The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-15 00:00:00

MURDER AT SOUTHAMPTON.

A shocking murder was committed yesterday in
Bontbaseptan, at No.l, Lower Moira•place, the residence
of the Roy. Mr. Poynder, a alergyman who is not at present
performing say clerical duties, and who is temp,rarily
away from hose. His household consists of his wife and

children, two maidwrvants, and • mensenaot. Mn.
Poyndar was at church yesterday forenoon, and the three
servants were at home. It appears that the manservant,
named Edward Baker, about 29 Jean of age, formed an
attachment for oas of the ensidesenats, named Named
Kiegewell, • good.looking young woman, bat this arias!-
, Anent was not reciprocated by her, and somethiag connected
' with bits had so displeased her very recently, that she
gave him te understand she should have nothicg more to
my to him. This had w preyed upon his mind
that he eppeare to have resolved on taking her life, and yew
°lnlay forenoon he west into the kitchen, and shot the poor
girl through the head with • pistol. Bhe died immediately.
The sound of the pistol and the shrieks of the other female
servant, an elderly person, brought assistance, and the
murderer was given into the custody of the police. Me
made no resistance when taken into custody : be looked
stupefied with the crime he had committed. Both the mur-
derer sad his safortinate victim an natives of the isle of
Wight. No son living in Southampton can recollect such
a crime having been committed there before.
Another account states that the wordiest had accompa-
nied the family to church, end ought to have remained
there. As swat, however, ea the family went fluids the
church, be interned to hie master's house. The two ser-
nate were chatting and laedhiag together in the kitchen
when Baker returned from enured,. Prosody he came into
the kitchen ; he spoke a word. The cook, the fellow
servant of the murdered woman, noticed that Baker had his
right hand behind him, but suspected nothing. fie had not
been in the hitches a minute or two before he
presented • pistol just behind the ear of Naomi
ICiepwell, the kosiesinald, sad Arid and killed her be-
stially. The pistol was es sloes to her that the
dare of the powder singed the poor girl's cheek. The re•
port of the pistol wee head by several persons passing.
Baker went out of the kitchen after he bad shot the girl, sad
retuned
alarm
agat.a siArispoi: sad he went cosa set into tae house, happened to be paseing, jt
asand
apprehended the murderer as he was leaving the hitches •
seem& dew. Ile appears DOW very low spirited end speaks
very link° • coroner's Swum will be held today Mew
day.) A *imams was *bilged to parade before the bowie
where the murder was committed, to prevent a crowd Iron
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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBAR 16.

'Ws actin' with satishotion thst,thwing the week
' jut (faded, tho symptoms of weastary disturbance
havo set assumed a uses saravatod shassetor. With
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a feet ousedeees in the gs;ral ettaudoess of trade at
Ala menet gelded justly% the niermintibe oom-
'toady have judieissely avoided the two extremes—
squally Fordo's—Osbert-sighted indifferent* to the
adverse sigma the times. sad of marseesaing peak.
It is Wes toadied that sonuseree, without ocavelsion
of say Wad• is quietly adapting itself to the altered
position of the mosey market, and that, although
enterprise ia Imlay bombes of tirade has reesived a
serious cheek there is an satire ahem* of may sign of
INTOILO tUe mobarresemeut. Imbed, an the whole,
the aspect of affairs has bemuse rather mom rese-
nting, sad our Oevenseest steaks have already
experienced a rebound of nearly two per cent. from
the extreme depression of the middle ot the week.
Nevertheless, despite the favourable augury thee af-
forded, we think it would be unsafe to permit se ordi-
nary sad transient an esearrenee as a deeMation is
the stook markets to burry us into hasty sonalesisas.
The previous limey fall in Consols may have bees
exoessive, and was oertaisly in a great reasure
amid by missalative emendate. UWE" these dn
samatasose a partial Stock Ethane rally dose not
prove that we have arrived at the tormisatiou of oar
monetary dillio•lties, howsoever gratifying it may be
as indicating the indisposition of the moseyed and
basking deism to be carried away by panic. The pool-
time of the easy market, spat from Stock Exams
movements, seems as yet to have experimented no de-

sided amelioration. The abolitions-of the Bank of
• England es Thareday hom making a farther addition
to their minimum discount sharp of 31 per cont. is
at best bat a negative hied of consolation, inasmuch
as it usay perhaps prove only a pause in the upward
movement The *Um dealers in money show no
diminution of caution, nor an we hear of
any relaxation of the rotes, although some
tempo/my relief is naturally anticipated now
that the quarterly dividend payments have com-
mons& Bearing in mind the undeniable fast
that the influences which have so seriously dation-
tinted our money market are essmitially—in fact,
solely—mounted with en miswrite Whims oinniera,
and have not arisen from say undo* speculative ex-
tension of trading operations, it is evident that we
usght to direct our chief attention to the onsiderations
affsetiog the drain of gold, if we wish to pease the
obscurity which at present hangs over the future.
Unfortunately, spa this all-important point little
new light has been thrown. Uncertainty still pre-
vails as to the additional amount of gold which the
Bank of Pianos %toads to draw hem this side. The
last return of oar Bank has gives many persons a
disagreeable surprise, the further heavy demean of
&%647i. is the coin and bullion not having bees
generally anticipated. We anderstaad that the bulk

it this decreer; was not oesesiosed by the anti-
metal demand, bat was due to heavy withdrawals
et cola by our Government tor oostaimariat
Sod other expenses abroad; and here we may be
permitted to observe, that this simple feet tends
strongly to smarm the view repeatedly expeeseed in
the Daily New, and impugned in other quarters,
that it would be erroneous and dangerous to regard
the bullion operations of the Bank of France as the

sole explanation of our existing disturbance:jiltacing
other considerations which equally call for watchfal-
. nese. For our own part, we are rather disposed to
tepid this periodical absorption of coin foe war

purposes in the remote East es more important
than the soutracts for the Beek of Francs;
and for this reason—that the former element
of disturbance is illtely to remain in eximeneess keg
as the war itself, whores. we are all very ready to
hope that the hellion buying of the French Bank is
an exceptional and temporary cireametanse, it being
difficult to believe that this institution can contem-
plate a steady continuance of operations involving,
as these are believed to do, an immediate and
considerable market lose. The metallic stock
of the Bank of England is now reduced
to 12,279,2811.; and at this comparatively low past
it becomes seriously interesting to form an estimate
of the expected fitters demands for the precious metal.
Apart from the French drain, one million sterling
has immediately to be remitted to Turkey as
the instalment of 20 per sent. which falls dee
en Siturday sent on the five million loan. his
also stated that our Government are required almost
immediately to make a fresh advance of half a million
to Budiois, and that this amount will be takes in
herd cash. When to these bourses of ismand we add
the regular weekly drain for the menasisessiat, and
the requirements of the dividend resipieets, it will be
impossible to avoid coming to the conclusion that the
Bask's stock of coin sod bullion is likely to be carried
still lower. A reflex of the dividend diabareamests
will of coarse take place as the new quarter
progresses, bat the other ceases ef the drain
will be attended by more permanent effects. It
being attain that, under the trasewls imposed by our
existing currency system, the rates of mosey are
mainly governed by the movement of the Beak !mi-
lks, we are dm led to infer that deer money will be
added to the other di Illenlties of the coming winter. Our
main prospect of relief, let us repeat, rests upon plen-
tiful supplies of Australian and Californian gold, which
may materially ameliorate our position and prospeste,
a bullion pressers being evidently most readily cor-
rected by bullies supplies in the same manner as
a starving city i. relieved by arrivals of food. Were
speculation and missandoess prevalent, the oonsalous.

nun et weasels thus eugsidend 'salad reader ;e.
Ideal of could/mei a mash slower process ; bat this
le happily sot the am now, sad hams the reseal
hope that the observance of dm motion is sloes re-
quired to sorry this ommtry safely through the m-
oist smeary Femme.
We regret to obiern, however, that equal eon&
deem cannot be felt in the flosneisi pinkies of Frame.
The aspect of mosetary affairs is that sosatry inspires
as daily with fresh distrust, sad we should fail in oar
duty if, whilst dissiaiming all wish to Mae alarm, we
megleeted to draw attentive to the threats:dogs of
what may prove a storm. Re have on fames am-
does given expressive to warnings against the rotten
credit systems to which the present Clemenamist,
assisted by gigantic speeslative soeletise, ha so
deeply committed itself. Om Imes immediate
shiest today is to direct pane nodes to the
meek position of the Rash of Frame. It
will be seem, from the figures given in our City
article, that, dariog the month ending on the 11th
last., despite the heavy same is gold draws ham
this ate, the metals stook et that setablidsmest hes ,

farther diminished by no less than two
g millitinins=
a quarter sterling. The Assevelledatire
to commerce, es lepriVented by Item
of discounts, has tia.- tam tuna Meowed
by nearly two millions, whilst the diminution effected
in the notes in circulation is no more than 345,0001.
Great and saes eseouragesseet is also evidently
afforded to bows* spiculatioes. Notwithstanding
the avenge features above alluded to, the advances
on French Government securities still amount to no
less than 2,280,0004, and atom on railway securities
to the formidable amount of 4,188,0004 These two
latter items, therefore, represent together as much
as 8468,0001. The total stack of bullion now held
by the Bank is only 9,283.0004 against 28,213.0001.
of sates in eirealatiou. With only occasional earls-
does, the decrease in the metallic stock has been
°sadness@ sines the 14th of April last, when this
PM amounted to 17,906,0004, spinet an aggregate
circulation of 28,370,0004 At that period, the
aggregate of advisors on stooks and railway
shares was way 4,680,0004 We will tarn
for a further eesparistes to the belance-shest
for the period of last year corresponding to the
present date. On the 12th October, 1864, the steel
of coin and bullion was 19,080,0001., and the total
(drooled= 26,300,0001. As compared with October
last year, therefore, the figures now before us show a
defieiseey of nearly ten millions in the oohs and
and an increase of ;pearly a million in the circa-
latiou, whilst the unsmindoess of the Bank's position
is further aggravated by the eocemous amount of the
advances upon pawned stocks and shares. When we
reoolleet the vast amount of paper securities set afloat
by the other great financial establishments of more
meat origin, the danger involved is this latter ele-
ment bIICOODSI more striking. In October, 1864, the
propped= of bullion held by the Bank of France to
notes issued was as lis to 1.32; in April, 1866, as Ito
1.52; now it is ss Ito 2.82 Cep any one thick of these
figures, and of the existing Ffella credit system,
without Meier the &pragmatist impressed with
painful distinctness upon his mind, that France is
incurring peril of insolvency P Would it take much
to produce a monetary panic there? And, in sack an
event, bow long wild the Bank of Francis gentile a
run open it ? Weald not, too, the extended opera-
tion of the new-lingled eredit institutions aggravate
the crash ? Those views are so serious that we are
loth to pat them in other than an interrogative form,
bet they irresistibly force themselves upon us. The
question then arises, should these apprehensions be
even partially realised, what would earns P Would
the Preach Government, as hoe already been whis-
pered about, order a suspension of cub payments by
the Bank of Fraecie,ud givens' guarantee of the State
and a forced circulation to the notes of that institution ?
Many people are disposed to fear that any measures of
relief which might be adopted by the Government
would be impotent to prevent the inevitable descent
of the ease of the French Bank to a discount:
whilst, besides other serious evils, the commerce of
France would be placed at a great disadvantage as
compared with that of other States, and a general dis-
position to hoard the precious metals would be stimu-
lated throughout the country—thu farther aggra-
vating the difficulty. Bo it remembered that these
speculations, or conjectures, or whatever they may
be called, refer to matters which have a most inti-1
mate connexion with the welfare of our own commu-
nity. Our money market has already been seriously
nffected by the necessity under which the French
Government found itself of having recioures to extra-
ordinary operations in Loudon for the acquisition of
the gold wherewith to carry on the war. Our com-
mercial relatioos with France are of the closest
nature, and any shock to credit there will certainly
re-aet here. Moreover. the strenuous areistanee of
our gallant and frosty ally is of the deepest impor-
tance to us in the present war; yet how can seen
aid be effectually rendered if French commerce, the
real supporter of her noble army, be crippled ? In
this point of view distress in France becomes to as
an evil only second in sinister important), to distress
in our own land. It is for these reasons that we have
seen with anxiety and even grief the non-recogni-
tion by the French Government of sounder principles
of financial economy, and their eagerness to extend,
instead of cautiously curtain, the operations of a
prarient system of credit. Lit yet too late for the
EMPEROR to take counsel of prudence, and to inter-
pose for the common protection before the mischief
shall have made further progress ?