The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Joseph Richard*" a youth about 17 years of age, was
charged with obtaining a quantity of stuff goods upon
forged orders.
I Robert Woolnoegh aid—l am warehouseman to Masers.
I Cooke, Bons, and Co. of fit. Paul's Churtlyard. Between
two and three o'clock on Betorday last, the prisoner came
to our warehouse with an order for goods which were
brought to me from the stuff department. I looked at the
order, which purported to come from Mr. Maples, of Tot-
tenluim-court-road, and asked him if he lived at that
person's establishment. The prisoner said be did ; and in
answer to another questioe, he said he lived with Mr.
Savant's, in Chime:ell-street, about 14 months ago. When
asked for his name, he first said Henry, and then George
Flat. I asked him who whet* the order, and he said Mr.
Hughes, and pointed to the letter " H," as his signature.
I told him I thought it was all right, and that he might
take the goods. I was then directed to accompany the pri-
soner, and when we got outside the warehouse he said he
had to take the goods to • customer of Mr. Maples, who
lived in the Borough. I said I would go with him to Mr.
Maples first, and I accordingly walked with him as far aseraf-
ton-street, in the Tottenham-court-road, where the prisoner
threw down the parcel of goods,and endeavoured to get away.
I however secured him, and gave him into custody. The
goods were of the value of about 41. I then went to Mr.
Maples, and ascertained the order, of which the following
is • copy, was not genuine :
" Please to seed by bearer two pieces of black Coburg,
about ls. led.—For J. Maples.—H.—Tottenham-conn-road,
' Jan. 13, 1853."
James Bloom, 98 B, aid—l took the prisoner into ens-
, tody, and found the invoice for the goods in his possession.
' He said he had obtained them under false pretences, but
' that it was the first time, and he was induced to do it

through want.
This evidence completed the first case.
The prisoner was then charged with obtaining goods to
the amount of dl. or 61. from Messrs. Bowman end May, of
Wood-strut, by a forged order. 'mounted on the 3rd inst. ;
also goods to the amount of 22e. from Mr. Bedsore, Man-
chester warehouseman, Gresham-street, by a similar 'Jai-
dome document. The evidence in each ease was clear, and
the prisoner was committed for trial.

LAMBETH.
Late on Saturday evening last James Rayden, a boy whose
half-sterved and emaciated appearance indicated that he
had been very grossly neglected, was brought to this court by
three or four of the humane neighbours of his parents, who
intreated Mr. Elliott's interference to procure him a suffi-
ciency of food and proper and humane treatment from his
lawful guardians. It appeared that they had noticed for a
length of time the shameful treatment which the poor child
bad experienced at the hands of hie father an,i stepmother,
while the children of the latter were kept in the neatest
and most comfortable manner. They had also discovered
that the child had been kept without the proper or near
sexy food, and had themselves frequently supplied his wants;
but finding that the system of cruelty had been car-
ried to such an extent, they on Yridey last carried the
boy to Lambeth Workhouse, and communicated the cruel
• which he had been treated to the proper officer.
On the same evening Mr. Cope, one of the relieving officers
of Lambeth parish, called at the house of the child's parents,
and felt so satisfied with the representations of his step-
mother, that he actually struck the child, and said if he was
his he should give hint a sound dogging. The neigh-
bours, still dissatisfied, brought the child before Mr.
Elliott, as before stated, who, on seeing him, directed
Lockyer to take him to the workhouse for necessary care
and protection, and ordered that a summons should be
taken out mallet his parents for gross neglect. No-
Hiking moth was heard about him until last evening,
when Mr. Cope, the same officer, it will be recollected, that
visited his parents, brought him into court, and, addressing
the magistrate, said he had taken the boy before the board
of guardians on that day, and they ordered his discharge
from the house oa the grounds that his parents were able to
support him.
Mr. Elliott, with some warmth—l did not send the child
to the workhouse merely to be taken before the guardians,
and sent back to his father, but that the page's officers might
take the proper steps to compel his father lb treat him pro-
perly. Have you taken the child before the medical officer ?
Cope—No, sir, I have not.
Mr. Elliott—Then I shall send him before one, and take
his opinion.
Lockyer, the summonieg officer, here took the child to
seed the perish surgeons, and on his return handed to Mr.
Elliott the following certidcate :
"I certify that the child James Hayden, 11, Norfolk-
now, is in a very neglected state, and appears to have suf-
fered from want of sufficient and proper food.
" INC). E. SMITH, Med. Officer.
" 2, China-terrace, Lambeth, Jan. 16, 1865."
On reading this certificate, Mr. Elliott at once directed
that a summons should iasae against the father of the child.
THAMES.
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A poor woman named Charlotte Birkenahaw, of No. 8,
Smith-street, Stepney, came before Mr. Yardley, and
mated that a child she carried in her arms had been under
her care for some time, that the parents had abandoned it,
and that she had no means of supporting it. She had been
to the authorities of Kensington parish, where the child
was born, and was referred by them to Stepney parish. The
officers of Stepney told her to go back to Kensington, and
she was driven from parish to parish.
Mr. Yardley said he did not think be could interfere in
the case. It wee an unfortunate matter for the poor woman.
He could not compel the perish to maintain the child.
Inspector Holmes, of the K division, said the applicant
was in great distrea.
The applicant—What am I to do, sir ?
Mr. Yardley could easily understand why the parishes
objected to take the child off the woman's hands. If they
did so, it would be holding out a premium to mothers of
illegitimate children to leave them with friends end then
abandon them altogether. The applicant had rashly taken
drip of a friend's child, and must take the consequences.
The applicant—The mother was no friend of mine, air.
The Rev. Mr. Hall, of No. 12.Lansilown•-road. Bryswatet,
fame to me and asked me to take care of the child, and
Vgive me 4e. per week for its support.
to
Yardley—lf the Rev. Mr. Hall has untracted to pay
you 4a. per week, summon him to the County Court for the
money owing to you.
I Mrs. Birkenahaw believed the Rev. Mr. Hall had acted
hom kind motive., and when she went to hiss he said he
leould pay no more.
Mr. Yardley—ln my opinion the Rev. Mr. Hall is liable
to pay the expenses of maintaining that child if he placed it
in year charge, and for every week that you maintain it
until he takes it off your hands. Call upon him again.
The applicant, who was in a most deplorable condition,
then left the court, sobbing loudly.

THE BEARD.—Dr. Sanborn, of Andover, ably
defends the beard in a late number of the Boston Medical
mid Surgical Journal. He takes the ground that the custom
of shaving the beard is always attended or followed by a
marked deterioration In the physical organisation, not only
of the existing race of people, but of the rats to come. Be
says that the aboriginal inhabitants of oar toil and climate
were brave, powerful, and numerous; bat they uprooted
the beard from their faces, and, consequently, grew more
and more effeminate with every generation, until they
became an easy prey to their enemies, and are themselves
uprooted from the face of the earth. He cites the Chinese
as a people who have been shorn of their locks and their
strength together, till sa a nation they hays only a mere
comical existence; and be says of t►e Jews, whose creed
is to preserve unmarred the corner of their beards," that
he w a ease of pauperism', premature physical de-
bility, or premature disease among them. The nobility of
Spain adopted the habit of shaving through courtesy to
their beardlem prince. The mass were of course subjected
to the humiliating process, but expressed their repugnance
of the outrage is the welbkaown proverb—" Since we have
lost oar beards we hays lost oar souls," that is, ourselves,
oar identity. We are rather soulless slaves than the men
MIT Maker made and designed us to be.—Nero York Doily

MARKETS.

JAN. 16 —The market closed

very irnaii,"hall;kb fean"aaranition, and prices of eve•y
dweriptlon us firmly maintalaed. The sales *awaited to
6,000 bales, misprision 160 Penwell sad blarenharo, at bid.
o 7d.; 70 Bahia, at 61,4 to Old. ; 200 Egyptian, at 50. to
Bd., and 600 Surat, at 3jl. to 4t per 10. 6,000 Americans
she sold, 1,000 for export.

COTTON GOODS.-1

ILL 16.—T1e est?

A which charaeterned business in tble market het week
411 continues, and we hive but a limited trade le report.
The T cloths, bug sloths, and other fabrics taken by the
Greeks are the principal ezeeption, and them are sal
bought up in some quantity, notwithstanding the aseumsr
lation of a lisp number of packages at Liverpool for went
of shipping, in consequesce of the government having takes
up so many transports. For the home trade end most of
the shipping markets the demand is on bat a very moderate
male. For India there are no accumulations of stock
ham but probably most of the shippers will await their
Istilus before making new engagements. In yarns the
market is gain, as flat as in cloth. Same business Is doing
for the Mediterranean, but buyers for other quarters are
exercising much reserve and caution in all their operations.
The prices both of cloth and yarn are moderately steady.

WOOLLEN CLOTH.—Lszna, Jaw. 16.—We hays had
• rather quieter market to day. There was only ea indif-
ferent attendance of merchants In the Cloth•halls, and the
business generally assumed • Batter aspect.

31 kN ACTURES. HUDDNIISPIELD, JAN. 16.
There has been a fair attendance of buyers in the market
to-day, but from the cautious manner in which their opera-
tions ere carried on, it is evident that some time must elapse
before confidence is fully restored. Goods adapted for the
horns trade still continue most in distend.

WOOLS.—HODDIWIFIRLD, JAW. IB.—A few of the
manutacturen having worked themselves out of stock, are
now in the market, and though buying in small quantities
only, it appears to have given a firmer tone to the wool
trade, which for some weeks back thee biers uncommonly
dull.

CORN.—Hots, JAN. 16.—T0-day we had a fair attend-
ance of farmers, and quite an irregular market; they were
quite unwilling to follow the decline reported from Mark-
lane, and in consequence little business resulted, prices
remaining about the same as last Tuesday, the market
closing with much firmness. There was more enquiry for
foreign wheat, bat the high pretensions of holders checked
business. Spring corn very dull. Linseed ls.lower. Cakes
rather easier to buy. Imports from Jan. 8 to Jan. 12:—
Wheat, 3,886 qrs. ; beans, 1,174 ; linseed, 2,995 ; oil cakes,
182 tons.

Laze, Jas. 16.-The arrivals of all articles are good
this morning. The wheat trade assumes more firmness
than on Friday, and for the better class rather more money
is obtained ; common descriptions without alteration. Bar-
ley, oats, end beans rather lower. Arrivals this week:
Wheat, 7,677 ; oats, 124 ; barley, 2,361 ; beans, 238 ; peas,
20 ; malt, 490 ; rapeseed, 380 ; linseed, 370.
LYNN, JAN. 16.-A fair quantity of wheat offering to-
day, the condition not at all improved ; the sale slow, at
3s. to 4s. per qr. decline. A good supply of barley; best
quality Is., interior 25., per qr. cheaper. Wheat, best red,
06s. to 705.; white, 765. Barley, best runs, 30e. to 318. ;
extra, 335. Oats. IL 2d. per stone to the growers.
NEWCAIITUS, JL/f. 16 -The weather since Saturday has
been much more seasonable, yesterday we had some slight
showers of snow, whilst the wind to-day is east. At our
market this morning we had a moderate show of wheat
from the growers, with, however, good arrivals from abroad,
and although the accounts from Mark-lane were of a dis-
conraging &store, our millers nevertheless showed more
disposition to purchase, and at a decline of Is. per qr. a fair
extent of business was done, the best runs of new Norfolk
red, making 72e. to 73..; and extra white, on aoccount of
its scarcity, 78s. to 80s. per qr. weighed 631 be. New foreign
likewise met more attention, Swedish red commanding
freely 725., 631b5., Holstein and other qualities of a like
description the same money ; old being held considerably be-
Fond those rates, transactions are necessarily more limited.
lour rather more inquired after, and at a further reduc-
tion of Is. to 2s. per sack we have buyers on speculation,
which, however, few are willing to accept. In Rye no-
thing doing. Malting barley, although in moderate request,
cannot be generally written cheaper, although now and
then, where vessels require clearing, less money is taken,
the probable value of coarse 621bs. varieties being 325. per
qr.; 631 b. 345.; extra, 3.5 i. Malt still tending lower, and
the same remarks will apply to beans and peas, whereas the
value of oats has been pretty well sustained.
SALIBIITIZT, Jaw. 16.-At our market this morning we
bad an excellent supply of all descriptions of grain, and a
full attendance, but buyers acted with extreme caution,
and the beet samples declined 2s. per qr., whilst some in-
ferior and out-of condition samples dropped 3s. to 4s. Flour
declined Is. per sack, and the bakers acted with reserve.
In barley there was an extremely dull sale for all kinds, at
a decline of Is. to 2s. per qr. Malt met with scarcely any
demsad, with a downward tendency. In fact there is al-
most a stand still in the grain trade, speculators refusing to
operate at this important crisis, whilst sales are pressed on
the part of the farmers. Wheat, 70s. to 735. Barley, 30s.
to 365. Oats, 20s. te 265. Beans. 645. to 61s. per qr. Flour,
61s. to 574. per sack. Malt, 95.60. to 10s. per bushel.

CATTLE.—Sausnoitr, JAN. 16.—At our market this
morning there was a good number of beasts supplied ; but
we have little to notice in point of quality, which was rather
of an inferior kind. With a moderate attendance of buyers,
there was a tolerably good demand for best Devon oxen,
which sold much about the same as at last market, but infe-
rior animals were a hanging sale, and met a decline of fully
Is. per score, and a large number remained unsold at the close
of business. In sheep we had an average seasosaVe supply,
and the quality war very good. There was a better demand
than of late, and nearly everything was disposed of at the
selling prices of 7d. to 84. per lb., which was an advance on
late quotations. The supply of veal and lamb is scarce,
but maintains im former value. In the pig market we bad
an excellent supply of all kinds, which met with a pod
sale at unaltered quotations from our last. Prices :
Best ox beef, 12.. to 12s. 6d. per score ; cow and heifer
ditto, 91. to 9s. 6d. Batt Down mutton, 7id. to Bd. per
lb. ; inferior breeds, 6d. to 6}sl Lamb, Bd. to 9d. Veal,
7d. to 70. Pork, fresh and salt, 7d. to 70. per lb., and
101. to 10s. 3d. per score. Bacon, green, Bd. to 9sl. per lb. ;
dry, 10d. to 100., and 10s. to 10s. 3d. per score. Quarter
store pigs, 18a. to 225. each.