The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

where a meeting of the Church of England Self-Supporting
Vieerie Society .as about to be held, and J. Holloway and
.1. Bailey were charged with having been riotous at the
rooms, and having attempted to rescue the defendant May.
—Th. Rev. E. It. Laken, re cow of Burton, amid he wan
that day at the lianoversquare Rooms, where a meeting was
about to be held on behalf of the Church of England Self
Supporting Village Society, of which society he was one of
the honorary secretaries, when he found that some of the
committee were sitting, but with doors closed, in consequence
of an assemblage of persons outside, who were louuly de-
tnandirg admittance. The manager of the rooms told him
it was the wish of the proprietor, that the meeting should
not take place, as he feared a disturbance was meditated.
Witness went out and informed the defendant May, among
others who were outside, of what had been stated ; but May
was told, if he remained quiet and orderly, he would be
allowed to enter the rooms. The manager, however, »-
Need to alter his determination for the meeting not to take
place. Witness again went out and told May, with the rest, of
the decision that had been come to. May them insisted on
having an interview with the members of the committee.
One of the committee at that moment arrived, and May and
others attempted to force themselves into the committee-
room with this member of the committee. Witness and the
doorkeeper were obliged to resist this violent intrusion, upon
which May said, "Bo you are physical force, are you ; then
you shall have plenty of it." May then called out, " Come
on, boys !" and one man was about to attack witness, when
he was restrained by his companions. A placard was issued to
the crowd, stating that no meeting would take place.
The crowd, however, would not disperse, and as the two
constables on duty said they should require asvistance, wit-
ness trove in his cab to the Vine-street station, ar.d procured
additional force. Previous, however, to this, May and others
said they would not withdraw until they had seen the com-
mittee fairly out of the rooms, as the meeting might other-
wise take elece without their presence. Witness' requested
the police to disperse the crowd, and the constable' said it
would he necessary to give the parties into custody. Wit-
ness accordingly gave May Leto custetly.—Polito-comeable
Mitchell said he saw May, with about 100 persons following,
come up to the Hanover-square Rooms and eater the passage.
Th, manager told witness to request the parties to leave
that place. Some went away, but Holloway remained, and
witness was obliged to push him away. Witness was
knocked down and kicked by some of the persons in the
crowd. Afterwards, when May was given Into custody,
Holloway tried to rescue him. Bailey was also very
active in urging on the crowd not to allow May to be taken
to the station-house.—May raid he went to the meeting, as
he conceived he had a right to do. He could not account for
the disinclination to admit him, except from the fact of his
having been weed into the chair at a recent meeting at
Ilethnel.green, in opposition to the Rev. Mr. Brown, one of
the secretaries of the Self-Supporting Village Society.—Mr.
Bingham thought tram the evidence them was more wrong-
headedness than disposition tout lawful authority at defiance
on the part of the defendants. The parties calling the meet-
, ing had a perfect right, at the instance of the proprietor of
the budding, to put off that meeting if they pleased, and no
one had a right to force himself into snottier mane house
against that roan's will. it had been thought requisite to
' pat off the meeting, and as a retyped was given to disperse, f
the constables were properly called upon to act, and to re- 3
I move those who chose to create an obstruction in the streets.
I As there was no very great violence used he should be con-
tent with requiring all three defendants to find sureties for
their good behaviour for three months.
LAId BETH.—Roniteut es ON THe STEAM Picas AND
STSA.II-soars. Thomas Woes and Geor9e Smith were I
charged with attempting to pick pockets on the steam-boat E
pier, Nine-Elms. Henry Jordan, a porter at the South-
Wi stern Railway, deposed that on that day he was on the is
1 Nits-Elms steam-boat pier, and use the prisoner Smtth, E
who had his paletot on his arm, try the pockets eftwo ;
the prisoner Wade, and a third man, who wee not in cus-
tody, covering him. At this time there was a considerable M
crowd on the pier, as a train had immediately before arriv,d ;
at the station, and he saw the prisoners go OS board one of g
the Citizen steam-boats. Ile, witness, also went on board, I
and seeing Romaine, a constable belonging to the L division E
o police, on the boat, he pointed out the prisoner, and told
him what he had witnessed jut before.—William Romaine
Raid he observed the prisoners the moment they got on board
the steam-boat, and had known them for some years as ex-
pert thieves and members of the " swell mob." Ile kept hie 6
elm open them to see it they attempted any other robbery,
but this was perfectly 11,4 less, as ho found the prisoners were '
leeching him just as closely as he was watching them, and a
sought the firet opportunity of getting on shore. They !
landed at Lambeth stairs, when he, witness, took Wade into '
custody, and a constable who was with him secured Smith.
—Mr. Elliott c wenced the prisoners to be imprisoned for ,
three months, end kept to hard labour the House of •
Correction.
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MONEY MARKET.
MONDAY EVININO.
The stock market was in a quiescent state to-day, t,
which may be attributed in some degree to the thin t.
attendance of dealers on the Stock Exchange, no un-
common occurrence on the last and the first days of
the week in such sunny and seducing weather for
coast and river excursions as the present The ten-
dency of prices was, however, downwards till towards
the close of business, when a partial rally took
place, though not supported by transactions of
any mark. Consols were done as low as 83, both for
money and account, bat for the greater part of the
day ranged within the limited circle of ; per cent,
say front 133; to 4 . Finally, they closed with an im-
provement to 83: buyers, both for time and money.
Continental affairs generally, as reported in private
advicen, and in the journals, were conceived to wear a
sombre aspect ; and although France was the more
prominent point of observation and apprehension, it
is not to be disguised that much uneasiness prevails
about the possible settlement of political dissensions
in Germany. The affairs of that country, or
rather of the states composing that large
and most important portion of continental Europe,
are naturally discussed with more animation, and
with more practical knowledge also, perhaps, in the
City, than in the higher political quart,-rs westward,l
from the fact of the great concourse of persons from
thence always to be found here as a part of the tran-
sient population, and moreover of the not less number
regularly domiciliated, of the standing of so many
years that, however naturally interested directly or
indirectly by blood and descent in the concerns of the
fatherland, they have become in all respects
naturalised Englishmen, with the rights appertaining
to them as such. The difficulty of the problem to be
resolved in Germany, as construed by such practical
and intelligent reaaoners, arises peenliarly out of the
complication of the numerous independent sovereign-
ties or states to be dealt with; the interests, preju-
dices, sympathies, or antipathies of which, like their
traditions, and, to a great extent, dependent upon
them, are, and are construed to be, so various and
conflicting. Thus it is that all public securities of
German origin, which formerly were marketable, and
had a value, although, except the stocks of Austria
and Prussia, they were scarcely dealt in on the Stock
Exchange, are now entirely without any realisable
worth here. What is here said is a fair representa- '
tion of German opinion as expressed, and of facts
otherwise not to be controverted.
The exceptional modification of the Danish block-
ado in the North Sea was gratefully accepted by the
merchants interested in the trade of that quarter, and
lather assisted in staying the disposition downwards
of Consols. Reduced Threes left off 81:t to
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 83;: to Z. Long
Annuities, SI to 9 1-8. Bank Stock, 189 to 192.
India Stock, 229 to 232. Exchequer Bills for Jane,
38s. to 41a., for March 41e. to 445. premium. India
Bonds, 21s. to 245. premium.
Foreign securities underwent little change, and the
transactions were chiefly connected with the settle-
ment of the account for to-morrow. Mexican were
quoted 15 tto 1.,. Peruvian, 36 to 8. Brazilian, 68 to
70. Spanish Fives, 111 to 121; the Threes, 21 to 3 ;
Passive, 21 to 3. Portuguese, 17 to 18. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 41 to 3 ; the Fears, 61 to 3.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 58 to 62. Rus-
sian, 85 to 8.
From Hamburg, of the 12th instant, the failure of
the house of Windmullcr and Co., comes reported.
This house had a branch at Breslau, and the liabilities
will, it is understood, be of considerable amount One
or two houses in this country will be sufferers, whose
names it is not necessary to mention.
ENGLISH FUNDS.
Bonk Stock. 109 lftd India Bomb. £l,OOO, 2231 p.
3 per Ct. Med. Amu.. 81i 1 9 Ditto, under 1,100. 24
7tprar (.tn.l'itttrits6"4 1 1 Caosolo for iTtr0...£314,03(4.121rev 9.1. and
bon- A1=11404. cup. Jan. 3, 1800, 3d.. 38 41 6441 p.
o to Ditto. 000, 38 44 p
Dilte,3o ymesp. Jan. 5,1860,811-16 DM° Binall, 38 7 94 p.
halts Steck, 7.52
FOMEIO FUNDS.
Ufa CLI7BI4_4IaDT?•69 570,F. 884r,l'cA.B2Z:r.511.tailviir ill
r
5 per CI. satialcso. 11L44, 3 per Ct. epaulet Holub, al9
1
little, Acct. May 31, 120 44 Per Ct. &linen 1, ndv, eu 25tr.,
6 par Ct. Peruvian lion&i, 37 69 a to) 294
per Ct. Portuguese Monde, 6949 TO 24 per Ct. Dutch Evelt. 12 guild..
4 per tit. Ditto, 17 424 12
6 per Ct. Madan 1341..,18:7. £ St., 4 per Ct. Dutch Certificates. 63
634 6

RAILWAY NEWS.
We had scarcely any business not connected with
the setticme-A of the account, which was on yester-
day ; but the market has been in a rather depressed
state, and prices somewhat lower.
RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
GROUP 2. Room 34.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
oolnsaire.—The object of this MR to Improve the terrier at ilull and
New llMland CTOMIDVS. The sass for the promoters of the bill was
partly gone through at the period of adjournment.
Oitour 4. Room 31.—This group, which has before it
the disputed bill
andsnimir to the side of the Birmingham and Orford
Junction line, met, ajurn for a week, to malls the committee
to ha
veosae,
before them the report of the Railway Commlcioners on the
subject of the gauges.
Guour 6. Room 28.—Loedon, Brighton, and South
Cout.—The ease on the partof tie promoters haring been closed, the