The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

left the court.

Mr. Harris.

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POLICE.—SATURDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE. —Derecteo GOLD COIN.— MI.
Steers, of the f -reastiesea-cffice of the Custom-house, was
summoned before the Lord Mayor by Mr. Edward Keymer
far defecting several of the Queen's current geld coin. The
gold wasforor eed, and exantined by the Lord Mayor. It
Was we in therevenue scales, and it was evidently
much de eient in weight, nitheegh it had not, in the case of
any one piece of money, the appearance of having had more
than reasonable weer.—The Lord Mayor said it appeared to
him that the only question as to the defacing of the coin, to
justify such a course upon the part of the revenue authori-
ties was, whether the weight was dime:tithed by reasonable
of
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facing it. He was convinced the spirit of the set applied to
party to whom the money was offered was justified in de-
the diminution of the weight by unfair means, and not to
the deficiency arising inevitable from the wearing produced
by use.—Mr. Potbury, for the defence, sleet the defendant in
cutting the coin had steed in exact conformity to the pro-
clamation which appeared in the Gazette of Oct. 3, 1843,
subsequently to the pawing of that act. That preclamation
I represented that although under the proclamation of June
3, 1642, a large amount of the vole coin of the realm
Weared to be deficient in weight, her Majesty commanded
that every subject, particularly the collectors and receivers
of the revenue. should strictly conform to the orders and
regulations in the act, to cut. break, and deface such pieces
of the said gold coin as were Lund deficient in weight. The
Lord Mayor said he could not help thinking that the cutting
and defacing so ordered was vexetious and unfair and alto-
gether unnecessary in Meg lite the present, in which it
appeared to him that no unfair means had been resorted to
to diminish the weight.—Mr. Potbury said the ord. re issued
were peremptory.—Thecumplainant begged to be allowed to
state that he had had two of the sovereignsweighedbv Messrs.
Carter, of Cornhill, who assured him that any deficiency
which might be in them might have been produced by the
heavy shears with which they had been clipped.—The Lord
Mayor: Well, I cannot go further in this ; the summons is
dismissed. Even if it were proved that the gold was i.ot
deficient in weight, the act does not Rise um the power to
inflict a penalty. I cannot however dismiss the case without
repeating my observation, that it seems to me to be unfair
and vexatious to deface in this way money, the deficiency of
the weight of which does not appear to be occasioned by
any but reasonable wear.
BOW-STREET. ALLEGED BORAS-STEALING. T.
Hamlin was charged with stealing a horse, the property of
Thos. O'Brien.—The prosecutor lent his horse to a man in
whose house in Fitzroy-market the prisoner lodged, for the
purpose of drawicg home a load of coals, and having coin-
pleted.his work, he and the prisoner brought back the horse
and left him in the stable, the prosecutor bo.ng absent at
the time. In the course of tne day the prisoner returned
to the stable, end taking the horse frem the stall drove him
to Smithfield, where he offered him for sale. A friend of
the prosecutor having recognised the animal, made a com-
munication to the police, who took it in charge until the
owner could be found.—lnspector Black informed the ma-
gistrate that the prisoner had lately returned from trans-
portation, and had since plundered he lather and mother of
all the money they possessed, for which they declined to
proceed against him, end since that time be bad been rim
pestedly in custody for burglaries in publicenouses, and other
offences, fur which he bad suffered punishment in a SSW
mary manner.—A constable of the S division proved that ho
was in search of the prisoner upon other charges when the
man who bad borrowed the horse gave Lim into custody.—
Mr. Jardine ordered him to be remanded.
RAILWAY ROBBEIty.—Mr. Justin, accompanied by the
Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, applied
under the 27th section of the Police Act, that a summons ,
might issue against a pawnbroker, carrying on business in
Holborn, calling upon him to show cause why be refused to
deliver up a number of silver spoons and other articles of
plate, which had been stolen from the terminus of the rail-
way by &solicitor, who had been tried and convicted of other
felonies at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court.—
The application was immediately granted.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Cneitou Or FitACD.—
D, Wake, holding a commission in the Eget India Com-
pany's service, was charged with having sant, laplated a
fraud, on a large scale, on Messrs. Hunt and itoskell,
silver-
&mites, Bond-street, and having committed frauds on other
parties. The prisoner was also charged with having at-
tempted to utter several forged bills of exchange, purporting
I to have beeu drawn by the Mesa Committee of the 28th reset.
of Bengal Native Infantry. The first charge was for obtain-
ing from Messrs. Hunt a. ri Co. a set of turquoise shirt and
waistcoat buttons, value 101., %leder fate and fraudulent pre-
tencee.--Charles Poulton, cashier to Menus. Hunt and Co.,
said, on Thursday last the prisoner came into their ware-
house in Bond-street, and gave an order for a service of plate
value 9001 , which he said was for the officers ot the 28th
Bengal Native Infantry, and which lie proposed to
pay fur by a bill for 12,500 rupees, drawn in hie
favour by the meal officer of the regiment. The bill
in question purported to be signed by the president
of tLe mesa committee, and witness having received a
letter advising him on the subject a few days back, had not
the least suspicion that fraud was contemplated. The ser-
vice of plate was to some to about 9,000 rupees, and the
balance, 3,100 rupees, was to be handed over to the prisoner.
The prisoner 'eked to look at some turquoise eh art-studs and
buttons. lie chose a set which came to 101., banded witness
the bill now produced fer 12,500 rupees, and left the shop,
taking the studs and buttons with him. Withers made ie.
quiries in the City, and ascertained that the bill was a
forgery. Police constable Checkley found a large number
of pawnbrokeis duplicates at the prisoner's lodgings in
Tavistock-street. Witness also found 60 soy. reigns in the
prisoner's pomession, and a letter, which proved he had re-
ceived 1341. from a firm in Fenchurch.street, on a spurious
bill. The prisoner's groom made his appearance, end said
he had received no wages from his muter, whom he thought
a man of largo fortune. Mr. Bingham ordered the
groom's wages ice be paid out of the money taken from the
prisoner. The prisoner was remanded.
ITALIAN BEOUARS.—An Italian beggar lad was brought
to this court on Friday, havicg been found in Oro,.
venor-square in a state of starvation and fear.—From
the statement of the led it appeared that his padrone had
turned him out of doors two days ago, because he was unable
to bring home money enough by begging. The padrone had
declared he would kill him if he came back without money.
Being in great bodily fear he had wandered about the
streets two days and nights, and had not tasted food, being
unable to make himself unlerstood from not speaking a
word of English. The lad said another boy, who was with
the same reckons, was now in the hespital in consequence cf
the ill usage he had received from the padrone.—Mr. Bing-
ham directed that the lad should have a good meal given
him, and that he should receive abetter for the present in the
workhouse. In the meantime be would send a summons to
procure the attendance of the master, though he feared the
defective character of the law would prevent him from doing
substantial justice.
WESTMINSTER.—CAUTION TO TURNKEYS.—John
Birket, warder in the Millbank Penitentiary, was charged
with conveying a letter from a person confined in that gaol,
and taking wine, spirits, and tobacco into the prisoners,
contrary to the prison regulations.—Mr. Williams, inspector
of prisons for the home district, stated that defendant had
been acting warder at the prison, but having been brought
before him for taking a letter out from one of the convicts,
and bringing wine, spirits, and tobacco into other prisoners,
he (Mr. Williams) and his colleague, Mr. Perry, had dis-
missed the defendant, and had considered it their duty to
bring him before a magistrate. The defendant had hitherto
borne a very good character in the prison, and as he had
never beeu guilty of evasion or denial of the offence they
did not press for a severe punishment, but still thought it
necessary that some example should be made with a view
to protect the public, and deter others from the commission'
of a like offence. They felt it their painful duty to come I
forward in this csse, as the warders took money from
the friends of prisoners under pretence of providing thiags
for them for which there was no necessity, as the govern.
ment provided amply, and then put it in their own pocket.
—The defendant admitted his guilc—Mr. Burrell, owing to
the recommendation to mercy, committed the denndant for
ten dale only, and without har,l labour.
SOCTUWARIL—CSVELTT TO • CHILD.—B. Smith
was charged with cruelly ill-treating George Paget, a child
' three years old. The grandmother of the child stated that
for some time the prisoner had been in the habit of beating
the child in an unmerciful manner during the absence of his
mother. The cries of the boy
.attracted the notice of the e
seighbours. On Saturday morning she was at her daughter's le
house, when she heard the child scream dreadfully. She n
proceeded to the back of the house, and perceived the pri-
soner beating the child with a large stick. She took him k
away from the brute, and found the whole of his back and a
loins covered with large bruises, which were black and blue. 11
She took him to the police station, and showed the inspector
on duty the violence inflicted by the prisoner, when a warrant e
was granted, and the prisoner apprehended.—in answer to
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the magistrate the child said that he suffered much from the I
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floggings, and could hardly stoop or lie down.—Baker, 73 M,
the officer who apprehended the prisoner, sail, when be told :
him what he wanted him for, he exclaimed that the boy was I!
very dirty, and that was the reason he beat him.—The ma•
gistrate said he should me the heaviest pun shment he could It
inflict, by sentencing the prisoner to pay a fine of 51., or to le
be imprisoned six months. ll
Arvistrau AIt:RDER IN A WORICIIOI-BE.—Three females, 114
named Merritt, Byrne, and Crown, who have frequently been f,o,
in custody for their violent conduct in Bermondsey workhouse, V
were charged with a:tempting to murder Mary M'Aller,
one of the ward-keepern—Complainant, whose face was
much dsegured, said that on the previous morning she was
directed to proceed to the prism:en' ward and remove some
work. As soon as she arrived in the mid&e of the ward,
Merritt rushed upou her and struck her a tremendous blow
on the mouth, cutting her lie and knocking several of her j,
teeth out. Before she could recover herself eke was again it
struck and knocked down, when Byrne came up to her and
struck her. She called out " Now we will do for you," and e
the other prisoner then came up and fell upon her. She
called out for assistance, and had not the officer of the work- 4
house been in the way she must have beea murdered. They t
had a spite against her because she attended as a witness
against Cronin at the sessions.—The prisoners said they were I
treated wane than the worst of criminals in the workhouse, ,
and that the complainant called them orprobrious names be- i
fore they struck her.—Mr. Seeker sentenced them to two :
months' hard labour in the House of Correction.
ALLEGED Itonuctiv OF SWEEPSTAKE TICEETS.-11"Order
and Lipshans, charged with being concerned in defrauding
Mr. Harris, the landlord of the Equestrian, in the Black-
frian'-road, of sweepstake tickets, were re-examined. Mr.
Games, who attended for the defendants, said the complain-
ant had not indicted hie clients at the present Old Bailey
sessions, and as the grand jury were discharged he con-
sidered the defendants entitled to be discharged —Mr. Hip-
pos, who attended for Mr. Harris, said they had certainly
neglected to go before the grand jury, but still the charge
was not abandoned. He therefore objected to Mr. Games'
application. lie admitted that, at priests', there was no fur-
ther evidenee against the defendanu.—Mr. Seeker then said
he should discharge them from Shear rooosissaoss ; sod if

to implicate the
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Af ONB Y MARKET.
BAIL:RDAS Ermine.
The funds were heavy to-day, and prices in de-
cline. Console were first quoted, sad business done
at, 871 and -2 for both money,and the opening, but
left off only 861 to 7. The transactions were of an
unimportant character, and lay chiefly among the
jobbers adjusting their books and balances for the
approaching settlement of the 14th. Reduced
IThrees were 861 to 7k. Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 871 to t„. Exchequer Bills, 395. to 425. pre-
mium. India Bond!, 20s. to 235. premium. Bank
Stock, 191 to 3. To-day the Bank commenced
paying upon dividend warrents to the public, as
yesterday to the banks. The purchasers of stock at
the high rates lately ruling are waiting now with a
certain anxiety the effect which may be produced
upon the market by the outflow of the dividends. The
greater or less amount of these which shall be directed
to reinvestment in the funds must in a certain degree
influence, if not determine, the course of prices for
some time to come. Opinion generally does not con-
template, however, any material reduction upon the
present quotations, which, as compared with the
highest rates of the week, exhibit already a rather
marked decline. But neither, on the other hand,
is it supposed that rates much higher than
those now ruling would be submitted to gene-
rally by dividend recipients of the more weighty class.
It may be in some sort obligatory upon the adminis-
trators of the funds in Chancery and Bankruptcy to
re-invest witht all convenient despatch, without refer-
ence to more than the market price of the day. and
it would be manifestly inexpedient to leave them
with any particular latitude of discretion in the mat-
ter; and so also, it may be said, of trust funds in
general. In such cases, as with the smaller class of
annuitants having surplus income to put out, to whom
mall per centage differences of price cannot be of
consideration in view of time and trouble to be saved
by prompt action, the dividends received on one
day, or such portion as may be so destined,
may be laid out within a few days following.
With the Bank of England, and other great corpora.
tions, such as the leading insurance companies, and
the banking and other capitalists, with massy sums
to:receive, the case is different. They can afford
to wait their time should the prices of stock be raised
upon them in anticipation, or otherwise be deemed
too high, as measured by the rate of interest, rela-
tively with the value of other unquestionable secure-
tics. They have the wide field of the general
money and security market to range in, and select
therefrom for investment such instruments of value i
as should present the most satisfactory conditions of
safety and superior profit. Such, indeed, is, as it
ought to be, their usual course of action, as it is the
true economic policy not to adventure funds upon
one only issue, but upon an average of various safe
interest-bee ring documents.
The dealings in foreign stocks presented no feature
of interest, and were of very limited extent with
little variation in prices. Spanish Fives remained
111 to 121; the Threes, 211 to 21 ; Passive, 3 to 1;
Portuguese, 17 to 18; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
I Cents., 44 to 5; the Fours, 68 to 70. Belgian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. 63 to 7. Russian, 93 to 6.
Mexican,l6l to 171. Brazilian, 67 to 9. New Gra-
nada, 12 to 13. Venezuela, 15 to 18: the Deferred,
4 to 5.
The payment of dividends is already adding to the
redundance of unemployed capital in the market.
The leading discount houses have been returning
funds deposited with them by banks and individuals
at 2; per cent. on call, from the impossibility of em-
ploying them to adequate advantage, and from being
over-supplied besides in addition to their own capitals.
The rates of discount nominally only now at 3 per
cent. for first class paper, but with instances of less
being taken, will probably fall below that rate as the
general rule, and moneys be taken by the discount
houses only on call, or for given periods, at a consi-
derable reduction of the rates lately paid for them. '
We learn from Dublin that Mr. John L. Cochrane,
who for several years has filled the office of inspector
of branch banks in Ireland under the National Bank,
has ceased to be connected with that establishment.
EICOLItIa FENDS.
3 per Ct. lied. Anon. 821 1 7 Conads for Opnr.. 071 61
3 lar Cent. Comets. Anna, Bxll 6l 1: eh. Bina .C.Louv, 21d., June,
!ie. 3t per CI. Anna, bit i 32 5 ; March. 43 pm.
Long Anna. 30 years, Oct. 10. Ditto. £sw. 21d,.June. 35: Larch.
16.x+. 01 32 tan.
Dow 30 years, Jan. 6, 1060, Si M 00. Small. lid. June, 33:
India Bona. £l,O J, = po. Maeda, Wpm.
Ditto, under ALVA 21 yea.

101t11101

5 per Ct. Brazilian Bda,
Small. 6
!jrw Ct. Urtnada Bdu,ls*
5 per CL MiliCl6ll. Acct., July
17, 171
S i.r Elpunizh,'Accc., July 17.
111 12

EXCHANGES AND

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ANSITIIDAIt. Jct.: 7.—Art. Debt Two-and-a-Half per Cents.. 444 45;
Ditto. Three per Cent., 61; 52 ; Ditto. Four per thmt.. 681 69 ; Com.
Comp., 1V4132; ; East India Loan, 67; Off. Exchanges: On London,
sight, 11.97; dim, two months, 51.87. On Ilarobunf, sight. 34.87;
ditto, too mouths. 34.50. On Paris. sight, 58.23; ditto. two months.
55.75. Plicuunt. 3 per cent The tone of the market wan extremely
good In Inland funds. eispeelally In Four per Cents. Commercial Coin.
any) rose 1; per cent., Rotterdam Hallway 1 I Wl' cent., and Rhenish
Railway from 4to 5 per cent. The Three per Cents. were in demand.
and could he had. Portuguese malekideed tech' Priee. dtedrhe de-
cidedly improved. Ite.-iao Five per Cent, of 1788. 1018. and 102) were
Oat. I.ot of 1831 nod 1,133 worn In deniand. and rose, as did abo the Four
per Ceuta. ;No iiirthanar change took place in the older funds.

?mug.

reties.

FUNDS.
3 per Ct. Spanish 22 11 2, ex
dir.
2t
44er Cent. Venezuela Bdx, Def.,
33 net. Ct. Dutch Ex., 12 gull.,
4-6 44

STOOLS AWROAD.

3 per Coats . .....
3 Do. NowLoaal
6 Do.
46 Do.
4 Do.