The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1846.

the wife was entitled to all discrepancies. The identity of
Mrs. Fraser sleeping at Mr. Bagley's was not proved. The
court could not bt.id Mrs. Fraser guilty but urea tome un-
doubted facts. f" intentions, or of indecent familiarities. The
learnodinil'ie complained of the manner in which the exa-
milatior.s of the witnesaes bad been conducted, as tending to
rene''. discredit on those courts. The court co and ind not hold
fact of Mr. Bagley's handkerchief being fouXi's.
Fraser's room, was of any consequence, as the former -was
in
the habit of playing at blindman'e-buff sigh her
children. if there was any indecent acts proved
against Mrs. Fraser, they would trait the seek
against her. If the witnesses sp?lit".; to having hethat ard
Mr. Bagley kiss Mrs. Fraser; if it were prove
Mrs. Fraser came out of her bed!..iom without her stays to
see Mr. Bagley • and if other facts alleged were proved, the
court must holdthat the erivainal intent existed, and that
adultery had been committed. The learned judge went over
the statements of all the witne.ses, name by name, contrast-
ing. all the charges with other evidence to establish th:
main point left for the decision of the court. It must be
admitted, that were indecent familiarities proved, intent to
commit adultery might be presumed. There might have
been grounds for her jealousy—there may have been family
quarrels—there may have been neglect on the pert of the
husband, but with those matters the court, in a case like
this, had nothing to do, unless to aid facts, alleged and
proved, of the commission of adultery. These jealousies,
these quarrels, these neglects, all flourished in full rigour
before Mr. Bagley was introduced to the family of Mr.
Fraser. The court now came to a most important part of
the case—the evidence of Mr. Bagley. It rarely occurred
that a wty so mixed up with a cause, such as this, was ex-
amined as a witness. But still he was a competent witness,
whose evidence, however, must be watched with the greatest
jealousy. Notwithstanding the high honour, and other
feelings which animate the breast of a witness so situated,
and having due regard for his oath, the evidence
laid before the court might be tinged with par-
tiality, hence the court received it with caution.
Still Mrs. Fraser must have the benefit of such denial that
any adulterous intercourse had taken place with her. If
the evidence of Mr. Bagley was all true, the charges against
Fraser were false; and if falsehood had been sworn to,
there was perjury. The court was of opinion that the
charges of adultery made against Mrs. Fraser were not
artablished, because it could not believe the witnesses;
because they have not been confirmed in any particular by
others the court could trust; because there have not been
any improper familiarities proved; because the court
thought that a conspiracy had been formed against Mrs.
Fraser, which had suppressed the development of truth;
because there was nothing to lead up to the charge of
adultery ; and in acquitting Mrs. Fraser the court need not
rely on the evidence of Mr. Bagley. The court could not
refrain, in acquitting Mrs. Fraser of the gross crime of adul-
tery, from expressirg its opinion that she ought not to have
allowed the intimacy with Bagley to have existed. Instead
of resorting to Mr. Bagley for advice in her difficulties, she
ought to have gone to her relations who were near at hand.
Mr. Fraser, on the other hand, had abandoned his home,
and left all to chance, while he himself was proved to have
committed adultery. The court therefore decreed sentence
as prayed by Mrs. Fraser, but reserved till next court day
its decision as to pronouncing Mr. Fraser in contempt fur
'4 the taxed costs.

behaved in a very hear*Aris manner to revers' other persons.
—Policeman 291 that he had no doubt if a remand w
made for a few stays, he could establish other caeca againstas
Vr-JRSHIP STREET.—Among the number of ;nose who
''Lla some clue to the blankets.—Mr. Alderman
remanded the case till Saturday.
her,u:groere anldesvo_tbeart:yraingly
nk and incapable," were
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two IlldiTldUall dressed in the garb o so tees.
runibneginbgro,u, brought before Mr :Bingham, the
sitting magistrareo,
defen-
dants suddenly emerge from a cab. They, however, were
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the evening
so drunk, that they had scarcely preen ded a few steps
ere both of them fell to the ground. Ho obtained assiat-
ance and conveyed them to the station-house, where, on
searching them, it wan discovered that they were soldiers
belonging to the 36th Regiment of Foot, just discharged by
purchase,
and that the one was the son of the governor of a
gaol, and the other had been a medical student. Mr. Bing-
ham, in discharging the defendants. said he hoped that they
would hereafter make a better use of their liberty. The cer-
tificate of their discharge from the regiment was now pro-
duced, from which it, appeared that they had been six
months only in it. The prisoners, whose manners indicated
refinement and respectability, notwithstanding their outward
garb and appearance, thanked the magistrate, and were
allowed to withdraw.
CLERKENWELL.—Mary Bell, a middle-aged woman,
was charged by the parish officers of St. Pancras with having
deserted and assaulted a child.—On Tuesday afternoon the
prisoner went to St. Pancras workhouse with a child in her
arms, and said, that about a month ago a woman came to
her, and requested her to take charge of it for a short time,
saying she would call for it in a day or so. The woman,
however, never called for it, and being unable to support it,
she took it to the station-house, when the parties there re-
ferred her to the magistrates at Marlborough-street police-
court, but they could do nothing for her. At length she
determined on making application to the parish of St. Pan-
story was diacredited ; and being burthened by a child that
slid not belong to her, she went to leave it at the workhouse,
when she was given into custody.—An overseer attended and
stated the particulars of the case, and the clerk to whom they
had been previously related, in addressing the magistrate, de-
signated them as being "very peculiar."—Mr. Combo in-
quired of the overseer what he charged the prisoner with
doing ?—Overseer : I charge her with the desertion of the
child.—Mr. Combe : The child does not belong to her. You
cannot legally or consistently charge her with deserting it.
The overseer seemed disposed to differ with this view, and
said she had been guilty of deserting it by dropping it at the
workhouse door, and also with an act Of cruelty towards it.
The prisoner had been twice before the board of the parish
and the magistrates of Marlborough-street and Marylebone,
and her story was not believed, as there was no doubt she
was acting in collusion with the mother of the child, and
knew where to find her, their object being to hurthen the
parish with the child.—The prisoner positively denied this ;
the woman was a stranger to her. She had endeavoured to
trace her, but was unable to do so.—Overseer: Then if I
can't charge her with desertion I will charge her with assault-
ing the child.—Mr. Combe : How did she assault it ?
Overseer: She applied far it to he taken into the
workhouse, and on being refused she threw it with violence
into the workhouse, and hail it not h en that Mr. Cooper, the
surgeon, who happened to be leaving the workhouse at
the time caught the child, it would have been killed.—
Mr. Combo decided that this gave a different complexion to
the case, and he would deal with her for the assault upon the
child, as she had acted violently towards it; " but," said Mr.
Combs, " I don't know what you could have charged her
with if she had laid the child quietly down at the workhouse,
as it did not belong to her ; under the circumstances I shall
order her to find bail for the assault, and inquiries can be
made to trace the paten eof the chilil."—The prisoner was' then
locked up, and the child, a fine little creature, about 16 months
old, was taken to the workhouse.
MARYLEBONE. Ilocossiso. Yesterday, John
Graves was placed at the bar charged with having stolen
nearly 401., the property of Mr. James Hawkins, a grocer
resid'ng at Burficld, Berke —Prosecutor stated that, on the
previona day, he came up from Peterborough by railway,
and reached the Euston-square terminus about noon. He
was a perfect stranger to London, and, on making his egress
through the gates, he saw the prisoner, of whom he inquired
the way to the Paddington station. Ile (prisoner) colon-
Bred to show him, and they proceeded on together. They
at length went into a public-house, where he paid pri-
soner ls. 61. for his trouble, and they had something to
drink. While in the room, prosecutor fell asleep, and, on
awaking, he found that his money-bag, which contained
38 sovereigns, a half-sovereign, and some silver, had been
stolen from the side-pocket of his coat. The prisoner had
also left the place. Prosecutor added, that when paying for
the drink, he took some silver from his bag, and the prisoner
had therefore an opportunity of noticing that there was a
great deal of money in it —Curtis, 43 S, stated that, from
information which be had received relative to the
robbery, he felt satisfied that the prisoner was
the man who was " wanted ;" and, on going to
his lodgings, found him in bed. Witness took him
into custody, and while he was dressing, he found between
the bed and the sacking a bag, in which WeiC 331 sovereigns.
The amount in question was produced by the officer, and
prosecutor, on looking at the bag, said it was not his ; he,
however, was quite certain that the prisoner was the man by
whom he was plundered. It was further shown that the
prisoner had upon a former occasion been convicted, and
that he had been also charged at this court with robbing a
sailor under circumstances nearly similar to the preceding.
The prisoner's answer to the charge was, that the money
was all his own, and that he had received it from a friend.
who wished him to pay for a quantity of potatoes ; his friend
was now in the country, and he was therefore unable to pro-
duce him at present ; his only reason for leaving the publ.c-
house, which was the Mint near the Paddington-station,
was, that he was fearful if be stayed any longer he should
have been unable to have walked home, as the prosecutor
seemed to care not a pin as to what he expended in drink.—
The prisoner was remanded till Saturday.
WESTMINSTER. STABBING. —Anne Thomas was
charged with stabbing Esther M'Cabe.—Prosecutrix stated
that she entered the Castle public-house, Great Chapel-street,
Westminster, on Sunday evening, and was advancing to the
counter to get some refreshment, when the prisoner, with-
out any provocation, struck her a violent blow on the face.
She inquired what she did that for? when prisoner suddenly
raised her hand and stabbed her with a table-knife in the left
cheek. Proeecutrix and prisoner both fell on the ground,
where the latter made several other thrusts at her with the
knife, and wounded her slightly in the arm. Prisoner was
secured by those around, and proaccutrix conveyed to the
Westminster Hospital. Prisoner was heard to say, a short
time before prosccutrix entered the public-house, that she
would stick the first person who came in.—A witness was
called, who proved that the prisoner took the knife from her
bosom, and inflicted the wounds as described. Prisoner, who
had been drinking very freely, endeavoured to escape.—Mr.
F. Wildbore, house-surgeon, Westminster Hospital, said the
prosecutrix was brought in on Sunday night with a superfi-
cial incised wound, an inch and a half long, on the left
cheek, near the car, which he dressed. There was also a
slight wound On the arm.—Prisoner implored forgiveness,
and the proaecutrix joined in the entreaty.—Mr. Burrell ob-
served that it was a very n rious off. nee, and it was his duty
to send it for trial at the Central Criminal Court —Com-
mitted accordingly.
LAMBETH.—ifory Ann 14 Blanc, a girl of colour, the
daughter of a barber residing at 13, Webb-street, Portland-
street, Walworth, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott,
on a charge of tit( sling a shawl belonging to her mother.—
The prisoner's mother deposed that on Saturday last she left
home fur a short time, and on her return she missed both the
prisoner and her shawl, which she had placed on the chair
on her leaving home, and from that time until the night
before she had not seen the prisoner.—The prisoner said her
mother had lent her the shawl, but this being denied by the
mother, she was fully committed for trial.
WOOLWICH.—ATTESTATION OP RECRUITS.—A born-
badier of the Royal Artillery brought a gunner to be attested
before Mr. Jeremy, but it appearing that the man bad been
already attested, Mr. Jeremy inquired the reason of bringing
the man to be attested the ascend time ?—The gunner stated
he had been several months in the regiment, that he enlisted
under an assumed name, that his proper name was Michael
Farrer, and that he had declared upon oath at the time he
was attested that he was a single man, being at the same
time a married man.—Mr. Jeremy informed the non-com-
missioned officer that he could not sign the attestation papers.
The Mutiny Act said that no recruit was to be attested until
he had been twenty-four hours enlisted, nor after he had
been enlisted forty-eight hours, and the commanding officer,
if he wished the man to be attested again, must first legally dis-
charge him, and if the man was willing to enlist again 111 his
proper name, he would then swear him in, hut then there
would be a difficulty, as uo married man was supposed to be
enlisted in the army.

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The stock market has been in a quiescent state all
day, without more fluctuation than the difference between
buying and selling prices. Consols have been 941 buyers,
and 944 to 1, for money and account all day, with very
little dealing. Reduced Threes, 931 to 1. 'three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., 951 to 1. The government broker made
his usual purchases in 31 and 3 per Cents. for the savings
banks and the sinking fund. Exchequer Bills, 9s. to
12.. prem.
In foreign stocks the transactions were entirely unimpor-
tant, and in the more speculative stocks little more than
nominal. Mexican, 211 to 21. Spanish Fives, 251 to 61;
the Threes, 371 to I; Deferred, 161 to 161 ; Passive,
51 to 1 ; Danish, 86 to 8. Portuguese, 36 to 8. Belgian,
941 to 51. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 59 to 1; the
Fours, 911 to 2.
The Court Circular report of an interview yesterday of the
governor w d deputy-governor of the Bank with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, has attracted some attention in the
City, as one of those signs of the times which cast their
shadows before. The conjectures of course are various as
to the material objects of this meeting between the gravest
financial authorities of the country. But there can be little
doubt that the state of the Exchequer bill account between
the two exchequers must have been one, if not the most im-
portant, item in the account. The Bank, it is understood, is
a holder to a very large amount cf these securities against ad-
vances to the Treasury. Under present circumstances, and
with something more than a breeze gathering apparently
a-head, it behaves the Bank to look to its securities, with a
view to their availability when desired, or on any emergency.
Now it is quite clew that, at the present small ruling rates of
premium on Exchequer bills, bearing three halfpence per
day interest only, no quantity worth notice could be
thrown upon the market without crewing a confusion
of valt.es. To speak more plainly, sales of Exchequer bills
to the amount of one or two hundred thousand pounsis
might reduce the premium to a discount. For government
credit thin would be a deplorable position. For the Bank,
loaded with these securities perhaps, and under the absolute