The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1849.

Your leedshiverol perceive by the documents annexed
1. That Mi. d lad bent sn prison 19 days.
2. That use jails., having at the end of the first three days
Wren Mr. Ward's deciaratiqn, hangs I.p the case. ea pre-
tence that it is in a s...tr i f " Gaetano" ti,,formation).
3. That the eaecuti re tp.r rutnertt, on using a, p sled to,
says that itcaanot interfere in judicial proceedings, although
cue minister admits that by the constitution it is one of the
special attributes of the government to " watch over end see
that immediate and istartial justice be admininered ;" and
he stadieusly avoids adverting to the fact that in this ease
the 'oversews% is the accusing party ; abuses it follows
that, unless some lettuces* be brought to beer on the
Venezuelan government for Mr. Wart's relief, he may
mains* confined in the prison of Caracas for any 1 atth of
time that the judge may pleats, to the serious detriment of
his health and his interests. The judge violates the law.
The government not only remains a passive spectator of the
violation, but is a direct perdeipator therein, inasmuch ea it
's the winning party in whose favour the violation is made.
Thu inconsistent conduct of the government in the matter
le shown in the fact stated in Mr. Ward's Third ltepre-
sentation to the acting Brit'sh Consul, that in several casts
therein enumerated the executive government has inter•
fered at the instance of the representatives of foreign powers
to enforce the administration of justice as an acknow-
ledged part of its duty. The pretence, therefore, that it
cannot interfere with the course of judicial proceedings is a
mere evasion.
The committee are We that they need not address one
word to your lordship to induce her Majesty's government
to take up this matter in such a manner as to show that
British merchants residing in foreign countries, under the
protection of a treaty, are not to be treated with insult, in-
jury, and moss.
1 cannot conclude this representation without adverting
to one circumstance which, there is too much reason to be-
lieve, may have produced this hostile demonstration on the
part of the government of Venezuela towards Mr. Ward. A
law was passed in April last in Caracas, as your lordship is
aware, called the " Ley de Byers," or " law of delay"—a
law which strikes at the root of all security and morality
in mercantile dealings Against this law a representation
was made, through the aiding British consul in Caracas to
the govewnnient, before the latter body had given to it its
sanction. The signatures to that representation included
those of all the British merchants in Carnets and La Ouayra.
At the head of them stood the name of Mr. Ward ; and it
is understood that the document was drawn up by him. It
denounces in strong terms the iniquity of the law. It de-
aerfbes it as " one that placeri the debtor in a more enviable
position than his creditor ; a state of things, which, If
suffered to go into practice, will destroy all trade, all confi-
dence, ruin the :most wealthy and enterprising; and by
enriching the reckless, the dissolute, and the dishonist
member of the community, will introduce that degree of
demoralization in the mesa which must Inevitably sap the
foundations of society." And it added, that " such a scheme
for legal robbery never had been equalled in any civilised
society in the universe."
Vie bold and uncompromising language, so justly called
for by the circumstanceof the ease—in which, however,
Mr. Ward was joined not only by every British met-
' chant, but by every other foreign merchant in the country—
it is to be feared has brought on Lim the hostility of the
Venezuelan goinnment, masking itself under the form of
a judicial procdiding.-1 have the honour to be, my lord,
your faithful servant.
J. D. FOWLES,
en of the South American and Mexican Aseaciation.

THE PACIFIC.

SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
From the Sandwich Islands we have accounts of
the 26th:of May inclasive. The Polynesian contains
the following information of the English surveys in
the Pacific :
Server of the Western Coast of America, Search for Sir
John Franklin, &c.
Her Britannic Majesty's ship Herald, Captain Kellett,
C. 8., which sailed hence on the 19th inst., left England on
the 26th of Jane, 1845, and touched at Rio Janeiro, the Falk.
land Islands, Conception, Valparaiso, and Callao. Thence
to New Granada, where she commenced her special object
of 'arraying, in the bay of Chow. Surveyed river Buena-
venters, as high up as the town of the SIMI name. This is
the best harbour on the west coast; but this, eves, has bet
12 to 18 feet of water. After completing the survey of this
bay, proceeded to Nimes, thence to the Shaba of Jena de
Flaw in latitude about 48. deg. north. Remained lathe strain
three months, and ear beyed the south part of Vancouver's
Island, and the north part of Oregon territory in the straits.
From the Straits of Juan de Fuca the Herald returned
south to San Fr xncisco, in California, surveng some
islands on:the coast, and reached Mazatlan, in Mexico, in
November, 1946. Thence down the Mexican coast to Pa-
nama, where she arrived in the middle of January, 1847.
Speat three months in surveying the Pearl Islands, in Pa-
alma Bay, whence she rvasedeil to Callao to provision sad
refit, and arrived in Jane.
After refitting she proceeded to Guayaquil, and surveyed
from Santa Clara Island up to the city of Guayaquil, a din
tante of about 40 miles. From this point she completed
the sure, yof the Smith American coast as high up as Panama
Bay, by February, 1848.
Here the Herald received orders from England to pro-
ceed to to Kamchatka, to seek out a proper position for,
sad to establish and provision her Britannia Majesty's ship
Player, that she might be in reedinem to communicate with,
and relieve the wants of Sir John F rankha in case he should
succeed in finding his way through hem the east. After a
very rough and tedious palates. during which she was towed
some 600 miles by her Britannic Majesty's steam-frigate
Samson, she arrived In 90 days at Pesialovskeie, in
Asiatic Ramis. After recruiting, and readying Vi i•,
civility aad attention from the Russians. she erased the
Sea of Kanuelistka to Norton's Sound, in Russian Amides,
to procure interpreters, and baiden (light seal-skin beats),
the latter of which she felled to procure. This employed her
till August, 1818.
From Norton's Sound the Herald proceeded neethward,
and in September anchored off the Island of Chaska, in
Kotsebue's Sound, in about 67 deg. N. lat. Hem she re-
mained a month, cruising about and exploring the bay; but
failed to hear anything of Sir J. Franklin and his expedi-
tion, or of the Pierer, with whom she expected to fall in,
and to establish whom in winter quarters she was de-
spaTtched.
he Meer left these islands, it will he recollected, on the
24th of Angus last, too late in the season, probably, to
to reach her readeavows before the Herald left. She has not
sines Mem beast keen at these islands.
From Hatnebee's loud the Herald returned to Petro-
Cltand after a short sta left aga hapthe 21st of
eabelee having again ex thetality and
kind stlentions of the Russian offline* and others of that

Plo Fro w
m the atelb, at the approach of winter, the Herald
again tumml her prow towards the south, and after survey-
ing the Mood of Guadeloupe, which is about 100 miles to the
north of Mazatlan. arrived at the latter plane on the 21st of
November. From Mazatlan she continued down the coast,
at San Mae, and arrived at Panama in Jaauari,
tl°B79ll.intontinned the survey of the coast from Point Male,
the neither& point of Panassa•bay to Point Barite, the
southern point of Cost* Rica, in lat. 8 deg. north.
This completes the survey of the astir* west coast of
loath America by the British government; and, in fact,
tile minis Smith American continent hoe now been sue rasa
by the British and French—by the latter oa the east case
as far south as the River Plate, and by the former from the
Plate round to eight degrees north in the Pacific.
From Costa Rica the Herald came direct to these islands,
end arrived here on the Bth of May. After • short stay
here, she sailed again on the 19th for Petropaulovskoie, to
carryout the attempt of the past year, which she did not
then succeed in doing.
It was not a little gratifying to hear it asserted by the
slither of the ship, who very obligingly communicated the
above information, that of all the places touched at on the
mks they had found none that equalled Honolulu as a plea-
sant and agreeable place, for its intelligent society,and for
asduosimesdations pallid and orderly charactering_ of the town. May such
ever be merited.
We have no means of know exactly, but have esti-
mated Os distance sailed by the Herald since leaving Eng-
ine& as 60,000 to 60,000 miles. And now, instead of tare-
bll its mama homeward, alter a anise of nearly four years,
tea Vela launches out among the icebergs of the Arctic sea,
k pursuit of an object that don honour to humanity, end re-
flects great credit on the government that sends her forth.
We hope that success may attend her, and that she may en-
joy the satisfaction of affording relief to an ezpodition that
his awakened the most lively interest and sympathy of the
whole civilised world.
" Surveying voyages, bite the one in which the Herald
kas been engaged, ere not usually attended by those I ril-
Rant incidents that attract the notice of the world, but their
results and benefits are chiefly reduced to pracdW value in
the form of map. and charts; and while laborious and eelf-
denying to the officers and men engaged in them, are
equally creditable to those nations that sustain them for the
benefit of all commercial countries.
" The Pandora, which has been connected with the He-
raid in her surveying cruise, is now here, and will sail in a
day or two for Ragland.
" We have seen it iatimated in some of the American
I prints, that, under the cover of surveying, she had, in fact,
been engaged in smuggling. We have good authority for cal-
-1 tradicting this asseetien, and for expressing our disbelief of
it. As a national mask she was sada obligation to render
assistance to British merchants ; and, doubtless, during the
troubles that have waned upon the west coast during the
past few years, she may have thus been so employed. But that
a British government vessel is justly chargeable with the
algae et smuggling, we have no ides whatever. England
has too mush trouble in preventing the violation of her own
Excise laws not to refrain from allowing such a breach, by
one of her commissioaed vessels, of the laws of another
kingdom. Self-interest and self-respect, had she no higher
Modell, would prevent such an infringement of the rights of
others. Her rights England has no occasion to waive or es-
by MAXI."

EXCURSION TRAINS.—The railway company con-
Una, their cheap Sunday excursion trains from London.
The number of persons who availed throatily.' of this great
convenience on Sunday was 1,300. mowers brought in
two trains, one of 24, the other of 19 ages. Of excur-
Omelets from Brigkton the numbers were—to Hunch's-
gate, 182; to Burgewhill, 36; and to Hayward's heath, 43.
The weather was delightfully fine during the whole day. On
Monday from 150 to 200 &ruled theiwWves of the excursion
eux-
tickets issued for visiting Peveneey and Hertsmono
castles. It is in contemplation, we hear, to have an ex-
curtion-train shortly, probably the 10th Of 11th September,
from Brighton to Portsmouth, thereby giving the oppor-
tunity of visiting the Isle of Wight —Brighton Guardian.

Vet Court.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, aecompanbed by their Royal Highneues the
Hereditary Grand Duke sad Grand Dachau of Mecklenburg
Strelit: and the Primness Mary left their residence at Kew
yeettrday morning, and prooet.ied to the Rustrmeauve
terminus of the London and North Western Railway. Tbsit
royal bighneases took their departure by • special train
fur Plunewystd, Analessa. Baron Hweeebeek preceded their
royal highnesses to Plasnewydd on Tuesday.
Earl Grey hits left h's scat, Howick-hall, Northum-
berland, for Brunami.n Castle, Crieff, Perthshire.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.

CAPTURE OF MANNING AT
JERSEY.

Last evening, information was forwarded by elec-
tric telegraph from Southampton, that Manning—
against whom and his wife a verdict of wilful murder
was returned by the coroner's jury who inquired
into the cause of O'Connor's death—had been arrested
on Monday evening, at Beaumont, Jersey. The par-
ticulars of this event ars detailed In a Supplement to
the Jersey Zeus, dated Tuesday last. They are as
follows:

BERMONDSEY MURDER. ARREST OF
MANNING.
Jersey Times Ones, Tuesday morning.
We are now enabled to announce the gratifying fact that
Manning was captured last evening about nine o'clock, and
safely lodged in prima. He arrived in this island last
Thursday week, 16th inst., and took lodgings at Mr. Berry's,
the Navy Arms, in isluleaster-street, where he remained
until els following Thursday snorn'ng, and on Die then
leaving, desired that his bed should be kept for him, as he
would Memos, Saturday. While there, he went out early
in the morning and returned in the evening generally under
the influence of liquor, of wtskui he drank more before he
retired for the night. fie had once arranged with the cap.
fain of a sailing.vessel to go with him early in the morning
to Guernsey, but did not get up in time.
From his quitting the Navy Arms, until yesterday, there
was no direct trace of him ; he took lodgings on Thursday
lest at Mr. Bertheau's, a private house a little off the St.
Aubin'e road, on this side the third tower ; wbile there he
kept very close, and might have remained longer con-
cealed but for the notice taken of his so frequently sending
to the same house for a bottle of brandy. This caused a sus-
picion, and information was given to Mr. Ceutenier Chime.
Her, who immediately repaired to the place,. accompanied by
two officers of the Lnneon Detective Police, Om of whom
was well acquainted with Manning, from his having had to
I do with him in the affe.r of the mail robbery on the Great
Western Railway, for which Poole rul Nightingale were
1 convicted.
Os arriving at the house, it was ascertained that the
lodges was in bed, and admirable arrangements were made
for getting a sight of his face, and securing him before he
could offer any resistance. He was, however, easily rap-
tured, and was in a very nervous state. Near him was a
bottle of liquor and a rlsor. lie immediately recognised
Mr. Edward Langley, of the London police, and dated that
'he wee glad he had come, as he was thinking of going to
London to explain all.
One of his first qaestioas was, "Is the wretch taken ?"
alluding to his wife ; and, on being answered in the affirma-
tive,
he observed, " Ism glad of it—that will save my life I"
In subsequent conversation, he endeavoured to throw the I
whole blame oa the woman, and stated that she
had caused the grave to be dug some time
before ; and, after having laid the cloth for dinner, bad in-
vited O'Connor <Urn stairs to wash his hands, and while he
wascrZ4o the kitchen for that purpose, had taken the
op of firing at him from behind.
be phonier admitted that all the things in the room
whin in was lodging belonged to him, adding that he had
found a man to give him twelve pounds for his furniture in
Londe's—all the money he had to start with, of which seven
sovereigns which he gave up was the remsinder. On his
arrival at the Navy Arms, in Mulcastea-atreet, his first in-
quiry was to see the Times newspaper.
During his stay there he regularly breakfasted and supped
with the other guests, but rarely dined with then. Me
carried himself rather high, tasked of his INNS the
French revolution, that he must go to Franco, sued
require ea interpreter, as he did not speak the language.
During the passage from Southampton he bad
tweed himself upon a respectable geininger, with 1
whom he shared a double•bedded roam. bat Se when. es
' well as to several masters of vessels, and in the louse,
be so behaved ea to render himself anything but a favourite.
He always evinced a great desire to see the newsmen, and
M Saturday, the 19th, he went to the Union Hotel on pur-
pose to read the Tames.
At the Navy Arms he paid regularly for everything h•
had, including a glass of brandy, before he went away. This
etnipled with his leaving a trunk, a coat, a pair of trousers,
&a, made the host fully expect his return.
In addition to this extract, oar correspondent at
Snithempton sends us the following:
I SOUTHAMPTON. W IDNISDAT, 9 P.M.
Owing to there being no warrant to demand Man-
ning from the Jersey authorities, he is not expected
in Southampton before Monday evening next. Mr.
Whicher, of the London detective force, was in South-
ampton at the time the news of hie capture arrived
there, and telegraphed it to the Secretary of State.

We understand that the capture was made by the
governor, his eon, Sergeant Langley, and Constable
Lockyer. The last two officers had been out all day on
Monday pursuing their search, when, while returning
to their quarters about hall-past 9in the evening, the '
landlord of the house in which Manning was staying
beckoned them to him, and stated that he had got a
sun in bed whom he strongly suspected was the man
they were looking after, so nearly did he answer the
description of the pereon charged with the murder of
O'Connor, as printed and circulated by the police au-
thorities.
It would seem that the officers did not immediately
act without the presence of one of the heal authori-
ties, and the governor was sent for, and he soon
arrived, accompanied by his son. All four then pro-
ceeded to the room in which Manning lay, and a sight
of his face having been obtained, the govt rnor threw
himself upon Manning and secured him, but the letter
offered no resistance whatever.
Inspector Haynes, accompanied by a constable, has
this morning started fur Jersey with the necessary
warrant for the removal of the prisoner to the
metropolis.
Tho subjoined is from our Bristol correspondent :
BRISTOL, Wednesday Afternoon.
Intelligence has been received here this afternoon, on
what is believed to be good authority, of the arrest of Man-
ning, the murderer, at Jersey yesterday. The information,
brought by a railersy guard, has been confirmed by a
respectable merchant, and it is stated to have been derived by
both from the Brunswick mail packet, from Jersey to Top-
sham. The arrest is said to have been made in s beer•shop
Wand.

We may add that th 9 earliest information of
Manning's hiding place was given in this paper
exclusively on Friday last, from information obtained
direct from Guernsey. The intelligence was trans-
ferred to the columns of nearly ,11 our contemporaries,
and in no one instance was the source to which they
were indebted for it acknowledged.

MANNING AND THE SALE OF THE MURDERED
MAN'S STOCK.
TO TEN EDITOR OT TRH ESTEEMS.
flir,—l would call your attention to the fact, that neither
of the two brokers, appearing as witnesses, in to-day's
report of the coroner's inquest, yesterday holden on the mur-
dered O'Connor, is a member of the Stock Exchange. There
is, nothing particular to comment on in the conduct of the
first of these gentlemen, but it may be instructive to the
public to notice the manner in which Mr. Bassett does
bushier for Messrs. Killick, his employers.
I am proud to feel that no member tf the Stock Exchange
would transact businees for a stranger at all ; our customs uni-
formly requiring an introduction from a friend aooompanying
every new client. But here we have evidently }leaning
himself personating O'Connor days after the murder ;
walking a rfeet stronger into lillick's office, signing a
blank transfer, and carrying off the moil, all in a few mi-
nutes. And here we hve Mr. Bassett, by his own admission
who the transfer, attesting the signature of O'Connor,
whom he did nut know from Adam, and paying I part
only of the produce money. Were the sale rftl, he would
have paid the whole ; and twenty Eastern Counties would
have sold then in the house for—say 170!. cash, instead of*,
1101. redly paid ; though then Manning must have employed
a broker, who would hove been linden enough to
ark for at least a letter of introduction in the known
handwriting of some well-known principal.
Row unfortunate for Mrs. Manning that she did not carry
her railway scrip to Killick's office, instead of taking that me-
lees journey to Edinburgh ! Pr bebly, Manning was led to
the parties from advertisements in the papers to lend cash on
' shares, and probably the transaction itself was a loan. Of
course no member of the Stock Exchange advertises his
calling, any more than a banister or physician. Inclosed is
my card. I am, sir, &c. A BROKER.
Tuesday.
Stock Exchange,

THE WEELETAN CONFERENCE.— BRISTOL, Aro.
29.—A erowdel meeting was hell last night in tae Wm&
ntead-rooms, in this city, Mr. J. Copp. in the chair. The
chairman explained the object of the meting to be to ..ke into
I
clasideration the caws of expulsion from cenPrence of the
Revs. J. Everett, J. Dann, wed W. Gr;fil.h.jast. &sera
' gen•lemen addressed the meeting, and resolutions for Ts-
moving the sentence of expulsion paned nem ties rev. gen-
tlemen, and pledging the meeting to use all pr Ter m.ans to
get the obnoxious resolution of the conference of 1849, To-
minded, were earned unanimously, and a subwriptim was
opened for the expelled members. Mt. Hilt wen appointed
treasurer of the fund to be &Jed, and a V(1..2 of tbliao
wn
give* to the chairman.