The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1847.

Castle, in the county of Durham. The three prisoners en
lived in Barnard Castle ; Barker resided in °agate,
Brick= in Briggate, and Rains lived in the neighbour•
hood. The place of the robbery was on the banks of the
Tees, and known as "The Sills," and the crime was alleged
to have been committed there by the three pd.
WORM in the presence of two women, Ann Hum-
phreys and Catherine Rain*. The mu Yates and the
female Catherine Rain* were never sees alive afterwards.
In the afternoon of the 9th of August Joseph Yates was in
possemion of money to the amount of about eighteen shit-
Begs. During the evening be was seen at several pubile.
house where he spent money in drink. He afterwards
was at a hones kept by a party named Loftus. Somewhere
about twelve o'clock, to company with three other penises,
he went dower Briggate, and tried to get into some public-
houses in Startforth, but failed. Yates was seen bye man
named J. Robinson to erode the street and join Catherine
Raine, and they were observed by him walking up end doer*
Delegate together. They were neat seen by a man named
Deblois, who was the last who would 'peak of these
until they were taken up by Ann Humphreys. The threw
primers were sees together on this evening in Brigs,
pls. by Robert Windlass shortly before the time when they
went spoken of by Ann Humphreys. This young wools
meet to bed en this night between 12 and 1 o'clock, her
ti sr, father, and her child having previously gone to bed, and
being asleep. Ann Humphreys was, however, restless and
uneasy, from some unaccountable cause, and she rose spin
without disturbing the rest of the family. She dreamed her-
self and went down stain, and standing at the outer door she
saw Yates and Catherine Heine together, when the three pri•
loners came up and joined them. It was proposed to go over
the bridge, and they all did so. Yates and Catherine Raine
walked together, followed by Ann Humphreys and Thomas
Raine, the other men!;lßarker and Bret/ion, being in the
rear. A witness named Alderson saw all the six persons pass
in this order towards the bridge. As they were going along,
Rains said to Ann Humphreys, " Yates has some money ;
how must we do to get it from him ?" She replied, '• Poor
little fellow, don't meddle with him ; he will spend it all
among you." They were then going along the Sills, and
Barker came up and spoke to Yates. They afterwards
walked a little further, when Barker asked Yates for his
money. Yates said he would not give them a halfpenny,
but he was willing to spend it among them. The other
prisoners then joined Barker in using violence to Yates,
who, with Catherine Raine, cried out " Murder," which
vie, were heard by the persons occupying the houses on the
epposite side of the river. These erase became fainter, until
Yates was insensible. The three prisoners then left him,
and Raise, counting some money, said there was 10s. or lls.
The prisoners then again went up to Yates, a splash was
heard in the water, and nothing was seen of him more. The
women were then threatened with the same if they told,
and when on the bridge the prisoners required them to
swear to secrecy. Ann Humphreys swore she would not
tell, but Catherine Seine psrsistal in saying that she would
tell, when she was seized, thrdwn over the parapet-swell, and
the waters being very swollen that night, she quickly disap-
peared. Ann Humphreys was then again threatened and re-
peated the oath not to tell, Breskon telling her that if she did,
God would strike her dead. Ann Humphreys then went home,
and she was heard by parties who lived in the same building
to go up stairs. The three prisoners were afterwards seen
together; as regards the prisoner Barker, he was not at
home at 1 o'clock, when a person named Harrison, with whom
he lodged, went to bed. Neat morning Harrison got hold
of Barker', trowsers by mistake, and 3e. or 4s. fell out of his
pocket. On the morning before Barker had only a single
shilling, and he had not done any work that day. The body
of Yates was found some days after, having washed down
the river. His pockets were carefully examined, but no
money found in them ; his right hand trowsens pocket had
apparently been disturbed. The body of Catherine Raine
was found subsequently much lower down the river. The
principal witness, Ann Humphreys, after keeping her oath
nearly twelve months, revealed the secret to a woman named
Sutcliffe, who told a constable, and thus the matter came to
the magistrates, when the awful disclosures were made.
This was the statement of the case as given by Mr. Bliss,
eounael for the prosecution. Evidence was then gone into,
and the case for the prosecution having closed at 7 o'clock,
the court adjourned till next day, the jury being lodged in
the castle for the night.

cloak. He asked her where she was going. She replied,
" I don't know," and she appeared agitated. She bad a
cash-boo (now produced) in her posseasion, and suspecting
all not to be right be took her to the station-house, where
they found Mr. Luhbrooke, who had discovered the robbery
and was giving information to the police. The prisoner,
cis seeing her master, handed him the property, cried, and
said, " There is your property ; transport me if you like."—
Mr. Lynbrooke deposed, that the prisoner had been in
his service three weeks. He received a good character with
her. She had lived in one situation 11 years. The prisoner I
was mining on Tuesday evening, and it was discovered that
the robbery had been committed The street-door was left
open. He was with his wife and family at the time in the
parlour, and he supposed the prisoner passed out bare-footed,
with a view not to disturb them, and did not shut the door.
Other property was missing from the house. On searching
her trunk, it was found empty, with the exception of a 141 b.
weight belonging to witness, which had been taken from the
kitaen, and three petticoats, the property of her fellow-
servant—Mr. Combs : Do you think the prisoner is right
in her head I—Mr. Lashbrooke I can only say that she had
been occasionally very violent.—She said nothing in her
defence.—Mr.Combe decided on committing her for trial.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.—A WWI,. 00513100 net
HOSHAND.—fi. Buggett, and J. Buggett, jun., her son, were
charged with having defrauded Lord Bexley and others, into.
thee of the Provident Savings Bank, St. Martin's-place, of
201. by means of a forged order. The money in question was
part of a sum of 391. placed by the husband, J. Buggett, a
butcher, in the savings bank. The prisoner Esther, his wife,
being a woman of drunken habits, had parted from her hus-
band. Her son, a simple and ignorant child, of about
thirteen years of age had, evidently under the direction of
his mother, written a letter and an order for 201. in the
name of his father. It was by means of this forged order
that the money was obtained.—Mr. Boodle, from the savings
bank, produced the order.—The father appeared as prinet-
* witness against his wife and child, and declared the order
In question had never been written by him nor with his per-
miasiots.—The mother and eon were fully committed for
trial.

.—Caretow to RAILWAY SERVANTS.
employed as a gate-keeper on the
RiiliePAAN liSaifie ermonDdßeilW°laßwaTcH ls,
twel was charged with being found drunk
during his employment. Re was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.

MONEY M.IRIZET.

WZDNIIIMAY

The arrival of the Cambria steamer from New
I York, the more eagerly looked for beauty some two days
after she was strictly due, did not tend to improve the stock
market this morning, but the reverse. When it became
known that the ratesof exchange on England had descended
still lower at New York, whilst at New Orleans they were
more depressed still, the impression previously prevalent in
sonte quarters became strengthened, that the Bank directors
at the weekly board to-morrow (Thursday) might deem it
expedient to raise the minimum rate of interest. A rise of a
per cent, could have little, if any, effect, however, in checking
an outflow of gold, or even 1 per cent., in the present excep-
tional course off] irect commercial dealings between this country
and the United States. The latter are in the position of
being almost exclusively sellers of commoditi,s, without
being yet to any important extent buyers of products er
fabnes in return by the amount of which exchanges should
be checked in any sensible degree. As the demand for
American commodities may be said to exceed the supply, if
not the power of supply, the prices to be imposed are likely
to remain in some degree at the discretion of the owners on
the spot, and if, therefore, the attempt should be made to
enhance the cost of gold here, in which returns should be
mode, by raising the rates of discount still higher, the result
would only be, countervailing causes not presently threaten-
ing apart, that prices would be advanced so much
across the water as at least to cover the extra charge
upon the gold still required in payment. If the exporta-
tion of gold depended upon, or were intended as, a mercan-
tile adventure merely, founded on certain exchange com-
binations, a rise in the rate of interest might come to inter-
fere ma<erially with the success of the speculation. But I
here the circumstances are essentially different. The balance
of trade is so vastly preponderating on one side, that gold
must go until the period shall arrive, now probably little dis-
tant, when other products will be more extensively dymanded
ia, and therefore shipped to, the United States. Whether the
shipments he direct from hence, or from parts where Bntish
credit and trade are ascendant, the same result will follow
substantially. Again : high rates of interest could not but
be injurious to the manufacturing interests hi re, by in-
creasing the coot of production, and either restricting con•
sumption, or causing prices to be less remunerative than
they are, if not actually losing. At a time when there are
no encumbering stocks this would be tantamount to dis-
couraging the more active resumption of industrial labour,
and to shockling the facilities for answering foreign require.
menu. It would place the manufacturer at a disadvantage
for meeting competition in American markets with
other producers ; and this too more especially with
the domestic producers. For money is becoming more easy
and abundant for them, end the rates of interest mere
moderate, precisely when it is proposed in some quarters to '
tighten credit here by taxing money at a higher rate. It
may be permitted to doubt whether the Bank directors are ,
yet prepared to act upon this policy. The case of necessity
is at all events not apparent. Rates of Exchange on London,
down at New York to 5 premium, and at Now Orleans 31
to 41, scarcely make up a cue of themselves.
The funds, as before stated, were affected by the unfavour- <
able exchanges and rising prices of corn brought by the
Cambria from New York, and by the consequently antiei- ;
noted action of the Bank of England. The sales of 20,000/. ,
Console by the Bank broker for the savings banks
10,0001. of which were token to account of the commissioners

for the seduction of the national debt, and the remainder by
the dealers, assisted in depressing the market, unimportant
as the sum total sold was. These continued sales for the
savings banks excite some little anxiety, although it is not
improbable that the amounts withdrawn front those institu-
tions' to answer which these and other stales have been or
may be made, are designed for investment in railway bonds,
or guaranteed lines carrying a more tempting rate of interest
than the fund*. But a sole of 50,0001. Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. at 881 ex dividend, for the opening, by the same
broker, made a more adverse impression still, because cur-
rently reported to be for account of the Bank. Also,
although the fact is not at all clear, as sales of
stock for time would be a coarse of action rather
unusual with that establishment. Consols declined in
consequence to 881 to 1 money, and 881 to 4 for time, at
which rates they left off with a heavy appearance Consols
scrip were Ito 1 discount. Exchequer bills par to 3s. pre-
mium. India bonds ss. discount to per.
The business in foreign stocks is dwindling down to the
smallest amount and number of transactions. Scarcely more
than half-a-dosen were reported to-day. The two small
stocks of New Granada and the Ecuador were done at a
decline, the deferred bonds of the former to 3 to 1, the latter
to 21 to 31. Dutch were better, the Two-and-a half per
Cents. at 871 to 81, the Four at 911 to 1. Mexican, 211 to
4. Spanish Fives were called 221 to 31, the Threes 34 to 4.
Portuguese 32 to 4.
ANGLIIIII sflrna.•
P., Cr. Oast Lass., Gal 111 Islip Mork for Lee, HO
Neer ri per cent A.m., Ie I Commie ants. I i di..
1.415 )km41..10001 d 4 is. alb, IDM .14.. ap. ps. rp.
Moo ruder IMP.. s MP pos. NW, 000,11 p par.
But stock. POP Dltor, WU, I s 4 pm.
Consols ter Arm, 101 I II

• ppr Orst. althea Deeds, SI I pr. Ccllpales• /tut,. )44r. 21,114
24 per Mat Dutch Equader se, Iti per Cc Amt.. km. 31,4.711
1 per Cent. Gros& Ytereed, ii I I 4 per Opot. DUN Certileatre, Ilf I