The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THIIREIDWICEPIatiiiiii, "NOVEMBER 11;148; •

bond to reinvest it by the year 1834 ; besides a written un•
deehikhq, thatorpon someletiog the purchase of the =ate,
ho (the thestmers) =old -der= with Ida the whole of the
title =ids, end would ingests a maims by way agony
My. Be had failed. to the peetosli day, to re-invest the
messy: neither bad hemeshed mostasite to the „ht.
=Wag creditor, eitlotesh repeMally mdiel op to do so.
8o far from it, he, is 1838. steettmaed the estate to Mr
Bagley for 2,300!„ witls= Ms beethees mascot, and had
never commusisated the bit to WM, but rather had de.
geoid him. Isydag bit he =pp= that the deeds were
Wm counsel for ellehnemo. Upon ,ha gym
his brother, in 1987, ea _mint od lb share his
mother's 'property, whit\ woad come to Mu at her death.
under which the brother samepars altr maids realised
&boot dog. In 1837, the area or brought an =ion
cm the baud 'muted by the issolvent, to which he
pleaded that be had re-invested the money. The ac-
tion was tried, and a verdict given against him for
about 1,4001., the balance uoertaineet to be then due. On
this the brother lasted execution. bat =tad that be had beim
forestalled by his =ter, whom the insolvent bed allowed to
obtain a judgment by default on as seams for another bead.
In 1839 the petitioner executed to his brother an assignment
of his equity ol redemption in the estate In Berefordthire.
In 1841, the fine aCettispe sold, and there being only
wlg-
elect to pay him, the brother got nothing leder the meign-
meat. although the deeds—seves skies of parehmert pro-
duced in court—had met him 401. to prepare. Ice 1842 the
insolvent was in custody at the suit of the crown for assessed
texts. The brother then lodged a detainer, but afterwards
consented to a diseharge from prison upon the inedvent
executing to his a warrant of attorney for the amount then
due, the insolvent agreeing to paysol. a year. The pay-
menu were kept up for first peer, but the
jodgment then being out of date, the brother
only obtained small sums on account from time to time
In May, 1848, the brother was advised to revive his judg-
sent by =re tat= ; proceedings were taken, and the in.
',bent pleaded that be bad psid the money. The matter I
then proceeded as fee as notice of trial being given, when
the insolvent consented to a judgment, having, however,
succeeded in putting his brother to between 131. and li. si-
rens for costs. Immediately upon having done this, he,
la the swath of June, petitioned this court for protection.
The ease came up for harks is July, but the commissioner,
after an intimates from Mr. Bargood as to the nature of the
oppositioa, suggested that an adjournment to this day should
take place, in order that some smarmy's% might be en-
tered into between the insolvent and his brother. It sp•
peered, however, that no agreement bad been come to.
The debt sow !Waimea to be due to the brother amounted
to spwartb if 1,6004. Be wen to-day examined, and
stated that be was • man with a very large family
and in so embarrared and destitute a condition so to be un-
able to sfford to employs* assistant in his business of chemist
sad druggist.—Kr. Barred anticipated that no defence
could he offered on behalf of the insolvent except that of
the original fraud having been condoned by a subeequent
agreement. But he (Mr. 8=0=) submitted that the
arrangement entered into between his client end the peti-
tioner could not be called a condonation, inasmuch as t
the
he
creditor being unable to obtain the security prop=
a drowning man catching at any straw tkit offered itself,
took whatever he could get.—Mr. Cooke argued that the
first offence bad been condoned by subsequent agreementa
being entered into.—The COUllniNnOner said this was not a
use in whicji the offence had been condoned by the opposing
creditor, and he should, therefore, refuse to name any day
for the con.ideration of the final order.—Final order refused,
without protection.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YESTBRIthr.
Before Mr. nerjesntAdams.
Ate ACQUITTAL •FISM SENTENCR.—J. Word was in•
dieted for stealing two chain, value th., the property of
Dennis WCarthy.—After the evidence had been given, the
foreman of the jury said that the verdict was Guilty, and the
learned Judge thereupon sentenced the prisoner to three
months' hard labour. As soon se the prisoner was removed
from the dock, one of the jurymen said that the foreman bad
given a verdict of his own, not the verdict of the jury, for
they had not agreed to one. The Judge then ordered the
jury to be looked up, end the prisoner was brought back
from the cell. After deliberating lor about an hour, the
jury came back into court, and gave a verdict of Aequittal.—
The prisoner was then placed at the bar.—The Judge You
hear that, sir. You're a very lucky fellow to be tried by
ouch a jury. Go along with you ;—and accordingly he was
discharged.
Dames' Swears.—A young man, who gave the fictitious
acme of Edward //o(ffse/d, pleaded guilty to an indictment
in which were embodied four diaries id defrauding trades.
men to the amount of 91. es. 9.l.—Mr. appeared for
the prisoner, and mid that having no answer to the charge
is law, be therefore advised the prisoner to plead guilty.
Ue had however to urge in extenuation that the prisoner
owed his present unhappy position to having embarked in a
opeci.s of speculation called Derby Sweeps," and he was
sorry to say that this was not an isolated instance of crime
having resulted from that same source. The prisoner had
hitherto borne a very good character, and bad been in the
employ of Mr. Blackburne, postmaster, at Knightsbridge
and Mr. By, the publisher, had written to m, should
the court think that a ground upon which to deal leniently
with the prisoner, that at the expiration of the term of im-
priamment to which the court would subject him, be (Mr.
Bentley) would use his heat endeavours to praetors the pri-
mmer a situation. The letter was handed to the court, but
not read.—Mr. Witham said it was a very serious case, and
to meet the merits of it, the sentence was six months' hard
labour.

POLICE.—YEBTERDAT.
BOW•STREET.—POST OFFICE Roaminy.—F. W. Ken-
ward, a letter-carrier employed in the Paddington district,
was charged with stealing a letter containing cash, the pro-
perty of the Postmaster. Oeneral.—Mr. W. Cole stated that
on the 7th inst. he wrote a letter, addressed " Min Ellen
Fleming, at Mr. Dawes', hutch, r, 46, high street, Portland-
tow n," enclosing in it a hall-sovereign and a rixpenny• piece,
both of which were marked, and having wmpprd them in a
piece of printed paper, he put it into an envelope, which he
sealed in the presence ol l'eake, the officer, who posted it shim
twenty minutes before one o'clock in the afternoon, said
shortly after having gone to the letter-box he took oat the
letter In the same state, for the purpose of having the paler
labels defaced, and the hour with the date stamp put upon
it. lie kept it in his possession until a quarter-past tour
o'clock, and having tied it in a bundle of unpaid
letters, he put it into the Paddington bag, and saw it
despatched by the mail cart, after which he went to
the house of Mr. Dawes, where he remained until heli-
ostat Fix o'clock, at which time the letter was
not delivered. Witness then went with the officer in surds
of the prisoner, and, having met him at the branch office
shortly after 7 o'clock, asked him if he had seen the missing
letter, and he replied that he had not. Another letter carrier
was then asked ur his presence if he had seen it, and he said
that he had sorted it among the prisoner's letters. The
charge taker, Mr. Harper, also said at the same time that
the letter had been among the letters sorted to him. Oa
searching the prisoner the letter was not found, but on going
with him to 23, Cheat Carliele•street, Portnua-market,
where he said he lodged, upon searching • room Ia the
second-floor the officer discovered the marked money pro-
duced among the mould which had recently been disturbed
in a flower pot in which stood a withered plant, and on the
prisoner being asked what became of the letter, he replied,
I have burned it," which induced the officer to turn over
the Made% in the grate, where he found the fragments of
the paper in which the money was wrapped partially
bunted. Corroborative evidence being given, the magistrate
was informed that the prisoner had been about two years and
• half lathe service of the Post-office, and only fifteen data
on duty at the Paddington district.—The prisoner was cm-
mitted.
WORSHIP-STREET.—ATTEMPT TO STRANGLE.— S.
Fair • o was charged with having attempted to strands
Emma Oue, who was unable to leave the hospital fter=
injuries the had sustained. The father of the injured woman
was apprised on the preceding night that his daughter, who
lived in the came house with the prisoner in an adjoiniag
street, was bring murdered, and he in atantly buten% with hie
son and other relatives to her assistance. On reaching the
house, which was surrounded by a large crowd of persons,
they forced open the door, and made their way into an upper
room, where they found the woman Gene lying with her in-
fant upon the floor, held down by the prisoner, who was
kneeling upon her chest, and grasping her throat tightly
with both her hands. At the moment they entered the
woman was in convulsion', with her head twisted on ate
side, and evidently upon the point of strangulation.
They succeeded, by a violent effort, in dragging
off her assailant, and having raised the object of her
brutality, who was in a senseless coaditicet, a surge% was
sent for, who directed her removal to the Linden Hospital.
The prisoner in the meantime endeavoured te make her
escape, and en their attempting to 'scare her the made an
indiscriminate attack upon them, in which she was joined
by her husband, and fought with such fury that it was only
by the combined efforts of the whole of them that she was
ultimately everpowered and given into custody. Upon
being ask% by the magistrate if they weld amiss sap
reason for such a ferocious attack, one of the wheelies ro.
plied that it solely arose from the tart of the young roma
having been compelled to take out a warrant again, her on
mount et some previous violence. A certificate from the
house surgeon of the London Hospital was put in, which de-
scribed the injured woman as suffering from severe contu-
sions, which would prevent her attendance for some time.—
The prisoner was remanded for a week
WESTMINSTER.—Bmormo Dermas —.John Beatty,
a fellow who has been preying upon the public as a begging-
letter writer for upwards of a dozen years, and Mary Boma,
a sturdy-looking Irishwoman, with whom be cohabits, were
finally examined, charged with imposing upon many of the
en Why and sentry, more particularly upon those connected
with her lasjerty'm household. At the previous examine-
den of the prisoners, althoigh there was no moral doubt
that the male prisoner had written the letters, and had par-
ticipated with Bros n in the plunder, there was an absence
of the neeseammy legal proof to that effect. The Mendicity
Bodeq, however, yesterday completed the cue againet both
oreby peeMcing the necessary witnesses, Captain
. aseistsst•manager of the institution, attend-
ing as ea the farmer occasion. Elisabeth Corry,
a middle-VI woman, stated, that she had lived
with the Niue prisoner, as his wife for fifteen years, and
had had three children by him. He abandoned her a
long time age, and took up with his fellow prisoner, Mary
Brown. • ter days since she received the following letter
from the male pelmet :
Beer of Dr ream Oe,kenwell, Nov. 2, BM—Dear Sarah,—l
hepe yes wllff wee se now sad be the former offences that bee
yeakirreseywa aid se. It Is with the greatest of pain, trouble,
sea igniting eitOss I write Moe few lines In this Iceely cell ;
✓e
yeses lees* %wry the eller that comes to lee me. Dear
Oink I veer wire ben gene away has you and the children ;
bet pea ow lietwerweirf ter Or t. lilwasenly out of here owe
rm. I reit r seas Illabstit to rased to the children.
Yea Merl met Or rake& Dm kWh, will you strive to
emend re re awe or Tarim laseweas I tram bee
▪ inalroilk Is bolds' eipla at Ilesniagesek methneselesh

Osergersh, bring aeon teasels end tale" and VS ho *mat!:
Deseinrah, 1 Meese amet the dm, ewe NONA ••• ...
=II aill SO • !sax emenemest aside
seld winter, red 1 so
I air. i~- Or teat 1 shall same gst threnghtt- .
The Rester, sitar a re
of the regent to maze tad
ami affectioni'ely, John Bitatty."—Mr. Ferguson, chief brig him some this., oorcludied with
eke! of the Mendinty Society, stated that he received the
above letter from the last witness, and the male prisoner. in
the venues of the deputy governor, at the House of Deten-
tion, admitted that it was has writiog.—A boy, 10 or 11 years
.. youn veer truly
of age, who gave his 'name Charles Beatty, said that the
female witness (Corley) was hie mother, and the male
r his father. The thews had lived together for a
FrolsgThik, and he melded with them. Three week, ego he
heard the male prisoner say he was going to write
Atofte the
Earl of Listowel, and afterwards saw him writing. r
that the female prisoner came home one day and said she
had got 10s. from Lord Listowel, and gave it to the male
prisoner, with a paper in an envelope. (The petition and
sheen distress warrant in this, as in mat of the eases,
were earnestly requested by the writer to be returned,
end were handed to the female prisoner with tto he
the Dayskof
ie
lordshiKe porter.) William Child, porter
Cambrblge, said that he knew the ;sale prisoner well, and
in obedience to his royal highness's orders repeatedly relieved
him, invariably taking his receipt for the money. Witness
had not the slightest doubt that the letters produced sent to
the Hoe. Miss Murray and the Hon, Kim Cavendish were
written by the prisoner. The letters prOduced were
nearly similar, and represented that the writer had
been nice years a soldier in the 81st Regiment,
discharged, alter being abroad, with a pension 05
61. a day for four years, which had ceased in 1814 ; that he
was in great distress, with a wife and family, that he was
nearly blind, and that his goods had been seised for rent.—
The male primmer, in reply to the charge, said he had served
his to fibroid, and his sight was much affected. Ile
had tried to get work and could not, and so he wrote a few
letters to get some help.—The woman observed, " I have
nothing to say. I think I had better hold my tongue than
speak."—Mr. Broderip observed, that the ease had been
clearly proved against the prisoners, and he should commit
them to hard labour for 10 winks.—The accused, who have
been it. custody for a fortnight, were then removed.
THAMES —Drummed AND EXTINSIVI SMUG°, two.
—James Blate, carpenter of the Princess Royal steamer,
trading between On pert and Hamburg, wee charged with
concealing from 71b. to 81b. of tobacco, of foreign maaufse•
tun, which bad not paid duty to the queen, on board that
Telma. The circumstances disclosed in the evldenee would
teed to the conclusion that a contraband trade to a very great
extent, and contrived with great ingenuity, had teen carried
on for a considerable time. From information received by
the solicitor to the excise, Mr. Jobs Case Fowler, an active
officer of customs, who has effected no leas than 397 con•
vietions for smuggling, boarded the Princess Royal between
nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday, the veseel having previously
beta subjected on her arrival at Gravesend to the inspection
of no less than six officers. He immediately made to the
carpenter's bench, which was apparently of the usual
massive substance, but on soundiug. it he found it was no
name than a hollow can, but the Joining, were so neatly
effected that even to a closer observer the heavy pieces of
which it was apparently composed would be supposed to be
solid. On ordering it to be takento p:eces, he found a cavity
very cleverly contrived. capable of containing from Vilh. to
40Ib. of tobacco, in a highly compressed state, at a surface
depth of 21b. Owing, no doubt, to the alarm occasioned
by the (ACM coming on board at Gravesend, the tobacco
had been removed, and, probably, thrown overboard, one
pound only being found in the concealment; but es the
officer had further reasons for suspicion, he gave the pri•
inner into custody, and proceeded with his rummage. One
of his men, who possesses a very acute sense of smell,
"nosed" the presence of tobacco in the vicinity of the
'Ninon, near the paddle-wheel, and in lifting up the deck,
Item 71be. to 81be. of loose tobacco were discovered. The
officer found altogether 491 M. of tobacco on board; but could ti
only attempatotrace the quantity found in the sponson to I
the possession of the prisoner.—Slate, in his defenne, said -
he knew nothing of the tobacco found by the officer. It ti
was Mr. Frost, the mate, who told the officer to search there, „
i.e a pound and a hell of tobacco had been found there be.
fore. He (prisoner) had never put any tobacco in the 1
..paddle beam: This expression, coupled with the other
evidence, tended materially to corroborate the charge against
the prisoner, inasmuch as Mr. Fowler sever informed any i
person of the exact spot (namely, the paddle-beam) !
where the tobacco was found, and Blate was in custody in
another part of the vessel when the discovery was made.—
The defendant, however, persisted in asserting his igno.
Mee of the matter, and said others could have access to
Sash a place of concealment as well es he.—Mr. Yardley said
that independently of what the prisoner himself had let slip
as to the plea where the tobacco was totted, and which
proved his personal knowledge of its being there, there could
' be no doubt from other circumstances that he was the ;arty
who had concealed it, and be must pay a fine to the queen of
1001., or be imprisoned for six menthe. The prisoner was
locked up in default.—From the ingenious neture of the de-
vices resorted to, the quantity of tobacco capable of being
stowed away, and the frequency of the trips made by the
vessel, a very large contraband trade could have been carried
in a very short petted.

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY ITEWINO.

Speculation has been more than commonly active
to-day in the funds, and the operations on a scale
commensurately extensive. The fluctuations of prices
have, however, been in no wise proportionate, since
they ranged for Consols between 861, as momentarily
the highest price, and 851, the lowest—say a differ-
ence between the extreme points of 7 per cent. The
average rate of the day was, however, rather over 86,
which would still leave the quotations a shade better
than the closing quotations of yesterday. Con-
sols left off at 851 to 6 for money and time,
as yesterday. Reduced Threes, 84; Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents., 851 to 7. Long Annuities,
8 7-16 to 4. Exchequer Bills, 38s. to 41s. pm.
India Bonds, 345. to 38e. pm. Bank Stock, 189
to 191. India Stock, 234 to 236.
The foreign market attracted little attention from ,
the jobbers, and prices may be reported nearly as
before. Mexican were a shade better at 21 to 1 ;
New Granada, 12 to 13; Brazilian, 72 to 4; Chi- t
lien, 82 to 5. Peruvian, 32 to 4. Spanish Fives, I
11 to /. The Threes, 23 to 1. Passives, 21 to 3.t
Portuguese, 231 to 41. Dutcla Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 45 to 6 ; the Fonts, 69 to 70. Belgian Four- 14
and-seHalf per Cents., 70 to 2, sold at 711. Danish, 1
62 to 5. Russian, 98 to 100.
It was to-day stated, as indirectly from the parties
themselves, that the option referred to yesterday was "
not for 300,0001., but for 200,000/. only. Report was
rather moderate in swelling it only by 50 per cent.
But doubts were entertained in the more respectable
quarters whether even an option or options
were so done for the one-half of the 200,0001. •, but, !
assuming the fact, the cost of the option would be re-
duoed to 7301. As considerable interest appears to
attach to the running account,the liquidation of which
becomes due on Tuesday next, it may be as well to
repeat that this option operation is believed, and
not without cause, to be intimately connected
with, and intended to influence the settlement of the
account ; and if the parties, for there is a sort of joint
stock association in the cue, were of hither standing
than they are, the boldness of their adventure might
have the effect designed. But when it is seen that
the sole result of all the very bustling, nominally also
at least the very great, operations of the last few
days, here and on the other side of thewater, for forcing
a fall of prices, has only eventuated in leaving Consols
as they were at the close of each day, or occasionally
depressing them by 1 per cent. only to recover it, it
must be doubted whether the combination, cleverly
arranged as it may he, will be found to answer
its purpose. For whilst the speculators are buying
only for time, and careful to have the last word
in the market, so that prices shall go marked a frac-
tion loss to Paris, for the consolation of the copartnery
of speculators there, the purchlees of all the money
stock that can be found at market go on regularly
from day to day, and the transactions of that kind,
which can only be bond fide as heir g for cash down,
are in fact more numerous than the speculative deal-
ings for time. It is rarely, and only in particular
conjunctures, that any considerable speculation has
been successfully carried through on the Stock Ex-
change when not based on the money power, that is, on
the capacity of the parties embarked in it to sell or to
buy for money, as well as for time, indifferently,
which supposes the almost unlimited command of
stock for delivery, or of money to purchase it, which
in ordinary times would be understood as convertible
terms. If stock should be found plentiful on or before
settling day, it is evident that, without perhaps
.any
particular depression of prices, the difference might
be in favour of speculators for the fall. If, on the
contrary, stock should be scarce, the same speculators
would have to pay the penalty in the higher prices
exacted for the commodity wanted, or in the official
preem• at which bargains would have to be made up.
sash case those differences would be of degree, and
[ asserding to the peculiarities of the occasion.
la the after part of the day the market was de-
Fong upon the report of extremely unfavourable
intelligence from Paris. The upshot of that intelli-
gence, when it transpired, was a fall of prices on the
Bourse there, of not much consideration after all, in
consideration of political circumstances of now
and long past common notoriety. It is well known
that an operation of 20,000 franca routes on the
Paris Stock Exchange since February exercises •
greater influence on prices than last year could have
been produced by one of half a million. It is therefore
easy, and not of much cost, for speulators here to
make prices to their inclination in Parrs' so as, known
as it were beforehand, or at any rate rearmed by
electric telegraph, the desired and corresponding re-
sult may be attained here. Aa a mite of meat