The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

new was shown a long sharp-pointed iron skewer, with
which it WWI done. As the wounded man seemed to he la-
bouring under considerable pain and exhaustion, although
there was no external heemorthage from it, he was conveyed
to the residence of a surgeon in the L,,nflon-read, who, on
ascertaining the nature of the injury, directed that he should
be forthwith taken to the hospital, which was immediately
carried into effect. The policeman here produced the iron
skewer, which is about a foot in length, and point-el at one
end, and added that it was discovered that about three inches
of the instrument had penetrated Hardaway's body,
a little above the right hip joint ; that the un-
fortunate man WAS exceedingly ill during the night.
In the confusion that occurred at the moment when the out-
' rage wan perpetrated the prisoner left the house, and he was
taken into custody the following morning.—lsiac Box stated
that, -n the preceding night he was in the tap-room of the
Wellington, and observed the prisoner in the act of cooking
some sprats fixed on an iron skewer, which h' held before the
fire. Hardaway, the man who was wounded, stood next the
grate, and exclaimed that he would have a sprat, at the same
moment snatching one of them off the skewer. Having
eaten it, he expressed his determination to have another,
upon which the prisoner threatened that if he took another
he would run Dim through with the skewer. The threat was
scarcely uttered when Hardaway matched another sprat, and
was in the act of making a hasty retreat to the other end of
the room when the prisoner turned upon him and thrust the
pointed end of the skewer, which appeared to be nearly red
hot, into his right side, above the hip. Hardaway exclaimed,
So help by Ood the prisoner had wounded him, and he
exhibited the instrument, which was sticking in the
wound, and had some difficulty in withdrawing
it from his body. When the prisoner heard the man's ex-
clamation that he was wounded, he appeared very much
alarmed, hoped that he had not injured him much, and ex-
pressed his regret that in a moment of exeitemi nt he should
have been guilty of such an act ; he also uttered the words
that it was a bad job, and that it arose through the man's
own folly in snatching that which did not belong to him,
after be had been warned of the consequences. The witness
added, that he subsequently assisted in conveying the
wounded man to the house of a surgeon in the Lossehn-rord,
and from thence to the hospital.—Police-serjeant 3 M pro-
duced a medical certificate, testifying to the present alarming
condition of the person in the hospital, describing that it was
impossible as yet to determine how the ease would terrain:l.e.
—The prisoner merely said that he did not intend to wound
the man. and that it was done en'irely through accident.—
Mr, Cottingham said that it was necessary to remand the
prisoner to Wednesday, until the fate of the wounded man
was ascertained.

MONEY MARKET.

WeuxESDAY ETINING.

The fluctuations in the public securities were to-day
of very trifling importance. The moneyed people were a
good deal on the alert. It was not forgotten that the bank
directr-es would to-morrow (Thursday) hold their weekly
meeting ; and the question very generally asked, bat which
no one could confidently answer, was, will the present
minimum rate r f interest of the corporation be altered ?
Letters from Hamburg quoted the exchange on London
at a still lower rates and the northern correspondence intl.
mates that the interest of money at St. Petersburg
I %instill enormously high. The more favourable rates of
exchange produced here, however, by the recent measures
of the Bank of England, are neeeLanly taken into the cal-
culations of parties watching the general course of business.
Consols left off 901 to 1 for money, and 91 (rather buyers)
for account; Exchequer Bills 3s. to Gs. pm.
The foreign securities were little dealt in, and have re-
mained, as nearly as possible, stationary in point of value.
Mexican Stock was 211 to 21; Three per Cent. Spanish, 311
to 1 ; Four per Cent. Dutch, 92 to I ; Chilian Bonds, 94
to 5.
The most particular cause of uneasiness in the mock-ex-
change was the demand for coin at :he Bank of England,
which was, and will be, required in Ireland. It is calculated
that about 21 millions will have to be drawn out from the
Bank for that country. Mr. Jasper Rogers, civil engineer,
in his remarkable publication on the condition of the frith
peasantry, acquaints us with the lamentable fact, that no
money passes there for labour or even for rents, in the case
of small lettings •, but that the compensation, such as it is, is
made 1111 kind, that is, in allotments for pot tto growing, &e.
If a metallic circulation is to be enforced in Ireland, it is not
two or three millions that will be required, but some twenty
or thirty millions, not as in England in the like ease formerly,
by degrees to be introduced and diffused, but all at once, or
within a limited period. It is not to be believed that the
government scheme contemplates any procedure so rub.

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N•P 36 per Ct. 1626. /3 n 34 3 171uo, PO, 3
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