The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-18 00:00:00

DISCOVERY OF A FRIGIMUL MURDER IN

BERMONIOSEY.

Yesterdsy afternoon, ahorty after one o'clock, the
neighbourhood of New Weston-street, Bermondsey, vas
thr ,wn into considerable excitement in consequence of the
mu limed remains of a man being discovered in one of the
houses in Minerva-place, near the new leather-marl:et.
The house in question is at present unoccupied, bet bet. nes
to Mr. Coleman, a hail ler, ',siding at No. I. Al, tit ax
months SAO he 1-t it to a mad named Manning, a discharge t
railway servant, who was dismissed by the direct a.* of the
Great Western Railway Company some time ago tor being
c neerned with Nightingale and others in committing a
series o' robberies on that line. H' spoeared to resi.le with
his wi'e on respectable terms in Minerva-place, and the
murdered man wrs frequently seen a. their house, aid espe-
cially in the company or Mrs. Mant,ing. The name of tar de-
c and is Petrick O'Coono7, a gauger in the customs at the
London docks, where he has for rime time received a salary
of 3001. a year. He was supposed to be in possession of
nearly 4,0001. in foreign railway bends and securities, which
was well known to Manning and his wife, as they
were frequently in the habit of meeting him at his I,dginies,
Na. 21, Oreenwood..treet, Mile-end-road, On Thursd ,y
morning, the 9th instant, he left the latter place about half
past e, yen, and at five the same afternoon he was met by a
triend near Manning. house, where be said he wss going.
He was nit afterwards seen by any of his friends, but being
in the habit of leaving home for some hours, ne notice was
taken of it at the time; but his not returning on Saturday,
handbills were circuls ed offerieg a reward of 101. for his
discovery. Nothing being heard of Mr. O'Connor for some
dap, Barnes, an active officer of the K division, was em-
ployed to look after him, and on that officer going to the
deceased's lodgings he found that his boxes had been
nuet.cd and emptied of n'.l the valuable eontentr. He then
ascertained that Mrs. Manning had been there alone on
1 huraday miming, the 9th inst.,which excited his suspicions
Yesterday Barnes, and Burton, an active effie 7 of the 31
division, proceeded to No. 3, Minerva-place,whieh had been
lately occupied by Manning, when Mr. Coleman, the land-
lord, afforded them easy access. Barnes hail beard that
Manning had used threats towards Mr. O'Connor, which
d I,iin to suspect that some untair means had been used
against him. He accord:ugly suggested to Burton the
necessity of dicging up the gal den. They did so, but found
whine to excite their suspicions. Saute then looked aver
elle lower part of the house, and on searching the back
kiec:ien he thought one of the flap had been removed. lie
consequently called Burton and procured a ahavel and oth-r
iustruments,when they removed the stones, and immediately
seer-mined that they had been recently taken up. On
tnrnirg up the fi.gstones the resistible' found treat the
earth was rather slack, they consequently called ia assist-
ance, and on removing the earth 'hi y came to the body of
the murdered man. He was lying on his face with his legs
doubled up, end tied with a rope to the haunches.
Mr. Lockwood, a medical gentleman connected with one
of the hospitals, was passing with our r porter at the time,
and instantly rendered his assistance. He discovered that
the &ceased had been brutally murdered; that he had
been shot, as two slugs were discovered near the temple or
fractal bone. On turning over the body. it was discovered
that he had false teeth, which e rreepondrd with the follow-
ieg advertisement. is.ued on Monday last:
10k Rewaan—Mtasixo—Mr. Patrick O'Connor, an

officer of tae customs, who left his residence, 21, Green-
wood-street, Mile end road, on Therduy morning, the 9th
last , end was 1 st ti en near Weston-street, at fuur o'clock
the same aftormooe. Deseription.—Fiqy years of age, 6 feet
11 inches high, fsir complexion, light It tie, stout made, end
wears • false set of teeth."

Late in the afternoon a relative of the marred man
identified the bah.
_ _ _

There can hardly be any doubt that Manning of his wife
committed the murder, as they sold all their Roods to a
hr.keriin Bermondsey-street on Tueerlsy lest, and eakibi.ed
a strong desire to leave the neighbourhood. Mrs. Manning
was also at the murdered man's hoigiogn on the day he left,
awl the day after, when she unlock. d his drawers; but no
su.pici•rn was attached to her, as she was in the habit of
visiting them during hie absence. The deceased wes pos-
sessed of near 4,0001., chiefly consisting of foreign railway
bonds and shares, besides about 3001. in cash—the whole of
which has been stolen. In fact, nothing of the lead value
has been left.

A number of detective police have been despatched to
'wean' provincial and seaport towns', to endeavour to &mar-
tian whether the suspected parties had taken up their
quarters there, or whether any parties answering their de.
seription had taken their poop by the foreign boats. A

HUNGARIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE.—
In, compliance with a requisition, signed by nearly 10P of
the moat respectable inhabitants of Southampton, inclusive
of the etteriff and twelve other members of the borough
count I, the mayor has convened a public meeting of the in-
habitanto at the Guildhall, on Tuesday cm niag text, for the
purp,:e of expre-sing their sympathy with the nob:e Hun-
pa.ians in their atrn,cgl.s to maintain the existence of the
independence of their native land.
THE CittiPa Itt DEVONSIIIRE.—Were it not for the
interruption of frequent showers, our harvest would proceed
Tepidly, as the latest pieces are now f tat hut. ning to ripe-
ness ; we may say the greater part of the wheat has passed
the r gpration of the reaper, mid many of the cerlicet fields
have been carried in a saisfactery condition. The crop ge-
nerally appears not to he an unreniunerative one, unless tie
doings oi our legislators should make it so: there seams to
be little tense for complaint as to qu nil' or quality, end,
with a little fine weather, our hcrvest would be over fa a
very short space of time. Oats and huh y ere ■ot mush to
he cam, hiked of, and are neatly ready fur the scythe
Turnips have Paired by what benefited the wheat—dry
weather—and will be a late and not a goad crop. Mengel
wurts,l looks well and premising. That much talked•of
root, the rtro, appears to be struggling on ; bete and there
✓e
see the disease very t isibly, but, as yet, there does not
appear to he any material damage to the crop generally, end
the early a -tie are better and much larger than we finesse's
them a long time, but we are not sanguine societal' to think
the crop out of danger—we have often seen great and sudden
eh after rain. The apples grow well, oil will not be
Emit below an average crop. The grass land looks better
than we could expect, and we need not complain for want of
grass fur th- cat .'e. We want sun both to gichei in our
present crops well and to well wpm our lard ter the crops
of a tether year.—Exefec Flying Post.

WATERSPOUT IN TUE MERSEY.—Yeaterday morn-
leg, at a quart. r to nine o'cl..ek, the phenom n st of a
waterspout was men in the river Mersey. A dense cark
cloud deumnded neatly oppo ite the battery, and, on t nosh-
ing the water, took the sh:p., of an itaironrl, found, the
water b-low boiling up furiously. For a moment it was
atationary, but teen began to move up the liver %wards the
inagaziaas, but tool changed its course, and d tvtidi d, dis•
pursing in sallower oppoiite But Ale.— Liverpool Journal.
TUE LATE AFFRAY BETWEEN TILE MILITARY
AND THE PoLICE AT SUNDERLAND.—At the Watch C.,aa.
mAtee meeting, on Tuesday. the town atilt noted that he
had re-...hi1l a letter from the War office, in answier to an
appliesti m he had made for the ripener incurred in
• ision between the is.l,isn and pt-lice in September lase,
and the expeLse of the polkas and other t ersoas attending
the e •urt a.ar:ial at Newcastle. The tier guts as follows :
War Offi,e, 10th August, 1549.—Sir, in answer to your
letter of the 23rd ult., with an enclosure, I am directed to
acquaint you that fell particulars of the claims the several
persons aerial!' to by rsti, for their earns's., in attending as
wit.,ts‘is at the (.1. enl Court Martial, assembled a' New-
• in 31st °nob, rhist, fur the trial of certain soldiers of
the 63ru IL•hrinect, should be furnished to Colonel Marten,
of the let Dragonar, now stationed at York, who Cal prod-
dent of the ski . court, and who has been requested to tr Re-
mit the claim., after due invesigati,m, to this office, with his
n port [het euple, for toe Secretary at War's cnsideration.
Ti.. claim of each person, with hie name, resitlr.re, and
condition of lite, should be separately and distinctly stated,
and duly au..henticated. lam to add that the rapkwet in-
curred by wiroessee in the pr 'ccedingt before tt e Cisil Ma-
iristrat• a Court • ill be ehnsidersd by the Secret..." at War,
I am, sir, your obedient servant, R. L. KIRET.—Wan. Scow-
ball, tows clerk, Sundetland." The town clerk added that
the exprcies for witnes-es balm* the as silk:nitre and fee
some dentate that was done was 17/. The other expense'
amounted •la about 41. Sunder/awe; Times.

TILE GUE4TLINO POISONINGS.-CONFESSION OF
THE Ilicanzaaaa.—Vary Ann Gearing, who was comic ed
at ti.v. Lew. s a•ris-s of mordetirg her husband by adna;nis-
tering arsenic to tics, and sitsinst whom there were also two
ludic:alerts fee taking away the lives of two of htr sons io a
similar manner, mute a fell conks:lois of her crime on
Thursday I .at to the chaplain of Lewes gaol. The %infer-
Wows woman b•!1, eiice her condemnation. evincel a cue
erase of tle awful position in which she is plitta. The tn.,.
cation is fixiAl to take place at Lewes, oa Tuesday next.

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MONEY MARKET.

FRIDAY HYMNING,

There was a good deal of animat.on amongst the
dealers on ete Stock Exchanre to-day, and the Eug-
lisli lui-ds were extensire,y nealt in, pirtieuler4 tc-
wards the latter part :if the day. Consols fur mosey
opened at 921 to 1, and attained 1, but were lasi
marked at 921. For account the transactions were
not numerous. The extreme rites at which they
were done were 921 and 93, the first and last opera-
tions being marked at 921. They left off at 921 to
for money, and at 92! to 93 for account. The Three
per CLIP'. it, duced were marked 92'.i acd 1, end the
Tiiree-and-a•Closarter per CeLts. from 934 to 1, the
last to nsaction being at 931.
Exchequer Dills were variously disposed of at 435.
to 48.. premium. L. ng Annuities at 8/ aid 13-16.
Bar.k St ck at 199 and 200.

In foreign securities the amount of business done
was unimportant, and the quotations remain without
much variation. Portuguese stock was done a trifle
lower. The actual business wee at the following
rates : B..enos Ayres Bonds at 521, 53, and 54.
Cuilitio l'hrto per Ceti... at 53. Danish Three per
trots., 1823, at 70j. Equador at 31. Grenada De•
feard at 34. Hr xican, ex coupon., et 281,1, and 1
for money, and at 281, 1, and 1 for account. Peru-
vian Fem. per Cents. Active, 1849, at 52. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. at 281. Spanish Five per
Cents. at 18;; ditto Passive at 31 ; ditto Three per
Cents at 34;. Venezuela at 2.51; ditto, Dufeired, at
7, Dutch tour per Cent. Certificates at 83.
The premium on gold yesterday at Paris was 10
per mine, wh'eli, at the English m'nt price of
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, glees an
exchange of 25.391; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25.371, it follows that gold is
0.09 per cent, dearer in Paris than in London.
By advice, to•dsv from Hamburg the price of gdd ,
is 437 per mark, which, at the English mint price of

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• Pairs. t 44 . t
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A go Jan. 16. Prannt ." ki
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.7 per amt.
Z P. 6.
I tor 6 yro, I
t'alo lonian ........ 10 : and 6 per 11 pm. If put. 51 . • 5 6 0
orot. lo 1
eurpotn/ty /
Ch,-ter and MI,-
1..1
?intern C.tuntles lO c, I pm. pm. Ii .. 44 4
lint Lanett...hire
t..r.st Nttrthern
Earl Ltniad., litrt .. Z 1 6 1 pm. 3f pm. Of .. 6 6 3
15.4.0. trtatnift,al.'
aad Birmingham) GO 6 1 db. 1 pm. If .. 616 0
LlllC4bille
Ttoripthiru
1.,,t .1., owl Think lll 6 Not Y. 1 pm. 5ll 0
Itriglitoto .. . ...
:bath Wa.teral 1 1 4 percent.
Ittboktoh.o, ~ ITe awl 1 1 r.f 11.. 1 dlr. 10 .. 45 0
~hire I i gurplua
Midiaml, lied ~
and Itinnlugham.. 100 6 25pm. pm. f .. 415 0
Aper.ernt, 1
North 8r1t4h...... \ 611 tarl r• 1 Tams[ 10pm .. 117 G
n 1 ..utal i ' - '
Pa4P4lal4 1
&lath EaPteLlpji
Rooting.
Reigate ........ 115 Et 1 lipm.t ... lllpm 8 4lB 0
1

Ummertial advien have been received from Ham-
burg to the 11th. The numerous vowels which con-
tinued to arrive since the rising of the blockade,
amongst which there were five from Bahia and five
from Ilevannah, deterred holders of orders as well as
ape culators from operating, uutil the effect produced
upon the market by the numerous eunplies, arrived
and on the war, lied shown itself. The stocks of
coffee in the interior hied become very much
reduced, and as the consumption of that article is
found to be very great, a fee Frig predominated that
after the Dutch sales were over, the prices would
rather improve than otherwise. The market far
stater continued to be flat, owing to the orders from
the interior having teen recalled. Cotton was held
f.r higher wee. The demand for grain had entirely
subsided, and no transactions for cap it had taken
place during the week. 115 dollars had been re fined
for wheat of 611 lbs. arl barley hid reartesel
GO dollars. Heavy rains were v. ry general,
and were likely to prove very iejurious t)
the ,'ending crops, unites • favourable change to
dry and sunny weather soon took place. Public secu-
rities and shares were firm, but did not attract much
notice. Money was very plentiful. Exchange on
London 13 9; for three months, 13 101 far short.
From lirexen we have leVers to the 14th; they
speak with encoura:ement of the proepects for a gfiod
autumn busine es in colonial goads, now that the
hkekade is :sited, teed ve4sels were arriving every
day from all parts with carg.,ea to replenish the ex-
hausted stocks. Coff evas in great favour. semi va-
rious sales had taken place at fall rates. Seger was
neglected. Dye woods were in good demand. The
accounts from th's county had caused considerable
depression in the grain market, and prices were look-
ing down. The exel2ange on London was 610 dollars
per 1001.
The accourt. of the 13th from B. rlin, report a
very anima'ed "Bonve." The favourable tole R hick
pe. miler, the day before had considerably inevrae,d,
and • further advance was quoted for moot stecke and
railway sham. Voluntary loan was quoted at 1041
buyers. Treasury notes 87: buyers. Bank shares
931 buyer.. Polish Treasury " obligations" 741
buyer.. In the rain market, the advices from
England had caused e re fiction, and the prices generally
had given way, especially in rye, which was fully 4
dollars lower in price. In barley there was nothing
doing.
The following i 4 the official monthly review of the
Bank of Prussia at Berlin for the mouth of July:

1. Sprcie and bars
2. Notes
S. HO+ in hand
4. Lombard, amount .
11. National securities and eundry Oman&

IG,T. 2,300
1,1 N 1,900
10,97,7000
10,217,00
13,187,910

6. Notre in cireolalirm 17,11,b1..00
7. Ile• mited capital
8. Lan from comrommt in note", (after repayment
of 4,900,000 dolia•a, sccardlng to Rank resole.
tion, dated Oct. 5, IRA) 1,100,000
9. At the credit of the Treasury, public institution%
and individuals, including bill teat:motions

Letters from Breslau of the 10th report that the
rye harvest had penvt-d a very good one, whilst the
crops of wheat, barley, and oats had only then com-
menced. A few ',amples of new wheat had been
brought to market, which from their good quality
were eagerly bought np. Oilseeds had been bought
extensively by the milt rs. In zinc nothing was
doing. 3 dollars 26 kilvt r greschen was offered for
Gidwitz produce.
The various advice% received by this mail from Me-
mel, Palau, Konigsberg, Stet, in, and Dintzic, report
numerous charters of Pru-sian and English vessels
for grain and wood to Or a' Britain. The rates of
freiglt averaged from 4'. to 4s. 6d. per quarter fur
wheat to London or Hull, and 16s. per load for tim-
ber. A, Memel, however, several charters of small
vessels bad been eo-cluded at 3e. 6d. to 39. 71d. per
quarter wheat toLind .r, with proportionate rates to
other port..
Frem Christiania we have received commercial in-
telligence to the B'h. During the month, there had
been charter: d to London fam vessels at 18t, with
per cent. per Christiania standard, and three vessels at
38e., with 5 per cent. for split wood. The exchange

THIS DAY.

Two o'Caoca.
In the E'.glish fonds to-day little business has been
transacted, and the market is devoid of interest.
Console or fled Weedy, at 921 to for money, and at
924 to 93 for account, and have so continued quoted
to the present time. Th.. Three per Cent. %dated
have changed hands at 921 and 1. The Three-sad-
a-Quarter per Cents. at 931, and 1. Exchequer Bills,
at 455. to 48c. premium.
In the foreign market the business has not been
tx•ensive, but priers are well supported. Mexican
and Spanieh are rather firmer. Tee actual dealings
of the awning are the following : Belgian Four-and.
it-Halt per (lilt,. at 84. Brazilian, at 851. Dutch
Four per Cent. C.ertifieatts, at $3 and 1. Grenada, at
171 and 1. Mexican, ex coup.ms, at 1-8.2 and 4.
Spanish Five pa Cent-., at 19 and 181; ditto Pan.
sive, at 31.
The F.ench fonds closed yesterday at Paris at a
slight improvement over the prices of the day
previous. The Three per Cants. were marked at
54 30, and the Five per Cents. at 89.10.

UNOLId4 VUNDB.
Hank Stack, 102 200 3 tar (nr.Cata A0L.9•14 3
3 ter CL. ltrA. anna..9311 ev. kit
3 tar Cl. Con. Ann., 112. Mzebequer 141 W, 44. ea

FOREIGN FUNOB.
6 per CL AVAthll Road... , 1 per Ct. Grenada WK. 17 18
it tot CL &lg. Roark 83 6 Grenada Deterred 8d.., 31j .
SI per Cot. ditto, I 5 per Ct. Net., 1646,281 t
filer Ct. lratiltut 14114,86 6 6 rut et Pr u‘: to 1446.. ;A
Ditto Nes. 64 6 I Portutdzso 0rw.,161 Ai
4 per Ct. Itneo.6. Ayes, E 2 4 6 yrs Ct. Rao. Ws., 1;41 7
Pitt* C6lllan Ws . IN., Epsnokh ISL., tat 11l
Nur Colamh. Pct. Irk.. i 3 inn CL slur '•. 11J., 3,4 I
Coltunbtwo Egll.4lif Ma, : 2 1 slur.... 1.4.• f..: 00 M...
3 per Ct. bamall 1W.., r.1:1 Pat, 621.1.3 1166..3/ 4
! per Ct. Dutch r.h.. :41 ?4 1 2 err Ct. Veisetucta .4.., ES 7!
4 Ct. Lute. Cert... 83 3 , A tett rucLa Ddetre4 Itit.. iti 7i