The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-20 00:00:00

vbe Court.

BALMORAL, Arouse 16.—Her Majesty and the
prirco, accompanied by the Prim- of Wales, her Royal
Highseis the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prison
Alfred, and a'tended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Mir Daw-
son, Miss Hillard, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Col.
the Hon. A. Gordon, Sir J. Clark, Mr. Anson, and Mr.
Birch, arrived hers yesterday evsmng from Perth, at half.
past four o'clock,

His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen
arrived on Thursday at Eden House, Tunbridge Wells, on
• visit to her Royal Hlghto es the Duch., of Kent.
Their Roy_al Highnisses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Dread Duchies of Mecklenburg
&relit:, and the Princess Mary, honoured the performance
at the Royal Italian Opera House, on Saturday.. evening,
with their presence Mr. Edmond Mildmay was in waiting
on their Ilatahrrests.
Tne Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the
Council) left town on Saturday for his seat, Bowood-park,
Wilts.

.......
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has arrived at
Glenquoich, Invergarry, the reeideoce of the Right Hon.
Edward Ellice.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening
from the C ilonial office for the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, and also for the governors of Malta, the
Mauritius, Ceylon, and H ng Kong.
M. Van de Weyer, Minister Plenipotentiary for Bel-
gians, and the Countess of Vandenburg, arrived on Satur-
day morning at the St. Katharine 's Wharf by the Ge-
neral Steam Navigatitm Company's steam ship Triton, from
Ostend.

TIIE QUEEN AND LORD CLARENDON.—It u Slid to
be the intention of her Majesty to confer the honour of a
marquisate on Lard Clarendon, in recogaitien of his able,
Judicious, and impartial discharge of the viceregal duties,
end uan evidauce of the heartfelt satisfaction which the
Sovereign derived faun her reception in Ireland.—Weekly
Chronicle.

NEW PENSION.—The Queen bag granted a pension
of 1001. per annum on the civil list to Lady Hamilton, the
'rife of the W. liamilt n, Profess's. of Logic and Metaphy-
sics in the University of Edinburgh, and a valuable contri-
butor to philosophical literature.—Observer.
- - - -

11111 REDINGTON, Under-Secretary fqr Ireland, is
to have the rank of C. 8., or second class of the B►th on the
Civil Establishment. _ .

APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Henry Lawrence Cumber-
hatch is appointed deputy surveyor of the New Forest, Hants.
Dr. James Vickery Drysdale, and James Macfarlane,
Beg to be temporary members of the Council of flt. Lucia.
—Observer.

THE
MURDER IN BERMONDSEY.

INQUEST ON THE BODY.
On Saturday afternoon an inquest was commenced on the
body of Ferries O'Connor, aril 60, and at the time of his
death gauger in the Customs at the London Docks, and
lately residing at No. 21, Greenwood-street, Mile End. road.
The inquisition was taken at the New Leather Market
Tavern, close to the WO and somewhat handsome building
of the New Leather Market Company, New Weston-street,
Bermondsey, by Mr. Carter, one of the coroners for Surrey,
and a jury of thirteen of the most respectable tradesmen in
the neighbourhood. Fourteen jurymen had been sworn,
but Mr. J. Meade, a friend of deceased's, objected to
one of them, vis , Mr. Coleman, builder and owner of
the house in which the murdered body was found, on the
ground that he would be required as a witness. The coroner
allowed the objection, and the name of Mr. Coleman was
struck off the jury list. The room, though a large one, was
' crammed to the utmost inconvenience of the jury and coro-
ner, and, in consequence of the crowding, much confusion
and noise prevailed, so as to render it difficult to catch the
observations of the coroner, and the verbatim testimony of
the witnesses. The majority of the persons present con-
sisted of relatives and friends of deceased, of which he had a
large circle, and, to all appearance, an affectionate one.
Nothing could exceed the excited state of many of them. A
brother-in-law of deceased, from Ireland, was present ; but
his brother, the Rev. Dr. O'Connor, principal of the Roman
Catholic College of Thurles, county of Tipperary, was net,
though we were told that he had arrived in London on the
previous night, and was in the neighbourhood.
The jury having been sworn,
The Coroner said—Gentlemen, the first thing I skull have
to call upon you to do is to see the body, and then I shall
call witnesses to identify it. It was only last evening that I
received intelligence of the event that has been the cause of
our assembling, and not knowing any of the important de-
tails connectea with it which I now know, I have not as yet
ordered a post mortem examination of the body. I think it
is necessary that you should view the body, that you might
agree as to the necessity of spout mortem examination, and
as to the person whom you may think proper to make it.
Therefore, it you please, we will view the body, have it iden-
tified, and then leave the question for to-day. There has
not been sufficient time for the officer of this court to make
the requisite inquiries into the cue, and that is absclutely
necessary. When the body is identified I can give an order
for interment, to be carried into effect, of course, only after
the body has been internally examined by the medical gentle-
man that may be appointed to do so by this court.
The jury then took a view of the body. It was still
naked as it was found, the legs end thighs having been
tied up to the body with a new rope. Though partly
.covered
with lime, decomposition had apparently rayidl set io, or at
any rate extensive discoloration of the face, neck, and throat,
and it was only by the chin (deceased had a remark rbly
thin and projectint one) and mouth, which was nearly tooth.
less (deceased wore a set of false teeth), that those best
acquainted with deceased could identify the body as kis.
The jury having returned from performing the most dis-
agreeable part of their functions, the first witness called and
sworn was _

Mr. Pierce Walsh, who said—l am fully confident that I
can speak to the identity of the deceased, notwithstandiag
the decomposed state of the body. I am not in busicess
at present, but was a grocer's clerk ; and I reside at
No. 7, Edward-street, White Conduit Fields, Islington.
I have seen the body of a man at No. 3, Minerva.place, New
Weston-street, and 1 have not the slightest reasonable doubt
as to the identity of that body. I recognise it by its features,
arid the person to whom it btlonged was named Patrick
O'Connor, who was a gauger in the London Docks. 1
think his age was about 6G. I have known him personally
since the 26th of April last. He was my personal friend, and
his sister is married to a cousin of mine. He resided at 21,
Greenwood street, Mile-eni, and was a single man. I was
wilt him at this house (3, Minerva-place) the previous night
(meaning to that on which he was missed, viz., Thursday,
the 9th inst.) I saw him last alive at 12 o'clock on Wed
nesday night, the Bth lost. We parted at the corner of
Commercial—trees, Whitechapel, alter having been at 3,
Minerva-place. He was then in a good state of health. I
spent a great portion of the evening of that day (Wednesday
wer k) with him at his lodgings, 21, Greenwood-street, Mile-
end-road, and than accompanied him to this house—l mean
to No. 3, Minerva-place.
The Coroner—What was the object of your coming there?
Witness— I had nor bject to come there, but he (deceased)
had, though I did not understand from him his objtet. I
have been with hint there before, I think four times in all. I
know that lie and she (Mrs. Manning) were very intimate.
Ile was intimate with Mr. and Mrs. Manning. When I left
his residence with hint he Was. 1 thought, and as was biscus.
tom, accompanying me part of my way home. He was in
the habit of doing so, and generally came with me as far as
Houndsditch. On the evening in question be came as far,
and then we passed on to Fenchurch-street.
A Juror—Did anything occur to explain the cause of this
movement on his part? Witness—No ; and I took no notice
of it, bemuse I had accompanied him before in the same di-
rection to 3, Minerva-place. I saw Mr. and Mrs. Manning,
for she opened the door to us. I did not know the female in
any other character than as Mrs. Manning. He (deceased)
had spoken of her to me always as Mrs. Manning. We re-
mained at her house about an hour and a half.
The Coroner—What then occurred I—Witness: We left
together.
Coroner—During the time you were there, did anything
particular arise ?—Witness: After going in and sitting down
Mrs. Manning said, " Mr. O'Connor, why did you not come
to dinner today ; we kept dinner waiting an hour for you ?"
She then said, "Did you not get my note ? " He said,
" No." " I wrote a note to you to the docks to come to
dinner to-day," she said. I said, " Perhaps it may be late
when you put it into the receiving office, and it could not be
received at the docks at 4 o'clock, the time for his leaving
the office." She said, " It was 2 o'clock, and he will receive
it to-morrow."
The Coroner—Are you aware whether the note has been
received or not ?
Mr. J. Meade (interposing)—We have it [the note was not
produced.]
Examination of Mr. Walsh continued—He (deceased)
mentioned to her that I (witness) had received that day the
balance of a bill which a Mr. Pate, of Ihtthual-green-mad,
owed him, and fur which I had taken out execution against
Pitts. The balance was M. Os. 6d., and I received it in
four sovereigns, two half sovereigns, and 6d. in silver. I
was rather surprised that she (Mrs. Mannino) appeared to
know so much about the bill, as she could not have known it
from me, but from him (deceased) previously. She spoke
of three Other bills (no doubt bills of exchange. for decease d
was a reputed mont y lender) he held of Mr. Pith., and said :
" I suppose you will take proceedings against him fur their
recovery." He said, " Yes." There was uo other conversa-
tion. Ile t(deceased) began to smoke after that, and then
growing very weak and faint, he laid himself down on the
sofa. lie smoked a pipe, and Mr. Manning smoked also,
but I did not. Smoking did not lead to drinking—we
had nothing to drink. This was in the front room on
the ground floor—in the parlour. They got some brandy
and water for him when he was faint, but he refused to take
any. Whilst he was was on the sofa she had something in a
bottle—Emu de Cologne, I believe—and she kept ru-bing his
temples with it. During tbetime Mr. Manning and I talked to-
gether, but nothing was said about Mr. O'Connor's intention
of returning that night or an other day. We left about
20 minutes past 11 o'clock. He did not leave the room
while I was present, but might have gone out into the
yard for a minute. Mr. and Mrs. Manning remained with
me during the time. lie took nothing at their house but
water when he was recovering. He was not sick. Alter he
had drunk the water he commenced smoking srsio. On
leaving the house we passed through Thomas's-street, and
by Guy's Hospital.
Coroner—Did anything occur before you left him to lead
you to infer be was returning to Minerva-place ? [This
question was evidently put because the coroner thought the
witness was the lest person who saw deceased alive, whereas
he was seen alive on the afternoon of Thursday, and it was
on the night of that day the diabolical deed was perpetrated.]
Witness—When I got to the corner of Commercial-
street, Whitechapel, he would not let me go any :further.
When I called on him at his lodgings, about six o'clock he
the evening (Wednesday week) in (petition' he wan
lying en the sofa and seemed as if he had been
drinking. [Mr. J. Ideade here remarked that must be
a mistake, for deceased had been a teetotaller for upwards of
13 years.] A Mr. Cole was with him, whom I bad seen
before with him at the docks. Mr. Cole had no knowledge
as to whi re we were going on Wednesday evening, and
parted with us at the door of deceased's lodgings. From
twelve o'clock on Wednesday night I did not see him alive
again—thee is, alter I left him at the corner of Commercial-
street. I did not see him until I saw him dead. I die not
know it of me own knowledge, but he told me he hid been
some time acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Manning. He j
told me he knew her from the time she had been living with
the Duchess of Sutherland, as I understood him, and before
her marriage with Manning, he used to call there (at the I
duchess's) to see her.
A Juror—Do you think there was any improper connec-
tion going on between them? Witncia—l do not think it.
I have uo knowledge of the fact.
By the Coroner—Nothing ever occurred between de-
ceased and me to intimate his position in respect to Mr.
and Mrs. Manning. He , never alluded to any pecuniary
transactions between him and them.
By a Juror—Though I was personally acquainted with de-
ceased only since April last, I knew his friends for many
years in Ireland, and had letters of introduction to him.
A brother-in-law of deceased, Mr. Ryan, said—l recom-
mended the witness to deceased.
The Coroner—lt is useless to attempt going further with
the case at the present moment. We cannot prop. rly go on
without the medical testimony, and perhaps you would wish
to have the body opened by the first medical attendant that
was coiled in after the body of deceased was discovered.
It having been discovered that Mr. Lickwood, surgeon,
who first saw the telly, was not in practice, though he had
paned the College of Surgeons, the medical gentleman (Mr.
(hiding) who nex: after him saw it, was ordered to make the
autopsy of the body.
The Coroner not being completely satisfied with the
evidence of one witness as to identifying the body, culled a
second one, vi ,
Mr. W. Flinn, who said—l am an officer of Customs, and
live at 19, Pattison-street, Commercial-road Etat. I have
seen the body lying dead at No. 3, Mi place, and I have
no hesitation in saying that it is the body of Patrick
O'Connor. I know him by his chin, which was very long.
He wore false teeth. He tad me so; and I saw them taken
from his mouth yesterday, and they were a perfect set, as it
appeared to me.
Tue Coroner—Mr. Constable (addressing Mr. Slow, the
summoning officer), who are the police officers engaged in
this case ? I should like to know what time would suit them
to adjourn the case?
Pulice-eonstables Barton and Barnes, of the K and M

alone, here presented the:woke., and said they I- a,' the cue
in hand, and were sure, if t: y Lad time, thee co•:ld pro-
cure most important evidence, to some of which they had
already a clue. They shout.; like an adjournment of a week

for the purpose.
The Coroner—Would not an adjournment to Thursday
next do ? The constables—Yee.
The Coroner— We can th, r. take the evidence of the sur-
geon who shall have opened the body, and follow up the case
ace3rding to circumstances.
After a brief consultation between the coroner and jury, it
was ultimately decided that the inquiry should be sojourned
to Friday next, at 11 o'clock.

THE DECEASED.
(From the Observer.)
The deceased, a man of respectable family, was born at
Fetharde, county Tipperary. He received the usual Irish
classiest education at the abbey school. When a boy he was
large for his age, and on account of that and of sernewhat
pompous bearing, he was nicknamed "The Hg Nabob."
At an early age he offended his brother, now the Rev. Dr.
Connor, principal of the Roma Catholic college of Thurles,
and then, we understand, a parish priest, by, in company
with another, disarming, at a time Ireland was proclaimed,
a police constable, and taking away his arms. He was in-
tended for the clerical profession, bat had no relish for the
teems. At what period he came to England cannot be
precisely ascertained, but it is many years ago. He was well
and extensively known amongst the middle class of Irish in
London, and, though for many years a teetotaller, was a
pleasant companion. Latterly he had the reputation of
being wealthy, used to cash accommodation bills, and was
called " The Customs' money lender."
It must be a considerable time since he obtained his first
situation in the Excise—a very humble one—through the
influence of the Bishop of Llandaff. It was through the in-
terest of Mr. Shell, id P., connected by marriage with
Tipperary, and after that right Wm. gentleman became offi-
cially connected with government, that deceased was pro-
moted to the situation he held at his death. We have been
told that his advancement took place in 1836. When the
appointment was procured tor him, security was required to
a large amount before he could enter on its duties. Mr.
Parker, of 56, Musencostreet, Bloomsbury, became his se-
curity, and they always remained friends. He was in the
habit of visiting Mr. Parker in company with Mr. and Mrs.
Manning, and paid a visit to that gentleman's house is their
company ellen as the Sunday or Sunday week before hewn
missed. On that occasion it was remarked that Mrs. Man-
ning looked exceedingly pale, and appeared unusually
fidgetty and nervous. Mrs. Parker never liked her, and
wished latterly, from suspicions she had of her improper in-
timacy with deceased, to forbid her the house altogether.
Mrs. Parker bad even strong suspicions that something fatal
would occur, and deceased had received repeated warnings as
to what his friends foreboded would happen to him at the
hands of Manning and his wife.
Mr. O'Connor was excessively fond of money, and 'Mee-
nand at all times to increase his stare, yet he was not penu-
rious, and had for years paid for the education of a niece at a
convent at Towle*, in Ireland. His bother, the Rev. Dr.
O'Connor, a highly respectable Roman catholic clergyman
at Thurles, arrived in Leaden on Friday, accompanied by
Mr. Ryan, the deceased's brother-in-law. The deceased was
exceedingly fond of the society of ladies, and has proposed
to marry a great many young femailee, but has in a few days
aftetwards given up all idea of entering into the proposed
union. He has alto retuned I offcre of marriage which
have been made to him by females of the highest respect-
ability. On Wednesday, the lith inst., and the day before
his supposed disappearance, Mr. O'Coaner received twos note.
of invitation (rem Mn. Marring, to Came to her house to
dinner at five o'clock that Jay, one being addressed to his
own lodgings and the other to him at the London Docks
He however did acre dine there. His property meta not be
less than between 7,0601. and 8,0001. He was also known
to have had at his lod zings two valuable gold watches and a
gold gaud chain, besides the silver watch and guard chain
he usually wore. Those are not to be found, nor are
numerous other things.
It appears that on the Tuesday after the supposed murder,
and after Manning had sold hie whole furniture to the
broker, Bainbridge, he slept at the house of the latter that
night. On coming there he cent out for a shilling's worth
of brandy, which, on being brought to him, he drank up at
once. During the evening, whenever any person came to
the house, he appeared agitated, and asked if they wanted
him. He also asked Mr. Baivaridge if he knew any one
who would buy some French railway shares, and the latter
recommended to him a p rson in the city. It is very re-
markable that, on the police a.certaining the above fact, and
going to that gentleman, to caution him how he should act
in case Henning called on him on the subject of the shares,
he told the officers that he was acquainted with a medical
student that had lodged at Manning's house, who some
little time back told him (the city gentleman) that he did not
know what to make or hi- landlord, he was such a strange
man; he once asked him (the medical student) if he could
make some potion or mixture that would kill a person
without it being discovered, as a thousand pounds
would be no object in such a matter. The person applied to
refused to do what was asked. The latter is at present in the
country, and will not be in town again until October next,
unless his presence should be required earlier.
THE ALLEGED MURDERER AND HIS WIFE.
Mrs. Manning's first connection with Manning is as yet
involved in sibecurity. Manning, as already noticed, was
formerly in the service of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany as guard, and there is no doubt was implicated in the
extensive robberies which were committed en that line. It
will be recollected that, in the short space of a twelvemonth,
bullion in boxes to the amount of 4,0001. was stolen from the
t re in of wh AIM an nin was g uard. He was d ischarge,l from the
company's service, an was not again heard of until the mail
robbery took place in January last, and, as it will be recol-
lected, as ne c:ue could be found to the plunder from the up
mail, suspicion immediately alighted upon Manning and his
wife. Here it should he obierved, that Minoring had some
months before became landlord of the White Hart lon, at
Taunton, where for the first time Mrs. Manning appeared,
They were both taken into custody, and alter under-
going an examination before Mr. Peach, they were
dismissed, in consequence of no property being found ; at the
same time it was quite clear that the prisoners were connected
with the robbery, and participated in the plunder. In fact,
Nightingale, l'oole's coefelerate whilst raying at Exeter,
assumed the name of Manning.
The rumours circulated at Taanton, with respect to Man-
nieg's connexion with Poole and Nightingale (who were
subsequently convicted before Lord Denman, at the spring
&sizes at Eiett r, and sentenced to 15 years' transportatien)
proved to detrimental to the White Hart, and they were
looked upon with such suspicion, that it wee found necessary
to dispose of the business, Manning and his wife leaving
Taunton, and coming up to London, where in a few weeks
they opened a beer shop in the vicinity of the Hackney road ;
but this plan lasted a very short time, and tho place wag
abruptly closed up by Mrs. Manning absconding, tekjeg
with her the greater pert of the property. Tnis was Bono at
the wish of the deceased, who had prepared a home for Mrs.
Manning at another part of the metropolis. Manning traced
her through the cabman who had driven her to O'Connor's
house. They made up matters, and remained for some time
in apartme .ts, and eventually took possession of the ti• use
where the murder was committed a few days after last t to-
ter day,
From circumstances that have since transpired, very little
doubt rents that the murder of Mr. O'Connor was premedi-
tated long before that time, and that the house was actually
taken for that purpose. The Kennings, through their extra-
vagance and dissipation, had got rid of nearly ell their pro-
perty, with the ez-eptien of the furniture, and their circum-
stances became critical. Scarcely had they been a week in
the house than suseicion was excited amongst the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood by their extraordinary conduet. They
appeared, to use the words of the person who resides next
door, "to he up all right, there was nearly always a light
burning, and there always appeared to he something myste-
rious going on." Mr. O'Connor, the deceased, was frequently
at the house, and his jocularity with Mrs. Manning was
markedly observed by the persons residing in the houses en
either side. He was almost always t. he seen smoking in
the company of Mrs. Manning at the back parlour window,
sad also in the small garden at the rear of the house. That
a liaison heel for some time existed between the deceased and
Mrs. Manning is quite certain, and that Manning was ewers
of the fact is equally apparent, for as late as Thursday. the
9th inst., the dui on which he was supposed to hen '..em
murdered, Manning and O'Connor were in the garden
smoking together. The deceased seems to have Lem fre-
quently cautioned by his friend to discontinue hie ae'its to
Mrs. :winning, but he always observed in reply that he did
not fear any harm, as they were on the best terms, and he
did not like to abandon an old companion. In order to show
that the act was long premeditated, as far back as the 11th
of July Manning went to Messrs. Dray, Deane, and Deane,
the ironmongers, in King William-street, City, to purchase
a crow-bar, about Illba weight, for, as he said, lifting heavy
things up, " such se stones," and chalked eta on the counter
a design of the instrument ; the ehopman told him he had
not ours ready, but would make him one ; ho therefore
ordered it to be made as speedily as possible, and to be :tent
to his house, the address of which he gave, at the came time
paying the money for it (es.). The firm not being able to
procure one the order, sent the money beck in a day or
' so ; the person saw Manning at the time, who said, " ?sever
mind, I Wad be able to do without it." It is pretty cies:
from the apeearante of the place where the body was con-
cealed that it had been some time before prepared, and IS
instrument of the kind would be necessary to raise all the
stones, e hich are large Yorkshire liege.
To show the extraordinary nerve of the Kennings, parti-
cularly the female, she on Sunday prepared her dinner in
the b .ck kitchen, where she roasted a goose over the spot
where her murdered paramour was lying, and when the
police called at the house on the following Monday,
to inquire after the deceased, she cool y asked them in,
bade them take a seat, and answered all questions with the
greatest composure ; but a nephew of the deceased who was
with the pehce, fancying he saw a slight tremour, said to
Mrs. Manning, " Why you appear to be ill." She said,
" No, no ; I bad an attack of illness about six weeks mo,
and I have not quite recovered yet." Her coolness quite
threw the police off their guard, and although the nephew
said he was convinced that some foul play had been prac-
tised, and that he should like the police to take Mn. Man-
ning, they refused, as there was no charge against her.
Almost immediately after the police lett the place, a
cab drove up to the door and Mrs. Manning put into it tares
boxes lightly packed up and drove off, the woman putting
her head out of the window, and saying, "Be quick; drive

fait." . _. .
It has been ascertained to a certainty that the parties have
escaped, ria the South-Western Railway and Southampton,
to France, the woman first, and the man on the forenoon of
Wednesday last.

(From the Weekly Chronicle.]
That the parties have left this country f. r America there
is every reason to believe, from the fast, that several Clrlif
respecting the starting of ships foe New York have been

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