The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

POLICE.—YzaTERDAy.

O I LDHALL.—POnT-OrrICE AKRANOSMENTS.—A tall
athletic young man, named George Scott, was placed at the
bar, charged with creating a disturbance and obstructing the
business of the Post-office. From the statement of Richard
Craddock, one of the constables of the Pmt-office, it appeared
that the prisoner entered the ball and inquired which was the
window for posting letters, and it being five minutes past six
o'clock, he was directed to one at which he would have to
pay an additional penny, being behind time. The prisoner
went towards the letter window he was directed to; but
shortly afterwards Craddock, and Peake, another officer,
were called to remove him, as he was standing in front of
the window, preventing other parties from posting. On the
officers going up to him and requesting him to remove,
he said "that he was there before six o'clock, and should
not remove nor pay the additional penny, and that it
was a gross imposition," besides expressing his determi-
nation not to leave his position until his letters were
taken in. By the directions of the clerks he was removed,
but continuing the disturbance, and threatening to fight the
officers, he was eventually forced into the yard at the back,
near Goldsmith's-hall. He again returned a second and
third time, offering to fight Peaks, the officer, for 61., and
was at last given into custody.—Craddock, the officer, said
he thought the prisoner must, from his behaviour, have been
drinking, but that was denied.—The prisoaer denied the
statement of the officer, and asserted that hews." at the Post-
office four minutes before six o'clock, but in consequence of
a dispute arising between one of the clerks sad another per.
son, the clock struck six, and the windows were clued.—
Alderman Hooper: Is it true that if a person is at the Post-
office a few minutes before six, but in consequence of num-
ber. being there, or a dispute analog between the clerk and
an individual, the doors are shut, and those parties who are
still in waiting obliged to pay an extra penny ?—Ciad-
dock : Yes, they are; it is an every-day occurrence.
There is no doubt that if there were some application
made to the higher authorities, some alteration would be
made.--Ald. Hooper : Then the fact of it is, that the present
proceedings all arise from the want of a better system in 'his
great commercial country. It is evident there is not a suffi-
ciency of accommodation to the public.—Craddock: The
subject has been discussed by the Post-office authorities, and
the blame laid to the public, who ought to use more stamps,
for the purpose of avoiding such crowds of persons congre-
gating together for the purpose of posting letters.—Alderman
Hooper: People may sometimes be short of stamps, hut I
should like to know to whom do the extra pennies go ?
Craddock : They used to co to the officers, but now to the
revenue. I, therefore, could have no object in directing the
prisoner falsely.—Alderman Hooper: I am glad to hear
what you have stated, as it is but just that it should be
known, as it might possibly be thought the officers had an
interest in misdirecting persons. I still think it a serious
inconvenience to the public, and that some alteration ought
to be adopted. In the present cue lam inclined to believe
the prisoner's statement, although the offcer (Craddock)
was only doing his duty in ejecting him, and shall, therefore,
discharge him.—The prisoner bowed, and retired from the
dock.
BOW-STREBT.—FORGERY ore Messes. Coarrs.— IV.
Graham, at present staying at the Tavistoek Hotel, Covent-
garden, wucharged with altering a cheque for 81. to 801. H.
Burgess,shopman to Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, stated that
the prisoner came to their shop yesterday afternoon, and after
ordering some goods to be sent to a lady, "eked if they would
oblige him wittra cheque for SI. to send into the country.—
Mr. Beat', one of the firm, drew a cheque for thst amount,
and he received eight sovereigns from the prisoner, who
went away. Ho returned in about an hour, and produced
the cheque, partly destroyed; said he had done it lighting
a cigar, and would be much obliged if they could give him
another—Mr. Storer, another of the firm, drew hint another
cheque for 81., the one now produced, which has been altered '
to 801., and is drawn in favour of J. H. Montgomery. 11.
Aylin, keeping an oyster-shop in St. Martin's-court, said that
yesterday, about three o'cloek, the prisoner came in and
gave witness the cheque for 801., now produced, to get
cashed. He went and presented the cheque at Messrs. I
Colitis's, was detained some time, and at length given into j
custody.—Charles Turner, cashier at Messrs. Coutts's, Reid
Messrs. Fortnum and Mason kept an account there. The
cheque produced was in the handwriting of one of the firm,
and had been altered by the addition of the letter
" y " to the word eight, and a cypher after the figure
8. He at once detected the alteration, and consulted
one of the partners, and witness was given into custody.—J.
Dunn, police-constable F 29, e aid he went to the shop of
Mr. Aylin, having been told the prisoner would call there at
four o'clock for the money. At the time he came, and asked
Mrs. Aylin if her husband was come in ? She replied, " no."
He said he would call again, and went away. He (Duna)
followed him, and asked if be had given Aylin a cheque ?
He said, " yes," Mr. Montgomery, of Fenton's Hotel, St.
James's-street, bad given it to him. He then took him into
custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said he would retract
what he had said about Mr. Montgomery. He tried to alter
the first cheque he bad received from Messrs. Fortnum and
Mason ; but failing, he got another, and that he altered and
gave to Aylin to get cashed. In reply to Mr. Henry he said
he was 171 years old.—Mr. Henry acid he should remand
him. The prisoner was very anxious to be allowed to send
for his friends to bail him. Mr. Henry said he could not
take bail.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—ROBBERY PREVIiNTED.
—Thomas Girlley was brought before Mr. Hardwick, on
suspicion of having meditated a robbery at the shop of Mr.
Williams, cloth merchant, Regent-street. Daniel Mullen.,
a sharp boy, about 14 years of age, said he was taking down
the shutters of his master's shop, about eight o'clock that
morning, when a man came up to him and asked him the
way to the New-road. While he was giving the man the
required information, he noticed that the man kept
dodging between the door and himself, so as to intercept
his view of the door. Suspecting something wrong was
intended, he pot down one of the shutters, and went to
the shop door and looked into the shop. He sew a man at
the further end, who, on finding he was noticed, came
towards him and asked him if his master wanted a porter.
Witness replied he did not know, but would inquire, and
then instantly shut and bohed the shop-door, at the same
time ringing the bell smartly, to summon his master. The
prisoner said he would not watt, and was about to unbolt the
door and go away, when Mr. Williams made his appearance,
and the prisoner was taken to the station-house. Oa witness's
return from the station-house he found a large bag under the
counter, which bag he believed had been thrown there by
the prisoner, on finding ho was detected. Mr. Williams said
the bag did not belong to him. lif:e shop had been robbed
sometime previously to the amount of 251. The prisoner was
remanded.

LAMBETH.—A MCSICAL Don.—Yesterday Mr. Nor-
ton was engaged for some time in hearing a summons for
the detention of a valuable Newfoundland dog, in which
Mr. Flexmore, a professor of dancing, was the complainant,
and Mr. Sheridan, • professional gentleman, was defendant.
From the evidence it app:ared that about Chriatmas last,
the complainant lost • Newfoundland dog, upon which he
had set a high value on account of its extreme docility and
his perfect performances of many tricks which be had
taught him. About two months ago he had been informed
by • friend that the dog was in the possession of Mr. She-
ridan, and he, in consequence, called at the residence of that
gentleman, where he saw the animal, and was perfectly sa-
tithed it wee his, but Mr. Sheridan being from home at the
time, he was not allowed to take it. He subsequently
made repeated applications for the restoration of the dog,
without success, and on Good Friday, having met the de-
fendant with the dog, be demanded him. On that occasion
ho was taken to the station-house by Mr. Sheridan's desire,
but was not detained.—Mr. Joseph Edgar, stage-doorkeeper
at the Victoria Theatre, said he had seen the dog at the sta-
tion house on Good Friday, and was perfectly certain it was
the same he had before and repeatedly seen in the possession
of Mr. Flexmore. He had recollected the dog from a mere
puppy, and could therefore take it on him to speak with
perfect certainty as to him identity.—This witness was sub-
jected to • long cross-examination by Mr. Wolfe, who
attended for the defendant. He was unable to describe
the dog more minutely than that he was a sort of dirty
black, and was not at all aware what white marks he bore ;
but still he was certain that the dog he saw at the
station-house was that which he had formerly seen in
the possession of Mr. Floxmore.—A second witness spoke to
similar facts.—Mr. Wolfe submitted that the evidence was
not sufficient to induce his worship to entertain the complaint
or make any order as to the dog.—Mr. Norton, on the con-
trary, thought that there was a sufficient prim 4 facie case
made out certainly to call on the defendant to answer it. lie
(Mr. Norton) himself had loot several valueble dogs, and
when called on to give a description of them he was unable
to do so, though at the same time he could select them from
a hundred; and therefore he wee not much surprised to find
that the witnesses called in this cane were not able to speak
with accuracy to particular marks, though they had no doubt
as to the perfect identity of the animal when they raw him.
Mr. Norton here asked if it was the intention to produce the
dog.—Mr. Wolfe replied that the animal was some distance
in the country, and therefore it was not his intention to pro-
duce him, and again urged that the evidence called to sup-
port the complaint was not sufficient.—Mr. Norton observed
that in his opinion there was abundant evidence to justify his
calling on the defendant to account for his poseessioa of the
dog.—Mr. Sheridan arid that he had purchased the animal
about four months ago, from • dog seller in the vicinity
of the Royal Exchange, and paid 21. 10s. for him. lie also
begged to state that he had been 'subjected to the greatest'
possible annoyance by the defendant, who west even so far
as to send a policemen to:his house with a friend or agent of
his in the noon-day, though he had in the first instance ex-
pressed his willingness to give up the dog to the complainant
if he could show that it really belonged to bins. With this
object in view he bad called at Mr. Flexmore's, in company
with a friend, and brought the dog, when his mother ac-
knowledged that the dog had not been stolen, hut bad
strayed ayssv from the stable, the door having been left open.
—Mr. Fie:more : Had the dog been produced 1 should have

convinced your worship and every petvon present that the
dog is mine. I should have got him to perform a num-
ber of tricks which I have taught him, and even have
got him to sing "God save the Queen." (Laughter.)
—Mr. Norton : Do you mean to say that he could
go through the notes of the national anthem ?
Mr. Flextuore : No. sir ; not exactly the notes, but I
should sing them and the dog should Join me with a some-
what singular accompaniment.—Mr. Norton : Well, latter
that, I suppose Mr. Sheridan, you can have no further doubt
as to the identity of the animal, and would at once give him
up ? Mr. Wolfe observed that he had heard of a tinging
mouse and a singing oyster, but it the first time he hod timid
of a singing dog. Dir. Norton ultimately decided that the
complainant had, in his mind, established the identity of the
dog as his property, and said if the defendant did not give
the animal up in a reasonable time, he should make an order
to compel him.
SOUTHWARK.-IVillions Amos, a fashionably-attired
man, was charged with committing a violent 'assault on
Sarah Ann Harris, whose countenance exhibited proofs of
the brutality exercised towards her. The prisoner had for-
merly lived with the complainant, who was compelled to
leave him owing to ill-usage. Irritated at her having quitted
him, he committed a violent assault on her, for which he
was sentenced to imprisonment. He had recently been
liberated from gaol, and meeting with the complainant in
an unfrequented place on the preceding night, he struck her
with gnat force in the face, knocked her down, kicked and
beat her in a shameful manner, and swore he would be hung
for her. He was taken into custody on the spot.—Mr.
Seeker inflicted the full penalty of 51. on the prisoner, and
ordered him to find ample bail for his future good behaviour.
THAMES.—WHOLESALE PILFERING. T. Sakes wax
charged with committing two robberies.—T. Day:lcing said
that on returning from his work on January 19, 1846, he
opened his chest, and on looking for his watch, he found it
wa. gone, together with six sovereigns, three half sovereigns,
and other articles. The money and property were safe in his
chest the night before. The prisoner was lodging in the same
house at the time, but, on the night of the 19th of January,
1846, he left, saying be was going to Birmingham.—
Thomas Matthew M'Ouire mid he apprehended the
prisoner at Bowden in Yorkshire on the 6th of February,
1846, for a felony committed there, and he then found the
watch produced. The prisoner was convicted of felony at
the Beverley Quarter Sessions on the 7th of April, 1846, and
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour.
At the expiration of his sentence, the witness apprehended
him on the present charge, and brought him to London.
—The prisoner mid he was guilty, and his fate was sealed.
—Mr. John Jbnes, • linendraper, preferred another charge
against the prisoner, whom, from an obligation he was under
to him, he (Mr. Jones) invited to stay at hie house ; and
when the prisoner left, he found that he had robbed him of
a large number of articles from his stock. The prisoner
made no defence to the second charge. He was committed
for trial.
WOOLWICIL—A LOVING HUSELND.—John ITook was
charged with being drunk and biting a piece out of his wife's
cheek.—Police-senemit Parry, It 8, deposed that he was
in Powis-street on Wednesday evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, and was requested by several persons to take
the prisoner into custody for ill-treating his wife. A great
crowd was collected near the prisoner, who was behaving
like a madman. His wife was bleeding profusely, the pri-
soner having bitten a piece out of her cheek. The woman,
however, did not appear, and declined to prosecute her hus-
band.—Mr. Jeremy ordered him to pay a fine of ss. for
being drunk, and to eater into his own recognisance in 61.
is keep the peace for six months.

MONEY MARKET.

FRIDAY Evrxrxot

This has been a rather eventful day in the stock-
market. Consols, which openrd at 864, and at the regular
hour of closing business were still quoted in decline at 861 to
4 for money and present account, have after regular business
hours since descended to 861 to 4, but settled at 851 to 6.
For next account they were quoted 861 to 4. The haat house
prices of Reduced Threes were 851 to 4, and of Three-and.a
Quarter per Ceata., 871 to I. Exehem.er 13:11s, 2 discount
to par. India Booths. 5 discount to 2 premium. Bank
Stock, 196 to 8. Long Annuities, 81 to 9.
The transactionsin foreign stocks were fewand unimportant.
Spanish Bonds, however, maintained their late improve-
ment. The Fives were called 241 to 5: the Threes, 3.5; to
6. Portuguese, 314 to 61. Mexican, 21 to 4. Dote; Two-
and-a-Half per Ceuta., 68 to 1 ; the Fours, 90 to 4.
Foreign exchange was again higher to-day, money being
scarce. On Amsterdam the rates were 12.4 to 4 ; on Rot-
terdam, 12.41 to 1 ; on Antwerp, 25.85 to 90; on Hamburg,
13.10 to 4 ; on Frankfort, 1201 to 1; on Paris, 25.871 to 921;
nn Vienna, 10.2 to 3; on Leghorn, 30.30 to 40; on Madrid,
361 to I—all at three months. On Lisbon, at sixty days,
•531 to 4. . . . .

The agitation and continued fall in prices in the stock
market was attributed by public rumour to the asserted fact
of large quantities of bills having been again thrown out at
the Bank, were sent in for discount. Assuming the fact
to be to, as it probably is, there should be no cause for alarm
on that score. The board of directors having distinctly en-
tered upon a certain line of action, and having notified the
same to those more immediately within its scope. it westobe
expected that it would be strictly carried out. The bills re-
fused must, therefore, have been of the class coming within
the range of the Bank's interdiction ; that is, they were
bills representing intending exports of gold. Such at least
is-the light in which the matter is explained in banking
quarters.
Notice, according to report, bad been given by the bank-
ing establishments generally of the intention not to discount
under 6 per cent. One large discount firm was said to have
not only charged 6 per cent , but 1 per cent. commission in
addition. These reports must be received with caution. On
reference to the proper authorities, we do not find any con-
firmation of them. It is stated that hanker. generally have
as yet made no change in the rates of discount to their cus-
tomers, but we are told at one banking-house that they pro-
posed to advance the rate to-morrow to 51 per cent.
There appears to be an alarm abroad among the dealers in
stock values, if not the holders. of which it is difficult to un-
derstand the moving causes. The actual circumstances of
the Money Market and the Bank of England present no new
phases which ahould justify anything like a panic, although
it cannot be denied that they are calculated to
create anxiety in the prosnectivo sense of results to
mature hereafter. The ➢ank of England is be-
lieved still to have nearly eleven millions of metallic
values in vault. The time has been when with less than
two millions, and the Bank a borrower besides, Consols did
not descend to 90, whilst now they are at 86. The Bank,
however, was not then comp. lied to hold so rrany more
millions of gold to maintain a peper irculation of nineteen
or twenty millions, with a reserve of some five million.
more. And it was not compelled, moreover, to restrict its
paper circulation pound by pound as tLe sovereigns left its
coffers. By the sew law of its existence the Bank is placed
in the extraordinary dilemma of burning the canole at both
ends. It loses its gold and perforce must curtail its issues of
paper money at one and the same time. Surely all that
righteously could be required of a bank should be the con-
vertibility of its notes into gold on demand.