The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

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475.] LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1848. [THRBEPENC E.

NEWS FROM AMERICA.

By Ekdne Telesrraph from Southampton.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 7.
The Washington, steamer, has arrived. She left
New York on the 21st February, and brings 5,000
dollars.

The Hibernia arrived out on the 16th February.
The bill authorizing the president to raise sixteen
millions has passed the House of Representatives.
A dreadful ship fever has broken out in New
Orleans.

There was news from Vera Cruz to the 29th Jan.
The accounts and prospects of peace were very contra-
dictory. Orizaba had been taken by Col. Lane.
The Californian Mormons were said to be conspiring
with the Indian tribes, and a massacre of the inhabit-
ants of Missouri was expected.
The money market at New York continued to grow
easier, and rates were almost down to the legal
standard. General confidence had been restored, and
business was resuming its ordinary channels. Ex-
change on London at 110; to l l l.
Though the rumour that the Rothschilda had taken
up the United States loan had been officially contra-
dicted, it is still thought they would do so. The
Emperor of Russia had been solicited to advance fur
the United States loan, and had refused.

and the love of mischief. Mingled with these there were, no
doubt, many growo-up and utterly depraved characters,
whose object, of course, was plunder. Oceuionally a cheer
for a republic was got up, but it was perfectly obvious
that it was so often raised by way of merriment, while in
other instances it proceeded from the lips of boys who bad
no precise idea of its meaning.

RENEWAL OF DISTURBANCES IN TRA-

FALGAR SQUARE.
AT an early hour this morning a large concourse of per-
sons, conriating of young mon and boys, assembled in Trafal-
gar-square, apparently bent upon a renewal of the dis-
turbances of yesterday. Fur a long time, however, they con-
fined themselves to walking about and shouting, one of the
mob carrying a stick with black Hag. As the morning ad.
Tanned, findurg that no interference on the part of the police
took place, the mob, which bad increased to four or five
hundred persons, became more outrageous, and the whole of
the shops at Charing-cross and Cockspur-street were speedily
cloated,_

At ll o'clock a cry was raised to tear down the hoarding
in front of Nelson's Monument. The work of destruction
commenced, and in a short time the whole was razed to the
ground, the workshop destroyed, the barriers and timbers
torn up and thrown into the road; the lamps were destroyed,
the gas turned on and lighted ; showers of stones and large
pieces of wood were hurled in every direction. Information was
despatched to Scotland-yard of the progress of the rioters,
when two large bodies of police, of the A divisicn, were
mustered and marched to the spot, under the direction of
Capt. Hay, inspectiognuperintendent, Superintendent May,
and Inspector Rua sell. On the approach of the police the
mob fled in all directions, hotly punned by the police, who
succeeded in capturing the most active ringleaders and convey-
ing them to the station-house. The police charged and cleared
the square of the mob; they did so using their truncheons.
Many persons were knocked down, and upwards of a dozen
were, conveyed to Charing Cross Hospital. The shouts and
criespgainst the police were renewed, and the conflicts con-
tinued from point to point, the police clearing the mob
from St. Martin's Church, the National Gallery and the
whole of the square ; but as fast as they were driven from
one point, they assembled at another, and all that the police
could effect and maintain, was a clearance of the centre part
of the square. The scene of confusion and riot sthl con-
tinues, but nothing more serious ttsan the occasional conflicts
with the police is apprehended, although there are crowds

ELECTION COMMITTEE--Tins DAY.
LYME ILEGIS.—Sir F. Kelly, baying withdrawn
from the acritiny, the committee terminated their labours by
irelaruig Mr. Aimly to hare Wm daly elected.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW STREET.—Tris RIOTeI IY TRAPALCIAR SQUARE.
—This morning the outside of the Bow-street office was
crowded bye large assemblage of persona, anxious to witness
the numerous persons who had been taken into custody for
throwing stones and committing other descriptions of assault
on the police lent evening, at Trafalgar-square.
On Mr. Jardine taking his nut, the police sheet of the
A division wen laid before him, which contained fifty-one
charges, all of which woes out of the proceedings at the
meeting.
As the charges were all of a similar nature, one or two
will be sufficient to show the feelings that actuated the mob.
A respectable looking man, of the name of Banston, was
charged with throwing a stone at one of the E division of
police, et seven o', Lock in the evening. The constable de-
posed that orders had been given to clear the mob away,
when the prisoner flung a stone at him. This was rebutted
by a person of the name of Lucas, whe declared that Han-
son had only an apple in his hand, and that no stone win
thrown.
Harrison also denied the charge. He stated that :the
mob was in a state of great excitement, which was still fur-
ther increased by the conduct of the police, who did every-
thing to excite the mob. Had they not interfered he was
quite confident that the mob would have dispersed.
Mr. Jardine said he had been compelled to send a great
number to prison, and should have to send still more ; that
as it was essential that the public peace should be main
tamed, he should act in this cue very different to any of the
others. The defendant must find bail in two sureties of 201.
each to keep the peace for two months.
In ad the other cases up to the time our reporter left,
the several prisoners all of whom denied the charge were
committed to prison for various periods, varying from 7 to
21 days.

PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—The annual general
meeting and 26th election of this society was held yesterday
at the London Tavern, for the purpose of transacting the
usual business, and electing eight pensioners on the general
funds, and the candidate ninth on the poll to the Whitting-
ham pension. Richard Taylor, Esq., in the chair. Mr.
Hodson, the secretary, read the report, which stated that,
notwithstanding the late depression la the printing business,
the annual subscriptions were but a few pounds short of the
previous year. After the last election the number of pen-
sioners was raised to 65, of whom 12 died during the year,
the benefit received by them ranging from six months to 19
years, and the subscriptions had not only been equal to
the pensions, but left a surplus of 201. As regarded the an-
niversary dinner, the report stated that Luke Hansard,Esq.,
had presided ; and on this occasion it wasannounced that
his Royal Highness Prince Albert bad consented to become
the patron of the society, and had accompanied this consent
with a donation of 251. The chairman bad also given an
additional contribution of 601., making the entire amount
of his subscriptions 1801. The report next alluded
in highly flattering terms to the exertions of Lord
Dudley Stuart, M.P., in behalf of this society,
who handed in at the dinner 361. from a few noble
authoresses of his acquaintance, the total receipts of the an-
niversary being 3301. 4s. The funded property of the so-
ciety had also been increased 2501., making the total amount
of funded property 6,0141. 4s. 6d. The financial sheet
showed the total receipts, with the balance front last year, to
be 1,3781. Is. 9d., and the expenditure 1,2601. 9s , leaving
a balance of 1171. 12s. 9d. The report was received and
ordered to be printed. Some routine business having been
transacted the chairman announced the result of the poll
for pensioners to be as follows: Samuel Hedgelaad,
' 5,017; Joha Case, 3,671; John Roue, 3,329 ; Thomas
Reeves, 3,095 ; Clarissa Friend, 3,035 ; Walter Hildyard,
2,579; Jemima M. A. Bullock, 2,246 ,• Elizabeth Campbell,
1,982 ; and Elizabeth Arnold, 1,682, the Whittingham Pen-
sion. It was also announced that Mr. Brettell, late of Ru-
pert-street, had left a legacy of 1001., and Mr. Wilson 101., to
the funds of the society, and that the Marquis of Northamp-
ton, President of the Royal) Society, had consented to take
the chair at the next anniversary meeting. The meeting
was then dissolved.

FOSSIL REMAINS.—As the labourers employed on
the Stour Valley line were excavating in the parish of La-
marsh, they discovered, about fourteen feet from the endure,
embedded in gravel, the head and tusks of a mammoth ; the
tusks broke when they attempted to remove them, but the
teeth were taken out tolerably perfect, and, with the frag-
ments of the tusks, are now in the possonion of Mr. Fuleber,
of Sudbury. On two or three of the teeth the enamel is u
fresh as if they had not lain in the earth a month. Teeth of
the mammoth have also at different periods been discovered
in the grounds of R. Allen, Esq., Ballingdon.grove, and also
in those of W. Baker, Esq., Brandon-hall.
. . .

CHANGES IN SUFFOLK FARMINO.—In the " Journal
of the Royal Agricultural Society" Mr. Rayubird makes
the following remarks in reference to the management of
land in Suffolk: "Draining, and the peculiar system of drill
husbandry, have rendered it one of the finest corn districts
in England. The increased cultivation of green and root
crops, especially mangold.worzel, is rapidly contributing
to place the farmers amongst the larger graziers of fat sheep
and cattle. A great portion (the middle and northern part)
was, in the time of Arthur Young, the seat of the cele-
brated Suffolk dairies; these have nearly disappeared;
it is said that there is not a tenth part of the number of cows
now kept. At that time the dairy farms consisted of gram
land: they are now chiefly arable, and what pasture remains
is rapidly being broken up wherever permi,sion is given to
do so. The low price of butter and cheese, caused by the
competition of Ireland and Holland, and a reason which I
have heard advanced by more than one farmer, viz., the
difficulty of procuring dairy servants, have mainly contri-
buted to the disuse of the dairy system. But when we con-
sider it is now asserted by many who were themselves dairy
farmers, that one-third more is pail for rent, two-thirds more
for tithes, and double the amount for labour, than was paid
under the dairy management of the latter part of the
eighteenth century, it shows at once that the improvement
in the farming has been very great, particularly as this is a
thickly inhabited Bar:cultural district, where nearly the en-
tire labouring population has to depend on the farmer for
his subsistence."

COMMERCIAL 4 MARKETS.
MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Two o'Clock.—The unfavourable cast of the intelli-
gence from Paris and other parts of the Continent,
has naturally exercised a depressing influence
upon stocks of all denominations. The funds, which
have been remarkably steady of late, under
the peculiar circumstances of the rimes, opened heavy
this morning at 1 below the last prices of yesterday.
They have since continued in decline, and Consols,
quoted last evening 82 to 3, with purchases made at
the former price, have now fallen to 81,1 to 2, bo.h for
money and account. Reduced Threes 81; to 2. Three
and a Quarter lei- Cents. shut, and nothing done.
June Exchequer Bills 26e. to 3,55. premium. Bank
Stock 190 to 6.
Foreign stocks continue difficult of sale, bat nonii-
minally the quotations show no material alteration.
Weuote Spanish Fives, 12 to 131; the Threes, 234
to 41q. Passive, 3 to 4. Portuguese, 161 to 171.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halfper Cents., 42 to 4 ; the Fours,
71 to 3. Rumen, 95 to 100. Danish, 73 to 8.

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