The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

POLICE.-YESTIIRDAT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Errensiva ROBBERY.—H. AG
berg and H. Howard were charged with robbing Messrs.
Wood and Co. of Watling-street, warehousemen, of goods.
—F. Shaw stated that in F.•bruary last he bought 1661 yards
of carpeting, the patterns of which were produced, of a per-
son who signed the name of lutes to the invoice.—lssacs
stated that he received the goods from his employ r, Mr.
Jacobs.—J. Jacobs produced his journal, in which was
an entry of a sale to Shaw on the day referred I. which re-
lated to some carpets purchased of Mr Mimes.—E. Rims,
general dealer, add I recollect stlliog two pieces of carpet-
Eng on the 16 h of February last, to Mr. Jacob. It cone
siseed of 166 yards. I believe the patterns produced ant
those I sold. I cannot swear they are the identical pattern-,
but I should say they are. I purchased them of the psi
sonar Howard. The prisocer Albert, had nothing to do with
the sale. After I had sold it to Mr. Jacobs I found it was
about 10 yards short measure. When Howard called for the
Leland of what was due to him, I told him of the short mea-
sure, for which I should deduct 10e. He called on me again
in the afternoon, in company with Ansel, who was then
dressed s a porter, with a piece of novas tied about his waist
as an apron. Howard said to me in at:bt WA presence," wll
you tell this party
_how much short you paid me ?" I said 10e
He then said, " Will you take any more ?" meaning would
I purchase any more carpet.. I said, " Certainly not, and
was sorry I bought what I did." From that day I have
never seen Howard till now. I paid 91. for the carpet.—
Cross-examined : I told Howard the carpets would be sold
in the trade, and he mid I might chow it to whom I liked.
He told me he was employed to sell it for a party who was
lin difficulties.—Mr. Tharkrak, warehouseman to Merge.
Wood and Co , said that Albert was under him in the same
employment. He knew the patterns, and believed they wets
from Messrs. Wood's house. There were two pieces of the
pattern produced missing. The house had only ascertained
•he lam since they received information of the robbery.—
Thomas Bradby, City police, took the two prisoners into
custody. Howard said he knew nothirg about any carpet,.
end denied having any knowledge of Mimes. He objected
to po to Him's' with the witness, but was compelled to go,
end was stand identified by Mimes d the party who had
sold the carper. to him. Subsequently Howard said that it
Mr. Wood would be lenient towards him he
would tell him all alma it. No pennies of the
kind was made to Howard, wh, afterwards handed a
written statement to the clerk of Mr. Hobler, the
solid or for the prosecution. The paper stated that oward
met at the Lion, where he used to go to look for a job, the
prisoner Albert, who asked him to sell a pi. ce of carpet for
him; that he took the carpet to Mr. Mimeo, who bought it
of him, end told him to mention to the party who bad sent
it that he was open to take all he liked to send at a shilling
a yard: theft when he acted thus he was as innocent as one
of his babe. • that Albert was the man who employed him
to sell the gc;cals, but where Alber; got them he could nut
tell, or he would not be in such an awlul situation.—Mr.
Wood said, H. Albert has been in my empl yrnent about a
year and a quarter as 'ewer, and has had charge of the
warehrtne in Watling newt, from twelve to one o'clock,
during the time the other porter. who %malty bad the
charge, wart to dinner. I have a. en the patterns produced.
They are our patterns. Our wholesale price would be
2s 4d. a yard. I never saw Howard on my premiss. The
two pieces eosaisted of 18.5 yards. and were worth upwards
of 201. The prisoners were committed fur trial.
BINIVOLENCE.—Tbe magistrate announced the receipt
of the following sums: Fran the Inquest of Waltwook
Ward, 21 4s. 6d.; from J. Campbell, Esq.. 31.; frdm James
Barnes, Euq., 54 for the pour b x ; and 11. Irons J. W., (or
Felix Lavereck.
OUILDHALL.—A CASE or DISTIIIB6.—F. Jaques was
charged with being oa Blackfrian bridge with bat a to de-
stroy himself. Toe prisoner, •ho appeared in great distress
of mind, continued scethng while the witnerees gave their'
evides ce.—H. Capeey said that he was pawing over Black-'
frier-bridge, when his wife called his attention to the pri-
soner, who was cooping down in one of the receesee, with his
hat off. Wither ported on and 'o dud ,ound, when he ob-
served him with his fast on the perhper, ups.. eating
which he ran back and found him in a very excited state,
with a cord round his neck, to the other nd of w •ich a large
brick-bat was attached. He gave the prisoner into custody.
—The followihg letter was If nod upon they ritioner
My dear wile,—l take up my pen to addre-s you for the last time
a. to the state of my mind, for my heart Is I rotten to think Wray pre-
sent oosiditkm, and that when 1 left you had only a small portion of
dry bread, which 1. all we have to eat the wi,ole day; and atter
working the whole week, all day end half the nights, both of us only
to sant amount to pay the rent. La youth ask 1 can sit by you and
we you *twee I No, I cannot—it would drive me mad, my
dear. I have been cm the wide world now eighteen year
and sever Waived my character only by this bwrid deed.
I we sow driven to parish by my discramed einummanees. Steal I
will not, Warms I waned, arid empty I cat mu get. do, my dear Mary,
I hops you will nut fret at but pray fur my soul, that It may be mai,
and pray toe Ood to mist you through all the trialsof this word. Be
upright, honest, and just to *IL Pray go to your lather for protec.
don : I know that be ern we 'bat no harm come to you. Serve him
day and night, and God will reward r u I triad to sell the ticket tor
my boots. mat in van, so I ca, not boar it at y kager.—P S. By the
time you receive this tour wretched hussar d t sat be no mote.
In reply to Ald. Hooper, the prisoner saw he was a cheese-
monger by trade. He had latterly se, up an eel pie house,
which bad proved a disastrous speculation, for he lost
upwards of 401. in a abort time, and bee .me so reduced
that he could hardly procure a crust of bread for his wife,l
and not being able to see her starve, it had driven him ,
almost mad, and that induced him to act es he had done
Ald. Hooper asked the prisoner how lung he had the
eel-pie shop? Jaques replied about four mouths.—Ald.
Hooper: And how long ban you been married to tug young
woman ? Jaques : One month and three days.—Ald.
Hooper Only one nrwth ; why did you marry her when
you were losing money ? Jaques: At the'. time I was not
going down. It was about three year* ago I gamed her
affectionr, sad wiehen to act bon untidy thwarts her. I
might have let the business bed oat the landlord turned me
out suddenly.—Al i. Horn er :To say the least of it, p.O
acted very indiscreetly in :nor/inn than on the brink of
ruin.—Aldetmen Hooper said the wife bad better go to her
parents and intern them of what had occurred, end he
should detain her husband fdr a couple of days.
CLERKENWELL—How FINER Aka PAID DT CAW
DIIIVLIS.—A cab-driver was charged by Mr. Isaacs,
cabriolet proprietor, with being drunk during his employ-
ment, and damaging his_property. The one was proved
against the poisoner, and Mr. Coate was about to convict
hi. in a pecuniary fine.—Mr Isaacs amid it would have no
effect to fine him, for every button 01 a fine being
indicted it was intioadiafaly paid by the body of cals•drivers,
and the ensoloyen were laughed at Ndthing would do good
to pressed the blackguard conduct of the driven towards the
public and the proprietors of cabriolets, but the infliction
of imprisonment without a pecui.i.ry penalty.—Mr. Combo
sensed to agree with Mr. Isaacs, and committed the pri-
soner to the Mouse of Curreetion, with hard labour, for one
month.

I liiitLIIOROUGHSTRRET —Attunes ROBBERY or
Paters.— Roberteett, an upholstm r, was ch.rged wi;h
having had in nis pose team • auaunty of valuable prints
stolen from the rooms of the Huy mok'g•cal Sudety.—N.
Edwards said he had recently been employed by an attorney
as clerk in a case in which several parties now a custody
were charmed with stealing p.•pen and documents fro:c
various public daces. The prig; i now produced and owned
by the °Scars of the Ecronsolugical Society, had been given
into his are by the prisoner. The pronnct asked the witness d
he snout to 841011 t that he received the engravings from
Itins.—ne whims replied that he sew the elfirevinStm fa the
prisoner's htmas. flaw the prisoner eve the engravings to
Os wife, and heard his tell her to airs them to witness.—
nts wife said she was ready to swear thes • wee oat we word
of tenth is what this witness had utt. red. The witness, who
Nog as a sort of anora.y in the peoseeution spinet parties
is onskedy, setae to her husband and asked ht.% if bo would
Mho forvraill sad swear that he maw the print 0 end anew-

lags in Smith's (one of the prisoners') room. Smith had
been a ledger In her husband's house. Her husband said he
would not tell such a lie. The witness then said her hue.
band might swear he saw the prints in Smith's boeseodon.
Her husbabd refused to have anything to do with the bull-
, nese, and the witness lelt him with a threat. She amid
swear that the prints were never in her husbend's possession.
—The witness Edwards said the wife's story was not true.—
Hr. Bingham could not ren ire the ►tatem, nt of the wife as
an answer to the charge, and he should therefore remand the
case for a week. _ _

112nsvOnerecm .—From a nobleman, per J. D.," 51. ,
from " H. T.," 51 ; and Sc. worth of postage stamps, from a
lady, for the poor-box.
WESTMINSTER.—Dnamurion.—A respectable-lag-
ing man hastily communicated to the magistrate the follow-
ing eine of dinners ; He stated that a man and his wife who
bad been will brought up had encountered great reverses,
and came with then family to ledge in a house belonging
to applicant in York-street, Westminster. Fora short time
they endeavoured to procure a subsistence—the mother by
knitting wonted cuffs, and the father, whe had been a
schoolmaster, by writing labels for shop windows, which
twe of their children disposed of in the streets; but the
slender profit derived from these sources was totally inade-
quate is supply the wants of their children. At last both
parents were taken ill, and were unable longer
is aesist in the slightest degree themselves or children.
Death had that morning relieved the poor man
from hie sufferings, and the picture their abode
presented at that moment was frightful. Neat te, the man
who had been wrapped in the whole of the few arti-
cles of wearing apparel he possessed, lay the wife, opparently
in ady it g state, without a bed or an article of clothing to
cover her, and without food or firing, with her six poor
children. Oa being acquainted with these circumstances,
applicant hosts ned to the workhouse of St. Margaret's and
St. John's, Westminster, that afternoon, in order to make
the authorities acquainted with the matter. All his intestine
however, to obtain an audience at either the workhouse or
with the relieving-e fficer ire unavailing. At the former
the menials told him they were only servants and could
not interfere, and directed him to go round to
the relieloffice, where he knocked in vain, and having
g'ne to and fro for nearly two hours without
the slightest chance of making the appalling condition of the
family known, he had hastened to this court, in the hope
that of he were successful in arriving ere the nmeistnte left
something would be dune to alleviate their sufferings.—Mr.
Broderip inquired whether applicant knew the nature of the
disease of which the poor man bad died.—Applicant replied
it was a sort of cramp brought on, he feared, by starvation.—
Mr. Broderip directed the chief usher to go immediately to
the house of affliction, not to lose a moment in doing so,
as by prompt attention the poor woman might yet recover ;
to procure for her all the necessaries sad comforts time would
allow ; to see that she had proper treatment in every respect,
and to let him know the expense.
WANDSWORI H —A BEGGING LETTER IMPOSTOR.—
R. Wilkinson, bliss Dennison, alias Carter, was finally
cheer d with attempting to obtain charitable con-
tributions by means of forged letters.—The evidence fotmsey
given proved that the prisoner went to the house of Mr.
H. Blackburn, Clapham.common, and save the footman a
packet, addressed "Mies Blackburn, with the Rev. T.
compliments, and an anew, r to the fearer wii
oblige."—Mr. Blackburn saw the prisoner, discovered he
was an impostor, and gave him into custo y. The prisoner
told Mr. Blackburn that he had been a shipwright,
and when before the magistrate he said he was
decayed schoolmaster—Of the letters produced De
first professed re hare been written by the Rev.
T. hl•Gill, of Clapham, and vouched f r the suthen
ticity of an enclosed appeal to the benevolent,
purported to emanate from Mr. W. Edgar, who re.
rides on Cl ephaot-common, and is a principal part-
ner in the firm of Swen and Edgar, silk mer-
cer. The appeal was, iu effect, that the bear, r, Rr.brrt
Wi kneels, hail been an a-sistant in Swan and Edgm 's film
some years, that he heti set u 1 in business for himself, but
had failed, had bet n a patient in Cituy'e H spiral, and had
had his furniture seised for rent. It was the bearer's wish
to get into a smell shop in the general line, and Mr. Edgar's
signature appeared to a donation of 71. oil behalf of himself
and firm; and thaw of several well known ladies aid gentle
men were attached.—Yetterdsy the Rev. Mr. 11'0.31 stated
that the prisoner was a stranger to him, and the note was
not in his handwriting —Mr. W. Edgar stated that the
prisoner had never been employed by their firm ; he was an
utter stran ter to him. and be knew nothing of his cireum
seances.—The Mendicits officer proved that the prisoner had
been known to the society since 1822, and in 1838 he had
been committed on six oct 'siege es a rogue end vagabond ;
and two or three times escaped conviction. Ile was coin.
mi'ted a fortnigh, Mom from Woolwich, for obtaining
money from the Dowager Duchess of Buckingham.—Mr.
Poynter committed the pis. nee for the full 'hind of three
months.

MONEY MARKET.

MONDAY EVIININO.

To-morrow being the important day 41 settlement
would alone have made this day one of bustle. The
stock market was, however, Mel, pendently of the
account to be arranged, extremely animated, and
considerable Woe/teflon.' were enteted into for the
next account. Crowds sere bought for that account
at 90, which with the dividend on, now in course of
payment, makes the price 911. It may perhaps be re-
membered that at the opening of this account, several
weeks since, it was stated as the confident opinio.i in the
higher class of stock exchange members that Console
would reach 90 on or before the liquidation to come
on to-morrow. It will be seen that the an, icipation
has been entirely realised. CourrAs were extremely
firm and in advance in the morning, and were bought
up to 89; for money. But on the appearance of the
second and third editions of the Daily Nen s, with ad-
vices from Paris of the fitting out of an ergs dition for
Italy, ostensibly to aid use Pope in the recovery of his
temporal sovere gnty, wr.ich it wrs considered
might bring on a collision with Austria
in I toile n affair", and wars perhaps de-
signed mere especially for that end, the market
gave way, su that eventually Consols declined to, sad
left off at, 89t to .4 ex die. Reduced Threes
were 89; to I. Three-and-a-Quart( r per Genie., 90!1 to t.
Long Annuities, 8 11-16 to 1. Exchequer Bills,
40s. to 435. prem. India Bonds, 425. to 433. prem.
Bank Stock, 189 to 191.

Speculation was still active in the foreign market,
arid more particularly in fancy at 'eke as before.
Should perchance the decline to the funds continue,
as may not unlikely be the r. suit of French inter-
ference in Italy, the parties more immediately con-
cerned in these epecul alone in non-dividend paying
stocks will probably have the worst of the bargain ;
they will remain with the stocks, and the sellers with
the money, supposing arcraints to he all squared.
Mexican were 26 to f. Peruvian, 48 to 50. Buenos
Ayres, 26 to 8. New Granada, 16 to 4. Vene-
zuela, 19 to 21. Brazilian, 75 to 7. Chilian, 87 to
9. Spanish Fives, 151 t• 1 ; the Threes, 28 to 4 ;
Passive, 31 to /. Portuguese' 254 to 64. Dutch
Two.and-a-Halfper Cents. 49 to 4 ; the Fours, 77
to 8. Belgian, 75 to 7. Russian, 102 to 4, and
bought at 1034. .
Tne following calculations show the rate per cent.
per annum yielded by the various securities cited at
the average of the prices which ruled on Saturday.
Where the asterisk (*) is placed, it is to be under-
stood that the rate of dividend is less the income tax.
Three per Cent. COMO* aVilrigill pica 896 yield pet cent.ES 7 0/
Thaw vet Omit. &doped ,.. 891 3 7 01
Three.and.a.Quertes per Gents. 9O 19 3 12 26
Bunk Stock (dividend 7 per amt.)
Exchequer Bills (int. 21d. rim day) 42a. p. : 314 51
Lancashire and Vorkraire Railway
(dividend 6 per cent.)
Great Westerns(dlv. 7 id.)
a 7 13 0
Undue and South Western *(dly. aid.) 42 7 2 101
Logsdon and Brighton e(div.2 3.3 id.) 34 ” 3 16 56
Eastern i menses *(div. 4 Id.)
Landon and Barth WelteTONdly. 7 it) 127 6 10 21
Midland e(div. 6 Id. )
York and North Miasma e(div. S M.) 56 7 2 101
York, Newasetle, and Berwick Neiv
8 id.)
ENGLIdH FUNDS.
3 per CL Reel. Aims.. /91 1 India Bonds, under ZlOOO, 45
3 per Ct. C.ms. Ans., Set 6lf uses*, for Acct.. 0941 ti
N ems St ter ik. Anus.. 110 k i 90 61cheqvfielfills. ti.vm, SO .March.
Long Annuities, exp. Jan. 5, 1860, 44 340; 3d.. June, 41 4 pm.
* 11-16 4 Ditto, Small, 2..1.. June. 41 pm.
India Bonds, £l,OOO, 45
FOREIGN FUND&
5 per Ct. Bruillan Bonds, 761 6 Per Cc. Spanish Bds.. Dlv. from
6 per Ct. Buenos Ayres ids., 28 61 Nov.. 1840.16644
3 per CL Chili= Bonds, 60 Ditto Acct.. Jan. SI, 16416
2- per Ca &sunder Bonds, 31 1 6 per Ct. Spanish Passive Bonds
1 per Ct. Grenada Bonds. 1011 l _4l_ . .
DC) Zet,Tazolet. ':1446117 44 I fa. IetTeiXINT
6 per Cent. Feniviso Bends, 49 24 per Ct.. Deferred Venezuela
41 perper Ct."- ent'ortualeeme"t4lgueisourolk?"!.. •n . 244erBondif,‘6iDtatek Exch.. 12 Gull..
6per et ROW= 8da..1822, Let. 1031 4 per .eat Dutch Catillcatas, 774