The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

POLICE.-YEBTEBDAY.

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BOW-STREET.—Aecornaa Casa ON STATRINO IN
Duane-amet.—lVillions Norris was charged before Mr.
Jardine with having stabbed • man named Figgie'. At
half-past one on Sunday morning, Win. Peterkin, I no, was
called to a house in Feathers-court, Drury-lane, by some of
its inmates, who declared that a man had been stabbed ; and
having been shown up stairs, searched a room, and, under a
chair, be found a shoemaker's knife all bloody. The pri.
sneer was on the landing, and having been pointed eat as
the culprit, Peterkin took him into custody. On the way to
the ttation-house, the prisoner paid that he had served him
(Figgins) right, and, if he had had tire-arms, he would have
shot him. At the station-home he told the inspector the
same story, and that if the inspector had provoked him as
much as Figgie.' had done, he would have served him the
same, and that it would be a good job lithe fellow should
die. The prisoner had been drinking. The wounded man
had been conveyed to the hospital, and a certificate was pro-
duced, stating that the man Figgins had been admitted, and
was too ill from the effects of the wound to come out. The
I prisoner, who said only that he had received great provoca-
tion, wus remanded for a week.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Arrnsarren Mtranalt.—An el-
derly man, named Pie/lard Tweedy, a foreman in the
London Ducks, was charged before Mr. Broughton with
cutting and wounding his wife Catherine Tweedy, with
intent to murder her.—Constable Pain, N 247, stated that
having received information, between nine and ten o'clock
on the preceding evening, that a man, residing in Grove-
street, Hackney, had cut his wife's throat, he immediately
repaired to the hems, in front of which a crowd of persons
were assembled, and on entering the hack parlour he found
a woman sitting on a chair in a state of extreme exhaustion,
with her throat enveloped in bandages, completely saturated
with blood, a largo pool of which was flowing from the
centre of the room iota the adjoining passage. The only
other person in the apartment was a little boy, about ten
years of age, who handed him a table knife, much stained
with blood, with which he said the injury had been in-
flicted. On being questioned as to the perpetrator of the
act, the woman said it was her husband, who had gone out
to procure a cab to convey her to the hospital, and that two
surgeons had been sent fur, but neither of them had arrived.
While ascertaining these facts, Mr. Harris, a surgeon in the
neighbourhood, reached the house, and was engaged in
dressing the wound, when the prisoner drove up in a
cab, and entering the apartment in a state of great
agitation, asked his wife it she was willing to go to the
hospital. Witness, however, told him that he must consider
himself in custody, to which the prisoner replied that he was
perfectly aware of it, as ho had committed the act and must
suffer the c insequences. The wounded woman was then
removed to her bed, and the prisoner was conveyed to the
station.—John Tweedy, the prisoner's younercat son, was
then examined, and stated that his eldest brother had spent
the afternoon at Epping Forest, and, on returning home, as
the family were about to take supper, his tither prohibited
him from sitting at the table, as he had gone out without
permission. His mother, at the same moment, came into
the room, and, in ignorance of what had transpired, told the
boy to at down to supper, upon which the prisoner started
up in great excitement ; and exclaiming "that the should
die," made a violent thrust at her throat with a knife
he had in his hand, inflicting • frightful gash, teem u Inch
the blood gushed out upon :he floor, and she was about to
fall, when her eldest son ran forward and might her in
hie arms.—Serjeant Hawker
.handed to the magistrate a
medical emtificate, stating that the flesh and superficial mesas
des of the woman's throat had been divided to the ex-
tent of three inches, descending into the jugular vein, and
causing an extensive hemorrhage, but that the result
of the injury could not at present be ascertained. In an-
swer to the charge, the prisoner stated that he was greatly
irritated at the time, but had no intention of inflicting the
wound, axd was merely menacing his wife with the knife
when he accidentally stumbled against the table, and the
injury was involuntarily occasioned.--Mr. Broughton said
that the exclamations the prisoner had used on rising from
the table, displayed an animus wholly at variance with his
defence, and he should commit him to prison on the capital
charge ; but order him to be brought up again in a week,
when the result of his wife's injuries would probably be
decided.

CLERKENWELL.—ARSAULT oN a WomAN.—Eliss-
both Dunkley, a washerwoman, in Graystoke-place, at.
Pancras-road, charged James Neal, an athletic Irishman,
with •riolently assaulting her. The prosecutrix, whose ana
was in a sling, deposed that, while standing at her own door,
on Sunday afternoon, with her infant in her arms, she heard'
the screams of the prisoner's wire, who lives near. A crowd
of women assembled round the house, and called out,
" Shame !" The prisoner rushed out, flourishing a poker;
the crowd ran ; he pursued them ; and, on pawing the pro-
secutrix's door, struck her on the arm with the poker. The
blew had disabled her, and had she not warded It off, her
child would have been kill d.—Mr. Comb suggested that
the prisoner should pay the woman 20s. as compensation fur
the injury ; but he said lie could not afford it.—Mr. Combo:
Then you are tined 40s. or three weeks' impriaoament.—lle

as locked up.
ATTENIFTED ROBBERY IIY A WOMAN.—.IIO7 Davie, a
woman of the town, was charged with attempting to rob
Mr. Thomas Brown, of No. 3, Church-way, St. Pancras.
Tho prosecutor was passing along College-College-p'--ace, Camden
Town, on the previous night, when the prisoner came up,
and having told a most piteous tale of distress, asked him
for some relief. Witness gave her two-pence. She did not
seem satisfied, but dogged him along, and was soon after
joined by two fellows in flannel jackets. She suddenly
sprang upon him, and rising his watch-guard, attempted to
force away his watch. The guard being of strong gold
resisted her efforts, and some persons coming up, sae and
her associates fled, but she was soon after arrested.—Com-
mitted for trial

MARLBOROUOU-STREET.—John Faker was charged
by Mr. John Dean Paul, the banker, 217, Strand, with as-
saulting him.—Mr. Paul was riding on horseback quietly
through Leicester-square on Saturday evening, when ho
met the prisoner and a companion, in a small tax cart,
driving towards him. When they came up to him, the
prisoner stood up in his cart and struck the horse he
was riding very violently, which made him be-in to
plunge. Mr. Paul rode after the cart and stopped
it, when the prisoner denied having touched the
horse, but said if he had dame so it was quite acci-
dental. Meanwhile a mob gathered about them, sided with
the assailant, and recommended them to drive over com-
plainant. They whipped the cart-horse into a gallop and
rode off. Mr I'aul stopped them a second time, and had
seized the horse by the reins, when the prisoner struck
him with great violence over the head and shoulders
with bis whip. Ile was then given into custody.—
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he wax whip-
ping his own horse at the time, and struck the gentle
man's horse by accident, and certainly without say in-
tention ; he had, at the time. told him so, and apologised
for it, but Mr. Paul called him a liar, and refused to give
him his card. He denied having struck Mr. Paul after-
wards, although by seizing his horse by the head he had
put him in danger, as it was a spirited animal—Witnesses
were called by the prisoner to corroborate his statement.—
The magistrate ordered him to enter into his own recog-
nizenees to the amount of 401., to appear at the sessions to
answer any indictment that may be laid against him.
SOUTHWARE..—UNFOUNDED CHASOR BY TIM Po-
LlCE.—Michael Began was charged before Mr. Cottinghsm
with creating a disturbance in the public streets.—Police-
constable 181 M said, that about Line o'c'ock on Saturday
evening, the prisoner and four ethos men were stand-
ing on the pavement in Kent street. The prisoner
was talking very I.udly, and obstructing the foot-
path ; refusing to move on, he was taken into ces-
toly. The prisoner denied the charge altogether, and said
it had been preferred out of spite. A few weeks ago he had
brought a charge against the officer for ill-treating him ; but,
owing to the non-attendance of his witnesses, the case was
dismissed. Since then, the complainant hail endeavoured
on all occasions to annoy him. On Saturday evening he was
talking to a friend near Mr. Helland's door, when the con-
stable came up, and pushed him off the pavement. lie re-
monstrated, when the officer seized him by the collar, at the
same time asking Mr. Holland whether he would give him
in charge. Mr. Hol:and replied " No, he has done no-
thing.' The constable then called 131 Id to his assistance,
when he was dragged to the station-house, and locked up
until Sunday noon.—Mr. Holland confirmed the accuunt
given by the prisoner, and attributed the whole of the din•
turbanee to the constable exercising undue authority.—Mr.
Cottingham said the officer had acted very improperly, and
was unfit for the situation he held. It appeared he had
acted vindictively towards the defendant, who, on a
former occasion, had made a charge against him •
this wax corroborated by the circumstance of his
not interfering with the other men. There was nothing
to justify his conduct. No constable could be allowed to
abuse the liberty of the subject in that way ; and it was his
duty, as • magistrate, to ordcr the whole of the circum-
stances to be laid before the commissioners of police, who
would send the case before him for adjudication. He would
have punished the constable now, but he thought that tt
would be doing justice, by allowing both himself and the
defendant time to produce their witnesses. He accordingly
discharged the defendant, and prornieed hint that on a
future occasion the charge against the policeman should be
thoroughly investigated.
ArrverrEn Se Icing,— Thomas Flood, a respectable
looking elderly man, was charged with making • very
determined attempt to commit suicide. It appeared that on
his servant going into the parlour that morning the defendant
was found sitting on the floor in the act of cutting his throat
with a razor. The blood was stream Ing from the wound,
but on the servant shrieking out, the vazor :bopped from his
hand. A surgeon was called in. None of the important
Teasels of the neck had been severed, and he We sufficiently
recovered to be brought before the court.—Defeediest said
that dejection of mind, cau.seit by reverses in business, had
led him to make this attempt. His wife and son, who were
present, appeared much distressed.—Mr. Cottingham, after
an appropriate address to the defendant, called on him to
find two sn'eties in 601. each.
THAMES. CANIYATIALISM.-327chnel Donoben was
brought up by one of the constablvs of ,the R division,

en the following charge;—Cornelius Driaeoll stated that oft
this premions night he went into a public-house at Poplar,
when he met the prisoner and his brother-in-law, both of
whom assailed him in the foulest possible lan;uage. They
knocked him down, kicked and cuffed him, and, after tear-
ing the clothes completely off his back, the prisoner caught
the fourth finger of bill left hand in his mouth, and hit the
first joint entirely oft, bone, flesh, na I. and al' as if it had
been dons by a surgical instrument. The severed men^er,
wramid tap in a piece of paper, WWI here handed to the
magistrate. The horror excited in the court by the pro-
duction a Ike mutilated piece cannot he describe3.—Police-
constable SOK, said, that being called to a public-house io
Poplar about half peat nine o'clock on the previous night,
he found the complainant bleeding profusely from the little
finger of his left hand, and the prisoner having been
pointed out so the person who had inflicted the injury, he
was taken into custody. He did not deny having bitten the
complainant, but alleged in his defence that Driscoll had
struck him Sat.—Driscoll denied this, though he admitted I
that when assailed ho stood upon his own defence.—The '
prisoner, in a sullen manner, said the complainant was
the aggresssor, having interfered with him and his eiders
husband, and at the same time added that what had hap-
pened was purely accidental. This was denied by the pro-
secutor, who swore that he twice cried out to the prisoner,
" Yost have my finger in your mouth," and yet, aotwith-
standing, the latter bit off the joint —Mr. Broderip expressed
his regret that such brutality as was exhibit:d by the pri-
soner did not come under some more penal statute than that
which governed the case. He could only commit the pri-
soner for the assault; for it had been ruled b Baron Alder-
son, and confirmed by the judger, that to constitute a felony
in inflicting a wound, some sharp instrument must be used.
But the assault was one of so serious a nature, that he must
require hail to a beery amount, namely, the prisoner him-
self in 80/ , and two sureties of 401. each. His worship, at
the same time, directed the constable who had charge of the
ease to give it his particular attention ; for, from the pecu-
liar nature of the injury sustained, it was not at all impro-
bable that lock-jaw might supervene, and, in that event, the
prisoner would be brought before the court nn a charge of a
much more serious nature.—He was accordingly committed
for triaL

II AMMERSMITEL—Yesterday a young man of respect-
able ap , who was described on the police sheet as
Henry [IMMO, a stationer at Abingdon, was brought up
far re-examination, before Mr. G. Clive, charged with hav-
ing conducted himself with disgusting impropriety towards
two young females, in one of the narrow lanes behind the
Duke of Devonshire's gardens at Chiswick. A second and
a graver accusation was yesterday brought against him.—
Robert French, an omnibus conductor, deposed that on
Monday, the 25th tilt., a respectable female got into his
vehicle at Kew-bridge. She was the first passenger. Im-
mediately afterwards the prisoner entered the omnilms, and
in about five minutes afterwards the lady spoke to witness,
who was sitting on the steps of the omnibus, and said she
wanted to get out. Witness seeing that she looked very ill
and in a state of great excitement. asked her what was the
matter, when she said she had been most grossly insulted by
the prisoner. Witness asked her in what manner, but she
said it was enfit to mention. Witness got her a glass of
water, but en her getting out she immediately fainted. Wit-
ness immediately turned the prisoner out of t"e omnibus,
and he was well soused with water and beaten by the per-
sons standing around, who heard of the transaction. The
lady afterwards went to her destination.—lt was subieguently
found that the prisoner had given a rase description of him-
self, that his name is believed to be Jordan.—Mr. Clire said
the ease was not one of assault alone, but there were three
eases against him of gross indecency. When he considered
the great objection fcma'es generally had to come forward in
such cases, and that females were at all times unprotected,
unless they had a male with them, nod are subject to insults
from men like the prisoner, he felt he should not he doing
his duty to the public unleis be comm tted the prisoner to
hart labour in the House of Correctien for the full term of
three calendar months.—The prisoner was committed ac-
cordingly.

GREENWICH.—OrTaAGE BY RUSSIAN SAILORS.—
.Erneat I'alnigreen, Ilenrick Glorious, Joists Glorious, and
Francis Strom, forming part of the crew of the ltu-aian
ship Nicholas the First, laden with timber, and now lying in
the Commercial Docks, were charged with having com-
mitted violent arnaults on James Lovell, Charles Bagot, and
Ezekiel Gilbert, servants of the deck company. On Satur-
day last, about two o'clock, the above-named ship was enter-
ing the dock, when some obstruction occurred, in conse-
quence of a raft en which Lovell was at a ork being in the
way. Tho prisoner 11. Giorious
.jumped on to the raft, and,
seizing • boathook which Lovell held in his hand, wrested
it from him. In the endeavour to prevent Gioriouc, the
boathook was broken and thrown away. Lovell was then
seized and beaten with groat violence. Lovell got away
from his first opponent, and was then attacked by Strom,
who struck him under the jaw and knocked him down.
Palmgreen selected Bagot as the object of hit attack, and
inflicted great violence upon him, during which he was
nearly strangled. It wart also proved that most of the ship's
mew took part in the aiTray ; but they all, with the exception
of the defendants, escaped. Some dicr, paney in the evi-
dence induced Mr. Train to di.charge Strom, but the others
were fined—Pahngrecn and F. Giorious ia the sum of 10s.
each, and J. Motions 20s. The directors of the company
were unwilling to take the case to the scabious, and dm tines
were instantly paid by the captain.

ENFIELD PETTY (SPECIAL) SESSIONS.—MoxDAT.
Beton Maws. Ed. Jaws Willi: ma, jun. (chairman), Ei. Wii'ian:a,
sen.. and Prt,tou.

VICILISXT AISAXT.T. —The shove sessions were specially
milled for the purpose of receiving evidence against George
Cohen, a gunsmith, at the factory. Enfield lo.dc, which is
under the control of the Board of Ordnance, who was charged
under Lord Ellenborough's act with cutting and maiming
Mr. Lovell, inspector of small arms, both Cohen and Lovell
being in danger from the injuries they respectively received.
On Saturday week, about noon, Cohen gave Mr. Lovell a most
violent blow on the bock of the head with a filo. Mr. Lovell

was going out through the door at the time, and was for •
moment stunned. Oa recovering himself, while turning
round to see who had struck him, he was again attacked by
Cohen, who exclaimed, " I am the man, sir ; I am the man.
You have starved me, my wife and family, and ruined us."
Three of his fellow-workmen closed upon him and prevented
him doing further mischief to Mr. Lovell, who was bleeding
profusely. At this juncture Mr. James Gunner. acting
inspector of the works, with a gun-barrel gave Cohen a
dreadful blow upon his head that rendered him insensible,
and from the effect of which serious results are expected.
Both the wounded men were promptly attended by medical
gentlemen. Informat:^n 'vas given to the Nike, when
Cohen was given into custody, charged with assaulting Mr.
Lovell. On the Chairman directing the case to be brought
on, Mr. Clarke, who attended for Mr. Lovell, said that his
client was unable to attend, as he was still suffering from the
injury he had received upon his he d. After a long discus-
sion on a ivint of form, and after en ap2lieation of Mr. Dun-
comb', a solicitor, who attended on behalf of Cohen,
Mr. Gunner was bound over to appear to answer Cohen's
charge against him, and the iniuiry was adjourned for a
week. The alleged cause of Cohen's assat.lt is a breach of
contract on the part of the authorities, by which Cohen's
wages were much reduced, and of which he supposed Lovell
to be the author.

MONEY M.LRKET.
MONDAY Evcrritro.

Affairs have been quiet in the funds, and prices
with little variation. Consols remaia 06 to 1 for money, for
account 961 sellers. Reduced Threes, 961 to 1. Three
and-a Quarter per Cents., 981 to A. Long Annuities, 107
to 7 15. Exchequer Bills, ISA. to 21s. premium. India
Bonds, 255. to 30s. premium. Bank Stock, 208 to 9. India
Stock, 2581 to 601.
The settlement of account in Foreign Stocks ham been
rather more heavy than of late. There was little of the
spirit of speculation abroad until the arrival of the news
that the United Stem Government had made overtures of
negotiation to Mexico. Time must decide upon the sincerity
of those overtures, and upan the measure of moderation
which may have characterised the propositions of the
American President, but the general impression in the City,
in quarters connected with the United States, and with
Mexico, is that such negotiations will have no satisfactory
result. The pretensions of the American President it is be-
lieved will be too exorbitant for acquiescence on the part of
Mexico, until the pressure of more disastrous conflict
and imperious necessity compels. It is difficult to under-
stand how the position of the bondholders can be improved
by any tr, sty of peace which shall strip Mexico of some of
her richest territory. The bonds, however, would seem to
show a more sanguine opinion on the stock exchange, or
among parties interested in oust doing and pushing up
prices. For prices advanced to-day, and left off st 27 to 1,
which are equal to I rise upon the last rates of Saturday.
Some excitemest existed in the market also about Portu-
guese Bonds, which advanced to 4i to 6. without any more
specially alleged cause than a financial scheme to come
forth which should be more favourable to the interest of the
creditors than was supposed. The real cause, however, is
understood to he that the jobbers ar.d speculators were
caught " bears." Spanish Fives at 26 to S were rather
better ; the Threes, 37 to 1. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 591 to ; the Fours, 94 to 1. Belgian, 98 to 100.
Austrian, 109 to 11. Brazilian. 881 to 91. Bu^nos Ayres,
39 to 41. Chilian, 99 to 101; the Deferred. 51 to 3.
Columbian, 151 to 161. Peruvian, 38 to 40. Venezuela,
42 to 4 ; the Deferred, 121 to 131.

Atm. :I.
Lone Ann., 33 years, Esp. Jam 3,
1300, 10, 3-IG,
India Wild" under £l,OOO, 30
Consols for Aezt., 9Gj
Er. Silt% £l,OOO, 144., 20 IS
Ditto £5OO, 17 20
Ditto Small, 21
/DAMON YITNDt.
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riGLI6II FU
Bank Stock, 206 i II
3 per Cent. Reamed Annuities,
3 per et. Consols, Ann, 96
New 31 D.n.Ct.Ann.,.eli 4
Lang Ann, Lap. Jan. 5, 1960,
lin, 7.16

5 per Cent Brazilian Bads. 92 I
6 per Cent. Iluenos.tyrea 80nd..., 41
5 per Cent. Mexican, 1446, 264
Ditto Aect. Sept. 13, 261, 71
Ditto Small, 27
4 per Ct„ Portuguese Bez., 431, 41
Ditto .test., 44, 6
S per Cent. Speniah Bonds, Acct,
"Sept 15, 261.
FACHANCE2 AN2
MADRID Dora*, Atotar 25.—T1
21i ; Five per Cent, 221. Exchaz

per -.-
5 Cent. Spanish Pa...ive Bonds,
51, t,
3 per Cent. Sreniab Beryls, 371
Dine Acet., Sept. 15, 3,1
2 per Cent. Venezuela 801, 42
2i per Ct. Dutch Exchange, 12
Gull., 54
4 per Ct. Do. ClertiAcatea, 91?, 1,
5
STOCKS ABROAD.

per Ccat., 31; Four per Cent.,
!on London, ; Paris, 1510.

RIO JANEIRO MONEY MARKET, Jrtia 30.
Discounts continue without change, and the wants of the
market are fairly met. Exchange : The market was flat at
26l to upon London until 25th, when and on the 26th
70,0001. were negotiated at 261, and the market is this day
firmer nt the quotation. Altozether, since our last,
110,0001. have been passed. 330 fur direct, and 348 for in-
' direct bills, have been the current rates upon Path,
105,000 francs having been negotiated at these rates, and
small sums upon Ramburgh at 6.) rs, prior to the sailing of
her Majesty's ship America, since whsa uothiug has been

done. Stock is firm, but, until the opening, nothing of
moment will probably be done. Bullion: The little done
has been at our quotations. The various markets are with-
out interest, business having been limited to small amounts
in exchange upon London at 261; market firm.