ndeavour to throw the guilt upon the other. A point was also raised in favour of Mrs. Manning, that being a foreigner, she should be tried by a Jury de medietate linguæ, or Jury partly native and partly alien. The Court refused to allow this kind of Jury, but reserved the decision of the point for the Court of Appeal.

The prisoners were both found guilty. On the verdict being delivered, Mrs. Manning, in a state of fierce excitement, thus addressed the Court:"There is," she cried out, "no justice and no right for a foreign subject in this country. There is no law for me. I have had no protectionneither from the Judges, nor from the prosecutors, nor from my husband. I am unjustly condemned by this court. 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 my husband's

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statements, 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. 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 man 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 testimonials 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 expressed myself better in the English language. That is all I have to say."

After the sentence of death was pronounced, Mrs. Manning again proceeded to harangue the Court, when she was ordered to be removed. She exclaimed that it was shameful to pass such a sentence upon her, and added, " Base and shameful England!" The bench in front of the dock was, according to custom, strewn with rue. Taking

some of this in her hand, she threw it into the body of the court. She was immediately taken away by Mr. Cope and a female turnkey.

Before the Court of Appeal, Mr. Ballantine, with earnest but vain ability, struggled to substantiate his objection as to his client not being tried by a Jury de medietate linguæ, and thus to obtain for her, at any rate, the delay and chances of another trial. The point raised was unanimously overruled by the six eminent Judges present, who were the three who had sat at the trial, and, also, Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (now Lord Truro, and late Lord Chancellor), and Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe (now Lord Cranworth and Lord Chancellor), and Sir Thomas Joshua Platt, Barons of the Court of Exchequer, The Judges held, that pursuant to the 7th and 8th Vic., c. 66, s. 16, the prisoner by her marriage had become a British subject, with all the incidents attached to that condition, and that therefore she was not entitled to a Jury de medietate linguæ, but had been properly tried, and that there was no ground for the objection. This judgment was delivered on the 7th of November, 1849; and on the 13th of the same month, the man and wife underwent the extreme penalty of the law on the roof of Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Southwark. Manning

died confessing and penitent. Mrs. Manning preserved her haughty and hardened demeanour to the last. She scarcely listened to the spiritual consolation proffered to her, and she made no admission of her guilt. She caused her face to be enveloped in a handkerchief before she left the gaol. Thus blindfolded she ascended the scaffold, and after shaking hands with her husband, shared his ignominious death.

THE GREAT DOUGLAS CAUSE.

THE extraordinary narrative of this famous lawsuit may be well prefaced by a brief reference to the origin and status of the brilliant house of Douglas, prominently, during several centuries, the first in Scotland.

No one acquainted with general history can ignore that of the Douglasses, a race among the noblest in Europe, whether be taken into consideration the long line of their ancestors, the extent of their domains, the grandeur of their alliances, or their prowess in war. The Douglasses were not, indeed, among the magnates of Scotland from the period that the monarchy emerged from the chaotic elements of Scoto-Pictish, British, and Scandinavian dominion, and received Saxon and Norman institutions and government. One in