The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-27 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27.

Tne New York Herald has, it seem, taken alarm
at the formidable list of British and French war-
steamers, publi•loql in the last letter of our restless
protector, Admiral Norris; and the Times notices
the fact, appareutly, with the view of showing that
the Americaes are about to ereamence a career cf ri-
valry with the overgrown armaments of the European
nations. But we b-g to remind our contemporary
that the Herald is not the American people; and, un-
less the latter have suddenly taken leave of theircha-
racteristic sagacity and common sense, this, of all
mans, is not the time when they will depart from the
policy which has hitherto guided them in their naval
and military expenditure. If aver there was a speo-
tacle calculated :o deter imitators, it is that which the
warlike expenditure of the old world, and its
consequences to the nations of Europe, offer to
the calm observation of the people of the
United State,. Let them not be dazzled or stunned
with the sedates of our airy-four pounders, but lock
behind the flame erd smoke, and ask a little informa-
tion hem our financial reformers about the cost of
these pyrotechnic eahibitien,. Let them, to use
one of their commercial phrases, take stack, and
ascertain the profit and loss of the system. Oar
CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIIQUER, or M. PANT, could
supply them with some excellent materials tor count-
ing the cost of an European parses establishment. Do
they want an English er a French budget P If so,
let them eommenc arming upon the NAPIER model.
The lively editor of the Herald winds up his article
with an appeal to the Secretary of the Navy, " Will
Mr. PRESToN be good enough to put on the steam ?"
We hope he has ere this got for reply, " Will the
citizens of America be good enough to pat their
hands in their pockets for twenty millions of dollars
additional per annum?"
At the present mount the Americus have, we
believe, only one line-of-battle ship at sea. Their
naval force, which consists mainly cf small Teasels, is
well adapted for the wants of a maritime people in
time of pm., by enabling them to be present in as
many places a 9 possible, to newer the demands of a
commerce which extends to every nook and corner of
the globe. This is the only kind of force which can
really be of use on such a micron. Hun three-
deckers are not useful for a marine police. We
might jest as cell think of employing field-batteries
or cavalry in pursuit of pickpockets in cur streets
and alleys. If the Americans determine to have their
squadrons cf 120-gun ships, they must use them for
political purposes. They will find Mat a losing game.
Their government is stronger, even now, for any
diplomric contes', whilst backed with a prosperous,
contented, and comparatively unburdened people, than
it would be if it had the French and -English
navies at its disposal, with the taxes necessary to sup-
port them, together with the suffering and dissatisfac-
too of the people which are felt in gagland and
France as the consegnence cf these large establish-
ments. Even in Europe men are beginning every-
where to look behind the mere demonstration of
force, and to estimate the strength of nations less by
the amount of their armaments than by the efforts
they could sustain in case of hostilities. Tell us what
is the number of articles which, in America, is left
untaxed, but which, in England and France, is
already to the gripe of the tax-gatherer, and that will
be an evidence of latent power quite as intelligible
to the statesmen of our day as if the
amount of the difference was already in-
vested in " Vultures," " Cyclops," and Dragons."
Nations hive so far outgrown their childhood that
they no longer require scarecrows to be set up
to warn them from trespassing
.on their neighbour.
rights or property. The Amencarm have had some
proofs of late that European governments are not
disposed t presume upon their ready-made arma-
ments by entering into &contest with a comparatively
unarmed state. France has suffered the greatest
provocation at their hands, short of a declaration of
war, in the abrupt dismissal of their minister at
Washington; yet no do not find M.DaTootioeviLLE
taking advantage of the undoubted superiority of
France in ships of war. And why? Becalm' no-
body knows better than the author of " Democracy in
Americo," that the existing fe roes are no teat of the
comparative resources of the two countries.
All this is perfectly well understood in the United
States; and never, we believe, was there leas inclina-
tion than at present to waste their resources upon an
useless demonstration of armed force. It snits the
Times, in opposing a reduction of our armaments at
home, to take up the argument with the Herald, as
though it were dr aling with the public opinion of
tumor cm u,as rotucking JOUIGIII rs
more of an Englishman than an American; but here
is an extract from a New York paper, of considerable
moral weight, which, we believe, fairly represents
American sentiments:

If unhappily there shall ever exist a prospect of hostile
edibles between Great Britain and the United States, so
intent of disproportion in the se/feria of war, though for
every plouahsbare or pruning-hook possessed by the ox.
the other wields a spear or a sword, will afford even a pro-
bable index of the result. That will be determined by their
latest national power, derived from the resources of the
people—which the pruning hook and ploughshare help to
create, and the sword and spear, even in time of peace, to
waste—fro n the public spirit that animates them, the degree I
of civil liberty they enjoy, the justice and equity of their
laws, and the rightemunem with which they are adminis-
tered, and from the operation of all other influences that
tend to make them happy and contented, and attached to
the institutions which secure their prosperity. leis not then
to effect as easy and satisfactory adjustment of national dif•
femme, that the harden of • large and expensive military
establishment is to be endured.
Let the Americans adhere but for a verfehort time
long. r to their present wise policy, and they will see
the disparity between their armaments and thous of
the old and embarrassed governments of Europe, re-
moved by a process which will be alike honourable to
those who give the first illustration of the superiority
of unarmed industry. economy, and freedom, even in
the resources of war, over permanent war eetablish-
ments, std useful to those nations which will be com-
pelled to follow in their footsteps. Public opinion is
tending in Europe towards the policy of
the United States. What is the meaning
of our peace congresses, of the great meet-
ing at Exeter Hall next Tuesday, at which
members of the National Asembly of France, acid
councillors of state, are announced as orators—what
do these demonstrations portend but a change of our
European system, and an advance in the direction of
those moderate peace establishments which. in Ame-
rico, have lest in the pockets of the people capital
enough to contract their railroads and build their
mercantile marine, and which, according to the opi-
nion of hi. MICHEL CIIEVALILR, would, if the esta-
blishments in Frame, bad been on the same footing,
have given to that country double their present
length of railways, and doable their present amount
of mercantile shipping ?

Thu Jury hays found both the MANNINGS
ell?:and sentence of death has been pronounced on
Fora case in which no human eye beheld the
murderers, the evidence wu remarkably complete and
conclusive.

Ontheafternoon of the 9th of August aCcarNott
was seen about a quarter to five on London Bridge
by three witnesses, to one of whom he said he was
icing to the Maxtrutcs' house, and showed the note
of invitation from the female, in consequence of which
he was going. A little later he was seen by e. fourth
witness within a hundred yards of Minver-place.
No other person has appeared who saw him after-
wards till his body was discovered in the Mew-
winos' house on the 17th of August.
The body was found deposited in quick-lime in a
hole dug in the floor of the Merermos kitchen, over
which the flags had been replaced. A pistol bullet
was lodged over the right eye, which must have
=through the brain. The skull was also much
ed. The body was satisfactorily identified.
O'CONNOR was seen alive for the last time about
five o'clock of tne afternoon of the 9th of August.
About an hour later Mrs. MANNINO appeared at his

lodgings, where she remained in his apartments alma
for an hone. Next day she rept ated her visit about
the risme hcur, and remained abut se long. On the
first mask° she appeared pale and agitated. When
O'CoNnori's repositories were searched, his money
box was found o ea and all his money and abuts
bad been abstracted.
A little before 7 pm. of the day en which O'Cox-
NOR WOJI last seen alive, FREDERICK MANNING WU
seen sitting on his garden ws
mined there about a quarter of an hour and then re-
entered his Mose.
On the 13th of August, the MANNINGS sold all their
furniture to a broker, and on the same day they ab-
ecocded, flying in nherent directioce, and taking
great ptecautiona to prevent the possibility of their
routes being traced.
MANNING, on the 11th of August, received 1101.
on account of Eastern Counties' shares which had be-
longed to O'Coreston. lie represented himself as
..: IMO& on that occasion. When MARIA MAN-
NING was apprehended at Edinburgh shares which
had been the property of O'Coloron were found in
her pommies.
Some time previous to the murder, MANNING made
repeated inquiries of MASSEY respectine the surest
anew of stupefying a person or killing him quietly.
lie asked what drugs would produce stupefaction ;
Iwhat part of the head was meet vital ; whether an air
gun nude any report when fired; and whether he
thought murderers went to heaven.
On the 28th of July MASSEY lift the house of the
MAANINGs, both the husband and wife having urged
I him to quit. In the course of July MANNINO offered
to eell all his furniture to the broker BAINBRIDGE,
and MARIA MANNING took part in negotiating the
sale. On the let, 2nd, and 3rd of August MARIA
MANNING consulted a share-broker, respecting the
percher° of shares which she could sell on the conti-
nent without her husband's consent, and when asked
where she was going hesitated for a considerable time
before elm replied, to Paris.
The slack lime was purchased by MANNING on the
28th of July, sod delivered to him; next day MARIA
MANNING paid the messenger who delivered it for
his trouble. A crowbar was ordered by MANNING
on the 25th of July; it was delivered at his house on
the 28th to Mrs. MANNING, who complained that the
price was more than she expected. A shovel with a
sheet handle was purchased by MARIA MANNING on
the Bth of August. The body of °Toreson watt
found imbedded in the slack lime, and the shovel and
crowbar were found in the MANNINGs' home.
Neither FREDERICK nor MARIA MANNING deny
that O'CoNtroa was murdered in their house. Etch
sake to trznsfer the suspicion of having struck the
blow to the other.
Here is a chain of circumstantial evidence which'
irresistibly briegs home the_ guilt of the murder bothi
to FREDERICK and MARIA MANNING. The body of
O'Connor', bearing undeniable marks of a viulent
death, is found carefully burette' in a house
which they inhabited alone. Two hours of er
the time that O'CoNNon is seen fot the
last time alive,. proceeding to their house
and in its immediate vicinity, FREDERICK MANH
NINO is seen sitting alone on his garden wall,
and MARIA MANNING is seen to leave O'CONNOR'S
apartments which she had entered an hour earlier,
and remained alone the whole time. MANNING, as-
suming the name of O'CoNNOR, receivers two days
later mosey for a part of the murdered man's pro-
perty, and some of O'CoNtioa'a property is found in
the possession of MARIA MANNING. It is impossible
to fancy that MARIA MANNING would have proceeded
to rifle the repositories of O'CoNsox unless she had
been certain that he could not come in upon her while
in the act ; or that MANNING would at the time have
left (Mormon alone in his house unless certain that
he could not quit it. The ridding the home previ-
ously of their only inmate was the joint act of hus-
band and wife ; the previous negotiations for dispos-
ing of their furniture were their joint act; both
took part in procuring the instruments for
concealing if not for effecting the mur-
der. The deed is committed in a place
from which they bad jointly taken precautions to re-,
move every witness; the previous arrangements for
concealment of the deed and for their own escape are I
taken by them in concert; the property of the mur-
dered man is traced to the possession of both. Each
—MANNING directly, and his wife by strong implica-
tion—accuses the other of having committed the
murder.
Not a shadow of doubt can remain that a cold-
bboded, lere;-premeditated murder, with a view to
robbery, was committed on O'CONNOR, and that bill
of the MANNINGs were active participators in the
crime.

We abstain from any attempt to raise the veil
which hangs over the previous conduct of the mur-
derers or their victim. The tale is one of callous ras-
cality, utterly common-place in kind, though not in
degree. There is no light thrown by it on the ter-
rible secrets of human depravity, to excuse the dwell-
leg on inch revolting details. We leave to a content-
porary, partial to such them e, to the" eminent pub•
fisher" who is about to give ANNING'S memoirs to
the world, and to the artist who is said to be in
treaty for his drawings, to expatiate on the " talent"
shown in his poetry, or the artistica' merits of his
" excellent drawings." We leave to those scandals of
the English pre, who delight to re-produce the
loathsome prurience and brutality of a certain school
of FteCeu novelists, without one spark of their equi-
vocal talent, to record the adventures of the wife.
Unfortunately there is a public that has a taste for
such themes, and of course creatures will be found to
ponder to it from sympathy or for mercenary conside-
rations.
The only moral we can extract from the shocking
tale is one addressed to the selfish fears of the guilty.
The intelligence, energy, and organisation of the
police ; their prompt and skilful use of the railroad,
steam-boat, and electric telegraph; the sagacity with
which they elicited and combined the conclusive train
of circumstantial evidence: all tend to show at what
hopeless odds crime has now to contend with justice.
The knowledge of this will not make bad men good,
but it will paralyse their arms when braced and
indeed for the perpetration of great offence,.

LAYING OF ME FIRST STONE OP THE New BIL-
LINOSOATB MARKET —The first SW= of the new Billiogs.
gate Market wee yesterday laid, in the prepense of a great
multitude, by Mr. Peed, the chairman of the markets com-
mittee, and a very popular mtmber of the met of Common
Connell, with** usual ceremonies. The Mese bon upon
it two steel plates, upon one of whisk was ensraven the
date and oecasion of laying the stone, ad egos the other
the aames of the Right Hon. the Led Nam, the Com-
mittee, of Mr. Bunning, the architeee, eml el Mr. Jay, the
builder. The chairman used a splendid saver trowel, an
appropriate prayer was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Croeth-
waits, ester of St. Mary-at kill, a musk was delivered by
the **ram,
_sad the National Anthem was mug by the
weed deka Mildrem. Three cheers woe Om at *emir
Ct.the tea, given for the takiree dress
of
lard smear and corporation of and diem
cheese for then emel of the new market, tely saw
whisk the ememay eceohaded.
DISCOVIZT 01 THE SKELETONS OF A MAN AND
A Hoesta.-0a Veides, the lath inst., as the imam& em-
ployed at Mr. Bennett 's brickyard, in the Spa-fields, user
the Barton-road, Datuti_fac= the DOW Sliest della
Temple-road, were _seal maps** of
gring clay, they direeWsell the inielese Ida sere and a
Worse, about four or five feet issfew the another. Troia the
position of the skeletons and other cirmimetanors, no doubt
is salmtainfid that the person we waylaid on the
Nartemeend„ and that after Wag mardemel, and pa
Whir Meek he and his hem wore emweled he
the lime we have mentioned, *Mee the mind IMO
slaughtered and the remains of lieth emiliped to cusp
grave. The motive for the eramelliea sr tits Mom
as well as it. Mae wield be to essosal few trees of um
fortunate is
prevent a amereby of the Seel
deed. Them is 'Mame, that more than can pow
em IPEEMPReeramt la the trepi4k for four large stones lad
hose tie horse,_ with the view, probably, of
I is it doers" and promoting as far as possible the
mew foes mailing and it the earth whilst la a state
if imememelffea. The skeleton of the man lay elms the
side lithe home s and a leaden ballet wee kraal
lyam he maim, alight have been lodged in M. =imam%
Wm& There was not a vestige of aiethia& se of fhe
Immo Inlenglag to the hone ; aml fremembe;
piens
buses, inset erthera were so he delayed so te fill to
when disturbed. The skull and some f the leg hem
were entire; the jaw bones were quite sound, and elm
r blued a set of ezmilent teeth (with one empties),
lied. From the appearance of the teeth it is thS
the individual could not have been more then $0 rims
sge, if so old. Oa removing the beam and mon pin
lady the skull, the stench was so great se to be pommies&
some &tines. From this fact, it is inferred that the end
has not been dose so keg as at first might have bees sub
abed. We can form no opinion as to the length of time the
unnaius may have been under groan& Some pasties liar
pm about fifty years, sod that it is jam possible there may
be semi ps ease still living whose sosilsetioa of a saluting
man sod bens may lead to @One satidastory discovery as to
wits the was. We he sin *Mk so. However, we
Pm
the and leave the maim M him his own opinion.
The tend is th:rstlith Thomas Oarlock,
gimes of the briakye

=RUTS, a..1{4 il•Ce
pelted to follow in
tending in Et
the United St
of our
_peace I
ing at Exeter
meralms of the
councillors of state
do these dernonste
European .stem,
those moderate pe
rks, have left in
enough to onsets
mercantile marine
aka of M. Mtcn
bikentents in Fra
have given to
kagth areaway
of mercantile slit'
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Ws Jury b
guilrattly, andior a eat
saute
murderers, the ei
conclusive.
On the aftern
was seen about
by three witnea
going to the MA
of invitation froi
he was going.
witness within
No other perste
wards till his
suns' house on
The body wa
bole dug in the I
which the flags
was lodged ow
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