The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

POLICE.—SArInwAy.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Frre AT WlLL.—Anne Wood,
a woman who has acquired the power of simulating fits so
well as to make medical men believe that she is in the
agonies of death, was charged with exercising her ingenuity
in Petticoat-lane. A surgeon named Jacobs proved having
seen her lying as if in a fit. After some experiments
upon her with cold water, vinegar, and strong stimulants, the
surgeon succeeded in restoring her to consciousness, but
again she relapsed into fits. Upon being taken to the sta-
tion-house, the inspector there said that the only phee
the poor woman was the union, and witness handed in a
shilling to pay for a cab for her. She, however, thought
proper to recover suddenly, and the first words she uttered
were, " Who's to have the shilling, the officer or me ? "
(Laughter.) Every one was astonished at the case with
which she recovered apparently from the jaws of death.
Brandy and the expectation of the money were the only
thinos which seemed to tell upon her di-order.—Gooch, the
turaey of the Compter, said that the pi...goner formerly was
in the habit of raising a froth about her mouth with soap,
and excited the utmost commiitration by her deathlike per-
formances in the streets.—The prisoner said she was the
widow of a policeman, who died five years ago, and that evi r
since his death she had no way of supporting her children
except by hys:erical and other fits. She was committed for
three months.
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GUILDHALL.—SIX WEEKS AFTER MARILIAOE.—A
smartly-attired young woman Entered the court with some
hesitation, and begged the advice of Mr. Ald. Johnson, so as
to render her youthful lord a more agreeable partner. She
stated that her husband had, during the last few weeks,
treat, d her in a very cruel manner, far different to that
which she expected when she united herself to him. He
had become as cruel as he had been kind before marriage.
On Christmas-day her mother invited them to her house to
dinner, but, from some unknown reason, he refused to go
and, not wishing to be disappointed, she went, and left her
husband at home. She syent an exceedingly pleasant
es ening, and time slipped away faster than she antici-
pated, for she dirt not reach home until half-past one o'clock.
when her husband refused her admittance. To lock her out
he had long been anxious, and she, consequently, was obliged
t-. return to her parent's hulls, for a ni;,ht's shelter. Ald. John-
sen : Half-pant I o'clock is rather a late hour to stay out
to; I would advise you to make up your differences. —Com-
plainant: That I am afraid is impossible; he won't be
friends.—Ald. Johnson: Why, how long have you been
married ?—Complainant: Only six weeks, sir; and tired I
am of a married life. Can you make him maintain me, Sir?
—Ald. Johnson : You had far better live together ; it's shock-
ing fur such young people to part. Tell your mother to go
and see him, and apologise for your being out so late.—Com-
plainant: He won't see any one connected with my family,
Sir.—Ald. Johnson: It's a very unfortunate affair. Mr. Roe
(the officer of the court), can you do anything in the matter ?
—Mr. Roe said he would do his best.—Ald. Johnson : Very
well, then, go and see this gentleman, and try if you cannot
make them friends. Tell them to commence the new year
well, and they'll not disagree again. This is only a Christmas
quarrel.—Complainant left the court, hoping that Mr. Roe
would succeed in his difficult mission.
CLERKENWELL.—A " Fix."—James Shannon was
charged with felony. Police constable 96 0, stated that at
midnight he received information that the prisoner who was
then in a coffee-shoop in Whit, cross-street. had a bundle
tilled with copper money. He entered and took him into
custody, when he found on him ten five-shilling packets of
coppers, and eighteen shillings in silver. Since wit-
ness had been in court, he bad heard that a robbery, of
money and other property, had been committed in
the Hampstead-road, at the residence of Mr. George
Haines.—Mr. Greenwood asked the prisoner if he wished to
say anything ?--He said that the money was his savings, and
it was too bad to put him in a fix for nothing.—Mr. Green-
wood was about to remand him, when Mr. Haines made his
appearance, and on being shown the money, he said he had
nu doubt that it was his, adding that during the previous
night his premises were broken into, and plundered of con-
siderable property, and amungst it was a large sum in packets
of copper money. The prisoner, on hearing this evidence,
looked very much puzzled, and when asked again if he
wished to m. ke any remark, he repeated that the money
was his own.—Mr.
_Haines said that on a future day he
should be prepared with further evidence, and the prisoner
was remanded.
UTTERERB OF RASE Cenn.—Two well-dressed females,
named Day and Plummer, and Charles Quin, were charged
with uttering base coin. A gentleman named Anthony
said that while going along Holborn he saw the prisoners in
close conversation, and haviug a strong feeling that they
were concocting sonic offence, he watched them, and pre-
sently perceived the man give each of the females something
from a hag with which they walked away. He fol-
lowed them and noticed each of them go into different shops,
such as bakers and tobacconists, and return to the man with
their purchases, which, on inquiry, he ascertained had been
effected in spurious coin. He followed them about until he
had procured the assistance of two police-constables, to whose
custody he consigned them. When they were searched, a
considerable quantity of counterfeit money of one manufac-
ture, was found on each of them. They were committed to
Newgate for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.—FALSE InemsonmENT.—Ca-
Merine Sullivan, a married woman with a fluffily, was
charged with uttering a counterfeit shilling.—On Thursday
evening she went into the shop of a Mr. Vaughan, in Shore-
ditch, to purchase a handkerchief, in payment for which she
placed a bad shilling upon the counter. The shopkeeper
sent for a policeman, and although the prisoner stated that
the shilling which she had presented was one which her
husband had received amongst his wages, she was sent to the
station-house, and there detained during the whole of
Christmas-day.—The prisoner said, with an appearance of
great anguish, that her heart was almost broken, for she
had been locked up and imprisoned away from her
husband and children during Christmas-eve and Christ-
mas-day upon a charge of which she was entirely innocent.
Her husband was a mechanic, earning 30s. a week, and was
present.—Mr. Broughton, after further inquiry, said there
appeared no ground for the charge of knowingly uttering
against the prisoner ; and he commented in very strong
terms on the injustice and cruelty of locking her up away
from her husband and family at such a time, intimating that
the parties who had done so had better make her some
recompense to avoid future proceedings for wrong imprison-
ment. The woman was forthwith discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A SELF-SET Tliap.—J.
Macarthy was charged, on his own confession, with being a
deserter. One of the E division said the prisoner voluntarily
gave himself into custody on Christmas night for having
deserted from the 46th regiment —The self-accused, when
called upon for his defence, declared that the whole affair
was a " lark." He had never deserted; he was too short for
a soldier—Mr. Long directed the prisoner to be taken to the
Horse Guards, as a description of a deserter exactly answer-
ing to the person and name of the prisoner appeared in the
Police Gazette.—ln a short time the parties returned to
court in company of Serjeant Nutt, of the Rifles.—The
serjeant said he could swear the prisoner was a man
whom he enlisted, not in the 46th, but the 37th Regiment,
in September last. —The prisoner strongly denied that he
was the man. He would not be admitted into any
regiment, as he was under the regulation height.-
-The serjeant said a different way of measuring would,
perhaps, give the prisoner the trifling height he required to
come up to the standard. He was quite positive the prisoner
was the man he enlisted for the 37th Regiment. It was pro-
bable that the prisoner had also enlisted in the 46th, and had
deserted or been discharged.—The prisoner said there were
two of his shopmates in court with whom he had worked for
the last nine months, who could prove that he had never
been absent during that period.—Mr. Long said there was no
time specified in the paper which gave the particulars of the
alleged desertion. 1 f the prisoner were innocent, he must
take the usual means to prove himself so, for it was his duty
to commit him for trial.
MARYLEBONE.—JCVESTILE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE
POOR-HON.—Mr. Rawlinson said the sum of ss. had been
received for the poor-box, contributed by three little girls.
It was requested that the reporters should be made acquainted
with the fact.

SOUTHWARK.—PROTIBION FOR CHRISTMAS. —Joseph
Challoner, barman, and George Clarke, porter. in the ser-
vice of Mr. Palmer, landlord of the Bull, in the New Dover-
road, were charged with stealing a hamper, containing a
goose, a bottle of wine, a bottle of brandy, a bottle of rum,
and a bottle of gin, the property of their employer. On
Thursday morning, between five and six o'clock, while a
policeman of the M division was on duty in the Dover-road,
he saw the prisoner Clarke come out of the Bull with a
hamper on his shoulders. The latter was seen to convey
the hamper to his own lodgings, near the spot, and the po-
liceman suspecting the transaction, returned to the public-
house, and informed the landlord, who came down from his
bedroom, of what he had seen. Challoner, the barman, was
questioned, and he said that the hamper and its contents be-
longed to him, and that he gave it to his fellow-prisoner to
take to the parcel delivery office, to be sent into Devonshire
as a present to his friends. He also said he had paid for the
wine and spirits, which belonged to his master's stock, the
money for which be placed on a shelf in the bar.—The
landlord stated that the prisoner had been in his service only
four months, at the commencement of which period he was
destitute of clothes and money. That since he had been
taken into custody on the present charge, it was found he
had en abundance of new clothes, besides a sum of money,
which he could not have honestly come bp. That he (the
landlord) was convinced the wine and spirits found in tke
hamper, as above described, had not been paid for by his

barman, but that he had stolen them from the cellar ,"1
which he had seeesm.—The prisoners, who asserted their in-
acceaoe, were remanded.
WESTMINSTER—A MILD PVICISHMENT.—James
Vaughan and Henry Ilaggar, two privates in the Scotch
Fusiner Guards, were charged with the following outrage :
Mr. Pewits., the proprietor of the New Star and Crown.
Broadway;Westminster, stated that about half-past six en 7;
Thursday evening a party of seven soldiers, of which the
nefindants were two, rushed into his house, and having pro-
ceeded up-stairs, began knocking the forms about and break-
ing them, pulled out the grate, broke a table, and made •
most tremendous noise. He went up and endeavoured to
pacify them, but without effect, end the uproar was con-
tinued, until, hearing that a picquet was sent for from the
nearest barracks, five of the party retreated from the house;
the others endeavouring to follow their example. Com-
plainant was seized by the neck, pushed about, knocked
down, kicked whilst on the ground, and struck violently.
He could not say which of the dile ndants struck him, but
he was certain it was one of the defendants, as they were
the only two of the party left. in the house at the time he
was so assaulted. Complainant's wife was also struck ei
on the breast. With great difficulty the defendants w, re
detained until just before the picquet arrived, when Vaughan ;
rushed out. None of the party were served with liquur.—
A policeman proved meeting Vaughan running from Mr.
Powsey 's and taking him back, when Hugger rushed upon •
the witness, and struck him two desperate blows in the
mouth, which so lacerated it that it was obliged to be
strapped up. But for the prompt interference of another
constable he might bete been more ill-treated.—Two other t
witnesses confirmed the evidence of the assault upon the a
constable.—Haggar, in reply to the charge, said that he was a
insulted, and merely took his own part; and the other de-
(cadent said it was a sortof a joke altogether. Haggar called
two of the picquet to prove that he had not assaulted the t
officer, but they 1. iled in doing so. They said they did not ,
see hint do it, but, there bring a great crowd collected ;
through the riot, would not undertake to say that he did not I
assault the officer without their observing it.—A serjeant of ri
the regiment said that the defendants had never been tried
by the military or at a police court befure.—Mr. Burrell
fined Haggar 505., or 21 days; and the other defendant 205., 3:
or 10 days.
TIIAMES.—On Saturday morning, very shortly after Mr.
Ballantir c had taken his .seat, Captain Harvey Tuckett,
whose name has appeared SO often before the public, and
whose disputes with the Earl of Cardigan must be in the re-
collection of our readers, came to this court, and alter send- r
lag his card to the magistrate, requested a private interview,
which was at once declined ; but the magistrate at the same
time said he should be happy to hear the applicant in open I
court, and if be convinced hint that the mention of any ,
names would be likely to defeat the ends of justice, he ;
would not call upon him to enter into full particulars. I
Captain Tuckett passed the witness-box, and held a con-
versation with the magistrate in au under tone in refererice
to the intercepted expedition to Ecuador, and the committal
of Mr. Sleigh for a violation of the Foreign Equipment and
Enlistment Act, and raising soldiers for a foreign power with-
out license front her Majesty. It was understend that Captain
Tuckett was desirous that a warrant should be granted ,
against an officer of high rank, who some time since put
forth a manifesto, and had induced many officers to join the
expedition of General Flores, by making false representa-
tions. Mr. Ballantine doubted whether the facts related by
Captain Tuckett would justify him in granting a warrant.
against the party in question, and said it appeared that the
g.ntleman making the application had rendered himself
liable to legal proceedings, and that if a warrant was applied
for against him it must be granted. Captain Tuckett wished
to convince the magistrate that himself and many other
British officers were not aware of the real character of the
expedition to Ecuador, or that they were acting illegally
when they joined it. He requested his worship to read a
variety of documents relating to the transaction, which he
placed in his hands. Mr. Ballantine assured the gallant
officer that he would read the papers, and ascertain if there
were any grounds fur his interference. It appeared to him
that all the parties connected with the expedition were liable
to be prosecuted. Captain Tuckett said he was not to blame,
and that he had been railed as to the real character of
the Ecuador crusade. He then retired.

MONEY MARKET.

SATURDAT EVENING.

The transactions in the funds have been on but a
narrow scale, as might be expected from the day of the week
and the season, but the market has shown much firmness,
with an improvement in prices. Consols advanced to 941
to 1, and so left off looking well. Reduced Threes, 941 to I.
Three-and a-Quarter per Cents., 96 to 1. Long Annuities,
91. Exchequer Bills, Ss. to 12s.
Some of the foreign stocks, more habitually the objects of
speculation, and therefore more generally influenced by the
state of the market fur home stocks, bore better prices to-day,
although the business done in them was of small account.
Mexican may be quoted in advance aC 241 to 1. Spanish
Fives 261 toy ; the Threes, 371 to 81. Portuguese, 371 to
81. Dutch Two-and-all& pir Cents., 601 to 11 ; the
Fours, 921 to 31. Belgian Four-and. a-Half per Cents., 951
to 61. French Relates were done at 118 f.; Exchange,
25 f. 50c.

The Bank of Englund averages for the week ending the
19th inst., give, as compared with those of the week pre-
ceding, the following results :
Circulation —lssue £28,413,000 ...... Increase 2,265
Circulation —Active 19,548,555
Public deyawits
Other deposits
Governmentseeuritiesin
Banking Department. 12,807,417
Other securities 13,904,284 Increase 24,324
7 day and other bills
The Rest 3,440,884
The withdrawal of "other deposits," which pro fordo,
would supply the void created in the active circulation by
the heavier payments into bank on revenue account, would
perhaps result from the preparations of town and country
bankers to place themselves better in order for answer-
ing the requirements of their customers on the ap-
proach of the yearly balancing of accounts, and, so far
as bankers in many agricultural parts, for advances
on stork or on bills representing stock, for the accom-
modation of farmers in the payment of their rents,
strictly due at Martinmas, but in the case of the larger or
more substantial land proprietors permitted to lie over until
December. The small increase in " other securities " may
be taken to represent the inactive state of general business,
as well as perhaps an indisposition in the bank parlour to
enlarge the sphere of action in that direction
The returns of the note circulation of the private and
joint stock banks of issue in England and Wales for the four
weeks ending with the sth Met, show the following results :
Private banks, weekly average £4,598,309
Joint stock, weekly average 3,108,422

Togetber 7,786,731
The total fixed issue of the private banks being
4,909,4411., it follows that they wire below the amount
401,13.51.
The total fixed issue of th• joint stock banks being
3,418,2771., it follows that th 4 were below the amount
229,866/.
Together below the fixed amounts of issue 630,9901.
The comparison of these returns with those for the four
weeks preceding, ending with the 7th of November, shows a
decrease in the note circulation of the private banks of
209,979/., and of the joint stock banks of 116,118/. ; total de-
crease, 326,0971.
The yearly comparison with the returns for the same
period ending on December 6,1845, shows an increase in the
note circulation of the private banks of 28,8731., and a de-
crease in that of the joint stock banks of 33,031/. ; decrease
, on balance December 6, 1846, 4,1 W.

The returns of the ictive note circulation of the Bank of
England for the four weeks ending with the sth inst., not
including 7 day and other hills, which can no more be
deemed note circulation than the bills of other banks or
mercantile paper, and in the act for the regulation of Bank
issues, are not referred to as a component part of note circu-
lation, give a weekly average of 20,118,1371.
'1 he comparison of these returns with those of the four
weeks preceding, ending with the 7th of November, shows a
decrease in the note circulation of the Bank of England on
average of 1,121,5391. for the four weeks ending on the sth
of this present month.
The comparison with the corresponding period from
November 15 to December 6, 184.1, both inclusive, shows a
decrease in Bank circulation of 813,6741. at the date of the
returns ending with the sth inst.

ENGLISH TUNDS.

S per Cf. Red. Anne., 941 1 Consols for account, 911
New 31 per Ct. Anne., 9616 I Ex. Ms, 1,0601., 11d., 912 8
Long Anna., Lip. sth Jan. 1860,91

FOREIGN FUNDS.

5 per Ct. Mexican, 1846, 244 1
Ditto Account Dec. 31, 241
4 per Ct. Portuguese Bonds, Acct.,
371 8
5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Acct.,
Dec. 31, 261
3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Acct.,
Dec. 31, 384 8

5 per Ccnt. French Itentes, 118 f.
Ex. 25f 50c
41
23fper Cent Belgian Bonds, Ex.
24 per Ct. Dutch Exchange, 12
Gail., 504 1
Ditto Account, Dec. 31, 611
4 per Cent. Dutch Certs., 921 31
AND STOCKS ABROAD.
MADRID, Dec. 17.—Three per Cents., 34 cash, 341 paper ; Four
per Cents., 21 ; Five per Cents., 211; Passives, 61.—Excbange on
London, 361.
Mittel:no, Dec. 22.—Austrian Five per Cents. 108 bills ; Bank
Shares, 1,370 bills ; Russian English Loan,lo3l bills, 1031 money ;
Five per Cents. Hamburg Certificates, 1001 bills, 1001 money; Ditto,
Ist Series Inscriptions, 1011 bills; Ditto, Hope and Co., 3rd and 4th
Series, 961 bills; Ditto on Certificates, 961 bills; New Four per Cents.,
Hope and Co., 881 money; Ditto, Stiegiitz, 871 money; Spanish
New Five per Cents., 19 bills, 184 money; Do. Three per Cents., a%
tkiu.A; Dutch Actual Debt, Two-and-a-Half per Cent, 59 bills ; Polish
New Four per Cents., 1844, 78 bills; Danish English Loon, Three per
Cents., 841 bills, 844 moiiev.—Exchanges on London : Ilemburgh,
Dee. 22, 13 51; two months, 13 44 ; St. Petersburg, Dec. 11, three
months, 371, ; Riga, Dec. 12, three months, 391 ; Stockholm, Dec.
15, 90 days, 1 , Vienna, lice. 15, three months, 9 521.
VIENNi, DEC. 15.—Austrian Five per Cents., 104 7-14; Do., Four per
Cents., 991 ; Do., Three per Cents.. 74; Loan, 1814, 157; Do., 1839,
1191; Bank Shares, 1583. Railways—Northern, 1731; Gloggnitz,
124 ; Venice Milan, 1094 ; Leghorn, 944; Pesth, 945; Vienna, 734.
Azsraxessa, Dec. -24. —Act. Debt Two-end-a-Hall per Cents., 591,
604 ; Do., Three per Cents., 711,72; Do., Four per Cents., 925, 924 ;
Commercial Company, Four-and-a-Half per Center, 174!, 1741; East
India Loan, Four per Cents., 924, 924. Exchange on London, 11 97 ;
two months, 11 90; Hamburg, 35 68 ; two months, 33 25; on Paris,
56 50 ; two months, 5612.