The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-12 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTERDAT

CLERKENWELL—Tun SANITARY Acr.—Nntsatecx.
—Mr. B. 'lawn, a dust contractor, of Maiden-lane, Battle
bridge, appeared at the instance of the trustees of Islington
parish for suffering an accumulation of noxious matter on
his premises, to the prejudice of the health of the public. It
was proved that the premises of defendant, in Bell Isle,
Maiden-lane, consisted of heaps of offeusive matter. CNN-
posed of night soil, and refuse of lime from the Gee Works,
containing free sulphur, &c , and the effluvium of the snl-
phuretted hydrogen escaped, which WAS prejudicial to the
health of persons living in the immediate neighbourhood.
Several witaesses came forward voluntarily to state that
the sulphurous smells arising from the premises, and
the vapours therefrom were sufficient to choke any-
body, and the WO of oxalic acid in the varnish manu-
factory was most offensive and unwholesome, and, coupled
with tbs other nuisances, caused frequent sickness and
affected vegetation.—Mr. John Haynes, of the Fortune of
War, Maiden-lane, who resides near the defeadant's pre-
mises, said the noxious exhalations through baking the
night soil and lime from the gas works changed the colour of
his pewter pots and the silver in his pockets.—Mr. Combe
made out an order for the removal of the nuisance.
OUTRAGE ON THE POI ICE.—Paerick Foy, Timothy
Duggan, and Charles Prendegast were again charged with
having ,angerously assaulted several con stablee,ss de/crib( din
our impression of s est, rday.—After some additional evidence
had been taken, Mr. Combs said that this was so serious end
dreadful an outrage that if an application was made to the
Treasury he had no doubt the government would take the
matter up, and prosecute the case. Several officers had
nearly let their lives through the prisoners' outrageous con-
duct—They were committed for trial.
MARLBOROVOH-STREET.—A Wira REFUSING TO
PROSECUTE HER litAllAND.—lnspector Clements, of the E
division, applied to Mr. Hardwick to know how he was to
proceed in a eve of stabbing where the injured party de-
clined to come forward. The fact were these : One Wil-
liam Palmer, some wicks ago, stabbed his wife in the abdo-
men, and for some weeks the woman's life was in danger.
The husband made his escape, but as his wife had so far
recovered as to be pronounce:t out of danger, he had come
back again, and was now in the neighbourhood of the court
with his wife, He had received positive eurances from
the wife that she would not prose the charssge against her
husband ; and as the police had been told by the magistrate
to keep watch over the affair in ease a fatal termination
should occur, he wished to know whether the police would
he justified in allowing the husband to rat main at large.—Mr.
Hardwick advised the inspector to cause the husband
to be apprehended, and then it would be ascertained
beyond doubt tbo course the wife intended to pursue.
The husband was accordingly taken into custody and placed
et the bar.—The wife, on being called upon to give evidence,
said she had no charge to make against her husband. She
believed she was more in fault than her husband.—Mr.
Hardwick told the prisoner it was fortunate for him that his
wife did not prose the charge, otherwise be might have
looked for being transported perhaps for life.—The prisoner
then left the court with his wife.
MARYLEBONE.—Asssuuretow TUE POLICE—J. Cal-
laghan, J. Shannon, J. South, J. Burn, S. Cloven, and C.
Cloven were brought before Mr. Long charged with assault-
ing the police.—On the previous night Burn and Smith were
fighting in a mat desperate manner in the Foresters' Alms
beer-shop, Seymour-place, Bryanstone-equare, and, after some
difficulty, they were taken into custody, but were almost
immediately afterwards reseued by some of the mob congre-
gated at the spot. They were recaptured, and, while on the
road to the station-hot-As, the whole of the p:isoners vented
their rage upon numerous officer: of the D division, whom
they knocked dim:, and kicked upon the bead and various
parts of the body. Some of them bore marks of very severe
injury.—The prisoners were all committed to the House of
Correction for a month.

MONEY MARKET.
FRIDAY EVENINO:

The funds have followed the same routine as for
days past. Consols fluctuated between 891 buyers,
and 894 sellers during the day, and left off, as yester-
day, 891 to 1, both for money and account. The
market continues to be disturbed by the violent pro-
ceedings in the Chamber of Deputies, a hich are con-
sidered is be ominous of embarrassmer,ts for the French
government, and by the continuous fall in the French
rentes in consequence. Reduced Threes 891 to t.
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 901 to ~ Long
Annuities, 9 to 1-16. March Exchequer bills
ie-
elined to 18s. to 215.; the June to 241. premium.
India Bonds, 21s. to 235. premium. Bank Stock, 200
to 202. India Stock, 241 to 3.
The foreign market wan without material change ;
business extremely circumscribed. Mexican, 181 to
119. Peruvians, 32 to 5. Ecuador, 3! to a. Spanish
Fives, 211 to 2; the Threes, 32 to ; Passives,
4; to 5. Portuguese, 26 to 7. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 54 to 4; the Fours, 854 to 6.
13ranihan, 85 to 6.
Foreign exchange was Bieber in decline to-day, and
in favour of the sellers. Bills were more in demind,
and generally more confidence was shown among the
dealers. On Amsterdam the negotiations wore 12.3
to 4; on Rotterdam, 12.31 to # ; on Antwerp, 23.80
to 85; on Ilamburg, 13.134 to 14 ; on Frankfort,
122 to 1; on Paris, 25.70 to 624; on Vienna, 10.13
to 14 ; on Leghorn, 30.971 to 31.05 ;on Naples, 384
to ;; on Madrid, 461 to 4—all at three months.
On Lisbon, at 60 days, 511 to 2.
The proposed meeting of the Peruvian bondholders
took place to-day, when, after some preliminary pro-
ceedings and remarks, a series of resolutions were
proposed and carried, in which are recapitulated the
reiterated delays and equivocations of the Peruvian
government in meeting its engagements for a debt
contracted 23 years ago. its notorious disregard of an
arrangement emanating from itself in 1842 for devoting
a certain proportion of the proceeds derived from the
sale of guano to the payment d interest on the debt,
finally its withdrawal from propositions agreed veith
Messrs. Maclean and Co., bonga specially ap-
pointed on the part of the dholders, on the