The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

COURT OF THE DEAN AND CRAFTER OF

BT. PAUL S.

BOWLES S. DOPTOIT, FALSELY CALLED BOWLES.—
EXTRAORDINARY CABs OP BIGAMY. -- In this ease
Dr. Jenner appeared fir the party proceeding, and prayed a
sentence of nullity of marriage.--Dr. Deaue woo beard on
the other ride; but admitted that he could not resist the
motion.—The oonrt snit!, in giving judgment, that this was
• suit brought by Henry Oidfurd Bowles against Maria
Louisa Forbes Duffort, wife of Henry Duffurt, previously
calling herself Maria Louisa D'Anville, spinster, to obtath a
nullity of marriage, by reason of a former marriage. The
facts were these :—Oil Saturday, the 6th of June, 1810, Capt.
H.O. Bowles, of the Rifle Brigade, landed from Donaghsdee.
in 'related, at Port Patrick, in Scotland, with • person
passing under the name of Maria Louisa d'Ausille, and
popessed, according to her account, of • fortune amounting
to 81,0001. They proceeded to an hotel. There were wit-
nesses to this fact. Captain Bowles informed the landlord
that the lady was a minor, and that the purpose of their
visaing Scotland was that of being rearried. They ware ad-
vised to go to Oretuagreen, as • clandestine marriage could
cot be had at an hotel. However, a clergyman, with the aid
of a purser in the royal navy, connected with the mail steam
packet " Pike," was in ratendenee, and the warring* wan
effected. The parties declared themselves men and wife, and,
according to the law of Scotland, the marriage was valid, had
the female been unmarried at the time of celebration. The
sequelof this history was as extraordinary as its commence-
ment. The day alter the marriage thesupposed husband sad
wife left Port Patrick for Ayr on their way to England, sad
visited the bridegroom's father, Colonel Bowles, at his seat
in Oxfordshire, end the female was introduced as his bride.
But shortly afterwards circurastances occurred which In-
duced the ether to doubt whether the bride was what she
represented, the daughter of a Colonel D'Anville. Colonel
Bowles communicated his suspicion to Colonel Montague,
his father-in-law. This led to investigation, end the result
was that the fact was ascertained that the female had mar-
ried under • feigned name, that a deceit had been accom-
plished, that she was not the daughter of a Colonel D'Anville,
but of an attorney's clerk, and that she had been married
Oreenwv" • "

at rwich. Inquiries at Greenwich proved the fact.
The court had considered this case with an: ety, having a
sense of its importance. In all cases which were, like this,
esenected with the validity of marriages, and the interests
adomestic life, it was necessary that the real facts should
he stated. The court had not a particle of doubt but that
the identical female who was married to Captain Bowles,
on the 6th of June, 1840, at Port Patrick, had been married
en the 14th June, 1839, to Francis Duffort, at Greenwich.
The court, there! re, had no alternative but to pronounce
that the second marriage c.ntracted in the month of June,
1840, was null and void to all intents and purposes.
Deemed accordingly.
The learned judge then proceeded to the Chapter house
to sign the sentence in due form.

POLICE. V -ESTERDAT.
WORSHIP-STREET.— Feauo.— Thomas Bone, who
was a few days sine remanded upon the charge of obtaining,
under lain. pretences, four gold watches and other valu-
able property belonging to Charles Joseph Madden, was
Fraught before Mr. Arnold, the sitting magistrate, for
final examination. The prosecutor of Bor.e was subse-
quently taken into custody on the charge of stealing a writ-
ing-drek, and since the incarceration of the litter, who was
mouth d at the Clerkenwell police-court, numerous ir.divi-
duals, who have been his viettme, have been making inqui-
ries swimming him. It was, however, necessary that he
should be brought to Worship-street this day, in order to
give evidence against the prisoner Bone, and a warrant
officer was dispatched to Clerkenwell police-court, when
Maddell was delivered over into their charge for that pur-
pose. The depositions, preparatory to the full committal to
liewgrate of the prisoner Bone, were ordered to be made out,
and hladdell was reconduoted to prison at Coldbath Fields.
MARLBOROUGH STREET. Ro RRRRR BY A Sew
TANT.—Sorah Stevenson Cal charged with haring stolen a
M. Bank of England note, the property of Mr. George
Tacker, and also a purse, containing a sovereign, the pro-
perty of her late muter, Mr. Thomas James, of Great
Porlandetreet. After she bad left Mr. James's service, he
received a letter from a lodger, who was then in Devonshire,
acquainting him with the loss of a 61. Bank of England note
from the pocket of a great coat which he bad left in her
apartment. Prosecutor haring before missed a parse and •
sovereign, immediately suspected that the prisoner was the
culprit, and he set off at once by railway to Lincolnshire, to
have her apprehended. He found the prisoner at her father's
li hoes., and on question her about the 61. note, she with-
out hesitation admitted ing
she had taken It, and also the puree
and sovereign. She said she had spent the money. She wu
fully committed.

MONEY MARKET.
?AWAY EVIMINIII.
The Bank of England airimree for the week ending
the 17th instant give, as cem with theme for the week
preceding, the following resu ta:
Clewitton—lase £11,1101,100
Cbealetion—Adtve 20,211,743
Pals deed*
Oder
flemennewtowslalseln
Dekko dapetsasat 11,677,819
OtherenmeNsa........„.. 17,111,001
Oala.and lunge ..- 9,329,841
7dsall ease Ms 910,n6e
Sts
it,W 7,077
These returns show the singular novelty of a decrease
under every head save that of the Rest. But there are
features more remarkable still in them. There is a decrease
of nearly two millions in the public deposits, and in private
or other deposits of one million and a quarter, which, whilst
they account for the small decrease or active circulation of
only 160,6401. is fees of • diminution of government and
other securities to the extant of nearly three millions, are not
themselves so susceptible of ready explanation, or rather, the
public deposits alone are not. A very small portion of the
decrease in the latter can be attributed to the paying
out of dividends, which had all but erased the week before.
The government therefore must have required so much for
the public service, and of course the bulk for Ireland.
As the Bank drew in its " other" securities • that is, as its
loans fell in and its bills matured, and itemised to replace
them by fresh discount' and loans to the game extent;
so also Merchants and bankers, refused the customary atcom-
modation, chequed the " other" deposits, their own accounts
current, with the Bank, and thus whilst the directors were
applying the screw in one quarter, they were pressed upon
and notes breed out in the other. Bo tar the screw of the
Bank, and the counteracting pressure up7.l it by its etc-
tomer* were reacting upon each other with something like
a parity of power. From the relative forces of the two
autagoulst accooats, namely, private deposits and bill and

111111 securities, It may almost be inferred that the contest
would be carried on for some time upon nearly equal
term,.
The decrease in coin and bullion was mush more than was
anticipated, and shows how largely coin is carried away by
every packet-ship which sails from the 'united State., arid of
which no account is taken, nor can with any exactitude be
procured.
But the most discouraging feature in them returns is the
continued decline of the reserve in the banking department.
Instead of a reinforcement of nearly half a million, as was
circulated end believed in banking quarter?, and, am said, on
something like the authority of book director. themselves,
there was en aetual falling off of 276,6001. It is true that,
relatively, us the deerease in public and private deposits was
together nearly two millions sod a quarter, such • declen-
sion of the weight ofliabilities was sufficient compensation foe
a reserve of notes less by the sum stated, sod of coin, by
about 100,0001. mere.
The coesidsratioa of these returns confirms the statements
current in respectable qoarters that the Bank haft been a
seller of government securities for some time past, as yet;
and that is has moreover been borrowing money on stock.
The gradual depression of the funds is thus readily ac-
counted for, although the cause has latterly been thrown by
common report upon the unfavourable accounts of money
affairs in Liverpool and Lancashire. Affsirs look serious
when the Bank was a borrower of money, whilst bills and
loans were running out at the rate of half a million a day,
and fresh loans end discounts only made at the rate of one-
fifth, or 100,0001. a day.
The stock market has been in a somewhat deraceed state
to-day. Rather extensive sales of money stock shortly
after the commencement of business made the greater im-
pression because the supply of stork for some time past
had seemed by no means equal to the demand, and hence
the rise of prices, and the higher rates which had to be
pao-I lately for it, both by the public investing their divi-
dends, and the speculators who had oversold themselves,
and required stock for delivery. These *ales of money
stock were an event upon which dealer. and speculators
were not slow to plate an unfavourable construction, and
accordingly proceeded to action. Commis opened at 87
both for money and time, but they descended rapidly to
861 under the pressure of sales, and although in the
c .urse of the fluctustions they recovered to within • frac-
tion of the opening price, the downward movement was too
strong, and carried them at the c'ose to 861 for money, and
881 to 1 for time. The quotation. for money
,juat previous to
the last transactions marked were 861 to 1. Reduced Three•
85i to 1 Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 871 to 4- En-
chequer-hills 2.. discount to par. Long Annuities 8 15-18
to 9. Bank stock 193 to .5. _ _

Some thinly scattered quotstions show the poverty or the
transactions in foreign stacks. Spanish Fives are called 241
to 5; the Threes 351 to 6. Portuguese 34 to 5. Mexican
20i to 1. Chilian 91 to 3. New Grenada 191 to 201. Por-
tuguese Fives guaranteed by Brasil 83 to 6. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents..sBl to 1 ; the Fours, 895 to 90.
Foreign exchanges showed some difference today. Bills
on Amsterdam and Paris were rather enquired for, and the
rates in consequenos a shade lower. The rates on Hamburg.
Antwerp, and Frankton as before. On Genoa there was
a rather remarkable rise ; on Leghorn the rates higher also.
Oa Naples, Madrid, and Lisbon they were lower. The general
feature of the foreign exchange market was, however, little
altered. With the trivial exceptions stated, the takers of
billy were few, and shy of amounts ; the supply of money
short. The greatest dealers generally in exchange operated
the least. On Amsterdam the rata were 12.51 to I ; on
Rotterdam, 12 51 to 6 ; on Antwerp, 26 5 to 10 ; on Ham-
blin. 13.111 to 1; on Frankfort, 1211 to 122 ; on Paris,
25.95 to 26.21; on Genoa, 26 10 to 15 ; on Vienna, 10 9to
10; on Leghorn, 30.55 to 60; on Naples, 401; on Madrid,
351 to i—all at three months. On Lisbon, at 60 days, 531
to 1.
BANK OF ENOLAND —Arcorwr for the Wert ending April 17.
mos DTI
Moto; lased L 13,1101,100

(;.eeresseet Debt £11,816,1011
(liber Pereritke
0.14 Cele mei Belittle 7.34.4
eater &ellen
131/01,104

112,901,100

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Pow/ISW 1310•1 814.633.03*

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01,171.674

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