The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

f the certificate of the 1 R'sIUSAL To BUILD A But . nos —On Saurday the Croy-
'es Bt'ans be suspended for three years from Railway
f 5' Company were summoned byt
es farmer named
bankrupttC Bristow, under one of the clauses of their act of parliame.nt,
1 se lamination.
ceurt, which is, that the is".liwarice o
the de' id( Pusitg the e the before the presiding magistrate at the Town-Hall, Creydon,
to thew cause why they neglected or refused to build abridge
Which his Honour deferred deciding.
was then heard upon ores ..on of costs,
over their extension line to Epoom upon the property of the
eomplainant,which was owned by the railway. 'end for which.
POLICE.-BATURDAY.
alleged neglect the company had incurred certain panicles
MANSION-HOUSE.—UPROARIoUg P"PIRIL— It is specified by the act From the statement of Mr. Drummond
rkable that the present mayoralty cotamenced with in support of the complaint, and the docu:aentary and parole
what are often properly called union-house riots. Gangs of evidence tendered by him in supi,ort of the summons, it
it is to be regretted, by several per- appeared that the Atmospheric Extension Line from Croy-
don to Epetra passed through the land of the com-
the police, have been, every day since the 9th inst., brought
kit
ith women,e
street, encouraged,
urag
whoed enjoy a conflict between vagrants and
plainant at Beddington, and that he had at first
in custody before his lordship for having, from the mere made a claim for compensation to the amount of 1,7001.
spirit of evil, cemmitted assaults, and dashed in windows. for the land that was taken by the company, and for the in-
: livingere/ yfoorusengvewraomyenea,reaguedponfroparmoel6 to
bl2sboyuenarsty: jury done to the property by severance, and eventually the
wOahoiShaatvuerda beye
and who uniformly have refused to work, were brought be-Mrclaim was mitigated by a compensation jury, who awarded
. Bristow betwen eleven and twelve hundred putt ds, it
fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having broken 34 or 35 being, as was represented, understood that this amount was
es pan of glans in the house of the relieving overseer ; with not to include any claim that Mr. Bristow might have upon
having thrown mud at the overseer himself ; and with hay- the company for the erection of a bridge or other means to
lug threatened to deprive the assistant overseer of his life. enable him to peas freely from one part of his property to the
Four of the girls complained that Mr. Lloyd. the assistant other, which was intersected by the railway. It was alleged
relieving overseer of the City of London Union, was lazy in in support of the complaint, that through the company rieg-
filling up tickets of admission to Marlborough-house, Peck- letting to erect a bridge, Mr. Bristow was put to considerable
ham, and, for the purpose of making him " wide awake," inconvenience, and his teams for manure and agricultural
they smashed the windows.—Mr. Lloyd said that when produce had to go a long way round. The case for the corn-
the defendants applied fer tickets he was filling up pleasant having concluded, Mr. Lush, on behalf of the coins
tickets for some poor persons who had previously ap- Deny, took some technical objections to the jurisdiction of the
plied, and whom it was but fair to serve first. A delay of 61201, and referred to a section of the act of parliament,
half an hour would have taken place, but the defendants wherein the case of Mr. Bristow and some other gentlemen
swore they would not wait an instant, and taking the steel
was specially referred to, and it was contended that if there
busks out of their stays, they poked at the windows, which really had been any omission or neglect on the part of the
were vainly defended by wires, and amidst shouts of laughter company, the remedy was not by the summary proceedings
demolished them.—The Lord Mayor: These girls are stron, now adopted, but by another course pointed out by the act.
healthy, able girls, and lam astonished that they should The magistrates, upon these grounds, immediately dismissed
prefer Mariboroueli-home to honest employment.—Several the an, - -
of the parochial officers said that every one of the defendants
had from time to time been supplied with a situation, but
soon left them to frequent public-houses and walk the streets,
committing all sorts of misdemeanours rather than change
their old habits of idleness. While in the house, they gave
the most intolerable annoyance to the really necessitous and
deserving, whom it was a pity to see amongst them.—
The Lord Mayor: I shall send each of you to Bridewell for
fourteen days, with hard labour and low diet.—The
wretched creatures then left the justice-room screaming, and
cursing, and swearing.—Several of the police serjeants re-
presented to his lordship that they and their men had the
greatest difficulty in protecting the neighbourhood of the
Union from the outrageous violence of the crowds of girls
whose peculiar delight was in window breaking, sad throw-
ing mud in the faces of the relieving overseers. The moment
a policeman attempted to take one of them into custody, the
crowd of lookers on hooted and yelled at them, so that their
duties became quite irksome, and, in some instances, impos-
sible to be performed.—The Lord Mayor desired the police-
man to watch the conduct of such inciters to acts of violence
and insubordination, and bring them before him, and he
would endeavour to proportion the punishment to the
offence.
SOUTHWARK.—A FEARFUL CASE.—A journeyman
carpenter, named William IValerhoure, was charged with
attempting to cut his wife's throat. Complainant, whose
face was much disfigured, said that she had been married to
the prisoner twenty-one years, and until within these last
six months he was a good father to his children, and an
affectionate husband. He was a journeyman carpenter, in
conatait employ at thirty shillings a week. Latterly he
bad taken to drinking, and allowed her only four shillings I
a week to maintain herself and two children, the remainder
being spent in drink, and with another female. For a length
of time they had been nearly starved for want of the emir
mon necessaries of life, and she was afraid to make her waist
known, owing to the prisoner's violence. Oa the previous
night he came home and demanded some supper, when he
well knew that she had not the means of purchasing food.
She told him so, when he turned round upon her, and
knocked her down, and, while in that helpless situation,
took a clasp-knife from his pocket, opened the blade,
and flourished it over her head, exclaiming that be now
intended to settle her by cutting her throat. At the
same time he seized her by the arms, and endeavoured
to plunge the blade into her neck ; but she prevented
him, in her struggles receiving several wounds on her
hands. Her daughter, hearing her cries fur help, got out
of the house, and called in the neighbours, who wrested
the murderous weapon from his grasp. The police were soon
on the spot, and took the prisoner into custody.—The eldest
daughter, a very intelligent young girl, said that her father
had frequently said he would murder her mother and all of
them. He behaved very ill to her mother, and starved them.
lie did say that if he could not get rid of them, he would starve
them. She had no doubt her father would have murdered her.
Mr. Seeker asked the prisoner what he had to say to the
charge?—lie replied that be did not intend to injure either
his wife or children. He had been latterly out of employ-
ment, and not able to allow them sufficient money to keep
them properly, and his goods had been pledged for neces-
saries. On the previous night he was much intoxicated, and
not aware what lie was doing.—The wife here stepped for-
ward, and implored the magistrate not to punish her hus-
band. She was sure that for the future he would act better.
—Mr. Seeker said that he could not listen to her interces-
sion, as men like the prisoner could not be depended upon.
He should order him to find bail in 1001. for his good beha-
viour for 12 months, and be imprisoned until such security
be found.—He was accordingly sent to prison.
LAM BET I I.—A ROMANCE.—On Saturday evening, as the
business of this court was nearly disposed of, Maria Rosina
Cook, a young woman dressed in the garb of a sailor, was
i brought n and placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Nor-
ton, on a charge of attempting to destroy herself by swallow-
ing a quantity of laudanum. John Constable, 43 L, deposed
that about 10 o'clock on that day, while on duty at the
Tower-street station-house, a person came in and requested
his immediate attendance at a coffee-house in the Waterloo-
road, where a young sailor had poisoned himself. He in-
stantly proceeded to the house, and, finding the prisoner in a
sleepy state, he went in pursuit of a medical man. The first
shop he went into he was asked if it was not a young sailor
who had destroyed himself, and on asking them why they
should know the fact, they told him that a young sailor had
been there a short time before to request three-pennyworth
of laudanum, but they refused to serve him. He subsequently-
removed the prisoner to Guy's hospital, when the stomach
pump was used, and she became sufficiently recovered to
take her to the station-house, when he had the charge booked
against her. From the statement she had made to him (the
constable), it appeared that she was the daughter of a respec-
table veterinary surgeon residing at Clutton, Somersetshire,
and having become enamoured of a private soldier belonging
to the 37th Regiment of Foot, she had left her home, and
had latterly lived at Chatham, where her lover was quar-
tered. The regiment had latterly been ordered on foreign
service, and was on the point of sailing for Ceylon, and the
prisoner, discovering that the object sof her affections was to
proceed thither by the ship Minerva, lying in the East India
Dock, she sold her female apparel, at a great sacrifice, and
purchased the sailor's clothes she then had on. She thin
went to the registry for seamen, and procured a registry note
in the name of David Cook. She next went on board the
Minerva and offered herself to the captain as a cabin-boy,
but to her great mortification found that the captain had
shipped all hands on board, and therefore did not require
her services. Foiled in her object in accompanying her
lover, she had resolved upon comrniting suicide, and her first
intention was to have thrown herself off one of the bridges ;
this she should have done, she said, had she not been told
by a sailor-boy that she brought with her from Chatham,
that the Thames was so excessively crowded with craft that
the probabilities were that she would drop on to one of them,
break her bones, and die a lingering death. She then made
up her mind to take poison, and procured a small quantity
of poison at different shops, all of which she swallowed off
with some coffee, before the constable found her. The wit-
ness here handed to the bench a letter, which Mr Norton
read, and of which the following is a copy :
" Dear Thomas—l have overstepped the bounds of prudence and
modesty in hopes of being able to reach Oeylon with you. I have put
on boy's apparel and come to this sink of inMuity, London, to enter
the “Nlinerva' as a boy, but when I got here the captain had
shipped all his hands. I have tried to get on board several vessels,
but cannot, on account of not being able to find money enough to
provide enough of clothes to get to sea. I have sold all my own to
get what I have on, and have no money to set other I have no
iriends here, no place to go to; but I cannot blame anybody but
myself. Think of me no more, Thomas, as it is useless : you will
never see nor hear from me again. Remember me to Harriett and
Charles. Don't make yourself uneasy about me. I have no more to
say, but remain yours till death, " M. B. Coos.
London, Nov. 14, 1546. '
Charles White said he was in a coffee-house in Waterloo-
rota that afternoon, and perceiving a strong smell of lau-
danum, he looked about to see if any person was taking any.
Immediately after he saw the prisoner with her hand on
the table and in a drowsy state. He shook her up and
asked her if she had taken anything, and she n plied that
she had swallowed poison. He then scut for the constable,
and the prisoner was removed to Guy's Hospital.—Mr. Nor-
ton here remarked that he was not aware that the lau-
danum would have so instantaneous an effect upon a person
taking it, and a medical gentleman present replied that it
would not, particularly when taken in coffee.—The constable
said that the prisoner had acknowledged to him that when
she had taken the laudanum she was so exhausted for
want of rest, that she was scarcely able to hold her
head up. The fact, she said, was that she was so
much alarmed about her sex being discovered, that
from the time she had put on her present ap-
parel till the present, she had not taken them off. On
the Friday night she engaged a bed for herself and the
sailor boy that was with her at the coffeesshoptand rather
than take her clothes off, and go to bed, she sat in a chair all
night.—ln reply to the questions of .Ir. Norton, she said
she had seen the soldier, Thomas Gardner, three years ago,
when he was with a recruiting party at Bristol; l,at she had
not left her home until six months ago, when she learned
that he was in Newport, in Wales ; and from there she had
accompanied him to Chatham. She declared that it had been
her fixed intention to destroy herself, and was very sorry that
she should have been prevented; and added, that it was im-
possible to endure greater torture than that which she had
experienced for the last three days.—The prisoner, who is in
her 20th year, must have been, a very pretty girl, and who
became the ;sailor's dress exceedingly well, was ultimately
remanded to a future day, to give time to communicate with
her friends.
CROYDON.—JVTENILE TRIETEB.—On Saturday three
lads named Brooker, Martin, and Only, were brought before
Mr. Adams and Capt. Kemmis, charged with stealing up-
wards of 3 cwt. of boles and other iron work, the property of
the London and Brighton Railway Company. A man named
Clark, who keeps a marine-store-shop at Norwood, was also
summoned to attend the bench to explain his share in the
transaction. The prisoners in their defence said,that they took
the bolts at different times from a heap, and when they went
to Clark's shop with the first lot, he lent them a bagto bring
sonic more, which Clark did not deny. The boys were then
committed far trial, the magistrates at the same time observ-
ing that the conduct of Clark had been very disgraceful, and
that there was very little doubt he had been the means pf
inciting them to commit the robbery.

MONEY MARKET.
SATURDAY ISTRNING.
The state of affairs in Portugal, which it is feared
may lead to political complications in which eventually this
country might come to be more involved with Spain and
France, had some effect on the funds to-day. Consols, '
which were 941 buyers in the morning, declined in conse-
quence to 94i, and left off 94j to 4, both for money and
account. Reduced Threes, 931 to Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 954 to I. Exebequer bills, 10s. to 13s. prem.
India bonds, 18s. to 245. prem. Long Annuities 9/ to 15-16.
The transactions in the foreign market continue on the
same limited scale. Some few bargains were done in Por-
tuguese between 37 and 38 ; but the prices made at the close
of business were 36 to 38. Spanish Fives, 26 to 4; the
Threes, 37 to Mexican, 22 to 1. The jobbers, it seems,
cannot clearly comprehend with whom the Mexican agency
rests at present, and wait fur the appearance of Colonel Men-
doza, the newly appointed Mexican Charge d'Affaires, to
have the point determined. Dutch Two-and-a-Ralf per
Cents were 59 to 4; the Fours, 911 to 21.
The Bank of England averages for the week ending the
7th inst. give, as compared with those of the week prece-
ding, the following results :
Circulation—]sane £28,235,885
Circulation—Active 20,971,263
Public deposits
Other deposits
Government sccuritiesin
Banking Department.. 12,808,119
Other securities 12,153,009 » ass 22.959
Gold coin and bullion
7 day and other bills
The Rest 3,468,352
As was anticipated under this head last week might be the
case, the outflow of coin and bullion was sensibly on the
decline at the date of these returns. Should no disturbance
ensue in foreign exchange beyond the rates as actually
reduced, and assuming that the home demand fur extra-
ordinary purposes is satisfied, which it probably is, no
sensible variations in the Bank stock of hard money would
seem likely to be experienced before the close of the year,
when possibly the general balancing of accounts throughout
the country may require some extra supply for the adjust.
ment of fractional quantities. As in many of the agricultural
districts the custom has gained, and is considerately tolerated
by the more extensive and substantial landholders, of defer-
ring the payment of rents due at Martinmas until close
upon the advent of Christmas, it is possible that some
call for coin may take place on that head. But,
in the meantime, some portion of the large amount already
distributed from its coften may return in the natural order
of money and commercial dealing into the Bank. Should
country banks become possessed of quantities of coin beyond
the average demands upon them, they will remit the surplus
to cover their credits or engagements with their London
banking correspondents. From these town banks accumu-
lating surplus will be naturally transferred to the Bank,
placed to deposit account, or exchanged a"ainst notes.
Although the rates of interest have undergone no decisive
variation during the week, yet money has not been, and is
not, so easy. In the Bank, as cut of doors, the minimum
rate can be said to apply in general only to short dated first-
class paper. It is probable, from this course of proceeding,
that the Bank may be quietly " putting up" the rate of inte-
rest, in preparation for more ostensible action at the fitting
season. For the last two or three weeks reports have been
current, previous to each hoard day, of an intended alteration
and elevation of the minimum rate. The expectation of an
announcement to the effect was strong in the present work,
but Thursday passed over without any sign. An advance in
the minimum rate of interest would be much to be depri-
cated at the present time, or indeed at any time within the
present year. It would greatly tend to the derangement of
all business at the most critical season of the year, and unless
compelled to it by some extraordinary emergency, such as a
large sudden fall in foreign exchange, with a consequent
drain of gold, the Bank could hardly be justified in adopting
such a course.
The decrease of active circulation was the necessary result

of the hrge payments of notes into Bank, on revenue or
government account, modified however by the contempo• 11
rancour withdrawal to more than half the amount of private 21

deposit*.
(Merroastmen.—As the quotations of prices in the official lists
which follow may seem at variance with those given above, it may be
u well to explain that the official lists only quote the prices at which
transactions have actually taken place, and at the fluctuations noted,
each fluctuation describing a separate order of transactions. The
Money Market, beside+ repres•eritmg the (mural course of the day's
business, gives the buying and selling canoes—that is, the priors at
which broken., jobbers, and speculators arc ready to buy or sell ;or 11
in the case of jobbers, to deal either one way or the other, at the option it
of parties having business to do. j
ENGLISH FUNDS.—Nov. 14.
3 per CL Reduced Anns., 931 / I India Stock Bonds, -Cl,OOO IS •
3 per Cent.Consols, Anns, oil 1 Ditto under 13,000, 24 11
New 31 per Cent. Anna., 931 1 Consols fur Acct., 941 1
Long Annuities, expire Jan. 5, Ex. Mills, £l,O. 0, led., IS 10
1860, 91 15-1 G Ditto, Small, 10 13 41
41
FOREIGN FONDS.
21
5 per Cent. Mexican Bonds, 1646, 3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 371 1
221 2 1 2 3 per Ct. French Bente', 82f. 2.5 c. ';
Ditto Account, Nov. 30. 221 Ex. 23f. 713 e.
4 per Ct. Portuguese Atha, 38 7 21 per Cent- Dutch Exchange, 12
Ditto ACOOWII., 37 1 GUI., 591 9
3 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Div. 4 per Cent. Dutch Certificates, 8,
from Nov. 1840, 26 1 911 2
Ditto Account, Nov. 30, 26
EXCHANGES AND STOCKS ABROAD.
Puns, Nov. 14.—Three per Cents., 82 05 ; Five per Cents.,
117 70; Four-ands-Half per Cents., 112 ; Belgian Five per Cents.,
IMO, 994; Naples Rent." 102; Roman Loan, 100. Exchange on
London, (30 days), 25 50 paper, 25 47/ cash; ditto, (90 days),
25 371 paper, 25 35 each.
Illsoant, Nov. 9.—Three per Cents., 331 money; Four per Cents.,
211; Five per Cents., 211; Passives, tip; Coupona, 20. Exchange
on London, 361 ; Discount, 6 per cent.
VIT.NNA Nov. 6.—Five pet Cents 108 11-10; Four per Cent..,
991 ; Then per Cents., 701; Loll of 1834, 157; Ditto, 1839,
127 ; Bank Shams, 1,537.
Awsrutossf, Nov. 12.—Act. Debt, Two.and-a.iialf per Cents., 591
59; Do., Three per Cents., 701 71 ; Do., Four per Cents., 911 921.
Arnort. Byod., Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 871 s 8; Commercial
Ca=y, Four-and-a-Half per Cents- 0721 173.—Exchange: On
12 2 ; two months, I I 95; on Hamburg, 35 62; two
months, 35 23.
Staten. Nov. 10.—St. Behold Bch. Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,
93. Foreign Exchanges t On London, two months, 6 22). On Ham-
burg, two months, 1491. On Paris, two months, 79 1-12.

NEW YORK, Ocr. 31.
Our stock market continues without any material altera-
tion, either as regards prices or demand. The demand for
foreign exchange has not been active for this packet, and the
rates for sterling bills base, within the put few days, receded
4 per cent. at least. We now quote prime bills on Lon-
don at 7 to 74 per cent. prem.; on Paris, sf. 364 e. to hf. 35c.
We annex the current quotations in this market for foreign
and domestic exchange, for uncurrtnt money and for

c. •
specie :
VOltt lON EICIIANOZP.—LonfIca,IO7, 107 ; Paris, st. 881 e., 6f. 38e.;
Aragterdam, 38i, 39; Hamburg, 34j, 33; Bremen, 17i, 78.
There is very little doiug in domestic exchanges, and no
movement of consequence in specie.