The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-13 00:00:00

TEE PRITCHARD MURDER.

LETTER PROM DR. PATERSON.

Dr. Paterson, the medical man whose conduct
in regard to the Pritchard case has been made the subject
of severe strictures, has addressed a long letter to the
Glavolo Herald in hie own defence. Determined, if pos-
sible, to rye Mrs. Pritchard's life, he refused, he says, to
certify the mum of Mrs. Taylor's death. sad addreseed
the following letter to the registrar, upon which he Oostende
that ofiloial ought to have at owe acted :—" 6, Windsor.
place, March 4, 1865. —Dear am surprised that I
am called on to certify the cause of death in this ease. I
only saw the person for a few minutes a very short period
before her death. She seemed to be under some earootia,
bet Dr. Pritchard, who was present from the first enomeat
of the illness until death occurred, sad which hap-
pened in hie own house, may certify the muse. The
death was certainly sudden, unexpected, and to me
mysterious.—l am, dear sir, yours faithfally, JANBB
PAULSON, M.D.—To Mr. James Struthers, rogistrar."—
To have denounced Dr. Pritchard at that 'tag* would,
Dr. Paterson says, have bees rain to hies, for Pritchard
could have brought forward three medical men, all Edit.
burgh graduates, sot oar of whom suspected that Mrs.
Pritchard was being poiemied by astimesiy. Eves if be
had not written the above letter the resist's: ought to have
known that no medical man would have refused to sign
the death certificate of any member of a medical brother's
family whom he had seers on the deathbed unless be suspected
foul play. He fully expected the registrar would act on his
letter, sod had he done so Mrs. Pritehard's life would have
been saved. His first visit to Mrs. Pritchard was as the
day of her mother's funeral ; the next day be cosealted is
confidence with one or two of his profeedocal Meads, and
they all came to the emulative that Mrs. Tayler had bens
poisoned by opium. and that We. Pritchard was being dosed
with antimony. If, would mention. he says, the names
of these putlemen " were it not that the public might
fix upon them es the some. from which prowseied the
anonymous letter sent to the authoritise, sad which led to
the *Nathaniel' of Pritchard." They all thought that
the refusal of the certificate sad the seeding d the letter
would lead to a judicial investigation, sad mbar Pritchard
celled subsequently at his bone at as aeseasoesble boar,
be (Dr. Paterson) quite believed that Pritchard bad been
soared from his purpose, and that Mai. Pritchard would be
sae.

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MONEY MAREBT4-(THI8 DAL)

Two o'CLoct.

The stock markets remain inactive, and timbale(
bminess to-day has coedited of the adjustment of 4
the account, which will be completed to-morrow. 1
The inside have declined per cent., owing to a few
sales. As regards other securities, ver► little
movement is apparent, yesterday's quotatiosebeiag
generally supported.
In the discount market to-day then is a good
supply of mousy, and the rate for the best paper is
steady at n to 3 per cent. The charge in the
Stook Exchange for loans from day to day on
English Government securities is 14 to 2 per cent.,
and for &drawee on foreign stocks to the next
settlement, 4 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's tele-
gram, the Three per Ont. Rentee opened at
671 r. 400., being sc. lower than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 894 to 90 for money,
and 90 to for the account (August 8).
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Console for money, 90, 4, 894 ;
ditto for amount, 904 ; Three pee Cents.
Reduced, 894, 1, ; New Three per Coots., 894,
; Annuities, 1885, 144 ; India Stock, 2144 ;
ditto, Five per Cent. Stock, 1044, ; Five per
Cent. " enfaoed" rupee paper, 1024 ; sod Zane-
quer Bills, 4a., ss. Is. prem.
Foreign stocks are rather doll Greek, Mexican,
and Turkish Consolidds show A redaction
of about 4 per cent. Anglo-Turkish Bonds, however,
are firm. Some of the present quotations are
subjoined : Turkish, 1858, 73 to 4 ; ditto,
1862, 714 to 724, ex div. ; ditto Conduits,
494 to ; Mexican, 24 to 4, ex div. ; Spanish
Passive, 294 to ; ditto Certificates, 144 to
; Greek, 204 to 21; and Confederate, 7 to 9.

Transactions are recorded as follows :—Da ti-
bias, 761, 771 ; ditto, for account, 781 ; Egyptian,
second Mine, 911 ; ditto 1001. hoods, NI;
ditto 1864, 94, 1 ; ditto 1001 bonds, 94 ;1
Italian, 1866, 77 ; Mexican, for amount, 24, 1,1
ex div. ; Russian, 1882, 92, 911 ; ditto, 1884, 96;
Spanish Passive, 221 ; ditto Certificates, 141 ;
Turkish, 1864, ;
_ditto 1868, 73 ; ditto for
account, 731 ; ditto, 1862, 721, 1, ex div. •
ditto, for amount, 724, ex.div.; ditto,lool. Bonds
721, 72, ex div. ; ditto 1886, 411, 44, ez die. ;
Venezuela, 1864, 411.1
International Financial shares are now quoted
11 to pin.; General Credit, If to 1 prem.;
London Financial, 71 to f prem. ; Imperial Mer-
cantile, I/ to 21 prem. ; Credit Fonder and
Mobilise of England, 31 to 4 prem., ex div.; Otto.
man Socidtif G‘ndrale' 21 to 31 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay, 161 to # ; and Egyptian Trading, 1

to dis.
The nominal quotations for the shares of souse
of the new companies are subjoined :—Russian
Iron Works, 8 to 10 prem. ; Atlantic Tele-
graph preference, 4 to prem. ; Leedom
Bridge Land, to 4 prem. ; Olamorpnsbire
Iron, 24 to 1 prem. ; London, Windsor, sad
Greenwich Hotels, 14 to 2 prem. ; Peruvian Rail-
ways, 3 to 34 prem. ; Blakely Ordnance, 34 to
pram. ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 14 to 2 press. ;
Barned's Banking, 1 to 1 prem. ; East London
RaUwey, par to 4 prem. ; and London and Mediter-
ranean Bank, 3 to 4 prem.
The Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation
Company's shares are steady at 14 to 2 prem.
The prospectus of Overend, Gurney, and Co.,
was well received this morning, and the price was
first quoted 3 to 34 prem., but the usual speculative
sales have since depressed it to 2 to 24 prem.
The movement in favour of joint stock associa-
tion, and more espeially of converting established
private businesses into the joint stock form, has
now acquired such a development, and seems likely
to extend still so greatly in the future, that it is
becoming necessary to ask for additional guarantees
on the pert of the public. Where a new company
is introduced upon the basis of making pa to
for the good-will of a business, it is espec y im-
portant that the basis of the valuation of that
good-will should be stated, nor can this require-
ment be waived upon any plea that
a want of delicacy would be involved
in inquiring too narrowly into the posi
tion and past profits of a firm. More than this ;
where large payments for goal-will are required,
not only should the grounds of the estimate be
broadly stated, but the income of the house should
be attested by the oertificate of qualified easoun-
tants. To require this, does not necessarily imply
distrust of the representations pat forth in any In-
dividual case, but is simply carrying into these
matters a rule which is observed in all private ar-
rangements. The more respectable a new concern
maybe, the more necessary is it that it should set an
example in this respect likely to protect the
public from the host of imitative and delusive
schemes which almost invariably attend the
introduction of a sterling project In the case of
more than one highly respectable and t rsi fide
company lately launched, this requirement ha. not
been sufficiently adhered to. It is also necessary
that whenever a private firm is converted into the
joint-stock form, and the partners become directors,
the proposed emoluments of those partners, whether
they be large or small, should be broadly stated on
the face of the prospectus, and from this rale there
should be no exception whatever.
A further sum of 80,0001. in bar gold was taken
from the Bank yesterday for exportation to the
continent.

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Reference was made recently to the conversions
of the eminent discount firm of Overend,sGnrney,
and Co., into a joint stock company, with
limited liability. The prospectus of this under-
taking is now issued. The title is "Overfed,
Gurney, and Co. (Limited)." The capital is
5,000,0001., in 100,000 shares of 501. each, of
which it is not intended to cell up more than lb/.
per share, payable as follows, vie.: deposit on ap-
plication, 21. per share ; 51. per share on
allotment ; 41. per share on the 15th Septem-
ber and the same on the 15th No:memoir. The
consideration given by the company for the good-
will is 500,0001., one-half of wh'ch is to be paid in ,
cash and the remainder in shares, with 151. per
share credited thereon, so that the partners thus I
engage their liability, in common with the ordinary
shareholders, for the difference between this sum
and the nominal amount of 501. per share. The
directors express their belief that these terms
" cannot fail to ensure a highly remunerative return I
to the shareholders." It is an important and saes-
factory feature that the vendors guarantee thocont-
peg against any lose on the assets and liabilities
transferred. Three of the partners, viz., Meters. ,
Henry Edmund Gurney, John Henry Gurney, I
and Robert Birkbeck, join the board, which
is in all respects moat respectably constituted. the
other names being those of Messrs. Henry Yard
Barclay, Thomas A. Gibb (of Messrs. T. A. Gibb
and Co.), Harry G. Gordon, Esq. (chairman of
the Oriental Bank Corporation), and Wm Rennie
(of Mews. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co.), Mr. H.
E. Gurney and Mr. Robert Birkbeck will act'as
managing directors, and the old staff, through
whose services the business has been so long con-
ducted with emcees, is, of count*, to be retained.
The new company will enter into possession of the
, liminess on the let of August. The directors siert
with declaring that they " will give their mime
attention to the cultivation of business of a first-
class character only, it being their conviction that
they will thus most effectually promote the pro-
sperity of the company and the permanent interests
of the shareholders." Tbe firm of Overeed, Gar-
, soy, and Co. was founded early in the present
eentury, and from the high position which it has
always occupied the change now announced is re-
garded with great interest both in the metropolis
. Ned the provinces

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