The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1847.

the documents relating to the suite in question in the poe-
session of Mr. Taylor should be delivered up to him.
In delivering judgment, Mr. Bona Platt said there could
be no such instrument made wider the circumatanost as an
irrevocable power of attorney ; and as the claimants were the
clients of Mr. Taylor, and countered inhis resistance to the
I present claim set up by Mr. Rama, he wee at a loss to con.
miss upon what grounds it could be persevered in. Mr.
Rom ought not to forget that there won statutes of clam-
petty and maintenance, and should be wary in his proceed-
ings.--Snenntous dismissed, but without coats, as Mr. Taylor
had not been wholly regular in hie proeesdinge. •

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

the Recorder.

STABBING VF;OZWINTSN.--JiSsasi Amt 19, was indieted
for fabulously cutting and wounding Wiliam Markhurst,
one of the City pollee, while in the execution of his duty.
The wee m duty in New Bridgestreet on the 13th
of J , when, absentimee °Week, two men commenced fight-
tag, end several poems formed a rim, and aided the bal.
tremts. Maws them was the mummer, who, on the
officer's interfering, Muck him with some instrument, which
inflicted a wound, iltem the effects of which he was com-
pelled to become a patient of Yr. Child, surgeon to the
City police form. Ceekereery evidence was given ; and for
the defence Mr. Payne ,shed evidence to show that great
violence had been seed by the pelim—The jury deed
the pilaw minty of a oneness assail.—The Recorder
mid the pricer had had a leaky neaps, for it was only
lase week that a isan had been esedemmed to suffer the ex-
treme musky of the law Ise eamseittles an assault upon an
odor near preelemly elmftee elammtences, the death of
the siker liming reetallmi. Thsjury had taken a merciful
view of Were, in milisesseme, the sentence me, that
he be ispefnnd fie time eniendar months.
STABSWIII • WOW WWI • FlLL—Marks Smith was
indicted ihr steildng Jane, his wife, with a file, with intent
to do kw SIM grievous bodily harm. The presecutrix de-
tailed the mieener's misconduct at some kerb. On the
d:Cestien Monk ber with the sharp end of a file,
W, eawnsing bthe seedieel testimony, bad the instrument
est impeded by sewing in contact with the blade-bene of
the shoulder it would have produced a wound the result of
which would have been very doubtful. While she was
suffering from that wound the prisoner committed another
violent vault upon her. The jury found the prisoner
Guilty. Sentenoe, one year's bard labour, and to give
sureties for his good behaviour for five years afterwards.
THIRD COURT.—Before the Common Berieant, aerl Mr. Commis-

eluoer Bullock.

ThanezzLirmarrr.—WilliamSUisey was indicted for em-
bezzling several sums of money the property of his master.
The prisoner, on being placed at the bar, retracted his pie&
of not guilty, and pleaded guilty. He was town traveller
to a draper named Burford, and had been sob months. He
received a commission of 5 per cent, and sometimes sold 501.
worth of goods per week. The proaacutor's lames amounted
to nearly 601., in consequence of the prisoner " domg busi-
ness with fictitious customers." The prisoner had been
guilty of embezzlement before.—The prosecutor interceding
tor mercy, the court sentenced the prisoner to 9 months
hard labour.

POLICE. v - -ESTERDAY.

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MANSION-HOUSE.—CHARGE OP- BIOAMY.—COPOIint
Russell was charged with having intermarried with William
Henry Stephens, her first husband, Henry George Russell,
being alive.—Mr. George Henry Yarson, clerk of Shoreditch
Church, was present in 1811 when the prisoner and Henry
George Russell were married, and recognised him as a
penbn he had previously known. Signed the parish register
on that day. Witness produced a copy of the entry.—
Henry Smith, metropolitan police officer, took the prisoner
into custody. Told her that he apprehended her for bigamy.
She said, " My husband Russell has done this. I won't deny
it. I was married in Shoreditch Church." She said at the
station that Mr. Stephens was aware that Russell was alive.
—Mr. Humphreys, for the prosecution, submitted that
enough had been stated to authorise a remand. He should
produce at the next examination the whole of the required
testimony. He pot in the copy of the entry made in the
pariah register of the solemnisation of the marriage between
William Henry Stephens and Caroline Mary Norton, in the
church of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the 25th of July last.
—The prisoner shed tears during the investigation. Mr.
Stephens is not more than 19 years of age ; the prisoner
about 2.5.
GUILDHALL.—Atztozri William Marlin
was finally examined, charged with obtaining money by
means of a forged cheque on Messrs. Drummonds. On the
previous examination it appeared that the prisoner hired a
horse and chaise from Mr. Gray, livery-stable-keeper, in
Earl-street, Blackfrisr•road, in payment of which he after-
wards presented a cheque on Drummonds' to Mr. Gray,
jun., and received the balance. On its being presented it
was returned, as there was no account —Mr. Gray. jun.,
for whose evidence the case was adjourned, deposed to the
receipt of the cheque, and its being returned; and Mr. C.
Spratt, clerk to Messrs. Drummond', said that no such
parties as "Thos. Lloyd and Co." banked at their house, or
i had ever done so.—Alderman Johnson committed the pri.
I seiner for trial.
THAMES.—ALLEGBD ROBBERY BY SOLDIERS.—Ed-
word Dorly, a private in the Colds ream Guards, and JosepA
Storey, one of the Grenadier Guards, were charged, on sus-
picion, with having stolen a gold watch and appendages.—Ser-
geant Conway, H 7, stated that, the preceding evening, a
pawnbroker came to the station-house and gave information
that he bad detained two soldiers, who had brought him •
gold watch, chain, seals, &c.. to pledge. Witness accompa-
nied him to his shop in Whitechapel, and on inquiring how
tiny became possessed of the property, Storey said that it
had been given him by his father, eight years ago. Dorly
corroborated this statement, but afterwards th said a girl
of their acquaintance had given it to them, sod if he liked
they could point her out. Witness accompanied them
from one place to another for about two hours, till at last
they acknowledged they could not find the female. This
morning they again changed their tale, and Storey said that
• girl at Westminster had given the watch to Dorly, and
Dorly had asked him (Storey) to pledge it.—Sergeent Rund,
of the Grenadier Guards, and Sergeant Farwell, of the
Coldstream Guards, gave the men excellent characters, Sto-
rey having been in the Guards nine years.—Mr. Yardley
remanded the case for a week._ . _ _

MURDEROUS ASSLULT. —Patrick Fagan was charged
with wounding Ellen Turning, with intent to do her some
grievous bodily harm.—Mrs. Turning said that she and her
husband lived in the same house as the prisoner. She and
her husband were in bed on Saturday night, the 29tk of May,
and about 12 o'clock were awoke by the prisoner and his
father quarrelling in the next room. She and her husband
went to pacify them, when the prisoner abused her in the
foulest manner, struck her and her husband several violent
blows, and finally wrested a brick from the wall, and, with
a savage oath, threw it at her, striking her a violent blow
on the bead, which stretched her smell= on the ground.
She was taken to the London Hospital, where she lay in a
dangerous state for upwards of ttree weeks (a certificate to
this effect was here handed to the magistrate), and she was
not yet recovered, pieces of the brick still continuing to work
out of her skull.—Mary Fittharris saw the prisoner force
out the brick, and throw it at the complainant. It struck
her over the temple, and tendered her Insensible.—The pri-
saner, in his defence, declared that the whole affair was
trumped up out of spite, and, if he had time allowed him,
he should be able to bring witnesses to disprove it —Mr.
Yardley said, that if the present evidence, which had been
given on oath, were not disproved, he should commit him
for trial.—Eemanded till Tuesday next.

deposit* was influenced in some degree by the with- I
drawals on Chancery account fur investments in the
funds, when the monies in court were ordered to be
so disposed of. But no inconsiderable proportion
must have been drawn out by country bankers, or
by their town banking correspondents for their
use, and moreover by the town bankers and discount
houses on their own behalf, in order to answer, in the
first place, the extra demands of the agricultural dis-
tricts at this harvest lesson of the year, when an in-
creased expenditure is required for labour and other
necessities; secondly, for the town banks to make the
most of their means at the present high rates
of money in discount accommodatwa. The coin and
bullion exhibits but a trifling increase, which is one
other among the many proofs of the fallacy of the
very positive predictions in which a weekly contem-
porary, the &atomise, is so prone to indulge about
the iasvitable course of money and commercial opera-
tions. Scarcely has one of these rash predictions
bon nailed for mouths; and the fact should be ac-
cepted as a warning against the indulgence in such a
propensity , where especially practical knowledge may
be wanting. According to that paper there was to
be a large increase of cola and bullion in the week
stated.
The Berlin Gazette gives the position of the state
bank of Prussia as follows :
Active—Web eadapecie
Tamar, odes In band 1,686,300
Ms GI mamas, 14,558,6'0
Lombard len
Nide eteseldre sad various =edits 13,703 800
Paadve—lbak =MIS alrealstion
Dor Ila. 24,163,700 „
Imo etas state In Treasury bills
Cradle id the date sad public sad
penis Isetitatione 3,235,500 „
serf[ Or ILIOLADID.—Aceever, lee the week oodles August 14.
mos OR
PloWejseeel /21,1118.410

Ornarseedet DOA Z11.811,100
Other Recuitin 2,144.100
Geld Osts sad 7,577,u7
Bollix• 1.471.143
402,4111,00

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tai 1,71107
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Va 7684;;; ii77ll7arta,
CongalmenmentszaL
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£33,343,371
avamst U. 1147.

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A 8•64461 L 11,634,240
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