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The Bishop of London issued a circular letter, on the 3d instant, to the clergy of his diocese, suggesting measures of practical piety to mingle with the national thanksgiving, in the same way that he issued a pastoral letter in December last suggesting a pious activity in the "use of means" to re- move physical causes which contributed to aggravate the malignity of the epidemic. The Bishop begins with a recapitulation of the advice he for- merly gave- " 1 said, that while their first object should be to impress upon the minds of their people the necessity of an implicit trust in God, of an entire submission to His will, of increased degrees of seriousness' vigilance, and self-restraint, and of frequency and fervour in prayer, it would also be an office of real piety and charity to urge upon them the importance of endeavouriog to remove all those physical causes which might invite the approach of disease and aggravate its malignity. I suggested, as e motive to such endeavours, that while we may not look for a blessing upon the resources and appliances of human skill if they are not employed in humble reliance upon the power and goodness of God, so neither, if we neglect to use all probable and practicable means of prevention and preservation, have we any reason to expect that He will specially interfere to rescue us from the con- sequences of our own negligence." He then observes—" The importance of this caution has been painfully proved by the events of the last twelve months. The expected scourge has thllen upon us with awful severity, and has swept away from this vast metropolis at least 15,000 of its inhabitants. Judging from the unvary- ing tenonr of the reports made by the medical inspectors, and of other persons who have watched the progress of that fatal disease, I do not hesitate to declare my be- lief, that by far the greater number of those who have fallen victims to the pesti- lence might, under God's blessing, have been saved from death, had timely and effectual measures been taken ffir cleansing and ventilating their dwellings, pre- venting their overcrowded state, and draining the courts and alleys in which they are situate."

Repeat ng a former observation, "that persons immersed in misery and filth are for the most part inaccessible to the motives and consolations of the gospel," he calls on his clergy "at once to take the work in hand, and show that the de- sired improvement, is practicable to a great extent by the exertions of an active and well-directed charity You will, I am persuaded, see the propriety of calling upon your congregation to contribute liberally of their worldly substance On that occasion as a thank-offering to Almighty Gad for their preservation from that pestilence which has hurried so many thousands to their last account ; and I venture to recommend that the alms then collected should be applied to the pro- motion of some well-considered plan for improviug the dwellings of the labouring classes Where the funds so raised are not sufficient for carrying out a local scheme for that purpose, they may be safely intrusted to The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes,' without fear of misapplica- tion or waste."

The Bishop concludes with an expression of his deep sense of the exemplary manner in which the clergy of his diocese, during the late most trying season, discharged their duties "in visiting with unwearied assiduity and kindness the sick and dying, and in ministering, to the utmost of their power, both to the bodily and spiritual comb:in of the sufferers." " Two only of their number have fallen victims to that deadly disease which has carried off so many members of their flocks. Let us, who have been mercifully spared, show forth our thankful- ness by increased diligence in every work of piety and charity, that the Lord when He cometh may find us so doing."

Thursday, the day appointed by the Queen's proclamation for a so- lemn national thanksgiving, was kept as a close holyday throughout the Metropolis, and so far as we have heard throughout the country generally. In London, it was in all respects like Sunday; the bad weather towards the latter part of the day contributing to the de- serted aspect of the streets. The churches were well filled. A great number of the sermons preached on the occasion were noted in the newspapers of Friday morning. At St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London_preached from a verse in the Psalms—" Oh that man would praise ElVS VIA1441 lir his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of eloquent amplification of his pastoral letter. At Westminster Bucklaad illustrated the ease of the nation by that of in disease had brought to a knowledge of God; moralizing St. Paul's Cathedral; but the great'nuijority of the pulpit addressecs74 from the graves of those who had been swept away," in a sanatory sense the injunction to "wash and be clean." Jilin:11"r 31 1. few exceptions, in which the pastors expressltsideprecattat any nattaal. their tone from the Bishop's letter. " The deliverance," said Mr. Oak terpretation of the pestilenoe,—as Archdeacon Hale did in the ahem tr' the church of St. Pancras, "ought to be regarded as a voice that bat the malignant influences around us, and especially to rescue thee Nu-- from the morbid influences to which they are exposed— - " He who sought deliverance, what deliverance had he but to perform Iliad y He was called upon to promote the removal or mitigation of the predis causes of disease Gs the one hand, and of pauperism on the other. evils had grown up through man's neglect ought to be obviated through nee exertions. The experience of the recent visiterinn had givens's] importase,, rest, and dignity to sanatory science, which it was to be hoped would confer Bent benefits on the community."

At the Royal Chapel of the Savoy, Mr. Forster very forcibly pointalk further moral- " The physical condition of the labouring classes is She black spot upon tt lish society, which must be removed, or worse things must come; we shall punished yet seven times more for our sin. Days of severe trial rosy be at for our country,and let not the poor have cause to say that the rich are nut Christians. If the late pestilence should prove a means of drawing attentions this great and crying evil, and of ultimately removing it, then it will be justly e. membered as the most blessed visitation that ever fell upon a people."

In most of the churches liberal collections were made on behalf of tt; poor who had suffered by the cholera.

It is rumoured that Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Commissioner of th. City Police, is to succeed Sir Charles Rowan as Chief Commissioner of tl Metropolitan Police; Sir Charles being about to retire, from the defies's state of his health.—Daily News.

At a Court of the City Commissioners of Sewers' on Tuesday, it we,,. unanimously resolved that the men employed by the Commission in work big the sewers should receive their day's pay for Thursday, the day a general thanksgiving, as though they had performed their usual work et that holyday.

It is proposed to raise a fund for the erection of a church, as a thank- offering, in the parish of Lambeth. The district of the parish for which the church is designed has a population of 22,000, with church-accommoda. tion for less than 3,000.

The parish of St. Pancras has rejected, by a majority of 89 to 70, emo- tion " that the Act of 9th and 10th Victoria, for the encouragement ef baths and washhouses, be adopted." The rejection was founded on a Yip of the " present state of the parish finances," which rendered it unsafe ti mortgage the rates till the parish have unquestionable evidence of the ash working of the system in other parishes.

The Law Amendment Society resumed its ordinary meetings, at the rooms in Regent Street, on Monday night. The failure of the law classes. commenced gime time since by the Inns of Court, and the project of a Law School open to the public at large, were brought under discussion by Mr. James Stewart.

Mr. Stewart recapitulated the circumstances under which the law professorships were appointed ; and showed from documentary evidence, which he quoted in ul note detail, that the original intentions with which the scheme had been set on foot were not carried out in regard to examinations and prizes: and too true it was, that the plan, as it had been actually carried into practice, was un-uccessfal. [This does not apply to the lectures at Gray's Inn, which we believe are to beam. tinned.] Professorships had been established in most civilized countries for the im- parting of general legal knowledge; but, although lectures had been successfully delivered both at the Universities and in London, yet no institution exists for the purpose of teaching all the branches of the law. He therefore submitted, that such a duty would be an appropriate and fitting one for the Law Amendment Society to undertake. He invited the Society to use its iefluence to found a Law School, for the purpose of teaching the law in all its departments, and affording to everybody who chose to attend, an opportunity of learning the rules which govern his pro- perty and liberty, his own rights and the rights of others. He would let in not only law students but the public; and the teaching should be of a practical kind —not dependent on rules or prescribed modes, but .working in the way and by the means which should seem beat to the particular lecturer—by oral or written com- munications, by examination, and free 'conversation between the lecturer and the classes. He took pains to show that law could be taught in this way. In conclusion, Mr. Stewart read a letter from Lord Brougham, cordially im- proving the plan; offering 251. towards the prizes, and intimating his own wil- lingness to volunteer a course of lectures on Constitutional Law.

'The chairman of the meeting, Mr. Spence, Q.C., gave some additional and authoritative explanations.

He had been appointed the Professor of Equity to Lincoln's Inn. He delivery' written lectures in term, and after term made examinations. Attendance on tie lectures was made compulsory on candidates for the bar, but the examinations were voluntary. About eighteen or nineteen originally attended—aime becauSe they were compelled. He found that those who attended the voluntary examina- tion made great progress; but at the end of a year, the attendance being ma& voluntary only, only eight or nine continued. These Mr. Spence continued* teach round the table in the Chancellor's private room. Be never met rah men more regular in attendance, or more devoted to study; and, from the intel- ligence they displayed, be was of opinion that not one of then, would finish the course without possessing a greater amount of legal knowledge than is commoulr acquired in five years at the bar. The experiment was in fact eminently success- ful so far as the teaching of this branch of the law went: but the numbers tel having been adequate, it would scarcely be justifiable to continue the professor- ship. It was therefore quite open to the Law Amendment Society to take op the matter where it had been dropped by the Inns of Court. On the formal motion of Mr. Stewart, his proposal was unanimously re- ferred to a Committee for examination and report.

Manning and his wife were executed, in front of Honiernonger Lane Gaol, 81 nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. Preparations had been carried on for at lect two days previously; most extensively outside of the prison: for some days the neighbourhood had been crowded, and on Sunday the eddying stream of passed: gem never ceased: the beer-shops especially were crowded: the appearance?1 the neighbourhood was that of a great fair. On Saturday, a complaint was made before the Southwark Magistrate by Mr. Rowe the Chaplain of the Gaol, that scaffolds had been erected in front of the neighbouring houses, 'not oely within the gardens but also protruding over the footway ; earl many of theee were Hai' featly so ill-constructed as to be dangerous. The Police-officem were ordered to examine into the facts. On Monday, Mr. a'Beckett, who sat idlieu of the loud Magistrate Mr. Seeker, said that he had been looking into the law of the matter, and found that he had summary powers; he gave the.Police orders at once tore' ove these ger:mires whitshaintraded upon the public way, and to serve notices ole who had put tell eeeffoldings on uneuclosed private ground. Many of Pillaite; class, however, defiesAhn,ifiw- notices, and the penalties which will en- on Siindey there was a balk trade in these seats, and in the letting of the ne. mm which commanded bight' pfices. On Monday, strong barriers were a ews, anted in the street, to check the swaying of the crowd; and a force of five hun- red policemen were stationed on the ground to preserve order. As the day ad- cod the dismal structtre which sustained the gallows rose to view; it had been

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the entrance lodge, a building about forty feet high in the middle of the North oaaary_reall of the prison. Towards Monday evening, especially towards mid- he immense crowds of men and women, many of them with children, and any of the women bearing children in arms, poured into the place, and con- ued to do so till dmylight. It is estimated that at last fifty thousand us were collected. "The hum of their blended voices, mingled together a swelling on the ear throughout the long dark night, told distinctly what had brought them there. As morning dawned, the manner in which the as- sembled multitudes had massed themselves together was sufficiently striking. Taking up their station on the-carriage-way, in front of and rather to the Weet- erd of the entrance of the gaol, were the dregs and offscourings of the popula- tion of London; the different elements that composed the disorderly rabble crew being mingled together in wild and unsightly disorder,—the ' navvy ' and Irish labourer smoking clay pipes and muzzy with beer, pickpockets plying their light- fingered art, little ragged boys climbing up posts, and standing on some dangerous elevation, or tumbling down again, and disappearing among the sea of heads. From that great seething mass there rises a ceaseless din of sounds and war of tongues—voices in every note, shrill whistles, and slang calls. The clatter and uproar of this Babel never ceased for a moment. Now it was a fainting-fit, then a fight, and again the arrest of a thief; but there was always something to keep up the excitement." As the morning dawned, the spectators became more impatient, and the roar of voices more distinct, occasionally swelling into a chorus to the burden of some vulgar doggerel, which the depraved multitude caught up with avidity and chanted forth with stentorian lungs. The catcall and the thieves' whistle occasionally rose sharp and clear above the hubbub of the crowd. A con- siderable portion of the multitude, however, took no part in these noisy excesses. "This remark, we regret to add, will not apply to the more favoured sightseers whose poses had enabled them to secure places in the adjoining houses. In many of these habitations, the boisterous Mirth of revelry was heard throughout the night; and large parties, including those whose position in society might have induced them to avoid appearing in such a-character, were constantly observed parading the gardens in front of Winter Terrace." It was noticed that some among the more respectable parts of the assemblage watched the proceedings with levelled opera-glasses. The behaviour of the two prisoners was characteristically-distinguished to the last. Mr. Rowe, the Chaplain who was frequent in his visits to the prisoners, ob- tained from Maiming a so-called confession, not varying greatly from his previous stories, bat somewhat more candid and explanatory. Mrs. Manning adhered to her assertion that the murder was committed by a young man from Guernsey, whilst she had gone to O'Connor's house. She made no response to the Chaplain's exhortation for some token of repentance or contrition. In fact, she seems to have ignored the whole subject of religion. Both the prisoners passed an indifferent night. Manning probably did not sleep at all, but was restless and changeful in Iris demeanour. He read Psalms, wrote autographs for the turnkeys, obtained leave to walk in the prison-yard in the morning, went into the chapel, and in other ways betrayed his restless uneasiness. About half-past eight o'clock, Mrs. Manning was brought into the chapel, and seated herself on the seine bench with her husband, with only two watchers intervening between them. "1 hope," said Manning, leasing towards his wife and addressing her, "you are not going to de- part this life with animosity. Will you kiss me?" She replied, that she had no animosity towards him; and, leaning towards him, they kissed each other. The sacrament was administered to them by Mr. Rowe; and they again kissed and embraced each other several times; Manning saying to his wits, "I hope we shall meet in heaven." Time passed, and the executioner stepped forward. Manning had several times asked his attendants whether he should suffer pain at the mo- ment of death, and appeared to dread that he should smiler niuch. He repeated the question to the executioner. " Calcraft said, if he would keep himself still, he would suffer no pain at all; an assurance which seemed to give the culprit considerable satisfaction." In the pinioning of Mrs. Manning a longer time was occupied than in the same process with her husband. When the curds were applied to bind her arms, her great natural strength forsook her tor a moment, and she was nearly fainting; but a little brandy brought her round again, and she was pinioned without any resistance. Calerefs then wished bet to resume a cloak which she wore on entering the chapel; but she declined doing so. She drew from her pocket a black silk handkerchief, and at her request was blindfolded with it. Some of the attendant women shedding tears, Mrs. Manning said, with great coolness, " Do not cry, but pray for me." The procession moved from the chapel to the scaffold; and it is remarked that the pair walked over their own graves, as O'Connor had done. Mrs. Manning's step was slow from her being blindfolded, but it was firm and unfaltering. Maniiing could scarcely ascend the long stairs to the roof of the prison, so weak and trem- bling wire his limbs.

As the two came upon the scaffold, some inarticulate bursts of dislike came from the crowd, and the noise was then huehed. Maiming was dressed in a suit of hick, with his shirt-collar turned loosely over. Mrs. Manning was dressed in a black setin gown ; she wore a black lace veil over her head, and had bestowed every care upon her personal appearance. The man turned away from the crowd, his face ghastly pale, his bearing feeble and depressed. The woman mounted the steps firmly, and when placed under the gallows stood as immoveable as astatine. Still solicitous fur her spiritual welfare, the Chaplain approached, and asked if she had anything to :may to him: "Nothing," she replied, "but to thank you mania for all your kindness" Twice the pair shook hands ; once when they ap- reared together under the gallows, and again at the last when both stood ready

the drop, and a turnkey joined their hands. Manning's limbs moved a little as he hung; the woman's body did not stir after the drop.

In his "confession," Manning states, that on returning from Jersey about the 5th of last April, he fonnd that his wife had engaged the house at Minver Place, on O'Connor's promise to be her lodger; but after the house had been entered, and O'Connor had slept there one night, he altered his mind and would not stay—he feared that " Mauning might come home drunk some night and make a disturb- !het with him." This disappointment enraged Mrs. Manning. She reminded OConnor that it was net the firsttimeahe had deceived her in the same way—he had Minced her to take a house at Haggerstone, whereby 1001. was hot, and the house in the Mile-end Road, whereby more money was lost: "She was the same lusher own poor father was, who despised a man whose word he could not depend lase and she herself would sootier see the Devil enter than one on whose word she could not rely:" She summoned O'Connor to the County Conrt for what she con- sheered due to her—three weeks' lodging, and he came and paid the money, and tlied to pacify her. In talk, Manning hinted at legal proceedings agsinst him for sc'tse alleged-detionation of character: O'Connor deprecated the idea, and almost with teara asseverated. his esteem for Manning; and at last they shook hands.

But when he. was gone, Mrs. Manning said—" That old villain has been the cause ef my- losing Imneh money; and lain determined, as I am,a living woman in this

tWrai to have my.revengerupon-him;" m-Menninketakedmiwitirgeheeneante-- She replied, "I will shoot him, if 1 am hanged for it, as he has deceived me so many times." Spite of Manning's deprecations, sheran on to disclose her " plan." " I shall frerinently ask him here to dinner, and go to his house very often, to endeavour to ascertain the amount of money he has in his possession, as also the number of railway shares he has." She added, " She was quite certain he had foreign bonds to the amount of 4,000/, which she herself could dispose of, as there was no name to them. The reader knows how closely she carried out these features of her scheme. On one of her visits to O'Connor, he was drunk; showed her all his scrip and bonds; and told her he had made a will leaving her 1,800L; but she said she felt sure, "what the old villain said was a great lie"; she was "quite contented" now she had seen the amount of his wealth, and said—" Now I shall begin tosaet things ready to cook his goose." Manning besought her to banish such thoughts, especially as he had the offer of a good situation just then, with Messrs. Gayer the stationers of High Holborn; but she forbade him to take the situation. and locked up his hat and coat to prevent him from going to take it ; sayina, " You fool, you will never be able to save the amount which I shall by murdering that O'Connor?' She bought the fire-shovel, and herself dug the grave, finishiug it about three weeks before the murder; and when O'Connor walked over it. and noticed it, she told him it was a drain that the men came irregularly to build. Carrying on her " plan," she got Massey to write to O'Connor invitations in her name to meet himself and his sister, at a time when the sister was nnt ii, town. In consequence of one of these! O'Conner was at Mincer Place on the 20ll of July, and his murder was to have taken place then; but while Mrs. Mantliug was out of the room, O'Connor was frightened by Manning's description of an action for defamation which he proposed to bring against two men at Taunton, and left the house. When Mrs. Manning found Ile was gone, she hastily dressed and pureeed him; and said to him, " Patrick, what makes you leave in such a mean way P° He replied, that he felt a firm conviction Manning meant to " entrap him," in the same way with the men at Taunton. She returned in a very extend state, and said to Manning—" You cur-hearted villain, you have prevented me car- rying out my plan. You will stand for it, for it never will be found out- I rain now quite certain he will never come here again." To the question, what would become of her soul if she committed an act of murder, she answered, " We have no soul; after we are dead we are like a lump of clay, and the, e is no more thought of us, and we shall never suffer hereafter for murdering that man." In a few days she renewed her invitations; and O'Connor was expected again to dinner' but did not receive the note in time: he appeared late in the evening, with his friend Walsh, and the incidents occurred which Walsh mentioned in his evidence. No mention is made in the "confession "of drugging O'Connor's beverage or tobacco; it is simply stated that " be appeared drunk." Aliother in- vitation was sent to him on the fatal morning of the 9th, and Mrs Manning posted it herself, for certainty of delivery. O'Connor came at ten minutes pa-t five. " She had laid the table for five, with dish-covers and everything down. Nothing had Leen prepared in the way of food. When he entered the house, he asked where Mr. and Miss Massey were; and my wife said, they were up-stairs dressing for dinner. He then inquired how long they had been op-stairs. My wife replied, they had only just gone up—they saw him come to the door. At this nine Massey was not in the house, nor was his sister even in London; and even to the present hour it is my belief that she has never seen London at all. My wife asked °Connor to go down stairs and wash his hands; which he declined. She said, 'Patrick, Miss Massey is a very particular young lady.' He had then beim in the house twenty minutes. My wife pressed him to go down and wash his binds; and I heard him go down the stairs, being at the time in my bedroom washing. In about a minute after he had descended, I heard the report of a pi-tmil. My wife then came up to me and said, 'Thank God, I have made him all right at last: it never will be found out, as we are on such exceedingly good term-. No one will ever have the least suspicion of my murdering him.' I replied, • I tun quite certain you will be hanged for this act.' She replied, 'It will not be you who will have to suffer; it will be me.' After shooting him, she said, • I think no more of what [have done than if I had shot the cat that is on the wall.' Upon her coming to me up-stairs, she insisted on my going down immediately; and on my reaching the kitchen,! found O'Connor resting on the grave: he monied and, as I never liked him very well, I battered in his skull with the ripping-elle-el. [The crowbar.] She took from his trousers-pocket the keys of his trunk and ea-it-nee; and within ten minutes after the murder, viz, twenty minutes to six, ehe put on her bonnet and mantle and proceeded to his house. I then said, it vrould no im- possible for me to stay in the house; and I went out into the garden, and smelted a pipe on the wall, and conversed with the landlord of the next house, mud went into his out-house to make a purchase of some rice he had there. My with re- turned from O'Connor's, letting herself in with the street-door key. This was about twenty minutes to eight p.m.. She appeared much excited, and said, 'I have the whole of the shares and the bonds with me.'" She sorted the securnies, and finding she had not the foreign bonds, said she would go again eext day. She went, and came back greatly excited at being again unable to hii t them. She told Manning to sell the scrip; and on his objecting, that he must forge a name and give come days' notice for sale, she replied, The man is deed, so there can be no witness against you "—and told him he could " raise money " on the shares. He went to Messrs. Killick the sharebrokers', obtained the money formerly mentioned, and took it to his wife. She then gave him other ehares to do the same with, but he demurred; she became excited, and insisted he pre- tended to comply, went out, and returned with the false statement that the brokers would not make the advance till next week: she wondered, and doubted if he had been to a broker, but said no more. Going out again, when he returtied she said that two men hod called after O'Connor, who she thought were Customhouse- officers. He told her they were men in pursuit, and as sure as she was a weinan they would apprehend them for the crime: she said, "Dent say that, or I ellen faint." During d nner, she counselled him to go to Bainbridge and ogre l'or the sale of the furniture—they would leave the country together: he went, and when he returned she had fled, leaving him penniless. After detailing the flight and apprehension of Manning as they drive already been described, the " confession" recurs to the day of the murder, arid proceeds as follows—" After the return of my wife from O'Connor's lodgings, elle went down stairs, and with a large pair of scissors cut off the clothes from the corpse, and burnt them, together with a pair of Albert slippers, which O'Connor had on when murdeled. This occupied Thursday bight and part of the following, morn- ing. After removing the clothes from the corpse, she obtained a strong cord, with which we tied the legs back to the haunches. After doing to, we put the lime on the body, making it wet; and then we put iu the earth; and were en- gaged in treading down the grave until midnight, at which time the burial ,,f the body was not pile completed. We rose between five and life o'clock next morn- ing, and finished time concealment of the body between ten and eleven. b%tien it was all over, she rernarked-' Thank God, ell is right ; no one will think 01 look- ing for him here; the lime will destroy the body in leas than a fortnight.' She had obtahmed a pint and a half of vitriol ab ut ten days before this, at a shop la Bermondsey Street, and this was poured upon the body before the lime was ap- plied. She then said how happy ehe was in having put away one he greatest old villains in the world. She expressed her intention of renmining in the house for twelve months, and of putting the money she had obtained out in railway shares. She advised me now to take the situation at Messrs. Geezer's, as she said if we left the house it would excite suspicion. She added, 'If any one comes to inquire after (Minuet, let me answer, for I have the nerve of a horse. She also said, that if the murder was ever found out, I should be the cause of it, through my want of firmness. ;`,1f it is found out,' she added, 'yarn will istand in, the same position as inytielf,,becose ypueessisted in the murder ; but if any °weak terriPts to take me, r Wffrfirst bfow his brains out, and then my own.' Slue spoke iepeattedly of the French Revolution, and lamented the many brave young men who bad lost their lives in its She said she would rather die hereelf thaanot make money. She regretted that she had not read prayers over, the body. I *eked her what the object of doing so could be: to which she answered, that ehe akould pray to God to forgive him his sins. She said she should not like to look a his face again • and, alluding to the Misses Armes, she said, These old maids have lost a good lodger; and as I could not bear them, I am glad he is gone.' If any suspicion arose, she said she would leave town in the costume of a widow, wearing her hair plain, and not in curls."

,. In conclusion, Meaning stated that his wife had formerly threatened that she would go to Weymouth and shoot his sister, in consequence of some family dis- pates which had occurred.

The Times publishes the following letter, addressed to that journal imme- dietely after the execution, by Mr. Charles Dickens.

" Str—I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger Lane this morning. I went there with the intention of observing the crowd gathered to behold it; and I had excellent opportunities of doing so, at intervals all through the night, and -continuously from daybreak until after the spectacle was over.

" I do not address you on the subject with any intention of discussing the abstract question of capital punishment, or any of the arguments of its opponents or advocates. I simply wish to turn this dreadful experience to some account for the general good, by taking the readiest and mod public means of adverting to .an intimation given by Sir George Grey in the last session of Parliament, that the Government might be induced to give its support to a measure making the infliction of capital- punishment a private solemnity within the prison-walls, (with such guarantees for the last sentence of the law being inexorably and surely administered as should be satisfactory to the public at large,) and of most earnestly beseeching Sir George Grey, as a solemn duty which he owes to society, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever put away, to originate such a legis- lative change himself. " I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning, could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land un- der the sun. The horrors of the gibbet, and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language, of the assembled spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cries and howls that were raised from time to time, de:.oting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold. As the night went on, screeching and laughing, and yelling in strong chorus of parodies on Negro melodies, with substitutions of' Mrs. Manning' for 'Susannah,' and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians and vaga- bonds of every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour. Fightings, faintinge, whistlings imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the Police with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly—as it did—it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of the Devil. When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perished like the beasts.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources ef general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution; and I stand astounded and appalled by the wicked- ness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horse- monger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when, in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season, we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the laud, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

"I am, Sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES DICKERS:'

Three charges originating in the execution of the Bermondsey murderers were brought before the Southwark Magistrate on Tuesday. Hannah Manning was accused of threatening to kill Ann Collins. They had known each other am- - viouely; Collins had reproached Manning with her likeness, in name and violent disposition to the female convict; the two had come into collision in the crowd, and a squabble and fight arose: Hannah threatened to stab Ann—" she would swing for her at Horsemonger Lane Gaol, on the seine drop as her namesake Maria Manning." It appeared that both parties were in the wrong; so Mr. Bur- rell dismissed the complaint, advising the ladies to be more temperate for the future.

Vizabeth Howe, a respectable-looking young woman, was charged with being insane and intending to commit suicide. After the execution, she had attempted to swallow something from a phial; a policeman knocked the phial out of her hand ; she became very violent, exclaiming that she was one of Manning's sisters, that he had been unjustly condemned, and that she was determined to die with him. It appeared that in reality she was in nowise related to the convict: she has respectable friends at Birmingham; but she had been in the neighbourhood of the gaol all night: it appeared that she was of unsteady mind. Mr. Burrell, after an admonition, directed Sergeant Watkins to convey her to her relatives.

The other case was one of watch-stealing, and ended in the committal of the thief.

A woman lost her life in the crowd. Catherine Read, young and married, was employed in a warehouse near the place of execution, but had no need to get into the crowd to reach her workshop; she was standing in the mob in Swan Street; about nine o'clock, there was a movement and a frightful pressure, with shoats and screams, and Read was forced against a timber barrier. In a state of insensi- bility, she was conveyed to the hospital, and there died. At the Coroner's inquest it appeared that she perished of serous apoplexy, arising from great pressure; and a blood-vessel was ruptured near the stomach.

The Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, refused the application of the defendante in the case Wakley versus Cook and Healey for a new trial of the action for libels in the Medical Tames, on the conduct of the plaintiff in his character of Coroner at the inquest on White, the soldier who died at Hounslow Barracks after a severe flogging. The application was Welly grounded on an alleged misdirection at the trial by Chief Baron Pollock. At the inquest, Mr. Wakley refused to take the evidence of theMilitary authorities and of Dr. Warren, and the defendants im- puted the conduct to corrupt motives. The defendant alleged that the Chief Baron directed the Jury that the practice was usual with all Coroners,—which was incorrect: but it seemed that the Judge only mentioned the Coroners of Mid- dlesex, of whom the fact was true; and the lesser usage equally with a wider one removed the ground of imputation. The Court took-occegon testate, that the usage of the Middlesex Coroner was founded on th-'

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