The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

gbe Court.

BALMORAL. AUGUST 26.—This morning her Ma-
jesty end the Prince, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Run.
Miss Dawson, Lord John Russell, Colonel the Ron. Alexan-
der Gadoa, Mr. Anson, and Mr. Birch, uttended divine ser-
v.ce at the parish church at Crathic. Service was performed
by the Rey. Mr. Anderson.

INDISPOSITION OF DR. BOUTGWOOD SMlTlL—Yes-
terday information was received at the office of the Metro-
politan Commission of Sewers. Soho, Greek-street, that
Dr. Southwood Smith had been takeu so suddenly ill at his
residence at Hlglsgate as not to be able to attend to the beg-
et-as of the finance committee, appointed to sit at ten o'clock,
of which he was a very punctual attendant.
OPENING OF TUE COAL EXCIIANGE.—WO are
authorised to contradict a statement which bas appeared in
several of the newspapers, to the eficet that the new Cool
Exchange loth be opened on the 3rd of September. The
building wiU not be completed at that time, and it nOt
be publicly opened until it is finished.

(From last night's Gasetle.)
DOWNINO.STREET, AUGUST 28.—Tio Queen hila
been pleated to give orders for the appoiiVment a Thomas
Nicholas Redington, Esq., Under Swetary_ to the
of
-
Lieutenant of Ireland, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Second Ctn., or Knights Commanders
of the Moat Honourable Order of the Bath.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY TILE LORD-LIEUTENANT
op LINCOLNsHIRE.—Ayscoghe Bouoherett, Charles John
Henry Mundy, William Elmbirst, Henry Smyth, Edward
Wright. Frederick Chaplin, Maurice Johnson, Matthew
Clark, George Augustus Moore, and Joseph Gleed, Ent, to
be Deputy-Lieutenants.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
Mr. Mosey, the superintendent of the Edinburgh police,
was prepared to turnUtt the jury at the inquert on Monday
with some important evidence respecting Mrs. Maiming, but
the Coroner for some remelt refused to slow him to give it.
Mr. Mosey informed our reporter yesterday that, in course of
a conversation he had with Mee. Manning, he told her that it
was asserted that the murder had taken place on Thursday
night the 9th of August. She said, " Well, if a murder
was committed in the house on the Thursday it must
have been during my absence, for I went out at 4 o'clock,
and did not return till let's in the evening." Mr. Mosey
said, " You are charged with going to Mr. O'C inner's
lodgings, and stealing his property on the Friday, and it is
statcd that it wee impossible for you to have got at that pro.
perty without Mr. O'Connor's keys, which he always
earned with him." Mrs. Manning said, " Well, I know
he was missing, car.
twinnothiyinwgeanbtoin9thtiebehkoluveys,sbou hearing
dt
tov,
property,
which
w 9
my own."
Mrs. Manning, while sitting in the charge-room at S3Wh.
wark police-court on Friday lut, was observed by oar of the
conatablca to be nadir g the bill offering a reward for her
husband. The cm.stables asked her it she knew where Mr.
Manning wu. She said, "No ; but it's no use you looesti
atter him, for he's a long way from here, in fact, he is out
of the country."
The following letter was reccirt:d by the Lord Mayor is
the course of yesterday:
No. 5, Church-court, ClemenCe-!atie, Aue. 27,1549.
My Lord,—l think it my duty to Worm your lordship
that Manning, who is now being sought fer by the poLer,
was at My office isquirit g the. charge fur a plumage eer the
Constant for himself and hie wife. 'lbis was just before the
discovery of the murder took p ace. I need not add I have
seen notaing of hint since, hut the re is a probabLity of his
hanging about Plymouth, to which port the ship le now on
her Journey ; ani he stated that he wished to joie her there.
lie did not give me his name, bat I have a perfect recollec-
tion of him, and have made it my tininess to go over to the
Town-hall and read again the description of bit
which is correct ; and I havo so doubt on my mingt7A
being the Pam: person.
1 have the homur to be your Lordship's molt
obidieni servant.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.

H. konzanux.

His Lordship immediafly sent tie oretnunicat'on to the
ce3pistrate at the pol!c:•c,Jurt at 1,44'.:h the femde accused
of being acceseary to the murder of O'Cktutu has b:ev.
examined.
. . . _

The Constant ie en emigrant ship bound for Australia.
There appears to be no uenbt that arrangements were
made for perpetrating the murder on Wednesday, the Bth
inst. It will re recodected that Mr. O'Connor was OR that
day invited to dine at Mincer-place, tut fur loose ranee at
present unexplained he did not go until the erneitg, when
he was accompanied by Mr. Welsh, which circumstance, of
course, presented them from carrying out their design. The
supposition that mit was their intention is borne out by the
fdlowing letter horn Manning to Miss Massey, sister to
the witness of that name, in which it wi:l be seen that he
strorgly impresses upon her the necessity of lettitg h im bare
the money Le claimed by Wednesday, the Bth inst :
London, Anvil 5,3, lllnver-plece, New
Weston-street, Bermondsey.
"Deer Miss,—l called at your brother's lodgings on
Saturday evening, and he informs me that to intends to to
home on Msnday. The reason, I believe, for bit delay in
London is, be eou:d not register. Repecting the 10a. I
paid to Mr. O'Connor, your brother knows he was indebted
to him for that nmouns and Mr. O'Contor called went
times at my house for the money, which I paid bim, know.
leg that y nur brother )'cd to money. 11 you wish for a re-
ceipt from Mr. O'Connor, I can obtain one feces him imme-
diately. 1 trust you will net fell in forwarding me the
money on Wedne4hy.
" I am, Mies, your mist respletfully,
" FREDERICK GEoRGE MARRING.

" Miss Massey, Swanatone-hall, Derbyshire."
Miss Massey did not send the mount, hcr brother (who
had in the meantime arrived is Derbyshire) having advised
her not to do so. an the bid. which was originally 13/., had
been altered by Manumit to 161. On the morning of the 9th
Mx. Massey received the following letter:
" 3, blinver-place, New Weston-street.
Bermondsey, Aug. 8.
"Sir,—l had a letter from your sister en Monday morning,
stating that she would remit me the env not of my bill on
Wednesday without :ad. She bas not acted to her word. I
must really be candid with you, for I think you arc the insti-
gator of it by false representations to your friends. You're
we:l known ta:ieg guilty of ter& g great falsehoods. ' lies'
regards the 10s. I paid to Mr. O'Connor, ycn know you were
indebted to Lim for th,,t amount, a.id also is. 61. due to me.
If the bill is nut paid by return of poet, 1 shall take imme-
diate proceedings, end then I shall prove to your friends
what you are capeble of doing.
" Your; respectfully.
Funutaicx Guonon MANNINO.
"Mr. W. Massey, Swanstone-ball, Derbyshire."
Manning. it appears, bad endeavoured to nice from Bain-
bridge, the broker, a few days prier to the murder, 101, on
Massey's hospital certificate, but Mr. Bainbridge refused to
have an )thing to do with it.
The following are copies of notes written by Mrs. Man-
nieg to Patrick O'Contre, on the twe Wednesday's preceding
the murder. They bath bear the Borough post-mark, and are
stamped as delivereu re spectirely on the Ist and Bth
invent, as directed The letters are copied rerbatini d
lileruliiis; it wilt be lean that the first especialtgentriagy:
the writer's imperfect knew:cap of the Eighth
It runs thus:
"Wednesday Morning.

"Door O'Connor,
" I shall be must happy to roe u this day to my
House to dinner at 5 o'clock.
" Yours affection,
" 51.trax DlAutuo."

It is not krown wLether the deceits* d dined with the
Menninge on this dey ; but on the following Wednesday
received the Annexed note:

" Wednesday Dloming.

"Dear O'Connf r,
We shall bp happy to see you to dine with us to-day, ►t
half-past 5 o'el.ek.

" Yours affection,
0 Mama MaNtnc."

This note invit,.d the deceased to dinner on the thy pre.
ceding his murder. It will be recollected that he did not
dine in Mi,iver.place on this day ; but accompanied by Mr.
Walsh, went there at a late hour in the evening, and left
after baring had his temples rubbed by Mrs. Manning with
eau do Cologne in consequence of his feeling rather faint.
The Meanings, it will be observed, did not ask O'Connor
to dine with them on the following day in the presence of
Mr. Walsh, but delay,d inviting him until the following
morning, when Mrs. Manning again wrote to him, at the
London Docks, a note which the unhappy man is proved to
have shown his frient's Messrs. Keating and Graham, oa
meeting them on London-bridge, as be was on lin way to be
murdered. This note was of course des royed by his
amanitas, as nothing has been seen of it since.

'CHF COST OF PROSECrTIONS —A Committee wsl
ately :ippointed by the Town Council of Sheffield to con-
eider the subject of Assize Proscutions, and suggest tome
means for dimin'shir g their coat. It appears that the an, nil
number of prosecutions at York Amines from the Writ
Riding, during thesis years from 1843 to 1618 was as folows:
—6OB, 147, 167, 193, 17G, and 167 ; and the average cost of
each prosecution in those years was 481. 17c, 551. 38.,
431. 145., 441. 195., 511. Bs., and 581. 2s. The average yearly
number from Sheffield was 19, and the average cost 651.8..
The West Riding Finance Committee of 184.5 deplored the
increasing cost of prosecutions, but admitted its inability to
" discern the cause, and consequently to suggest a remedy."
The Sheffield Committee suggest—lst. the appointment of a
public prosecutor for each I.r4e borough or petty sessions,
division thereby pre%entiog the cost of employing
private attorneys : 2nd, Refusing the expenses on all
second or subsequent indictments for the same offence, un-
less with leave from the judge or clerk of assize. 3rd. Re-
fusing the charges for a second brief or counsel where the
witnesses do not e:ered ten. 4th. Disellowing the :Irma
of all witnesses net bound over to prosecute. unless the clerk
of assize certifies that they are material. s:h. Taking the
eases in which medical vnmesses are required at a fixed ps'
rood of the amines, so as abridge the attendance of that expen-
sive class of stimesses. 6;11. Mors strictly investigating the
constables' bills of costs, so as to deter them from running op
large bile. And, finally, sending as many cows as possible
to the sessions, where the cost of each prosecution is orgy
81., instead of 581. at the anises. Whatever cheapens the
administration of juatir.e will be an advantage, pros.ded it
does not impair the means ol convicting the guilty.—Lads
Mercury.

OFFENCES AGAINST TITS GAME-LAWS.—By a par•
liamentary return, issued in the spring of 1847, of the flambee
of persons consisted of offences against the game.laws, tor
the five years, from Ist January, 1842, to lit Janusre,
1847, we find that the number for Nottinghamshire was SI.
Three hundred and thirty-seven prosecutions for offences
against. the game-laws, in the small county of Nottingham,
at the instance, principally, of the gentlemen, or their agent),
who have determined that the dwalings of four encond-rsts
shopkeepers, in the towns of Newark and Minefield, ortbate
of twenty stocking-makers in Radford and Buford, and Bid-
well, and Arnold, and a number of other villages, of 'gala
description to these, ought to pay—shall pay—as mach to
the county expenditure, for these prosecutions—the repair of
county bridges—the clothing and pay of the pol'ce—elPemel
of judges' aceommodation—the salaries of county officers
&c., &c.—as Wollaton and Clumber, and other of the cost
splendid and valuable palaces in the county. Well may the
great proprietary of the county be so indifferent to the
amount of these and other expenses—well may they be so
lavish of the public money—so ready to engage infer
cutions for damage done to hedges and trees—a "N•
cutting of a stick to make a bow for a poor man's scythe—et
taking a few rotten sticks from a hedge bottom to mete
fire to roast two or three potatoes by, when they pay tolled+
—more especially in comparison with the burthen they in"
tail upon others—towards these prosecutions! Did they Pal
on a scale for the property they occupy, as humbler melt
pay- there is little doubt that the expenses for game
prosecutions alone would be diminished full fitly per .:Fat
R is, we verily believe, solely because they pay noMing'
or next to nothing, towards these barbarous prosecutions-:
these prosecutions by which the mind of the peasantry she
lower class of farmers is roused and irritated to an incurable
degree—prosecution's which fill our gaols with criminaltham;
our workhouses with beggared wives and ohildren,—OT
they are undertaken in such almost countless numbersol
Nottinghamshire, in comparison with other places in the
kidgdom.—Nottinglueas Mercury.