The Press. — London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

1032 many of whom were flinging stones in all directions. Many kept pelting with pieces of granite, brick, &c. I distinctly saw Williamson throw at the windows of the house, and there were loud cries of " Go it 1.. " Keep it up with the stones !" and " Cheap bread !" Upon every smash of glass taking place the mob shouted, " Hurrah !" More constables arrived, and we at last succeeded in motoring order. The whole neighbourhood was in a state of the greatest excitement and alarm. The prisoners were fined 30s. for the wilful damage at Mr. Attride's, or a month's hard labour in the House of Correction. WIFE-BEATING. ON MONDAY, James King, a plasterer, .living at Barnsbury, was charged before Mr. Corrie, at Clerkenwell, with having violently assaulted his wife. The complainant stated that she had three children, and got her living by washing and ironing, and that the prisoner had constantly beaten and ill treated her because she would not give him her money : On Friday night, while I WU at work in my room, the prisoner come home, and said, " I will now give you all I wish." He then locked the door, and struck me twice with his clenched fist on the head, once on the eye, and once on the forehead, which knocked me down nearly in sensible. I bled very much. He then kicked me on the leg, and i bled from the wound. It is now bleeding. A surgeon was sent for and my wounds were dressed. While he was beating me I screamed and called " Murder!" The neighbours came and burst open the door. He made his escape out of the back window. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his wife was always " nagging" at him. Mr. Corrie, remark ing upon the brutality of the case, sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour in the House of Correction. The wife fainted away upon hearing the decision of the magistrate. MR. BARON MARTIN, at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, sentenced to transportation for life one George Mulley, for a brutal assault upon a woman. The particulars of the case, which appeared in the police reports of September last, are briefly these. The prisoner, who had repeatedly threatened to do for the prosecutrix, came home on the night of the 21st of September, and, on her asking him for some money, he attempted to cut her throat with a clasp knife, stabbed her four times, and then beat her on the head till she fell senseless. Upon this he ran away, leaving the poor woman to the care of her neighbours. The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty," and Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence, said : It. was truly horrible to bear and read daily of the brutal outrages upon women ; and he felt some surprise that the justices did not send more for trial before the judges, and he wished it to be well known that if convicted before the judges, that they had come to the determination of passing the fullest sentence allowed them by law, in the hope of making an example to deter others from similar arts of brutality. In this case he should sentence the prisoner to transportation for life. ON Wednesday a painful case was examined into by Mr. Jardine, at Bow-street. The case had been remanded for some days, and at the conclusion cf this examination was again remanded for a week. The particulars which came out in evidence were briefly these :—Elizabeth Joyce, an unfortunate girl, of twenty years of age, finding herself near her con finement, on the 6th of Oct..ber last consulted a chemist, who gave her medicine, and told her to get to bed as soon as possible, as she would probably be o )nfined before morning. The girl, assisted by a com p mion, went at once to St. Giles's Workhouse, and begged for admission, as she felt the pains of labour coming on. The porters spoke sharply to her, and one pushed her hard in the stomach, and said, " Oh, there's nothing the matter with you. You are not in labour !"—and at length, after some hesitation, sent her up to the midwives. The midwives ex amined her, declared that nothing was the matter w.th her but disease, and sent her back to the por t'rs, who "pushed" her out of the house. With her o nnpanion she went to Bow-street, to entreat the interference of the police. An inspector heard her tale of suffering, and blandly recommended her ti go back and "try again." Finding expostula tion useless, and that the police would give no assistance, the wretched girl went away, and by chance met with a young man whom she had once known. She told him her condition, and he instantly took her to a house in Eagle-court, and hired a room for her. The poor creature, now in acute pain, undressed and got into bed, but had scareely been there a few minutes before she was delivered of a dead child. The landlady of the house hearing her orbs came into the room, and, as soon as she was aware of what had happened, said : " Dress yourself immediately, and leave my house, or I will give you into the custody of a policeman for coming into a strange house for such a purpose." Elizabeth Joyce upon this got up, and the landlady, wrapping the dead child in an old shawl, took her out and pushed her along into Red Lion square. Having arrived there, this humane woman proposes to go for a policeman, upon one condition—" that Elizabeth Joyce will say she was confined in the street, and not in the house." A policeman is soon found, and, being THE PRESS. more humane and less scrupulous than any of the other actors in this repulsive scene, he gets the poor sufferer some refreshment, and conveys her in a cab to King's College Hospital. The evidence of the girl Lerself, with regard to her treatment at the workhouse, was corroborated by her companion, and not denied by either midwives or porters. The landlady, in her defence, stated that, in turning the girl out of the house a few minutes after her con finement, she acted from motives of humanity, being desirous of obtaining parish relief for the sufferer. The humanity of such a proceeding is open to serious doubts. In order to afford the board of guardians time for inquiry, the case was adjourned till next Tuesday by Mr. Jardine, who appeared to take rather a lenient view of the conduct of all par ties concerned in this disgraceful affair. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Admiralty, according to provincial accounts, are making strenuous exertions to build and equip a numerous and powerful flotilla of gun and mortar boats, for next year's naval campaign. On the Tyne Messrs. T. and W. Smith, of St. Peter's, have re ceived an order to build six floating batteries to be ready in April. They will be exceedingly strong, and their timbers will be made two feet thick of the best oak, and nine inches of iron plates. They have nearly been al; laid down. On the Wear Messrs. Wm. Briggs and Co., of Pallion, received orders to build four gunboats of the same dimensions as those ordered of other ship builders. The Brigade of Royal Marines serving in the Crimea under the command of Colonel Hurdle, C. 8., form part of the force employed on the Dnieper expedition, the orders for their return being counter manded. Rear-Admiral Sir James Plnmridge, superintendent of the Dockyard at Plymouth, was on Friday morning last attacked in a slight degree with paralysis, which has since prevented his attendance to official duties. From late inquiries we find that the gallant officer was better, and able to leave his bed. Major-General Markham arrived at Southampton on Wednesday, in the Nubia, from Alexandria. The gallant general is in an extremely precarious state of health, and was scarcely able to walk on shore. His personal appearance is described 8.9 prematurely old, his face almost black with exposure, and wearing an immense beard, which is quite grey. The utmost respect was manifested by the spectators in the Southampton docks upon his landing. The Duke of Cambridge, on Wednesday, inspected the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd regiments of the German Legion Light Infantry at Shornecliffe. The Duke expressed his high satisfaction at the efficiency of the regiments and of the admirable arrangements of the camp. His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Binlock. Six hundred cavalry, and 1,100 horses, from the home depots of the various regiments now in the Crimea, are under orders for immediate embarkation for the East. General Arbuthnot reviewed the 2nd Derby Miltia (Chatsworth Rifles), on Tuesday, at Chesterfield, and expressed to Colonel Caven dish his extreme satisfaction at the high state of efficiency of the regiment. On the day previous the gallant general had inspected the Ist Militia at Derby, and paid high compliments to Colonel Lord Waterpark and the officers upon the efficient manner in which the regiment had gone through their evo lutions. Brigadier-General Wooldridge left Dover on Satur day last, by the packet Queen, direct to the seat of war in the Crimea. Previously to the gallant officer leaving the camp at Shornecliffe the whole of the British German Legion was paraded, when the brigadier received from them a simultaneous and en thusiastic parting cheer. The Ist Regiment of Infantry of the German Legion embarked on Friday at Portsmouth in her Majesty's screw steam-ship Simoom. Lieut.-Colonel Murray has resigned the command of this regiment, and is succeeded by Lieutenant - Colonel Hairky. Brigade-Mikjor Mills embarks with the regiment in the Simoom. A detachment of the Royal Artillery from Sheerness garrison are engaged mounting the battery at Coal House Point, commanding Sea Reach, in the River Thames. The battery consists of seventeen long 32-pounder guns, and will be completed in about ten days. Within the fort there is barrack accommoda tion for three officers, ninety men, and a master gunner. 44The number of military prisoners sent up lately from the head-quarters in the districts of London, Woolwich, Canterbury, Dover, Maidstone, Walmer, and Chatham, to the Military Prison, Fort Clarence, is so great that the prison has become quite full, and the prisoners arriving now are sent back to their respective corps, it being impossible to admit them. Recruiting is to be carried on in Canada, and arrangements have been made to raise immediately a force of 2,800 recruits for the British army. SATURDAY, The number of deserters by a monthly return jetted from the War-office on the 22nd amounts to 350 up to that date. The following order has there upon been issued : " That for the present the usual reward which is given by the War-ottice for the apprehension of a deserter will bell. instead of 103." FILOIII TILE LONDON LIAZEITE. Tuesday, Oct. 28. BAN KRUPTS.—PRED z tuc Lir:LER, High-street, Shadive and Gibson-street, Lambeth, oil and colour mall —GEoaaa WRIFYIN BuAnuEE, the elder, and GEORGE WHIFFIN BItADDEE, the younger, Newgate-street, City, hinge manufacturers— ALEXANDER JOHN LESLIE, Herne Bay, Kent, and Conduit street, Hanover-square, Middlesex, coal merchant and gas con traCtOr—EßENEZEll LAWHANCE, New Barnet, East Barnet, Herta, Mulder—Jogai Mattis, Rowley Regis, Stafford, =her— BENJAMIN WILLIAM BOWEINO, Svdliug, St. Nickolas, Dorset, miller and baker—TmomAs EDWARDS, Tonpandy, Yetradyfodwg, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, grocer—TnomAs FURNKAUX HORYWILL, Torquay, Devon, ifoIIIIIOOgII4—JONATHAN OGDEN, Liverpool, tailor and draper—JAMES HUNTER, Buracuugh, Lan• caster, shipwright. SCOTCH SEqUESTRATIONS.—TuomAs KYLE and Sos, Glasgow, power-loom cloth manufacturers—JOHN FERGUSON, late of Belfast, merchant, now of Glasgow, boxinaker and merchant—Ayala PAratom and Co., Greenock, boot and shoe makers. _ _ _ _ _ Friday, October 26. BANKRUPTS.—Jossyn THOMAS, Catherine.street, Rtrand, newspaper proprietor—RALPH RICHARDSON, Cate:hair, builder —SANuEL JONES, Houndsditch, draper and grocer—CHARLES CLAYTON, Wolverhampton, iron founder—DAVlD PRATT, Bir. miugham, thimble manufacturer—CHAßLES Mooaa, Rochester. road, carpenter—JOHN itowaRNAN, Tiverton, grocer and Berlin wool dealer—WaLyEa Moss, Ripley, Derbyshire, grocer—WIL LIAM LLOYD, Newton in the Willows, Lancashire, butcher—. JOHN Nionoisos, West Derby, surgeon and boarding-house keeper—ARTHUR OREENHILL, Harrow-on.the.Hill, baker—Wit. EDWARDS, Croce-Street, Finsbury, ale and porter merchant—. GEORGE RIDGE and THOMAS JACKSON, Sheffield, muuktiers— CHRISTOPHER BECKET, Manchester, brewer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATiONS.—WILLrAN FINDLAY JOIN. STONE, Glasgow, shipOWller—JAMEl3 I..BITCH LA.140, Glasgow writer. pug Cadet anb Citg FRIDAY EVENING. THERE has been a marked improvement in the tone of the Stock Exchange this week. Money has been tolerably abundant, and the lowest rate for choice paper has been four and a half per cent. We do not, with the immense war expenditure proceeding, see any present probability of the rate being much lower. Consols for time and money, which last week closed at 87, were yesterday at the closing 881, es tablishing an advance of one per cent. in the week. The advance would probably have been more, but for the ankle in the Times intimating the probabi lity of a difference between our Government and that of the United States. On Monday they were 871 1; on Tuesday they improved to 871; on Wednesday the market was buoyant, and closed firmly at 88. On Thursday they were 881, which was the closing price to day, though the market was, on the whole, weaker. The rate ofinterest on Exchequer Bills was raised on Tuesday, both classes, to 21d. per cent. per day, being at the rate of 31. His. Old. per cent. per annum. The rate previously borne by the March bills was 21d. per day, and by the June 211. per day. The effect produced upon the price of these securities by the announcement was but slight and the price to-day ranged from 2 discount, to 3s. premium. Turkish Stock has slightly improved ; the Six per Cents. were to-day done at 791 to 1, and the Gua ranteed Four per Cents. at 21 to j discount. In Shares there has been little alteration, but on the whole they are a trifle better than when we last wrote. The Bank return in this evening's Gazette again shows a considerable diminution in the stock of bullion. The amount in both departments has fallen from 11,752,4211. to 11,230,2071., a decline of more than half a million. 0:1 the other hand, the item of " other securities " has declined from 19,280,446/., to 18,789,5121.. and it is this decline which doubtless influenced the Directors not to disturb their rate of discount, though the drain of bullion, in spite of arrivals from Australia, continues to proceed un checked. The decrease in the commercial securities held by the Bank, must be partly attributable to the payment of the dividends which have been pro ceeding for the last two or three weeks. The reserve notes of the Bank are now, 4,55 7 ,4901. The high rate of discount, and the probability that a higher rate will prevail in future than we have been accustomed to of late years, has directed the minds of commercial men to the present state of our currency laws, and the expediency of some altera tion in the Bank Charter Act is freely canvassed. We have heard several eminent merchants and manufacturers declare their conviction that it will be impossible for the trade of the country to flourish under such pressure for money as now exists ; and they express themselves favorable to an alteration of the existing system. We state our own opinion on this important point as bristly as we can.