The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-29 00:00:00

dem= saw it there. Mr. Topham, believing the girl bad
taken it up, asked for the change. She denied having had
it. She had, she said, only taken up a sovereign and a half,
and she said she would not leave the room until she was
searched, and she desired him to look in his own pockets to
see if he had not taken It up himself, when his friends said
he should not pay his portion. The muter was called up, the
girl produced all the money she had, being 11. 12e. in silver,
and entered into an account with her master. She had 11. 3s. Eid.
In her pocket when she began business in the morning, and
the t3s. Bd. wutheiper4uisitesof the day. Mr. Topham fetched
in a policeman, the girl was searched at the station, and
nothing further was found on her except a memorandum-
book which contained a note of the cash she put in her
pocket to give change, namely, 11. 3a. Bd.. tallying with the
verbal statement she had before made. At the station, Mr.
Topham wished to abandon the charge, saying he hoped
what had occurred would deter her from doing such a thing
again.—A very long examination and eross-examination of
the three gentlemen ensued. Neither of them had distinctly
seen the girl take up the sovereign. Her master gave her
an excellent character, and after hearing the legal gentle-
man, Sir William Maguey said this was a most unfortunate
and unjustifiable charge. The probability was that Mr.
Topham had unconsciously put the sovereign in his own
pocket when his friends said he should not pay his part of
the bill, and he ought to have withdrawn the charge at the
elation on the ground of her innocence, and not of her taking
warning. In discharging her, Sir William expressed his
opinion that the examination had not left the least stain on
the purity of her character, and that she bad been treated
shamefully by Mr. Topham.—She was discharged.

CLERKENWELL.—EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A BER-
VANT.—Mary Williams and James Williams, her husband,
en ex-policeman, were finally ex•mined, the former charged
with an extensive robbery on her master, Mr. William
Thomas Abud, of No. 1, St. James-atreet, Clerkenwell, and
the latter with having received the property, knowing it to
have been stolen.—The prisoner had been in custody under
the name of William Davey, but had been ultimately die-
charged, a policeman being set to pursue further inquiries.
On going' to Millwall, Rotherhithe, where the prisoner said
he lived, the policeman Isaacs found that he had formerly
lodged there, but had left, and was residing at No. 8, New-
row, Deptford. The officer kept a watch on the male pri-
soner, and being informed that he was a married man, he
followed him, and at length discovered that he was in com-
munication with the female prisoner, who was in the service
of the prosecutor, and she was in the habit of plunderine
him and banding over the property to the male
prisoner, and he (the officer) telt himself justified in
taking them both into custody. When at the station-
house they denied all knowledge of each other, and said
they were never married ; but subsequently, the female
admitted that he was her husband. On searching the male
prisoner's lodgings, No. 8, New-road, Deptford, the officer
found a large chest crammed full of articles, consisting of
plate, jewellery, bookejweering apparel, and other property,
to a considerable amount, a great number of pawnbrokers'
duplicates, and in the room was also found largo maps,
account bOoks, chains, rings, &c.; the whole of which were
now produced, and identified by Mr. Abud as being his pro-
perty. The male prisoner was also traced to have sold
numerous valuable books belonging to the prosecutor. The
female prisoner had been in hisscrvice upwards of three years,
and having entered it with an excellent reference as a widow
the utmost confidence was reposed in her up to the
time of the discovery of the robbery, but it would appear
that she had commenced her plunder from her first entering
the situation, and although the robbery was of so extensive
a nature none of the property was missed until it wu dis-
covered in the possession of the male prisoner. He wu for
merly an officer connected with the M division of Metro-
politan police, but was discharged.—Mr. Ahud identified the
whole of the property produced —J. Crawford, ahopmaa to
Mr. Dowling. bookeciler, of Newitste-street, identified the
mole prisoner es having sold several books, which the pri-
soner described as his own property.—Numerous pawn-
brokers were in attendance, with articles that had been
pledged by the prisoner, and the court had the appearance
of a sale room.—Since the remand the prisoners had ad-
(hewed a letter to Mr. Abud, in which they begged him to
excuse them for this their first offence ; their characters had
been hitherto untainted • they hoped he would have mercy,
sod not send them to the sessions. Their lives were in his
hands ; they would beg on their knees for merry.—The pri-
soners were committed for trial.

CHARITY.—We are requested to state that "A. J." has for-
warded 31., and "0. 0: IL, to the poor-box of this court,
with a request that they might be acknowledged in the
morning papers.
WORSH I P.STR EET. Busts VOLENC E. —Mr. 11 ammill
announced his receipt of the following further remittances
for charitable purposes, and rcquested that their receipt
might be acknowledged in the morning papers, in compli.
ance with the wish of the donors : —From " K. 8.," the first
half of a 101. note, the other portion being reserved until ho
had sees an acknowledgment of the first,; the half of a 61.
note, numbered R—K, 23,200, from " W. C." ; the half of
a 61. note, No. 25,667, from " W." ; 21. from .' Mr. D.,
Connaught•equare ;" and N. from " The Hon. Mrs. —." ;
all of which were desired to be applied to the purposes of the
poor-box. The magistrate has also received 21. from
" T. B. A.," to be squally divided between Mrs. Charlotte
Thomson and Margaret Ives ; the second half of a Si, note,
No. 23,032, from " R. II.," for Mrs. Thomson ; and also the
second half of a 61. note, from " T. 8.," to be thus divided :
2/, for the poor-boo, 21. for Mrs. Thomson, and H. for Mar-
garet Ives.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.—BeN Et 0 LEN CB. From
" A. li." 21., through Messrs. 'ferries and Co. ; from The
Hon. Mrs. --,11. ; and from " L. R. 5.," 21., for the poor-
box.
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MARYLEBONE. " A WAGER." W. Allen was
charged by a polies serjeant, who stated that, yesterday
morning, he saw the prisoner come out of a stable in Iron-
gate-wharf, Paddington, with a full sack upon his shoulders,
he was asked where he was going, when he replied to the
Great Western Railway-station, and that he was doing the
task for a wager. Witness told him that he was going that
way, too, and would walk with him a little distance, upon
which intimation the prisoner threw down his load, and
made off as fast as he could, but was speedily retaken,
and locked up. The sack, which was full of oats, was the
property of the Paddington Omnibus Conveyance Company,
and it is imagined that the prisoner has upon other occa-
sions committed the like offence. The prisoner, in answer
to the charge, repeated the story as to the wager, the amount
of which, be said, was 55., he bad no intention of committing
a rot.bery.—Remanded fur a week.
LAMBETH.—A CHILD ROBBING HIS PAIIENTB.—J.
Purnell, the little boy only 11 years of age, who has been
before examined on a charge of stealing eight sovereigns,
which had been saved up a little at • time by his parents, and
Mary Walker, who has also been charged with harbouring
the child and receiving a large portion of the money well
knowing it to have been stolen, and who, when all was spent,
turned the little fellow into the street, were placed at the
bar for final examination. The facts of the female prisoner
having purchased a large assortment of things with the
money she had taken from the boy, and a suit of sailor's dress,
and south-wester for him, in order to disguise his person from
the police, whe had information of the rubbery and a descrip-
tion of his person, were deposed to. The boy himself prevari-
cated • goed deal in his statements, and Mr. Elliott con-
ceiving it to be the beat course, both fur the sake of tbe pa-
rents as well as the boy himself, to send the case for trial,
the boy and the woman were fully committed.—Mr. Elliott
informed the mother of the lad that funds sufficient to make
up her leas had been forwarded by three humane indivi-
duals, but it was indispensable, before it was paid over to her,
that her character should be strictly inquired into. The
money should therefore remain in the kinds of the chief
clerk until after the trial, when, if her character was found
to be such as represented, she should have it.—Andrewe, the
second usher, said he lived Won to the residence of Mrs.
Purnell, and had heard an excellent character of her.

SOUTHWARK.—EXTRAORDINART CONDUCT OP THE
BANK OF ENGLAND S TRUE).—Just as Mr. Cottingham
wan about to leave the bench, Mr. Franklin, a tradesman in
the Borough, attended before him, to ask his advice re-
specting a 501. note, which was detained by the clerks at the
Bank of England. Applicant said that on the previous day
he disposed of the goodwill of his business (a beer-shop) to a
person for 701. He received from him a 501. Bank of Eng-
land note and some small change. He owed his brewer and
a few other portions a little money, and proceeded to the Bank
that afternoon to get the note changed for the purpose of
paying them ; but on presenting it for payment he was told
that it bad been stopped, and that be must go to the secre-
tary. He was instantly taken to the latter gentleman, who
told him that Mr. Wised, the brewer, had stopped the
note, and that the Bank could not restore it or change it un-
less with the consent of that gentleman. He certainly owed
him a trifle, but still the Bank had no business to detain hie
note.—Mr. Cottingham: Did the secretary tell you
why be detained your note ?—Applicant The only
thing he said was, that Mr. M'Leod had stopped
it, and they could not pay the change unless
they had some advice from him.—Mr. Cottengham : It is
extraordinary conduct on the part of the authorities of the
Bank. Do you suppose the note to be stolen ?—Applicant :
I received it from a highly respectable party, and am sure
that such is not the cue. I think that Mr. M'Leod hu
stopped it through spite, becausej would not trust him with
the note to pay himself.—Mr. Cottingham: The Bank has
no right to stop under any such pretence. They are liable
to an action, and if all is true what applicant has stated, he
would get heavy damages.—Applicant: It is perfectly true ;
all I have told you is exact as it has taken place. M'Leod
was at the gates of the Bank when I went in, and u soon
as the clerk told me that he would not give it up without his
sanction, I went outside and asked him to come in, and here-
fused.—Mr. Cottingham: f never heard such extraordinary
conduct on the part of the Bank of England before. Go to
the Bank to-morrow morning, and demand your note in the
presence of respectable witnesses, and if they then refuse
you, serve them instantly with a writ of action, and I have
no doubt they will have to pay you well. Don't listen to
any compromise, as it is shameful conduct on their pert, if
all you have told me is true.—Applicant repeated that it was
quite true, and left the court with the determination of fol.
rowing the magistrate's suggestion.
TElAMES.—Cmaarri.—Mr. Ballantine requested an
acknowledgment of the safe arrival of the half of a 10/. note
from "A. 8.," and 11. from " The Honourable Mrs. —,"
for the poor-box.

MONEY MARKET.
FRIDAY EVBNINO.
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The fun's are still under the influence of the Bank
reduction of interest this morning, and Consols at one
time were done, and appeared firm, at 891. Prices
moderated subsequently, and left off at 891 to 1 for
money, 891 to 3 for account. Reduced Threes 891
to 1. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 904 to 1.
Long Annuities, 8 15-16 to 9. Exchequer Bills, 345.
to 365. prem. India Bonds, 20s. to 245. prem. Bank
Stock, 200 to 202. India Stock, 240 to 2.
Spanish and Peruvian Banda lave been the °hid