The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1848.

neepitellsted the riders, remerking epee die eireant-
risen at it bias quite dark when SIN tranasetton took
pies sad the eiresse of say edemas r to UM mode by
relit the palmier aid her gad NW late the water, sad
else sheeseft that widow at AM eat all positively ea-
elude the wappeakin thee the phew had tales from the
steamer W essides•
widest deliberating mon dm • admits TIP
• waist of Not (inky.
pal[ ennui lonseuse.— W. M.Pregslay, a letter carrier,
we iseleteil hr embesallag sad weans, while mewed in
that sweaty, a Meer esamialag le., the ps= of the
persastordeaseel—Mr. Charon sad Hr. rail •
este& ; the gamer wee tinted by Mr. Beßearisa.—lt ap-
peared that ea *earl et Levet • passes alma Imensel
posted • Weer asehieftel a shillint atßeenie4;errTzt
Ake, eddresed M hie eel at Emaassi
Wealmkeler, sad 111 Inter awned Is du swarm at the
arellWes* ef the pest Mos. The primer was
isiter easier at the Gies, hie diarist ter deli-
very being Piedise, whisk esetprieed the imeesel Reipitel
esbeel, sad It was his Ilan he have delivered
the hies in qualm es the merig it arrived, het it
al set semi to bead I. des ceases. Whoa the whew
had us plated the dslivery ef kitten for this atersieg, he me-
nosed to the Partelke, when he mem him kale ere*
tem • 414118i1 own imierona I sad. es rebate, asked NM
lewd delivered all him hams, he asewesel is the affsemein,
and he was this takes te TeldilifiellePeless by the awn.
assaMw to the seem el list sehalMehmest hat
was sai es hie snivel, sad is the lidos sil then
was issued aoudad the hefts igr apes. esd the
1110allisacisthe prissier baebeg sused- eten
err la the kat. Oa Ye some quetilwa
War, he maid It WIN right ; that Is had de-
reirodedle Wm le the address apes it; bat the party
was met then. met le had rewind a redirection, wed he
would espila It le the first peen= who mina to the pima,
mire him to Saw the leeter. He afterwards laid that
ke had head a slog mars his bindle of letter, sod
that he supposed it had come out of the tatter in quoesioa,
and he *Waded to have mentioemed the matter to the
le-
rpetor end have delivered him the Ailing, but on his beim
reminded that taly a peaty was hand in his pocket, ke ad-
mitted that he had made re of the shilling, but rid he is
heeded to have obtained another.—Thu jury ford the pri-
wan Owilly, but recommended him to meaty.
Alert Kmesberry, 26, another Postoflite letter carrier,
*seed Guilty to ea offenses of a similar dearnater.
Ma Milk 26, also a patinas, was Wised foe ref
• brat artaiarg • sovereign, the property of her Hejestei
Preassater.GenseaL—The um* roansel wereo7=for
Ile peseevalles,—Mr. Parry denied the .
Is Rib an weaved that, in cessequses numerous
=l:4ll‘lll2gritY in the delivery of letters is the
Pongee, is the New Kestroad, whisk
was he is goluneee delivery, a plea was hid by w maths
Mee ef the Pesteellee to teat his honey. A ernereign,
marked by two of the officials of the establishineat, wee
placed la a letter addroped Mr. Dyer, 6 Weymouth.
ens*. New Keatrosel," mad this loam, whisk ens dinned
to a Ore sot whin the priener's (Notelet, was purposely
phial ewes his beadle of rum. It would have bus the
Wits priseser, nadir anis eireasetasese, to have
sw SIM isttor is (peados to ea Mow ailed the
Mimi isussi sad tie letter did eons to him, but
the mewl& hed My
Ma The primer,
ea kehe oniesed ley sae of the hapestem at the
pmeslise ens the saint, desied that he bed bees into
way timelessly!, err that los hed dosest.e:i
mid he ale ilesied be mesa say letter
te egmerelhotent. tuned amt, however that he bed ,
the MIMI MIIISIag obanlt
the Artier , movereign at the
es
P -f AIM publisleate, la the New Kent-road.,
sled. es lie bens coafreated with the lad who had
himM diem, he admitted the fee, and said that hagives had
limed W mmteirro en his seat at the pent-oreco.—llr. Parry
sibesed the4tfase the primer, sad celled the Rev. Ro-
bert Rd's, a ate for the nasty of Rase:, to speak to
lie efeeseeles, that geatiemea stated that he had known
him from a boy, sad he always onallered
hies rebus, an
steeliest etweesees 'ad he also ems lif w out of
custody he metal willingly take him into his service.—The
jury retuned • verdict of Owsily, but recommended the
prisoner to many me essount of his good @hunter.
NSW oOUlT.—Before the ilacardsr.
Ritmo° Swears—J. Bradley, aged 40, goldsmith, wee
indicted fee stealing a ring, valued at 101., *e property of
Risher& Willis, his muter. The brother of the prosecutor
SWIM that they earn on business at Clerkeuwell-grass, es
=ths, and the prisoner had bean ia their employ be
throned (rumors. The property in question hael,been
eialnisted to him (prisoner) to make, and ha having absented
"dwelt from his work for several days In the early part of last
Mendb, witness, apes looking Into the place when hie work
direr have been, mired the ring. Upon prisoner returning
to Lis work, he said he had met with an soculent to undo the
stones which he had to cat in the ring, had
taken it away to get it repaired. Prosecutor not
being saddled with the statement, gave him into
custody, and he t hes admitted having pawned the ring
for 51., but mid he iateaded to redeem ie.—Several wit.
eases gave the prisoner as excellent character, sad es vital
his having committed the act, not to an latent to deprive
the proceentor of it, but to temporarily procure some money,
haviap Gilles into difficulties from sperdating in • number
iungsweeps.—Thee jury rained • verdict of Guilty,
aecoespanylog it with a recommendation to mercy.—the
Recorder, is pasting tenter" deprecated the temptation of
such species of gambling, whir sooner or later entailed a
serious loss ea those who eageged in them, and generally ter-
pinated ia their ruin. wee then ordered to Mid -
risons& and kept to bard la Rebour far three mouths.
IV. Nadi, aged 23, clerk, was indicted for staling a
gelding, chaise, and harness, the property of Robert Staple.
ton. He was also indicted for stealing a horse, saddle, and
bridle, the property of George Scott; and farther detained
upon another charge of larceny. The prisoner, who is the eon
of an Subteen at Cheltenham. and a young maa of rural
appearames sad address, had by false pretences hired from
leveed livery-stable keepers horses and gigs and saddle
hones, with which he went to seven' hotels, ordered dinners
mad tea, took his wise and the best of what the different
houses afforded, and having had the vehicles and horses pot
up for the eight, under the pretence of not being able
to get a eeie cashed, borrowed various small sums
from the landlords and waiters, after which he cle
camped, leaving the owners of the hones and vehicles
to recover the prtperty the best way they could.—
The jury head him Ossify.—Thu Ream ler said it did not
appear that he iatended to steal the horses or gigs, but had
rather obtained them by false pretences, to aid him in carry-
ing out • system of swindling. He should not, therefore,
treat it as a an of horse stealing, but of swindling, and
seateseed him to 12 swaths' imprisonment and hard
labour.
Ro 88888 ST A CLEII.-.4. seed 18, MI me-
llower's clerk, was indicted for elealler 1110 Prfrifi7 et
his muter, G. Whittlee.—Mr. Pays pemeseted mins. Psea
deeps defended.—lt appeared that prisoner had been
for some yews in the employ of presswear, who is an auc-
tioneer ..d house &gest. The primer had received the
messy is queens and had sever seek retuned to the
dies, or +lves:ea:B7 ameene of the mow, until
he as by a polisowsWable is Rants,
whoa ke lei that where the money had bees paid him he
had semshlag to brisk which °memo him, and being
robbed of part of the money he was skald to return.—
ihred witnesses sin his an excellent character, and the
=l:strongly recommended him to mercy. The jury
.Guilly.—Two of the rheum to character who
are perms in business and of the highest respectability
Wend le lake him irate *ail AMISS f dl.chs gad —rid
Semi, Is loft sodas% NM he meld not look ever
such es efeeee without woe peekkasent, the mare
espeehlly se the Omer W bees veil 'dewed and
breeiftla ; bet es ha had Wm rememseisi mercy
sad twos kh sisee from whoa, he
sherd mat auClie • gaol when he would he con-
' teadaseed. bet stir him to be imperilled for two months
in Hirsute.
had - -

MIDDLESEX SIASIONS.—YineIDIT.
Beton Mr. gerjeant Adams.
SIMPATHT.—J. Dale, 19, was indicted for attempting to
destroy himself, by cutting his throat The prisoner, it
appeared was confined is the Howe of Detention, Clarkin-
well awaiting trial on a charge of pocket picking. Oa the
15th instant, about half peat one o'clock, M'Callum, one of
the warders on duty, went to his cell, and found him lying
on his hoe ; blood was flowing from two eats in his throat
indicted by a clasp knife, whisk lay by his side. The officer
relied him up, and found that mot more than a glassful of
blood had nand from the wounds, and the latter were not of
a vary serious nature. The primmer saidthat he should have
dun it effectually bad the been sharp enough: he
wanted to take away kis life, sad had before that tried to
bast! himself. The warder sent fee the gOvernor and the
simgeem, rd the wounds were dressed.—The prisoner, in
his define, said that he had not done it with the
view of comminag saiside, hat be the purpose
of inducing the •
_utherities to plass some one la the all
with
hint —Thilammed judge end that the jury most judge of
the primroses ieuntim—A venkt et Noe Guilty was re-
turned.—Thu leaned judge said that the indictment against
the primmer he the other oases had been Ignored by the
grand jury from feelings of sympathy, on amount of this at-
tempt upon his life, though it em as den and as annul-
vocal a are as had ever come biker that start, whilst they
loud a true bill against him for this aim attempt at self-
destructioa. This showed what come of sympathy, and also
how mounts it was that Juries should apply themselves
only to the case before them. The verdict now given was
unquestiosal • cornet caw, and a regular pickpocket had
escaped from aide'.
Jovsoux sum —A little gW, named Weeidelkil years
of age, pleaded gnilq te • drips ef atialias ddkin her
father.—The leaned jailys rata tb• patents al this child
were, he was Wormed tank dbilneni, and had, us dant,
got up this dime ease thin OM to relieve themselves
boa the Tennil yif its 11111bilanYte. He we very
same smiplied that pain moglettalei inald send such a
ear to that wort Bit indabip astmesi the child to one
hour's imprisonment, and merely reprbmiled the mother,
cautioning bar to allatis bees her base habits, and nue:
von to dads WNW* bar miserable &WI&
CO ISE Oka= JUIT.—Tb• grand jury,
ea sin Ws Sand to be dushamed, ham Mel in the follow-
ieg promeslast:
Sto pima ot the gnat Joy beantina sub sargeteed at the
put saw darn ems st Inn Isosit Sdr notice, and
Milne le Ss Wild= ye, de Ss& pride oiled, to
sib Ss pis orsideds smineW dei sub ars by
dlob moo ark dila stud* Ilse d nor WSW d the
peg Imo vet Wigwag. Sid said arum
lair ward at Sit Is soma Maio d - ISE
edidis Sdnie ism JIM eleiss=rest
se Mod Sr die Sesse.sdpedbals le ills-
lissionnis d Ss ssissad.
lit. Unit blew odd, I. reply, that as szpselease of 40
ran in the pselenden of the law odd him that asthiag
staid be Mil se the edministostioa of Anise tbsallia-
gitgatna Mismens invested with a pow/ of essesswily dealing
IrMit sdoksiesese. Hat with repaid to the seemed pmt of

the prelennnent, be fully coecurred in what the grand jury I
said. The mart might »fuss to allow pecoreaton of that
arts their 'spumes, het that did set enewer the and ; and
the evil would never be remedied until, by a legislative
gummiest, the court Wes empowered to order the whole ex-
penses of the prosecution to bs levied upon the shop where
tho mks property was expand.

POLICE.—ViItirTILDST.
OIIILDHALL.-BTh4ulo • HOMAN AND CAST.—W.
ctltt and F. Finer, of Little Windmill-street, New-oat,
Lambeth, were charged with stealing a horse and cut, the
of John Tensile, of Failz, and AMOS and tilaroh
Darn chandlers wen as the receivers of the
00116 whisk weal in the :wt. On 7th of September, Thos.
Lewis, is the service of Mr. Tomlin, was sent for arse corn
and hems. Oa hie rows homewards, and when in Upper
Oround.street, Black Man cm of the seeks fell out of the
eon, sad Croft and another man helped to lift It in main.
Os Lewis nuking Bridge-street, Yam emu up and-told
his that he ma to go back to the wharf fora letter for his
master. Believing Vicar, be had seen him on the wharf
previous to loadiag,he retuned then, leaving Croft in charge
of the bons sad cart. On the way, the prisoner Viper
made an excuse to Lewis, saying that he would
follow his, but did sot do ea ; and when the
Won arrived at the wharf he found the story
false. On recarrog with the clerk to Bridgo-street,
Lewis discovered that the hone, cart, corn and man
sad drappeared, and nothing more was beak of them
satil the hone and cart were hand in Chapel-etseet, Sower
gem, by the polies, who Named them to His Oreerryard,
wheats they wore shortly after Mused by the owner. Two
of the City police officers the. actively set to work to lad
the prisoner Visor and the maven, and alter Wate
CroVa house for some time they followed his preenmed=
to Bealey's house in Timbal` a-roed, and as bee noun,
Dalton, one of the officers, task her to the etatkadsonse, and 1
she war kept there while he and Rowe, another oasis, went
and searched finley's loser, where they found at the bey k
part of the shop a quantity of corn covered over with
smoke, the quality of whir wee identified r bring similar .1
to that stolen. It was then proved hy Mrs. Watson, the
menu who lived with Croft u hie wift, that after she was ti
in custody sloe went by his desire to Seeley's, and asked 11
what they were going to do, either to send money or employ 1:
a solkitor to defend Croft, and that Mrs. Beaky at first pro- y
Mad to send • solicitor, at the lame time saying, "If ,
Croft keeps quiet and knows nothing, we shall know no. '
thing ; end if he gra imprisoned, he shall have something
to go elsewhere on his coring out." any
the next °erasion
Mrs. Beaky said she raid not spare any money, as if they
got into trouble they would want it to defend themselves.
The primmer Vine, wee sot taken into custody until a day
or two ago in Lincolnshire. He was identified by Lewis as
the man who told him to go bask for the letter.—The pri-
sown were committed.
WEST MI NST E R.—fiv.assi so. —WilliantPhilips, a boy
between 12 and 13 years of age, was charged with stabbing
another, between 2 and 3 years his senior, with a penknife.
The two boys resided at Chelsea, and were playfellows. On
Tun Jay evening they were together, near Turk's-row, ,
when the prisoner amused himself-by cutting a sharp point
to apiece of wood with a penknife, after which he poked the
point of the wood repeatedly against the other's side. The
letter entreated him to desist, but finding that he would 1
not, he took the wood away from him, upon which ?,
the prisoner declared that union he immediately re-
stored it he would lob the knife into him. Prosecutor re at
fused to deliver up the piece of wood, and the prisoner is- 2,
tudiately carried his threat Into execution by stabbing him
in the arm, near the elbow.—Policeman Harriott immedi-
ately afterwards tame up, and finding the boy bleeding from
the wound, had him conveyed to • surgeon's, in Lower
Oeorgerreet, when the wound was dressed, and took the al
prisoner into custody.—The accused, in reply to the charge, 11
said the other boy would notgive him up his piece of wood, I
and struck him in the eye.—Frisoner was committed for trial c
at the Central Criminal Court.
2

MONEY MARKET.
WIDNIVIDAT EMNIIIO.
The porchases of money stock, which commencers
yesterday, were more actively continued to-day, and
were paid at higher rates in consequence of the de-
mand for, and the scarcity of, stock at market. It was
worth and obtained more by 1 than stook bought for
time at various times dunng the day. Consols
ascended to, and were bought at, 851, but closed a
fraction lower at 83 tot, both for money and time.
Reduced Threes, 84 to 1. Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 844 to Z. Bank Stock, 183 to 6. Long
Annuities, 8Z to 7-16. Exchequer Bills, 395. to 425. i
prem. India Bonds, 38s. to 41s. prem. India Stock,
234 to 6.
Foreign stock., in which there was little business, a
may be quoted nearly as before. Mexican were 1,
steady at 19 to 1, having been done at the
latter quotation. Peruvian, 31 to 3.,8 -azillien, 70 1
to 2. Chilian, 82 to 4. New Granada 114 to 12. LA
Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents., 441 to 54 ' • the 71
Fours, 68 to 9. Rueeialt, 97 to 9. Belgian, 70 to 2. 11.
Spanish Fives, 101 to 11; the Threes, 211 to 21; It
Passive, 2/ to 3. Portuguese, 22 to 3.
The Manchester Courser, under date of last even- s
Mg, notices :
A failure of large amount which was announced to day,
that of Meows. S. A. Butterworth and Co., in the blanches-
ter and Yorkshire trade, in this town and at Shelf, betw.en
Halifax mid Bradford. The liabilities of the arm are vari-
ously stated at between 30,0001. and 100,0001., but the former ,
sum will be about the amount. The failure has not rakes
any one by surprise, es It has been feared such would be the
result for some time past. The larger portion of the BINH-
' ties will, it is understood, All upon Bradford.
The directors of the Midland Railway, it is under-
stood, are about to submit to the proprietary, with
the least passible delay, a complete statement of the'
affairs of the company, a copy of which will be paused
to each member. 'This will assuredly be the most
satisfactory and decided course for disposing of the
misrepresentations or exaggerations which, wantonly
or wilfully, have been circulated so freely of late.
On the other hand, it is proper to notice an instance
of improper railway management in the construction
of the board of directors of the York and North Mid-
land line. At that board two of the auditors are per-
mitted to sit and to act as directors : are directors in
fact, as well as auditors, if we are correctly
informed. Now such a conjunction of offices, in-
volving the performance of very opposite duties,
is, if not unprecedented, at least unusual,
and cannot be too strongly observed upon. The true
attributes of an auditor consist in the powers de-
legated to him of checking the accounts, and pro
tank) the proceedings, of the board of direction, in
the interest of the associated proprietary by whom
nominated to act, or supposed to be. Such also must
be the intent or construction of the acts of parliament
by which auditors are directed to be appointed. But
how can such functions be expected to be always im-
partially fulfilled, as they ought to be, where
auditors, themselves directors, meet simply in the
dormer capacity to audit their ewn accounts, for such
is the fact when, as directors, they are themselves the
parties whose accounts have to be checked and investi-
oksd? It is, and will be, taken for granted, of course,
that although there may be a cumulation of incompatible
offices in thesame persons, there can be no cumulation
of the salaries or allowances attaching to each ; for
that Wield make the impropriety mere glaring still,
and Is. endurable, because more costly, to the pro-
prisisry. The combination of auditor and director in
the same individual is sufficiently incorrect of itself,
and independently of other considerations.
Letters on railways and the Stock Exchange
are still the order of the day with many
of the readers of the Express in various
parts of the country. Were the matter they
contain of "sufficient importance or novelty, or were
specific facie of grievance or otherwise alleged under
proper guarantees of authority, they might be left to
tell their own tale at length. But unfortunately they
treat too vaguely and discursively de omnibus rebus
in respect of railways, and stock jobbers, with schemes
for smeding the values of the one, and the manners
el the other, to be wilfully available for insertion, foe
IN& indeed the length of some of the ooramunica-
time would be an additional disqualification. One
Ming from " Lothbury," requests us
toelig2 thellataMedse of capitalists to the superior
adenetages of "making purchases (of railway
) at the present low prices," my " half
wind has actually been paid upon them,"
whisk "in many cams" would return 10 per cent.
sr more as an investment ; and our humble
same are requested in " these times of depression
and panic," in favour of railway property. Need it
Ise repeated, that it is no part of our duty to interfere
about prime, further than to record them, and the
causes which may have led to their elevation or de-
preciation ? In the weekly summary. under this head
of the rates of interest per annum yielded by various
stocks and shares at the prices of the day, founded on
the rates of dividend last declared and paid, and the
interest according to denomination on government
stocks, care is advisedly taken to avoid any exprm-
sion of opinion as to the relative value or superiority
of one description of security over another, or the re-
verse. With such facts as can be so supplied, and
such other information as they are left, and especially
warned, to gather, the public may be safely trusted 's'
general to look after their own interests, and at all
meats may not leek for counsel from us.
Another correspondent is anxious that " jobbers
should be kept without the walls" of the Stock Ex-
change. The suet of this would simply be to put an
end to about three-fourths of the business in railway
shares, to my nothing of the funds. Worse still : it
would create a mush greater panic in shares than has