The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1848.

Before the Viso-Chancellor of England.
HINRY•ORNERAL V. THIS CORPORATION or NORWICH.
..PPLICATION OP THE CORPORATION FUNDl3.—This was
information tiled at the relation of five of the inhabitants of
3rwich against the corporation, and it prayed au injunction
~ restrain the defendants from applying Ve funds of the
corporation in promoting the passing of an act of parliament,
the object of which was to obtain powers for the application
f the oorpiration funds in improving the n o
navigation the
,er Wenquo, or Yore. It appeared that 20 miles of this
sr be;or.ged to the corporation, and by the acts of wha-
t for the regulation of the town, as well as by the Muni-
Cerporauon Act, the defendants were empowered
' the surplus funds for the improvement
we town, and for the purpose of removing
obstructions to the navigation, and for other ob-
it so extensive as those sought to be obtained by the
_ was therefore contended that the corporation were
exceeding their pow, n in applying the funds of the town in
promoting the bill in question.—Dlr. Bethell, Mr. Walker,
and Mr. fleathfield appeared for the relators ; and
Mr.
Stuart, Mr. Lee, Mr. J. Parker, MT. WilD, Wa Mr.
lietheringt,n for other parties.—The Vice-Chancellor said
appeared to him the corporation had no powers under the
of parliament to apply their funds in promoting a bill
t enabling them to do that which they were not already
d to do. It might be erne that the object would
11.11,11=7;cial to the town ; but he did not see how the court
i unction the application of corporation funds in what
be called a parliamentary speculation ; he therefore
• the injunction ought to be granted.

Wore via Xlianoellor Knight BMW.
PARTE CLARIS, sea TWIN., BEADING, AND RA-
iIIIBTOICE RAILWAY COMPANY —RIGHT OF ALLOTTIIII
PsOVE AOI Wet BANKRUPT RAILWAY COMPANY roll
I nano-TT.—This was, in substance, sorsa from the
decision of the commierioner, allowing a proo tendered by
'notice, named Underwood, under the flat against the
,ve company, for the amount of the deposits paid
him. In 1845, when the prospectuses of the
company were circulated, Mr. Underwood applied for
shares, and received a letter of allotment in the num! form,
informing him that the deposit of 51. 6a. per share must be
aid before the 9th of October then next, and that the
bunk ' receipt would have to be exchanged for scrip ou-
tdates on the subscribers' agreement and parliamentary
contract being signed; reserving also to the directors the
'war of revoking the allotment in default of payment of
deposit. In pursue s°, of this letter Mr. Underwood
the deposit on his shares, amounting to 621. 10s., on
Jct. 9 ; area pliesppor of his proof he deposed that he rub-
ap to sign the deed, and was told that the
secretary was not at home ; that he then wrote a letter to
• secretary stating that he wanted the s
h
uts;
and that
• weeks afterwards he applied again, when he was told
the deed was in the House of Commons.—On behalf of

the assignees, however, witnesses deposed that proper per
were in attendance duriog every day of the period re.
ferred to by Mr. Underwood., and that no Kelp had been
refused to any one. In opposition to the divot it was con-
tended before the commissioner, on behalf of the assig.
nes, that Mr. Under wood had paid his money sub-
ject to the terms mentioned in the letter of allot-
ment, and that, as those terms provided that he
was to sign the subscribers' agreement he was bound by the
mipttlations of that instnitot tit, one of which was that, in
the event of no tot being obtained, the expenses should be
deducted from the deposits, those expenses amounting
in the
i present case to 19,3421. 3s. Id. The commissioner, however,
admitted the proof for the whole amount ot Mr. Under-
' wood's deposit of 621. 104 , and the assignees sow presented
their petition to have the proof expunged.—Mr. Russell and
Mr. Wales supported the petition.—Mr. T. 11. Terrell and
Mr. Logi*, for the respondents, referred to " Nochells
e.
Crosby' (3 Barnewall and Cremwell, 814), Welsteb r.
SpettiShsirpwoode" (Cam Meeson and Welsby, 401), and "Wontner
e.
"(2 ngton and Kirwan. 273).—The Vice
Chancellor said, this wee the ease of a bankruptcy, not of
an individual, nor of any number of individuals, but a
special and particular bankruptcy of a company, under the
provisions of the 9 and 10 Vic. c. 28. The question am to
the right of the respondent to prove, depended upon the
feet of the company being, or not being, indebted,
at the time of the bankruptcy ; that is, whether
at the data of the bankruptcy, and supposing it
had nut taken place, the respondent was entitled to sue for
the money which constituted the alleged debt, for which he
hid claimed to prove. He had claimed to prove for the PRIM
of fifty guineas, which he had paid to the company under
the letter of allotment. Had any one individual member, or
a few individuals, connected with them copeay, defrauded
the respondent is respect of this payment, this would not
be material, unless the fraud were the act of the com-
pany, inasmuch as the application was to prove against the
company. lie saw no evidence to satisfy hint that the
sn..ney had been obtained from the respondent by fraud. It
was clear that ho had intended to pay his money to • fund,
for the purpose of placing himself in the situation of several
other contributon, and if he bad dune so, he would have re-
ceived a scrip eertitieste of the performance of his part of the
contract. Had he been refueed such certificate, and bad this
refusal been proved, he might have established his ease.
Thu, however, hid not been proved. Had it been
so, he might probably not have been entitled
to sue for the money without showing that he had
given notice of has intention to rescind the con-
tract, or to demand the money. Upon this, however, his
Honour would express no opinion. It did not appear. la
point of fact, that any such notice or demand bad been given
or made. How could the court, then, say that the company,
or • numerous body of contributors were liable to repay him
this money at the time of the bankruptcy? And the bank-
ruptcy itself could confer no such right. A eau of legal or
equitable debt, existing before that event, must be ester
lashed. This was not proved in the present cue. The
allottee was no more entitled to demand his money than the
other contributors, and had they all done so there would not
be wherewithal to pay them. There was no reason for
placing the respondent in a better position than the other.
His Honour was relieved from the embarrassment which he
might otherwise have felt in differing from the learned coin
mis,ioner by the circumstance that the case before the court,
and that before the commissioner, including the arguments
Ind the evidence, were not the same. The right of proof had
not been established. As to the costs, his Honour postponed
deciding whether the respondents' costs should be given out
of the estate until Saturday.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
sittings in Banco.
CORBETT r. HODBON.—ALLZOND FALSt IMPILDION-
marer.—Jv noun)qt.—Lord Denman gave judgment in this
ease, the facts of which must be in the recollection of our
readers. His lordship said, this was an action of Despite
and false imprisonment, to which the defendant (the keeper
of the Queen's Prison) has pleaded in justification, that the
plaintiff was attached by the warden of
him the Fleet
the
prison, under an attachment issued against by
blaster of the Rolls; and the prisoner was duly transferred
to the Queen's Prison. Replication, de injuria. The plain-
tiff proved, by the warden of the Fleet, that the writ of at-
tachment was delivered to him while the plaintiff was a
prisoner, and, by such delivery, the plaintiff became at-
tached in his custody ; and that he was duly transferred,
with that writ, to the custody of the defendant in the
Queen's prison. The plaintiff further proved that the de-
fondant had returned to the writ of habeas corpus a com-
mittal by the Court of Exchequer, on a prior attachment, I
and that Baron Parke, on application, would have ordered
the plaintiff's discharge on account of some irregularity
in that committal, eupposed to be shown by the re-
turn, but was prevented Immo the defendant amended
his return. The plaintiff, on the trial, contended that
it was necessary for the defendant to prove how the plaintiff
had become attached • prisoner, when the writ of attach-
ment was delivered to the gaoler ; and that he did not be-
come attached in the custody of the gaoler of the Queen's
prison, unless; the origin of the attachment was shown; but
from the return to the habeas corpus there was a probable
defect in the original detainer, and if he was entitled to his
discharge under the original commitment, it followed that
he muse entitled in respect of all detainers. The jury were
directed that the plea was proved, notwithstanding the ob-
jection, if they believed the witness. The plaintiff has now
moved for • new trial, and so lied on the same ground ; bet
we think there ought to be no rule. The act of the defen-
dant was in obedience to the apparent regular writ of a com-
petent jurisdiction, and is therefore justified. If the plan-
tiff had any ground of discharge on amount ei irregularity in
the issuing any former writ, prior to this commitment, he
should apply to the court which issued that writ and made
that commitment.—Rule refused.
• BAIL COURT.
Ilea Pairs.—Before Mr. Sodas Otioriage.
HATtlitsON V. Nanerox. —BOARD LT. D LODolllothe .
Mr. Hoggins and Mr. Rogers were counsel for
plaintiff; and the defendant, who is • barrisetecir.iart
peered in person, though not in his professional
On the jury being sworn, the defendant obj to
a party of the name of Rogers, and his place was about to be
' supplied by a Mr. Painter, but he was likewise oh.
jested to, and another gentleman substituted. From the
opening statement of the learned counsel it appeared that
this was an action brought to recover the sum of 551. 64. 3d.,
401. of which was for the rent of certain furnished &pert-
inent* which the defendant had occupied belonging to the
plaintiff, at No. 19, Manchester-buildings, Westminster.
The rest of the claim was the balance of the sum of 681., for
articles of food supplied by the plaietiff to the defendant and
hie family. It appeared that, on the 14th of November,
1845, the defendant applied to rent the second floor of the
plaintiff's house, upon which a written agreement was
drawn up between him and the plaintiff's
of E wife, the plsqainti
being ff
himself the butler of Col. Fitzgibbon, aton- uare,
where he then was. By that agnement the rent wee to be
6.51. a year, payable quarterly, the apartments to be held for
one year, and the plaintiff to Ripply attendance and cooking.
The defendant entered into possession, and was in the habit
of having his wife and family saying with him for a consi-
arable time ; the result of which I
was, that it was found I
the second floor was not large enough for the defendant's
purposes, upon which he hired the third floor for the sp ice
of tire weeks. The sum of £7 10s. was charged for that
1 occupation. The rent was mad regularly up to August,
1846, from which time nothing had been received. The
1 plaintiff had supplied the defendant with all the n
eoewry
articles of feed. 'ln the month of Feb. 1847 the
being very much pressed for money, applied to the defendant
for payment of a portion of the debt which he then owed,
namely, half • year's rent and 681. for food furnished to him ;
upon which he gave a bill at two months for 501., which was
paid, one half when it became due, and the remainder a
week after. In the month of March a distress was put
into the house for reat by the superior landlady, a Mrs.
Ritchie, under which the defendant's law library was
seized. A man was kept in possession until the biller ex-
' change given by the defendant was paid. After giving
credit for the 601., and 31. more which the defendant
that
ha
paid, the amount remaining due to the plaibetweenntiff wee
the de-
now sought to be recovered. The agreement
fendant and Mrs.llaniion was about lobe in, when Mrroof.
Newton objected to it of the ground that was no p
that Mrs.Plarrison, in making that agreement, had acted as
the agent of the plaintiff.—Kr. Hoggins, after observing that
the plaintiff bad had the agreement stamped, and paid the
penalty, postponed offering it in evidence. In support of the
his
ainnff 's ease, C. Frost, his servant and Mrs. Belleres,
daughter, were called, and, in addition to the facts we have
already stated, proved that the defendant's family resided I
during the winter of 1845 and 1846 at the plaintiff's very
frequently ; that all things necessary for the defendant's
table were purchased by the plaintiff 's wife, and entered in
two books, which were given to the defendant. In
t en-
the
purse of Mn. Banns' evidence, Mr. Hoggine again
dared the agreement between Mr. Augustus Newton and
Mrs. Harrison as evidence, and Mr. Justice Coleridgethe ruled
that it must be admitted. The books in which goods
supplied to the defendant were entered, and also the rec.
tb b ipe
t
given to him for the bill of exchange, were car y
plaintiff's counsel ; but, after making hint prove his notice
to produce, the defendant refused to show the
cou docume
rthen tnts.
This concluded the plaintiff's cue, and the
adjourned till the following day. On the reassembling of
the j my yesterday morning the defendanttook some objections,
upon which he submitted that the plaintiff ought to be non-
suited ; but Mr. Justice Coleridge at once overruled them.—
Mr. Newton then addressed the jury
_at very great length,
observing that they should be aireul how they received
ithe evidence of Mrs. Hallam, who was a biased witness.
The answer he at up to the action was, that the 601. bill
was given in respect of the 401. rent due from him to the
pntiff, andllbelaover was for anything that might be due
en the balk sesennt. As to the endorsement which appeared
at the bath of the bill of exchange, stating that the ball
was
ftees bribe bask account, it was placed there by a Mr.
Woeditstio, tilio was now dead, and who was a clerk to the
plaintiff's between the time that he had paid the
fine and esimi As to the balsam to be said due on
this book eseftpila _ was not sufficiently proved. To sub-
stantiate the tleftthat's case, Wm. P. Newton, a youth
about 18 you of ego, one of the defendant's sons, was
called. U. state" that he was • clerk in the Post-office.
His father had a MOW at Walton-on-Thames, called
Newton Lodge, beleasing to another member of the de-
fendant's family. On the day the bill of exchange for 601.
was given, the plaintiff came up into his father's room and
said he was premed for money, as there was a large sneer of
rent doe. Wiesen was present when the dellorian
Mr. Weathers the first 261., and also on the pseud o=
and he then drew his father's attention to the esdeftesset
en the bash put there by btr, Woodham. The dissent
aoliftwi uplift ift sett aid it was grew aft, bet Me.
Weibel* tried to Me* le IMelpeekee wee in p-
maw dew iiefs with the eccondl6l.
raserillbeit be thn .—ltr. HOW baring re-
. Julia e
suatilly esiftenell up, leng it
I t• **jury hug whether er set the. IML MB wee given on
aooount of the memo et e
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POLlCE.—Ygerrtaretlf.
GUILDHALL. —SHOPLIFTING. Amelia Jones and
Eliza Clark were fissile exemined, charged with entering
into various shops with intent to oommit • felony, and afro
with having in their possession • quantity of black silk lace,
supposed to have been stolen.—On Thursday, the 27th ult.,
• policeman met the prisoner*, with another woman, in
Bishopegateetreet, and, from their motions suspecting what
they were up to, he followed them aa far as Whitrohapel,
when he lost eight of them. About three-quarters et en
hour atter he again met them on Cornhill. He then watched
them through Cheapside, St. Paurschuichyard, into Lod
gate-street, when they went into two shs, and remained
she
about five minute.. They then proceeded towards Black-
friars-bridge, and returned, taking the same route. They
also called at a shop in Cheapside, and afterwards
went down Foster-lane, towards Finsbury-pavement,
where he took them into custody. They demanded to
know why they were taken, and he told them on suepicion
of having committed a felony. On Clark was found a bate
ket, COaiDiaff 63 ards of black silk lace sad 7.. 6d. in
money.Dt—Mr. Vaughan, :of Aldgate, linendraper, identified
three pieces of lace as his property, and valued at 41. 7s.—
Eliza Burrell, shopwoman In the service of the last witness,
deposed to the prisoners' entering her master's shop on the
day in question end purchasing some galloon. They asked
to look at some black lace, which was shown to them. The
three pieces identified by Mr. Vaughan were in the box at
the time, and were not purchased by them. She turned her
back once or twice to get other goods, and also to make out
the invoice, so that they bad en opportunity of commi'ting
the theft.— Alderman e'innia committed the priseuers for
trial,
ATTIMP IMrdy, • young man
20 years of ape, wee charged with attimpting to destroy
himself by firing a loaded petal at his breast, in the l'ortu-
gal Hotel Tap, Fleet-street. —Policeman H. Rowe tasted
that on the previous evening the prisoner's brother came to
the station-house in Fleet-street, aed requested him to take
the prisoner into custody for using threats towards hint.
lie, in company with J. Dalton, soother officer, went to
the l'ortugal Hotel Tap, and on their entering they found
Hardy with his face towards them. The moment he ob-
served them he discharged • pistol at his left side, which he
immediately dropped and then fell on a seat. On looking
how far the prisoner was injured ho found that the bullet
had pawed through his waistcoat and shirt, and grazed his
skin, but had no: entaesi it. lie appeared stunned for a
miauteor two, and as soon as he recovered he was conveyed
to the station-house and searched, when some g Jnpowdeto n
r
and percusion-cape were found in his • as—. Dal
I corroborated Rewe's evidence; an the prisoeer was
committed.
CLERKENWELL.—PL AV INO WITH PIPTOI-4.—M r.
Af. Lerewn, who was remanded on Saturday lest on the
°barge of shooting Priscilla Fitzpatrick, was finally
examined.—h certificate from the house surgeon at
the University College Hospital was handed to the magi,
Late, which stated that the wounded girl was in • very pre-
carious state.—Mr. Walter', punmaker, stated that the pis.
toy, the lock of which was originally of bad materiels ali'l
workmanship, had been greatly knocked shout, and wis in
such bad order that it would go off more readily at halt-cork
than at the full. The trigeer was of iron, e
as was camomile
the case in French pistols, whereas it ought to be steel, a
was always the cue in pistols of English manufacture. lie
observed, however, that the barrel was rifled, of which the
French were very fond, although with such a pistol as this it
was not worth the expense. The cause of the pistol's going
off so readily at halecock was that the point of the trent, r
being of soft metal,which it ought not to be, was worn down
and would not go into the bents of the tumbler. The pistol
at: half-cock would go off if it were laid hastily on • table, or
if, when held in the band, any one pushed with the least
force against it, J. Whiskio, Esq.' a Middlesex magistrate,
deposed that on Monday morning he was called upon by one
of the relatives of the prisoner, et whose request ho visited
the sufferer, Priscilla Fitzpatrick, at the hospital, and bay
lag ascertained that she believed herself in a dying state, and
that she had no hopes of living, he took her depoeition in
the usual form, and in it she three times emphatically de-
clared that it was " all an accident—that Mr. I.oves n had
no idea of shooting her." The prisoner being cared on for
his defence, said in • low tone, with great emotion, " I bad
no idea of shooting her."—Mr. Tyrwhitt said that although
in his own mind he was perfectly satisfied of the defendant's
innocence, and would be satisfied with his own recognisance,
yet, ea the law was very strict in the inference of crimieality
whenever death was caused by violent means, he thought it
teseassery to hold the prisoner to bail, himself in 6001, and
two sureties in 2601. each, to appear at the neat sessions of
the Central Criminal Court to answer any charge which
'night be preferred against him. The required recogni-
sance* were then entered into, anti the delendant retired
with his friends.
MARYLEBONE.—I'LI:NDIR AT RAILWAY STATION A.
—IIIsCOV rNY Of AN lIIMINOIN QUANTITY or ATOLTN
Paoranev.—C. Abbot!, who described himself as a butler
out of place, was charged with having committed numerous
robberies at different railway stations. A short inquiry was
gone into on Saturday last relative to a portmanteau having
been stolen by the prisoner on the previous night from the
Paddington terminus ; but es the owner of the property was
orderen to attendance, Mr. Long remanded the accused, in
to afford time for the Rev. Mr. Marsh, to whom
the property was supposed to belong, to come forward. A
peat portion of the floor of the cow' was covered with
port
manteass, boxes, carpetbags, &c., and so great was
number and weight that it was found necessary to engage.
three cabs to convey them from the station.—Linlee, one of
the Great Western porters, deposed that on Friday evening
last, upon the arrival of • Bristol train at the Paddington
terminus at 8 o'clock he Sew the prisoner take • portmanteau
from within the barrier en the platform, and go to an omit'.
bus with it ; immediately afterwards he heard • gentleman
inquiring ,for • portmanteau, and saw the prisoner hastily
alight from the omnibus and run away. lie was pursued by
Dabenhani, the conductor, and witness, and was speedily ;
captured as he was making his way up the steps leading to
the bridge.—Debenham stated that, at the request et
hicle, the
prisoner, he put the portmanteau on the roof of the ve
and prisoner desired, when he got inside, that he might be
put down at the bottom of Peed-street. Upon finding that
a search was being made for the missing article, he (prisoner)
bolted as fast as he could from the platform, and on his
being captured, aa related by the first without, he denied all
knowledge whatever of the portmanteau. He also declared
that he had not been inside of the omnibus at all, and that
the parties must, therefore, be mistaken.—Linley further
proved that he saw the prisoner on the platform some time
prior to the train coming in. In the confusion which took
place in consequence of what had happenewd, theent owner
regained poseeuion of het property, and away
with it in • cab.—The Rev. Henry Marsh, Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, end who stolen portmanteau was
produced by him said that its contests, when the robbery was
effected, consisted principally of weariag apparel and flitting
tackle ; be saw it on an omnibus, and being in a hurry to
reach another railway station, he secured it. This case
having been concluded, Mr. Collard, the company's super-
intendant of police, said that he had, sinee his arrival at the
court, taken into custody a female, whom he should be ab
able
to to show had been mixed up with Abbott in some other
beries. She was accordingly brought in and placed at the
bar by the side of the other prisoner. She gave her name
Anne Willituns.—Mr. Collard then proceeded to relate the
manner in which the mar of plunder produced had come
into his peseession. Immediately after the remand on Satur-
day, be, in conjunction with Linden, an officer of the com-
pany,
instituted • diligent inquiry, and learnt tha•;the
prisoner Abbott rented a room at '2O, Richmond-placa,
Limon-grove. The said loom, upon being examined, was
found not to contain anything of a suspicious i
nature,
but from information which had been gleaned d I
the neighbourhood, Mr. Collard and the other officer ;
repaired to an apartment rented by a woman named Ceuta,
I at a house N 0.23, Carlisle-place. The prisoner Abbott hall
been in the habit of visiting this female, whose daughter,
now dead, he was at one period courting, and in her room
were discovered a great many boxes and packages of various
kinds, some of them empty and others partly filled. He
asked the woman how the property came there, and she mid
in reply that Abbott had brought it. Articles of various'
descriptions, consisting principally of wearing apparel and
books, were found in the room, as were also upwards of 60
duplicatee for articles pledged. In addition to the things
enumerated there were found • great number of keys, pad-
locks, and tickets belonging to different railway station,.
They had evidently been torn from packages, the locks of
which had either been picked or forced open.—The seamed
charge was by T. E. Rends% Trinity-college, Oxford. He
was a passenger by train from Oxford to London, and
when looking for his portmanteau at the Paddington termi-
nus he mimed it ; it had in hiebook and apparel of bis own,
and • surplice belonging to brother.—The prisoners were
asked if they wished to mske answer to this charge, and
Abbott replied "No ; the woman is quite innocent of it"—
A third case was next beard.—Mr. John Fleeter, of Frome,
Somerset/airs, said that on the Bth or 7th of last month he
was • passenger from Bath to London, and when he got out
of the carriage, his portmanteau, which had in it numerous
articles of clothing, &c., could no where be met with.—
Several pawnbrokers were in attendance, bringing with
them rano= articles, which were proved by them to have
been pawned by the prisoner, Anne Williams' in her own
name. Most of the articles were identified by Mr. Mendell
and Mr. Plodder as being theirs • they also identified
their portmanteaus brought forward by Mr. Collard, and
frem which the said things had been abstracted.—
It was further shown that one of the portmanteaus amongst
the many in court had been left by Abbott at • house in
Earl-etreet, LitiOn-gTOTO, nearly three months ap, for the
purpcas of its being raffled for, and that he (Ableott) after
in vain endeavouring to sell another, last Thursday week, to
W. Cook, in Salisbury-place, left it at the shop, saying that
he wished to have a lock and key made for it, and that he
would call again. As .00011 as he (Cook) heard of the rob-
beries which bad bean committed, he communicated to Mr.
Collard what had transpired respeeting the article alluded
to.—Policeman Morris deposed to the hat of Abbott having
been tried and convicted of felony in the month of August
last ; his offence was that of robbing hie master, G. Stone-
street and he was sentenced to four months' impetus'.
ment.—The woman Cattail was sworn, and she deposed to
having known Abbott
r.
Cella: eight yews. On Saturday
last she gave up to Mr. Collard a great deal of property
whiehhe (Abbott) had from time to time brought to her
room, and she had upon many occasions begged of him to
" take the things away." He always replied, " Very well,
I will do eo oon"Mr. Long Was any one in the habit of
one, to your aparment with him t—Witatem ; Not any
one, eir.—elumul gentlemen connected with different
lines of railway were in attendance, and one of them,
from the Bartow Counties Company, said that he
to have been able to produce a party who
Misetibete plundered of his property, a portion of which
was than in point ; the perm, however, was not in
attendance, but he would be forthcoming upon a future day.be
—Mr. Long considered that the molt advisable course to
adopted would be that of the clerk completing the depose.
Bens on the three caeca clearly established, and after the

parties concerned therein were bound over in the usual way
they would be saved the trouble of attending at the court
mean. With regard I. the numerous other cases, the inves-
tigation of them must cousearily be put off till a future day
he should therefore commit the prisoners upon three charges,
and they would stand remanded for investigation into other
eases till to-morrow (Saturday) week. It is understood that
upon the neat occasion there will be three mere charges from
she Geat Western, and in addiion thereto several from the
North %%reptant, South Western, South Elaterll, and Eastern
Counties Railways.
MARLBOROUGH.STREET.--A Fnteen AotraVott.
O. E. Second, a dancing-master, was charged with having
assaulted a police-constable, and also with having created a
disturbance in Regent-street.—That morning the policeman
on duty heard a disturbance in Regent-street. He proceeded
to the spot, and found the prisoner surrounded by • mob, to
whom he was shouting out " Equality and Freedom. Down
with the aristocracy, and the police." The constable went I
uto him and begged he would go away quietly. The de-
fenp dant, who was pot valiant, replied be would not go away,
and he then struck the constable and made his mouth bleed.
The constable immediately closed with the defendant, and
after a sharp struggle succeeded in lodging him in the station-
house.—The defendant expressed great contrition for his ow-
duct, whick he attributed to the quantity of wine he had
drunk at supper.—Mr. Bingham was very glad to hear the
defendant express so much contrition. it was his practice in
that court, when the pelice were assaulted by persons et the
better climes of society to send them to prison without a
tete. Mechanics and labouring men he generally fined, be-
cause punishment of this nature was tn them severe se
imprisonment to gentlemen. It was nu punishment to fine
gentlemen, and he should, therefore, instead of inflicting a ,
pecuniary penalty. send the defendant to prison far 7 days.
LAMBETH.—WHOLEeALIt SWINOLINO —Mrs. Rowley,
and her son, J. Buxton, were again examined on various
charges of swindling. Mrs. Rowley herself, who was
alloy/eft to he at large upon her own recognisance', did not
attend at the former or the present exerniestion, but on the
present occasion she forwarded a medical certificate, with a
note from herself to the magistrate, stating that her state of
health was such that the was not able to a tend. This,
however, was believed to he a mere excuse, as she had been
seen, quite well, a day or two ago. On John Rawson Being
puttee the bar, Mr. Preemie a solicitor, said he had attended
obedience to a request from his worship, and was prepared
to give all explansi lea in his power relative to Mrs Rowley
and her family. He was not, nor had he ever bean, the
soliciter to Mrs. Rowley ; but be would, as briefly as pos-
sible, state all lie knew about her. Some few years ago he
was induced to lead the eldest nen of Mrs. Rowley come
money on property in the city of Worcester, to which he had
',teems entitled u heir-at-law to his !Attie, rind subse-
quently he was obliged to take up mortgages on the property,
which, with the or,ginai sum advanced, amounted to 2,5.501.
a sum which was much beyond its real value, and which he
should he now very glad to take fur it. On the representa-
tion of Mr. Brown, her seii'itor, that the property was worth
much morn than the money he had advanced upon it, he
(Mr Vreeten) comentel to allow Mrs. Rowley Oil. a year
for three years, sad that period was now very nearly up, and
after this she could not have the slightest begs of setting
one sixpence from the property beyond her dower of 201.
per annum. Ile (Mr. Preston) kad repeatedly entreated
Mrs. Rowley not to give reference* to him, as he could not
of course say.anything in Ter favour beyond the fact that the
friends of her former heiband, as well re her awn relations
emitting in Worcester and its vicinity, were persona of un-
dduhted respectabeity ; but they, owing to her second mar-
riage with a disreputable character, had w ithdrawn their
COUlltl.ll3nee Ind support from her. Notwithstanding these
elltrtAlliel Mrs. Rowley would still refer to him, and within
a short time he wield. say that half of the respectable
inhabitants of the parish of Clapham, including the
rector, hal; Inca to his office to make inquiries of
him relative to her and her family. Even within
the last few days Mr. Banbury, the banker, and
other benevolent gentlemen, to whom,no doubt Mrs. Row-
ley had made application for charity, had called on him to
inquire about her.—Mr. Norton remarked that he had be-
fore him nearly • bushel full of letters which he had re-
ceived in reference to the case of Mrs. Rowley, and amongst
them was one from her brother-in-law, which was quite con-
firmatory of the statement of Mr. Preston, that she was not
entitled to a penny from the property of her late husband
beyond her dower of 201., sod her friends refused to do any-
thing whatever fur her on account of her second marriage,
and the practices which she had been carryieg on. Mr.
Norton here asked Mr. l'restun if he had recently seen Mrs.
Rowley, and Mr. Preston reple d that he had not seen her
himself for some days, but on Tuesday last she called at his
an thee's, beg:east for some assistance. Mr. Preston also
said he believed that Mr. Brown, her former solicitor, bad
filed a bill id chancery, but without the slightest hope of
obtaining anything by it, and the consequence was that she
was now indebted to him to the amount of 4001. or COOL—
. Several person* here entered into • statement of the shame-
ful manner in which they had been imposed on by Mrs.
Rowley. One ease was of • peculiarly distressing
character. It was that of a maiden lady, who
by industry and perseverance °Wail:led leases and
furnished two houses in good style at the west
end of the town, expecting that by letting them
to respectable and solvent tenants to make a living by
it. One of those, 6.5, Wetheek-street, Cavendish-square, was
taken by Mrs. Rowley, and the other by a Miss Harris, a
friend of hers, and also, like her, a swindler, and the smelt
was that both not only lived M the houses for a length of
time without paying her a sixpence rent, but destroyed the
furniture in such • way that she was not able to let the
houses again, and was perfectly ruined.—An old gentle.
man, who sat at the table, complained of the conduct of a
barrister in the Temple and others, to whom Mrs. Rowley
had given references, for not giving her real character, but
on the contrary, misleading those who applied to them, by
stating that her family and friend+ were very respectable,
insted of saying at once that she *as a notorious swindler.
Had but proper candour been exercised, he said many of the
poor people now present would have been saved from compa-
rative ruin. It was further stated that charges of a criminal
nature could be produced against Mrs. Rowley on a future
day, and the case was ultimately adjourned for • week.—
Mr. Norton placed the greater part of the letters be bad re-
ceived in the hands of Gaff, an active offiver, who has been
called into the case.
WOOLWICH.—COMUITTAL OF A MI1)81111'11 AN. FOY.
FISLONY.—J. Ceske, a midshipman, and acting clerk of the
Fisgard, 4d, the guard ship at the port of Wo.lwich, was
again examined, charged with stealing a silver watch from
the shop of Mr. Moore, pawnbroker, of Richard-street. The
case was reported in the Daily News of Monday last.—Mr.
thases, for the prisoner, asked Mr. Jeremy to take bail for
his appearance. He (Mr. Gamesi would be able to show
at the Viet that he had been labouring under aberration of
intellect, and such was no doubt the case when the offence
was committed. There was nothing to lead him to commit
such an offence ; lie had everythiust he could require, end
his family was of the highest respectability.—Mr, Jeremy
That has nothing whatever to do with me. The only plea
that could induce me to admit him to bail is his extreme
youth, and if there is any reasonable ground to show that he
has laboured under any infirmity of mind, anything con-
nected with his station in life has nothing te o with the
ease. It distresses one to hear that appeal, ford one knows
that the poor in such eases have their feelings as well as the
rich. The worthy magistrate then consented to take bail
for the prisoner's appearance at the simians in two sureties
of 1001. each.—Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and
K.C.11., commodore of Woolwich dockyard, with his flag-
lieutenant, Mr. Dyer, and hie private secretory, Mr. Pin-
horn, attended to watch the cue.

MONEY MARKET.
THI:RADAT
Until the turn of the day the funds were on the
advance and recovering from the partial reaction
which occurred at the close of yesterday'e market, fol-
lowing the great rise of the morning. Cowls 1,
reached and were done at 83a, with every appearance
of still further progress, when rumours became cur- al,
rent of advises from Paris, notifying the march of a n
French army into Piedmont, and, of course, a war t
with Austria. The asserted departure of the Austrian 4
ambassador from Paris was adduced also as evidence I
in point of the fact. From 83l Consols, in conse-
quence, rapidly descended to 83; rather buyers, and
at the close of business were marked only 831
to 1 for money and account. Oat of busi-
ness hours afterwards they were called lower still,
at 83a. It is, however, possible that the departure of
Count d'Appony from Paris might be unconnected ,
with any breach between the two powers. As France
has no ambassador at Vienna, and, as understood, con-
templates representation thereby a minister plenipotcn-
tiary only, it may be upon the matter of etiquette that
the Austrian ambassador, representing royalty to
royalty, is only making way for the envoy personat-
ing government to government. It is, however, pro-
per to add that the belief bas some time prevailed,
and now gains ground, in the City of a probable
French interference by arms in Italy, which it is
scarcely doubted would lead to a general continental wet.
It is only under the influence of such impressions that
the susceptibility of public securities can be accounted
for in the presence of such otherwise encouraging cir-
cumstances as weather the most propitious for agricul-
tural pursuits and
downd thr-atening agita-
tion in Ireland settling into, at least, a sort of
temporary lassitude.
Reduced Threes left off 811 to Z. Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., 82a to a. Long Annuities, 8„
to 7.16. Exchequer Bills, 385. to 41s. premium.
India Bends, 20e. to 235. premium. Bank Stock,
188 to 190. India Stock, 228 to 230.
Foreign stocks followed the lead of Consols in •
modified degree. They were on the rise in the
morning, only to decline in the afternoon. The
dealings in the fore part of the day were somewhat
extensive, and displayed confidence and activity.
On leaving off, however, the market became de-
mood, and prices as follow : Dutch Two-and-a-
per Cents., 42t to 31; the Fours, 62 to;4. Bel-
gian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 36 to 38. Russian,
88 to 90. Spanish Fives, 121 to 131; the Threes,
23 to +; Passive, 31 to Portuguese, 18 to 19.
Mexican, 16 to I. Peruvian, 29 to 31. Venezuela,
18 to 21. New Granada, 16 to 1.
The stoppage of Messrs. Madden and Co., respectable
and extensive woollen manufacturers of Aberdeen,was