The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

MADRID, Dec. 16.—Three per Cents., 361 ; after
Bolsa, 30! to 37. Four per Cents., —. Fire per
Cents., 101, ; after Bolsa, 101. Coupons, ; after
Boise, 7!,. Passives, ; after Bolsa, c. Bank
af St. Ferdinand, 99 p. Exchange on London. 50.60.
BERLIN, DEC. 20.—Voluntary Loan, 107. New
Loan Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1601. National
Debt, 884. Commercial Marine Society's Premium,
120. Bank Shares, 99.
VIENNA, DEC. 20.—Five per Cents. Metalliques,
94. Four-and-a-Half pc: Cents. Nletalliques, 831.
Bank blares, 1210. Exchange on London, 12.13.

ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR TEMPLE-BAR.—Tes-
terday morning, at a quarter past two o'clock, the attention
of the polii e was attracted by the noise of • brawl at the
corner of Chair-court, Shipyard, Temple liar. Two con-
stables immediately proceeded to the spot, and found two
Me engaged in a desperate stru7gle one of whom sud-
denly staggered and fell to the ground, exclaiming, " Oh,
my God, lam stabbed!" The policemen immediately se-
cured his antagonist, and the wounded man was raised from
the ground and speedily conveyed to King's College Hos-
pital, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, where he was
examined by the house surgeon. It was found that
be had sustained three Kiln wounds in the region
of the heart, the nature of which precludes the
slightest hopes of his recovery ; and he has been
since totally unable to give any account of the transaction.
The instrument which had been used by his assailant, was
band at the place of encounter, and secured by the police.
It is a stiletto, with a white handle, and the blade is one
foot in length. The point of it was bent, as if it had en-
sauntered some hard substance. The name of the wounded
man is James Quilley, usually residing at No. 1, Caroline-
sew, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell. Thu accused, who is a
person of gentlemanly appearance, was conveyed to Bow-
street station-house, and on being searched, another knife
of s very formidable appearance was found secreted on his
person. Ile refused to giro his name, or to furnish any
eseount of himself whatever. lie will be examined before
the magistrate to-day.
DEATH or SHEEN THE INFANTICIDE.—The not°.
dous William Sheen, whose murder of a child under air-
! astastaaces of unparalleled atrocity, and his own extraor-
-11 Misery escape from the gallows through a trivial technicality
excited universal astonishment, died on Friday morning,
at his residence in Kent.street, Spitalfields. It was in the
year 1527 that he committed the crime of cutting off the
head of a male infant four months old, the illegitimate off-
spring el a young woman whom he had married only Ave
week. before the murder ; and at his trial he was proved to
have deliberately decapitated the child, concealed the body
is the bed, ad Owed the head erect on the table, standing
up am the Moo. arty am to face the mother when she
ea-
Mei OM nee The Add, however, had been baptised
' °Was Wißban Berke, the latter being the mother's UMW
OM time of Ito birth ; and upon the ebkotisa
of Mr. Clubmen, the prisoner's cussed, this deserip-
tian la the iadrasent was held to be a misnomer, and the
Omer wee aorsltted. The life me apsred, however, has
show bola •Mr rinerebb sae, sod he beta
am, to
ti
woo mes,
la MPrim ot rho roglibolots • with
that le halms bogged, ht glom wry aurae
neighbours taunts* lam with Mesreat crime. He brew
utterly ferocious, abbiragh rwarMy, and has been many
limas Imprisoned for acts of violence, brothel keeps g, mad
Singes.
THIRTY LIVE! LOOT BY SILIPWRECE.—The SO-
sexed reports of woods lost were allesunced at Lloyd's en
Saturday ;--The Aargra pocket ddp Tyendenoga, on bee
M Lawton ham Now Task, was orgy lost on the
mwaaaS of tho big at Dissrher. es ourbss mks off Cor-
Asalsisai The Nal bee of iger and Crew
&Med represd to be 27. Two were ran down
log Way leg la the Channel on Tuesday sight last. The
Thoselors, • hogs Doer barque 600 Isms berthen, bound
to Amsterdam. hoes Basavta, Aar MISR o'clock in the
whoa some M odes below the Eddystone' starr-
ing up Chace d. wee an by the CedeAblan, also a barque,
bof thee imamate, Captain Omar, from Kull:
blade. downwards. By comamisorknooradlog or neglect
a his= a "look-out," both nos k rater with
_sad with such tremenigne lousethat the
yell Skid, and went down. The nabs tad saes-
blow left scarcely sufficient timis to pit rho bar eat
the whole of the crew wen saved. TM Co.rollas oesstained very considerable damage; she was sem-
CI:ao pat into the first port, and remelted flyers* es
y night, with the crew of the sunken vessel on
board. she other vessel run down was the Eleanor, bo-
b:aging to Cardiff. One of the crew was carried down fa
her, and unbuffily perished. The collision took plow
about tea adios hem Dorman. The remainder of the crew
wen resoled by the vessel which came into collision with
M ihromee, the brig Milner, belonging to
_Hamburg. Oa
sight • large vessel, heels board 250 moigreate,
rerflremen, bound for New Y wee era ashore ea the
Chodwie. A number of Deal Margate =wen
pear
Illy off the wreak,
takingeff is beats. Ton hoerd the
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seßgers, who were brought
he yeseel's
is sot mentioned. There are three other looses mentiemni I
the most serious was that of the Lille, of Liverpool. Mis
was found to be on Are on the 2nd inst. in latitude 43-114
longitude O. Nothing could be seen of the crew.
i
! FATAL ACCIDENT AT OXFORD.--On Saturday
afternoon, Mr. (Mabee, commoner of Exeter College, was
accidentally drowned in the Thames. The deceased had
been rowing in an outrigger as far as Sandford, and on his
return, when just past Iffiey Pound, his boat upset, how
or by what means comet be ascertained, as no one saw the
aed&at. A preen passing the boat turned upside
down, when k• pee an slam, and the body was foead in
the coarse of shoat a quarter of an hour. The deceased
was the 'sly sea of the Rey. William Wire, vicar of
dereanap, Cornwall.
DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAILWAY.— On
Saturday, the Morin is Chancery, Bronchium, made his
report amlemltf the compromise of the charge calling
for an comsat 811,0001. received as deposits, brought on
by the allsblz=n, 'plait the directors of this cool-
pan em tho at 9001., mots
.ineurred in the pro-
w thh Om% and in imanderation of which it
the ehargs4lll Mparties will be aban-
doned. the recovery or weisettled claims against
the wormay being referred y the Master to • jurisdiction
69 arratai law.