had com- mitted a murder would go. The time has; arrived when you should ask that question again. As I cannot hold out the slightest hope of a commutation of the sentence which I am about to pronounce, I am bound to tell you that, as far as my judgment goes, your doom is irre- trievably fixed when that sentence is passed. I advise you therefore to resort with all humility, and all contri- tion, to the advice and counsel of the minister of the Gospel appointed to attend you. From him you will re- ceive all the consolation which, in your unhappy condi- tion, he can, ill tite faithful discharge of his duties, afford you. From him you will learn what you have to fear. He will no doubt point out to you, in strong terms, the full extent of your guilt;, and I am sure he will rejoice if he can conscientiously holdout to you any hope of that pardon hereafter which, in this world, is impossible. I consign yW-\ to his advice, aud pyay you to piofit by it. m atever sorrow, or even indignation, you may really feel, or affect to feel, as to the course of proceeding this day, depend upon it that others will judge differently; and I doubt whether every one who has heard the trial will not be as well satisfied as I am that the result is the only one consistent with justice. Having given you this warning and advice, which I pray you once more to receive in all humility, it remains for me only to pro- nounce the dread sentence of the law, which is that you be taken hence to Her Majesty's gaol for the county of Surrey, and thence to the place of execution, and there to be severally hanged by the neck until you be dead and that afterwards your dead bodies be bllriell within the precincts of the gaol in which you shall be eonfincd after this sentence and may the Lord have mercy upon your souls Mrs. Manning was again proceeding to address the Court, when she was ordered to be removed. She ex- claimed that it was shameful to pass such a sentence upon her, ar.d some persons near her allege that they hear d her add base England but these words did not reach its. According to custom the bench in front of the dock was strewn with rllc. Taking some of this III her hand she threw it into the body (1f the court, as if by that contemptuous act she could find some relief from the excitement under which she laboured. She was im- mediately removed by Mr. Cope and a female turnkey. Manning in..ely bowed to the Court and retired. lie seemed very subdued, but retained his self-possession. The proceedings closed shortly after 7 o'clock. Immediately after the sentence of death had been pro- nounced on Friday, the Mannings were taken back to Newgate previous to their removal to llorsemonger- lane. The violence of the female prisoner became still greater when she left the dock, and rose to such a height that she poured dreadful imprecations upon all around her. She was offered refreshment, but furiously refused to take any, and bitterly inveighed against her legal ad viser, against the jury that had condemned her, and against England generally. The terrible excitement under which she laboured may be conceived from the oath which she frequently uttered—" D n seize you all!" When a handcuff was first placed on her wrist her rage and despair knew no bounds; and she- shook her clenched fists in the faces of the officers. Man- ning on the other hand, exhibited the same submissive and dejected manner as during his trial. At half-past 7 o'clock they were both removed in separate cabs from Nvwgate to Horscmonger-lane Gaol. While in the cab Mrs. Manning's mood underwent a singular change ,t cle .vll ich bound her to one she joked about the manacle which bound her to one of her keepers, and bade farewell to Newgate quite in the Jack Sheppard style. Reverting to the scene in the dock immediately before her removal, she said, "I showed them resolution, dill I not, fcjfie also spoke of her husband, saying, I had plenty of opportunity to speak to him in the gaol and during the trial, but I would not. He did not speak to me, thank God, the uumanlv wretch," and, suiting the action to the last words, she kicked the opposite seat of the cab con- temptuously with her foot. An advertising van passed, upon which enormous placards were displayed, an- nouncing 0 a full report of the trial in some weekly journal. This attracted the wretched woman's eye, and again for a short time roused her furious passions. Oil arriving at slic was conducted to the condemned cell, and on entering it burst into a Hood of tears, sobbing and stamping the floor in the wild agony of mind which she endured. During the early part of Friday night her rest was broken i-,i cl uneasy, but towards morning she slept soundly, and on rising ate a hearty breakfast. The chaplain of the prison waited on her SlIon after 8 o'clock, but she refused to see him, and asserted that she had been unjustly con- victed. Manning, while lie has not given way to violcnce of conduct like his wife, appears to delude himself with ttic, i-Leit that his life may yet be spared. On Saturday he had an interview with the Rev. Mr. Hoe, the gaol chaplain, and it is rumoured that he has made a con- fession of his crime. On Sunday afternoon Captain Williams, one of the Inspectors of prisons, accompanied by Mr. Keene, the Governor, and Mr. Moore, his de- puty, visited both the prisoners,and they appeared to betray some symptoms of contrition, and to be awaken- ing to a sense of their aw ful situation. Manning entered freely into conversation, and seemed to be in good spirits at the time. The execution will probably take place on the 12tii of November, for it is not at all likely that, after the unani- mous and adverse decision of the three j\ldcs, any delay will arise on the application of Mrs Mannings counsel fur a jury" de inudietale lil1!llUC. It was rumoured that Manning had instructed Ins counsel to assert, in addition to what he had before stated as to the manner in which the murder was com- mitted, that after his wife had shot O'Connor upon the staircase, she came up to him with a loaded pistol in her hand, and exclaimed, Now I have shot him, come down stairs and help me to bury Iiiiii, or I will shoot you." The learned counsel, it would appear, did not place auv reliance upon the statement,and he made no allusion respe cting it to the jury.

TIM S.MITUFIKI.D NUISANOU.—A Rival Commission is about to be issued to inquire aud report as to the most, eligible site or sites for a cattle market, to be held outside of the iiielr,,)poli. Obse)-t:ct-. Tin; SUIIOOLMISTUKSS AT IIo.Mii.—"My dear boy, said a kind-hearted country schoolrllistress, to an unu- stially promising scholar, whose quarter was about up,- "my dear boy, docs your father design that you should trcud the intricate and thorny path of the professions, il?e ;iiiil narrow path of the ministry, or revel a?.M the flowery held of tin't?rc? N'o inarm, icplkd the juvenih prodigv, da l s«y» he s goinij cd ,c) )'.I..d?.t'J!?'ni'k!)ro.'?v,<?"y..hc..g ?!: I ;t''

THE POST-OFFICE. I The following reply has been received to the memo- rial of the Lord's Day Observance Society — General Post-ofifce, Oct. 21, 1R49. STII,—I am commanded by the Postmaster-General to acknowledge the receipt of yoltr ktter of the 2:!id inst and to acquaint you in reply that her Majesty's Go- vernment intend to carry into execution the measure to which vou refer, as one which is calculated to lessen the Sunday labour in the Post-office service throughout the country generally, and to afford important accommodation to the I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. TILHY, Assist. SEE. Joseph Wilson, Lord's Day l Observance Society. ) The npw arrangements came into operation on Sunday last, and twenty-five volunteers have been found ready to perform the slight extra duties thus transferred from the country to the London Post-office.

IRELAND. The Irish Encumbered Estates commission was for- mally opened by Mr. Baron Richards and his brother commissioners, Messrs. Longfield and Ilargravc, on Wednesday. There was a county of Down meeting on W,, d iies d it ) Monday, presided over by the Sheriff, at which reso- lutions deeply sympathising with Lord Roden, and condemnatory of his dismissal from the magistracy, were unanimously adopted. The Dublin Protestant Association have addressed Lord Roden, expressing their entire occurrence in his conduct on the occasion which called forth what the association call the insult" put upon him by the go- vernment. Sioxs OF THE TIMES.—Mitchelstown Castle, one of the most splendid baronial residences in the south of Ireland, is it appears, consigned to the keeping of the sheriff's officers, together with all the furniture, &c. AXOTIIKU MUltilER. IN Kilkenny Journal gives an account of the homicide of a poor woman, the mother of five children, who lost her life in a scuffle with a collector of poor-rates, who has since absconded. The crime was committed on Wednesday week, at Knocjcabranna, in the county of Carlow. A collector named Mark Scanlan, from the Carlow Union, accompanied by a bailiff and other assistants, went to the house of a fatincr, named John Comerford, for a poor-rate demand, amounting to £: Vis. Comerford had only £ 2 in cash, which he offered to the collector, and two heifers as a pledge for the balance, until the next day, when he could sell some butter which he had. Scanlan refused the offer, and said he would take two cows, which he proceeded to drive out of the field. Comerford took up a fork for the purpose of preventing the cows from passing out of a gap, and some scuffling ensued, during which Comerford's wife, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, came to her husband's help. He was knocked down, and Scanlan hit her across the back, knocking her down also. Lynch (one of the collector's assistants) next came up to assist, and, in the course of more wrangling, struck the poor woman with an "alpeen" on the head, and she again fell. The cattle were then removed to old Lcighlin pound. The woman was able to walk across a. field towards her house, when she fell down and soon expired. Scanlan at once absconded, but Lynch lies in Carlow Gaol. An inquest was held upon the body of the deceased, and a verdict of Wilful murder" returned. Iuisii BF.ES.—There happened to grow up between Patrick and a bragging down-caster (United States) a very fierce contest as to the comparative size of different animals and insects in this and the ould country," when Mr. O'Flaherty declared that in Ireland the baas (bees) were as big as sheep." Very well," inter- rupted Ishabod, "how big are the Iiives "As big as yourn, be jabers 1" "Then how do the bees get into their hives ?" Paddy scratched his head, and after a few moments' reflection replied 0, that's their look out!" CONSECRATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC Btsuor OF DEHUV.—On Sunday the Hev. Mr. Kelly, P.P., was consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. Maginn, deceased. The Most Rev. Archbishop Machale was the consecrating Bishop. The Londonderry Journal says, The Right Rev. Dr. Kelly is the most youthful prelate in the Irish Roman Catholic Church, and was not more than eigh- teen months a parish priest." RETRI'CIIIIC-N'P. -It is stated that the office of the Paymaster of Civil Services in Dublin is to be imme- diately altered in pursuance of the recommendation of the l'arliamentary Committee which sat last year. All payments of public money will be made by the Bank of Ireland on a check from London, and not by an order from both London and Dublin, as is the present practice. Further retrenchments, by which a saving of some £10,000 a-year is to cffected arc contemplated in certain departments of Dublin Castle. THREATENED DISTURHANCES IN THE NOHTlI OF IRELAND.—Government seems resolved that this time, at all events, there shall be no mistake" with regard to their determination to suppress, at every hazard, any party demonstration oil the ensuing 5th of Novem- ber, and with this object in view, two troops of the 17th Lancers were despatched on Saturday morning to the north two companies of the GOth Rifles are under orders for the same destination, and this force will be considerably increased be fore the end of the mon th, It is riii,.i(,tired -and it is only a rumour—that the officer who may be selected to take the command of the military will be sworn in as a magistrate of the county of Down, so that he may have full powers to act accord- ing to his own discretion. The Warder states that it is the intention of the Government to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench early in the ensuing term for a mandamus, oidering the magistrates at Castlewellan to take the informations against the Orangemen. AWFUL MLRFHIR.—On the 22nd ult.. one of the most frightful, brutal, and unprovoked murders of which we have ever read was perpetrated in this town, in daylight, and about 400 yards from the Court-house, where our assistant-barrister was sitting. The victim of this frightful crime was a little girl of about 13 years of age, the child of a very decent man named Hart, who works at Mr. Anderso!"6 brewery. The scene of violence was one of two houses standing tf) the right of the New Convent, and within 50 yards of the gate of that building. The house adjoining the residence of Hart was unlet, but on one side was Chapel-lane and ihe houses in that locality, while on the side were the houses of the Rope-walk oil both sides therefore there were houses not 150 yards off. The circumstances attending the crime are these — The father of the child and a fellow-workman, who lodges in the house, went to their work at 9 o'clock that morning, leaving the little girl, who was the only inhabitant, as usual at heme. She was subsequently seen going for water about 1 o'clock. At half-past 2 the father returned, and finding his house shut, he forced in the door, when he found his child lying dead, her skull being fractured, and a beetle" lying beside her covered with blood Dr. Iloman was immediately sent for by the police, who examined the body minutely the deceased presented a frightful appearance, contrasting fearfully with her calm and regular features, the skull having been broken in several places, apparently with the beetle. The room of the lodger had been broken into, and a sum under £ 2 taken from his trunk, the lock of which had been forced robbery was, therefore, the cause of this awful crime. An inquest has since been held, but no light has been thrown upon the transaction. The mayor of our town attended the inquest, and the authorities and police are doing all in their power to find out the cri- minal. We think a reward might be judiciously olfered.- Sligo Journal.

ADMIRALS, CAPTAINS, AND GENERALS FOR THE NEXT ONE HUNDRED YEARS. England has a capital naval and military stock. She has no Admirals, and only 15 of them arc employed. What a notion it must give a foreigner of the unbounded wealth of our country, when he considers that we can afford to keep 135 Admirals merely to help 15 others to do their work This monster drove of Ilyde 1 ark Drakes-tltcse 135 Nelsons on horseback-must be quite happy to take a turn occasionally at the wheel of some Chelsea steamer, if simply to keep their hand i ri. We should not much wonder if one bought the berth of Captain on board the halfpenny Moon-hinc if another had his flag flying from the stays of the Lass of Rich- mond: whilst every Waterman that steams to Green- wich or Woolwich will probably have cither a Red, or a Blue, or a Yellow Admiral on its paddle-box shouting as lively as possible, Ease'or!" "Stop 'er They must do something to keep up their nautical knowledge, or else when they are ordered to take the command of a squadron, they will know less about a ship even than Lord John Russell or the Earl of Ellenborough. But if we have an ocean of Admirals, with only a Trafalgar- square basin to put them in, we have likewise a whole parkful of captains, and nothing but charity boys to give them to lead to victory. The ignorant reader, who has no notion of the immense resources of his country, will scarcely believe that we possess no less than íSO captains. He probably did not think there were so many in the whole world, but whilst he is rather pleased to lciirn that England is so richly provided with captains, he cannot help wondering how she can want such a large number. His astonishment is perfectly natural, and we should know better than to laugh it, for England does not want 7S0 captains any more than she wants 780 prime ministers, and so she very wisely employs only as many as she wants, and pays the remainder for ravaging the ball rooms and laying waste all the young ladies' hearts, or doing anything they please—which liberal privilege the Captains generally avail themselves of. England, therefore, only employs 180 Captains, and as she docs want the other 600, they are allowed to keep company with the 135 Admirals, who are in a similar predicament to themselves, and have nothing to do, and are only kept in for fear there should be something for them to do at some time or other. The same generosity is shown by our economical Government to our brave Generals, for, whilst we have 310 Generals, we have only 120 regiments, so that every regiment has nearly three Generals a-piece. We have Admirals, without ships Captains, without soldiers; and Generals, without regi- ments; but this, far from being a waste, is the strictest economy, and is easily explained by the simple fact, that it is much easier to build a ship tlllll to make an Admiral and that it is the simplest thing in the world to enlist a soldier and raise a regiment, but the great difficulty is to 1 C' J 0) fillu Captains and a General for

Ttrn MOST EFFECTUAL CURE FOR GOUT AND RHEU- MATISM ARE IIoi.LowAY'a OINTMENT. — A frequent cause of these complaints is the inlfammatory state of the blood, attendant with bad dieslioll, lassitude, and great debility, showing the want of a proper circulation of the fluids, and that impurity of the blood greatly ag- gravates these painful disorders. I lolloway's Pilb are of so purifying a nature that a few doses, taken in time, is an effectual preventive against Gout and Rheumatism but any one that has an attack of either, should use Holloway's :ointmcnt abo, the powerful properties of i which, combined wi!!l the effect of ÙH,¡ Pills, ensures a ecrtjfli: eure THE BAR.—For some time past a difference has existed between Mr. John Hooker, who holds the office of secondary in Exeter Cathedral, and the Chapter. For some reasons, to which rumour gives all sorts of colours, Mr. Hooker has been desired to give up his office of secondary or chorister but he says his appointment is (according to the opinion of Dr. Addams) of the nature of a freehold, of which he cannot be deprived while he is able to attend in his place. The case has been going on since Lady-day last. many pros, and eons, having been exchanged. On Monday, when Mr. Hooker pre- sented himself, a bar was so placed as to prevent his entrance. This, it is expected, will carry the case be- fore the proper tribunals it is the first of the kind which has arisen since the Reformation.

LONDON MARKETS, MONDAY, OCT. 29. MARK-LANE.—The supply of Wheat from Essex 8: Kent by land-carriage samples, this morning, was moderate and sales proceeded very slowly at prices Is. to 2s. per qr. lower than those of Monday last. Malting Barley excited less attention, and was Is. per qr. cheaper. Grinding sorts brought former terms. Beans and grey and maple Peas were placed at prices similar to those current on this day week. While boiling Peas were in improved request, and rather dearer. The quantity of Oats on sale was moderate and needy buyers had to pay previous terms. Canaryseed was again dearer. Nothing of interest tran- spired in other sorts of Seeds. LONDON AVERAGES. £ s. d. £ s. d- Wheat.. 5390qrs. 2 3 8 Rye 21 qrs. 1 7 3 Wheat.. 1198 1 10 2 ? Peas 766 1 7 4 Oats 2407 1 0 3 Peas.. 766 AVERAGE PRICE OF SIX WEEKS. Week ending OCT. 20.—Imperial—General Weekly Average.—Wheat, 41s. Id.; Barley, 28s. 2d.; Oats, 17s. 4d. Rye, 24s. 9d.; Beans, 28s. 5d.; Peas, 30s. 3d. DUTIES 1 0 1 0 1 0 QUANTITY OF FOREIGN GlUIX ENTERED FREE FOH HOME CONSUMPTION DURING THE WEEK ENDINO OCT. 26. Wheat, p'oreign qrs 13824 Beans qrs. 1136 Barley. 10707 1 IP"ca.n. q.r.ei. 21710306 Oats. 1S555 Flour. brls. 6269 PROVISION.—The arrivals last week from Ireland were 14,670 firkins Butter, and 1,360 bales of Bacon; and from foreign ports 6,450 casks of Butter, and 600 bales of Bacon. The demand for Irish Butter has been very limited since our last, and the transactions few and unimportant where sales have been effected, rather lower prices were submitted to. The mildness of the weather has operated very seriously on the demand. Dutch declined 6s. to Ss. per cwt. The demand for Bacon has also been dull, and prices have declined 2s. to 3s. per cwt. Irish 50s. to 54s. Hamburg, 44s. tooPs., according to quality, &c. FLOUR.—The sale for lfour has hardly been so exten- sive this week as before, still the nominal top price of town-made has been steadily supported, and no quotable alteration has occurred in the value of other descriptions. The quality of the Flour lately received from the United States is very inferior, and falls greatly short of the pro- duce of the present year the best brands of old have, consequently, been held at full terms. ENGLISH ReITEn MARKET.—Our trade is very dull, only the best and freshest parcels are saleable, at barely current rates, while middling and inferior qualities are neglected as such we must report prices as presentin g a downward tendency. Dorset, fine weekly, 90s. to 928. per cwt. ditto, stal e and middling, 6ts. to 80s. Devon, 80s. to 82s. fresh, 8s. to 12s. per dozen lbs. BREAD.—The prices of wheaten Bread in the metro- polis are from Gid. to 7d., and household do., 5d. to 6d. per 41bs. loaf. HOPS.—There is a steady business doing in coloury descriptions. The duty for the kingdom is daily eX- pected to be declared, meantime prices are without any alteration. TALLOW -Since our last report, the imports of Tallow have amounted to 3,097, and the deliveries to 2,339 casks- The demand to-day was somewhat inactive, at barely stationary prices. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 36s. Od. to 37s.; and for delivery up to the end of the year, 31:5. 6el. to 36s. 9d. per cwt. Town pcr evt. iiet cash; rough Fat, 2s. Id. per 81bs. We have further advices from St. Petersburg. As several speculative purchases were effected by English houses, say from 1,000 to 2,000 casks, prices had advanced 4 to 5 roubles. SMITIIITELD.— The number of foreign iJeasts an Sheep in to day's market was tolerably extensive, but that of Ctlves wis siiiall. Compare,l with that exhibited oil Monday lat, the supply of home-fed beasts on salf, this morning, was limited, the falling off in the arrivals exceeding 1000 head. A. tl,,e attendance ofbuversv -,I S on the increase, and the weather colde:' than last we the Beef tralle was somewhat active, and a good clcar- ance of the stock was etfectcd, at an advance ill the quO- tations of fully 2d. per 8 lbs. From Lincolnshire. Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, about 1,7'0 Beasts came fresh to hand. From the western and midland counties, we received 750 Ilerefords, runts, Devens, ,'<:e., and from other parts of England 600 o various breeds. There was a considerable falling oft .111 the arrivals of Sheep from the whole of our flock dis- tricts. For the primest old Downs the demand waS steady. In prices, however, we have no improvement to notice, they ruling from 3s. 10J. to 4s. per Sibs. KentS, Leicesters, half-breds, and all other breeds were active rcques', and quite 2d. per 8]b3.dearer than on this day sC'lInjht. Calves—the supply of which was sp.i,ill-coiiiin,tTiCiecl ready sale, at 2d. per 81bs. more money. We had a slight improvement in the demand for pigs, the prices of which were well supported Per 81bs. to sink the offal.—Coarse and inferior beasts, 2s. 8d. to 2s. 10d., second quality do. 3s. Od. to 35.2d. prime large oxen 3s. 2d. to 3s. 4d., prime Scots, &c" 3s. 6d. to 3s. 8,1., coarse anll inferior sheep, 2s. 10d. to 3s. Od., second quality do. 3s. 2,1. to 3s. 4d. prime coarse woolled sheep 3s. 6d. to 3s. 81., prime South Down3 3s. lOd. to 4s. Od., largo coarse calves, 3s. Od. to 3s. 2d.. prime small ditto 3s. 4d. to 3s. 6d., laróe hogs 3s. 2J: t 3s. 6d., neat small porkers 3s. Sd. to Is. d., suckhn" calves ISs. to 27s., and quarter-old-store pigs 17s. to 21s. each. Total supplies: Beasts 5,283, sheep 2f),2C)O, calves 120, pigs 321. Foreign: Beasts, 2629, sheep calves 106- BARK. Per load of 45 cwt. English, rree fit 0 0 to £ 15 10 0 C,)Pl)ice ;E I i) 0 0 JE17 0 0 LIVERPOOL.— (Duty Free).— Quercitron, jE8 6s. to Cg Dutch Oak, per ton, El to L5; Gerinarl, £:3 10s. to 16. METALS. ENGLISH IRON. a. Patent shot .19 1-5 u Bars at Cardiff & FOREIGN LEAn. h. 10 Newport. 5 0 0 Spanish, in bond.14 15-10 FOREIGN STEEL. C. ENGLISH TIN Z. 0 Swedish keg £ 14 10 0 Block per cwt 3 13 JJ Do. faggot. 15 00 liar I 3 14 0 ENGLISH COPPER, d. Refined 3 19 Sheets, sheathing FOREIGN TIN. K. & bolts per lb. 0 0 9i Banca, in bond.. 3 12 Tough cake per Straits 3 7 ton 81 0 0 TIN PLATES.I.. Tile 83 0 0 IC Cuke per box. 1 7 6 Old copper c. per IC Charcoal 1 12 0 pound. 0 0 81 1 IX do. 1 17 0 FOREIGN COPPER f, SPELTER M. South American, Tlateswarehoused in bond.. £ 0 0 0 per ton. 14 15 0 FNC.Lisli ri. Do. to arrive.14 10 0 Pig per ton .15 15 0 aiNC. «. Sheet Ifi 15 0 i English sheet 21 0 0 ltedlcad .1710 0 j Quicksilver, o. White ditto .22 0 0 pound 0 3 d' Ti-li,ts:-(t, C) months, or 2', per cent. dis.; c. do; t' 6 months, or 3 per cent. dis.; c, I months, or 21 per c??' (I ditto ditto h, (lit,o i, ditto; ?, net casll 6 months, or 3 per cent, dis m, net cash n, 3 mon jjS r 1.? per cent. di.-?. o, ditto, I I dis. ¡/ t 1

WEEKLY CALENDAR. Tnr. Meow's CHANGES.—Last Quarter on 'VcdncsdaY' the 7th of November at 5m. past 111. morn. HIGH WATER AT THE FOLLOWING PLME5 FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. jCarmar- j Cardigan Tenby Abcf)'?' DAYS. then Bar. ind and ?nh- i Llanellv. Bristol. Milford. -————— —————- -————— ?;. Nov. ?'f. M. I H. M. H. M. 8 Szltlirday 31 7 53 iS 13 7 3 8 31 Sunday 4,! 8 16 j 9 1 7 4fi 9 16 Monday, 5 > 9 1 9 40 8 31 10 5 Tuesday. 6 ? 9 50 10 33 9 20 11 0 Wed. 7 10 45 11 30 10 14 0 10 Tliurs 8 11 55 0 10 11 25 1 03 Friday 9. 0 ") 5 2 3 0 48 1 

LONDON GAZETTE. ? B.1,NKItUl-TS.- ( 11 1 B -It, i llo BANKRUPTS.—( ?-M/?/, Oc<. 26.)-U.S. Dolt, ? merchant, riymouth.—S. Groocock, hatter, Lciccste- J. KecvU. jun., draper, Bristol. —J. Kitchner, scavc!?j. Gravel-lane, Southwark.—F. Lonsdale, grocer, ^>crnl(ni' sey street, Southwark.—F. Palmer, wine 111rrc a Bristol..? BANKlH-rTS.—? Tucsday, 0?. 30.) —E. '\CUC!iS,???s maker, Bread-street.—C. Bray, trader, Landport, -"? ampton.—R. Ktu?ht, licensed ictnaller, Albcrt-P cejp Mitcham-road, Croydon, Sarrcy.—D. G. Foster, iroll, 0 monger, St. John's-sq uare, ClerkenweH.—J. 1? ?'jjtCf- thecary, Halcsworth, Stiff,)I'T. s('Cd cnant, Trinity-terrace, Towcr-hitL—H. Browcr. ,v oa tip-hat manufacturer, Manchcstrr.- P. Heate» faSt:!£' Birmingham.—S. Wilson, draper, Wrestbromw-icn, r- ford?hhe.-R. J. Hicks, paper manufacturer, ;?l..cle3ter

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