The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1646,

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WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEF.TING.—TUFJ,DAY.
nor 011 RAT wrgrrits MT or 3201. roa 32 nest's or 1843.
Mr. Long's Syringe beat Captain Wyndham's ; Mr. Chase's
Jupiter brat Mr. Keay's lludibras ; Mr. W. Etwall's Winter beat Mr.
B. Smythe'. Science; Mr. Eddleston's Forest Flower beat Mr. Good-
, lakes Glideaway ; Captain Wyndham's Wildfire beat Mr. Chitty's
Canard; Mr. Parkinson's Sempstress beat Mr. Browne's Beware;
gin tr. Anstruthees Walbertha best Mr. Etwall's Errand Girl;
Mr. Fowle's Jack Sheppard beat Mr. W. Etwall's Whitefoot ;
Mr. Lawnsoe's Lucy Neale beat Mr. Clowns Cinder ;
Lard Eglintoses Anehinleck beat Mr. Matthew's Bugle; Dr. Browne';
Opinion beat Mr. Fowles Flattery; Mr. Jones's Jorerna beat Mr.
Bosworth's Rainbow; Mr. Jones's Jasmine beat Mr. Rasworth's
Roby; Mr. Miller's Magog brat Mr. A. Graham's Knight Marshal;
Mr. P. Parkinson's Perhaps nest Mr. Langtry's Fort William; Mr.
Bucknell's Burgomaster agat Sir W. Anstruthees Flora.
Darn err of 3201. for 32 all-aged dogs.
Lord Egliaton's Eessy Bell beat Mr. Parkinson's Chester ; Mr.
Etwall's Etonian best Dr. Brown's Confessing Penitent ; Mr. Good-
lake's Gaslight beat Captain Squire's Clear-the-way ; Mr. Wyndham's
Wilutibald beat Mr. A. Graham's Curry Powder; Mr. Keay's fimusr
Bier Dill beat Mr. Eddlestsn's Alice AL More; Sir H. Floetwood';
Fancy beat Sir W. Anstruthees Willibald ; Sii H. Fleetwood's Fleet-
wood beat Captain Squires Old England; Mr. Rake's Reserve beat
Mr. Matthew's Brilliant; Mr. Wyndham's Walbergha beat Sir H.
Fleetwood's Fleur de ntarie ; Mr. W. Etwall's Enferd Lass beat Mr.
Clown's Prince of Wales; Mr. Chase's Probity beat Mr. Parkinson's
Spendthrift ; Mr. Lawrence's Swallow beat Mr. C'hitty's Chorister;
Mr. B. Smythe's Spinster beat Mr. Gordon's C'ockfighter ; Mr. Good-
lake's Goddess best Mr. Fowles' Fop; Mr. Miller's Magic beat Mr.
Clown's Crazy Jane; Mr. Rake's Reciprocity beat Mr. Langtry's
Storm.

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-YESTERDAY.

Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblaziaue.
IN RE MOREL.—The learned Commissioner was occu-
pied in hearing arguments pro and con, on the application
for the certificate of this bankrupt, who had carried on ►.usi.
new as a dentist in Langham-place. His debts were 4.0001.,
and assets stated to be less than would pay the costs of the
commission. His expenses during five years had nearly
doubled his income, the bankrupt living at the rate of 1,000/.
a year. One ground of opposition was that certain articles
of furniture had been removed shortly before the bankruptcy.
His Honour deferred judgment far a fortnight, the bankrupt
to consider in the meantime about making an arrangement
for paying his creditors 10s. in the pound, and he must
bring back this property.
THE DIAMOND TuADE.—B. L. Rothschild, a dealer in dia-
monds and precious stones, applied for his cerrifioate.—Mr.
Sturgeon, for Mr. Jessop, opposed on the ground of extrava-
gance, and that the books were improperly kept, so that
there was no detection of the abstraction or substitution of
stones. He had been in trade eighteen months, over
which period the balance sheet runs. The debts
and liabilities were 16,0001., and the assets only 4,0001.—
Mr. Lowrance, solicitor for the creditors,. opposed. The
bankrupt had stated thzt certain goons cost him 6,0001. and
sold for 3,0001. This would just make up the profits. If the
goods had cost 4,0001. the profits would have been none. The ,
bankrupt is not only bound to ptrge himself from fraud, but
suspicion, and he is bound to show the stock given up is the
lame as he bought. It had been proved that there was a
substitution of stones, and two stones had been taken to Paris
by the official assignee to see that they cost what the bank-
rupt stated they had ; but he (Mr. Lawrence) believed that
the official assignee was not "up to the tricks of the
trade," and omitted to inquire whether they were taken
in barter or not.—The Official Assignee said that he took
somebody with him who was.—Mr. Lxw•rance: Either the
bankrupt has carried on his business judiciously or not. If
he hos, is it consistent with the fact of paying 6,000'. fir
goods worth only 3,0001. If not, it is reckless trading.
Under all the circumstances of the case, he hoped that the
court would not allow the bankrupt to go into trade again
for some time. There was another circumstance, paying
1,0971. to a Mr. Hennell in 12 days, and shortly before this
stoppage.--Mr. Hennell said the money paid to him was the
produce of his own goods—The bankrupt was then
examined: Had been unfortunate in Denmark as
a lineudraper, to the extent of 5,000/. The coun-
sel for the bankrupt then went through the whole
of the facts of the case, remarking upon the very stringent
manlier the bankrupt had been opposed from time to time,
and the attention which the court had paid to the case. The
accounts had passed, and why bring the same points up
again, but for the purpose of wounding and lacerating his
feelings It was not right now to throw another bolt at
him. There had been no less than seventeen failures in this
trade. The market was glutted with precious stouts, and it
was a wonder the stock sold for what it did. Under these
circumstances, the granting of the certificate was prayed for.
His Honor said that there was no substitution of stones.
He must consider the expenses and profits, they being
fictitious. There was a very romantic story as to transac-
tions with Sleshinger. lie has been guilty of culpable
negligence. I must suspend the certificate for nine months.

hood of Pimlico, said that about the 12th or 14th of August,
the prisoners became his tenants, and remained so ever
since. About five weeks ago the female prisoner diaap-
peareJ, and he had not seen her since till to-day. They
lived together am man and wife, and he always knew her as
Mrs. Name. This being all the evidence at present against
the prisoner, Mr. Bush, who appeared for the prosecution,
applied for a remand. The prisoner said that he thought
there was not sufficient evisizace to justify a remand, espe-
cially as there was no distinct proof of the handwriting.
Mr. 'Henry thought the evidence sufficient to justify a re-
mand, and he would therefore remand the prieoner till Tues-
day. He thought it advisable also that the female prisoner
should be brought up again on Tuesday,
MARYLE BONE. RUFFIANLY OUTRAGE UPON •
FEMALE.—George Sampson, • hairdresser and perfumer,
residing at No. 2, Little Marylebone-street, was charged be-
fore gr. Long
.with the following ruffianly outrage upon
Elizabeth Wilding, an elderly woman, his lodger.—Com-
plainant, whose arms were much bruised, deposed that
about three o'clock in the morning, the prisoner came home
drunk, and entering her room pulled her out of bed : he
then thrust her down stairs with great violence, and also
struck and kicked her several times ; he at length forced
her into the street in her night dress. Bartlett, 82 D, de-
posed to finding the complainant in the &tee described ; he
then took the prisoner into custody.—The prisoner, who
said that complainant owed him 26. for rent, which he would
freely forgive ber if she would quit her apartment, was
fined 405., in default of payment, one month's imprison-
ment.
CLERKENWELL.--Striouxas. CASE.—Mr. George Jo-
seph,a fashionably dressed young man, wearing moustaches,
who resides at 91, Newton-street, Portland-town, was
charged by Madame Marie Ann Louise Dumont, with hav-
ing assaulted her, also with assaulting Madame M. A.
Joseph, his wife.—Mr. Beckett, for the prosecution, stated
that the defendant, about two years ago, married the young
lady who now complained, at the early age of fourteen,
against the consent of her parents. The circumstances of
the case were singular. Madame Dumont resided in Port-
land-terrace.—Madame Dumont deposed that she and her
daughter were sitting in an apartment in the Crown
Tavern, where they had been placed by their friends, when
the defendant and two other persons entered; he rushed
upon his wile, seized her by the shoulder, struck `her, and
tore her dress. Witness, alarmed, went for assistance. De-
fendant exclaimed that he came for his wife, and would not
allow her to return with witness. His wife said she would
not go back with him. Defendant then threw himself on
i witness, knocked her down, and gave her a severe blow on
the stomach. One of his associates exclaimed, " Put the
mother out, take your wife." Witness screamed. The pri-
soner threatened to cut her throat. Assistance at length
arrived. She went in fear of her life from his threats.—
Madame Jeseph deposed that her mother had correctly
stated the facts. The prisoner had on this, as well as on
other occasions, used her violently, which induced her to
leave him and seek protection in her father's house. She
felt her life was in danger from his violence.—The prisoner
said he had unfortunately been married to Madame Joseph,
and they had one child. Her parents had inveigled her
away, and did everything to spirit her against him. They
kept • gambling-house in Sc. John's-wood, and wanted his
wife there as a decoy.—Mr. Beckett checked him.—Pri-
soner I went to Doctors'-commons, and was there told by
the Proctor that no one had a right to take away my wife
from me. My wife and her mother tore my clothes on the
occasion they refer to.—Mr. George French, 1 A, Portland-
street, St. John's-wood, was called on behalf of the prisoner.
Accompanied Mr. Joseph on the occasion in question to the
Crown. Saw so blows struck. Mr. Joseph, taking his
wife's hand, said, "Man-, come with me," and Madame
Dumont cried out, " Murder,' " Assassin."—TWO other
persons, who said they witnessed the occurrence, swore they
saw no assault. —John James, footman to Mr. Joseph, de-
poeed to the same effect.—Mr. Combe (to the prisoner) :
You must find bail to keep the peace.—Defendant: I hope
my own recognisances will be enough.—Mr. Beckett con
sented to this, and he was bound over in 100/, recognisance
to keep the peace.
SOUTHWARK.—Ties CASE OF MARGARET WALSTIE.
—Mr. Evans, the medical officer of the Workhouse of St.
George the Martyr, attended before Mr. Seeker for the pur-
pose of contradicting the statement which appeared in the
papers, of his having attended with Mr. Robinson, the
master of the workhouse, in order to get the certificate of
Margaret Walshe's insanity signed, the fact being that he
did not attend the court at all, and was of opinion that the
woman was not insane, and therefore not a fit subject for a
lunatic asylum.

LA.MBETII.—ROBIIEILV AT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN-
TERHuay's.—Yesterday, after the night-charges had been
disposed of, a young man, named William Durant, who
held some subordinate situation at Addington-park, Surrey,
the country residence of his grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge
of robbing his grace.—Mr. Roger, an inspector of the L
division, deposed that about ten o'clock on the night before,
while he was on duty at the Tower-street station-house, the
prisoner and a female, named Sarah Wall, came there, and
the former said he had been robbed of ss. at a brothel kept
by the latter in Buckle's-buildings, Waterloo-road. The
female, in reply, expressed her doubt of his being robbed at
all, but said that in the bed she found seven duplicates,
which he owned, and which she had delivered up to him.
Witness asked the prisoner for a eight of the duplicates so
found, and he handed them to him, and on examining them
he observed that they represented property similar to some
that bad been stolen from Addington-park, the residence of
his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. On making this
discovery he asked the prisoner if he had been to Croydon or
its neighbourhood within three nights, and he replied that
he had not. He next asked his name, but he refused to
give it, and also denied that it was Durant. He then told
him he should detain him on a charge of stealing a work-box
and other property from the residence of his grace, near
Croydon. Tho prisoner, after a few moments' hesitation,
exclaimed, " Well I did do it, and I don't care ; I may
as well be trcnsported as not." He (witnew) observed that
it was a trifling thing to get transported for; upon which the
prisoner said, " Why, it is; if the dog had not harked, I would
have had more." The duplicates he found upon the prisoner
he then produced ; he had seen the property to which they
related, and he had no doubt whatever it belonged to his grace.
Mr. William Humphrey, house-steward to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, deposed that on Monday morning last it was
discovered that in the course of the preceding night the
house hai been broken open, and various articles of property
carried off. Witness could identify the work-box end
other articles then produced, as a part of the missing
properts .—Mr. Matthews, a pawnbroker in the Princess-
' road, Lambeth, produced two taper candlesticks and a
bronze image, which the prisoner pawned at his house on
the Monday, representing them to be his own property.
The prisoner also pawned his coat with witness on the same
day. —The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was re-
, mantled.

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THAMES.—Gitoss PERJURY AND CONVICTION OF AN
INNOCENT MAN.—A poor man named Nott, a tailor, re-
siding at Gurney-place, Commercial-road, appeared yester-
day before Mr. Broderip, to seek kis advice and assistance
under the following circumstances : A young girl named
Mary Evans, servant to a Mr. Still, in Lucas-street, accused
him of stealing a quantity of children's wearing apparel, and
though not more than 14 years of age, contrived to give
an appearance of truth to her tale, by drop! ing some
articles belonging to her master in the applicant's
house, and strewing others along the back premises,
which led from the residence of Mr. Still to that of
Nott. To her statement against Nott she added a
tissue of other lies, affecting a respectable woman,
named Swift, who also lived in the neighbourhood, to
give a colour to which she even went to the extent of inflict-
ing personal injury upon herself, alleging that Mrs. Swift had
assaulted her. Nott was taken up for the felony, and sent
to the Clerkenwell sections, where he was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The girl Evans
was subsequently found out in several malpractices, which
proved her to be of a most fiendish disposition, and sa Nott
always bore a most irreproachable character, Mr. Still felt it
his duty to que.tion the girl closely as to the statcn'.ent upon
hich he had been convicted. She then admitted that all
she had stated with respect to Nott and Mra. Swift was a
mere fabrication. A statement to that effect was forwarded
to the office of the Secretary of State, accomlninied by a letter
from Mr. Still, expressing himself satisfied of the priso-
ner's innocence, who was notwithstanding kept in durance
for a fortnight longer..—Nott's application yesterday was to
know how he should act, so as to procure some redress
under the circumstances.—Mr. Broderip admitted that it was
a hard case, and regretted that he had it not in his power to
redress it. The only mode was to indict the girl for perjury.
—Nett: I am too poor, Sir; I could not afford it.—Mr.
Lindley, the junior clerk, told him ke had received some-
thing on his account, which he would hand him in the office.
He then received two pounds, one of which was colari-
bated by the committing magistrate. The poor fellow was
very thankful, and said he would spend a part of it in resent-
ing the slur which had been thrown upon his character.

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The movements in home stocks have been of the
slightest possible importance, and prices may be repeated for
Consols 941 to .5 for money, and for time 90 to /. Reduced
Threes 931 to 4. Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. 951 to 1.
The government broker took 5,000. Three-and a-quarter
per Cents. at 95; for the savings banks, and a small amount
of new South Sea Annuities at 911. Exchequer-bills 13s. to
16s. premium.
The publication -of the Mexican envoy's justification
this morning, which according to the very liberal con-
struction of a liberal evening paper, was received with
much "satisfaction" by the bondholders, led to the ungrate-
ful result notwithstanding of a decline in the prices of
Mexican Bonds. They lett off 221 to 31. It may be pro-
perly noticed here that much discontent is expressed in
various quarters with the bearing of Messrs Schneider, the
Mexican house of agency for the conversion scheme, who,
when applied to by parties having converted old bonds, re-
questing to know whether they may not have their former
bonds restored in re-exchange for the new at such time as
may be convenient, or whenever a new arrangement of the
bonds shall take place; cut the inquirers short with the
nbrupt declaration that it is a very " improper question" to
be asked. The impropriety, however, is very far from being
apparent. People are certainly justified in looking after
their own property, and the position of the house of agency
in this conversion business is not exactly so clearly ascer-
tained, as to purge their responsibility for property deposited,
or to exempt them from the obligation of satisfying duly au-
thorised inquiries about it.
Some reaction took place in the quotations of Spanish
bonds. A sort of vague expectation prevails that the affair
of the double marriage may lead to unpleasant results either
in Spain or out. The Fixes were heavy at 261 to 1 ; the
Threes, 371 to 1. Portuguese, 42 to 3. Dutch Two-and-a-
half per Cents, SSI to 91 ; the Pours, 91: to 21. Belgian
Two-and-a-half per Cents, 541 to 51. Venezuela, 42 to 3.

ENGLISH FUND&—Ocv. 21.
Bank Stock, 2061 India Saida under 1,0001., 27
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns., 931 4 South Sea New Annuities, 941
3 per Cent. Commis, Anne., 9.5 4j Consols for Acct., 9515
New 34 per Cent. Anna., of Ex. Bilk. alp, 0. 144., 13 16 13
Long Mann, Exp. sth Jan., 1860, Ditto, t5OO, 13 16
9 IS-16 15-16 Ditto, Small, 13 16
India Bonds, 1,0601., 27
FOREIGN FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Anatrian Bonds, 10 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, Div.
Ou..t, 111 j from Nov. 1840, 214
5 per Cent. Brazilian Bde., Small, Ditto, Acct., 30th Oct., 261
8.31 3 per Cent. Sputish onds, 37f
21 per Cent. Dutch Ecuador Bds., 2 per Cent. Venemsela Bnds, 421
3f 2, pee Cent. Belgian Bonds, Ex.
1 5 per Cent. Mexican, Acct., Oct. 25fr., 55
30. 231 l 3 21 per Ces:t. Dutch Exchange, 12
4 per Ct. Portuguese Ma, Acct., niL, 39e
4_2_4, 4ee Ct. Du:ch Certiti., 911 21 2
MEXICAN LOAN APPAIRS.—There is IN:t one opinion
abroad about the statement of Senor Murphi, ex-envoy of
Mexico, now before the public. It is throug:gmt a trans-
parent diplomatic attempt to fence oft' facts. We shall not,
for the present, deal with his figures, in which l:ry' and by
we may have to bring him face to face with Messrs. Schnei-
der, and the Spanish American Committee, the collet's, ues of
both in the conversion scheme, but confine ourselves to the
simple review of the tortuous course he has pur•ned under
the one only obligation imposed upon him, and the singe e
duty be w..s bound to discharge, and had undertaken to
discharge. It involved no question of figures; it was purely
a question of fact. Senor Murphy reverses the order of
things, and overwhelms the bondholders with a world of
loan mongering arithmetic, furbished up for him from City
quarters well practised doubtless in that branch of the art,
to stave off and mystify the very plain but particular point in
debate. The question to be resolved, and which he
undertook to resolve to " satisfaction," was—had he
the full powers and instructions to conduct the conversion
upon the terms contracted ? The ready and only answer
to such an inquiry should have been the publication of the
powers and instructions themselves, for which he was fully
authorised, and whith should have been produced before,
and required by, the Spanish American Committee at the
period of the conversion, but it appears were not, from some
curious, unexplained oversight, in that body. But although
Senor Murphy does not find it convenient to bring forward
his powers and instructions in extent°, he can cite a small
morceau which he thinks may suit the purpose of justifica-
tion. After re-asserting that he had " full powers "to ope-
rate the conversion, he proceeds to the proof, and such a
proof as must for ever damage a reputation for diplomacy.
"I proposed it(the conversion)," sayshe," in virtue of the fug
powers which were conferred upon me in the instructions
which I received from the Finance Department, dated
7 (of) March (strong cf City abbreviation), to remove what-
ever obstacle might oppose itself to the execution of the de-
cree of the 5 (of) March, on THE BASIS of converting the De-
ferred bonds and debentures at eowry per cent." Here we see
that the full powers were unequivocally and rigidly restricted
to the basis of converting the Deferred, &c. bonds at the rate
of 40 per cent. Butthey were converted at the rate of sixty
per cent., in direct opposition to the decree and instructions!
How will Senor Murphy reconcile that glaring contradiction
of his instructions ? If lie have any really discretionary
powers, why not produce them ? The public might almost
be led to conclude from a following paragraph that Senor
Murphy was not the envoy acting for the Mexican govern-
ment, but the charge d'affaires for Messrs Manning and
Mackintosh, merchants in Mexico, of whose interests he
appears se tender. The introduction of their names is a new
element in this ambiguous and most suspicious Mexican
conversion, although indeed the intelligent correspondent in
Mexico of the Daily News had, and exclusively, ripped open
the veil of this nefarious transaction, and justly exposed
some of the parties concerned in it, to the particular
astonishment of the unsuspecting bondholders here.
Those bondholders are, we assert, to a man in-
dignant at the gross deceptions practised upon them,
less a few members of the Stock Exchange, some of them we
are concerned to learn of the committee, who happened to
be large holders of deferred stock, but only small holders if
holders at all, of the Active debt. and therefore, having pre-
viously made a good bargain for themselves with the com-
bined conversion people of Mexico and here, supported the
scheme as altered in their favour, which in its legal integrity,
according to decree, they had previously repudiated. Much
more remains to be said about this most discreditable affair. It
is high time that the public should find protection somewhere
against these ruinous loan-mongering combinations,bv which,
it would be difficult to say, whether the foreign states con-
cerned, or the British public, are most intolerably aggrieved.
The envoys of foreign states, innocent of intention them-
selves, are too apt, when entrusted with loan transactions, to
fall into the hands of designing parties. But in the present
instance much of the mischief appears to have originated in
the malpractices of English residents in Mexico, backed by
parties here—not unknown perhaps to the Spauish-Ameri-
can Committee.
SPANISH ACTIVE AND PASSITE.—Sir : The letter which
your correspondent, "A Dutch Holder," animadvert, on in the
Er press, of Friday last, as haring appeared in the C'hconicle, is
apparently the game as that I teed In the columns of your paper, of
lredneislar last, the reasoning of which he appears to have mis-
understood, and has much miorepresented. The argument of the
writer of the letter commented on, is obviously this :--Spain, by a
solemn set of her government, haring provided for the conversion of
the Passive into Active Bonds, guaranteeing to the former a market-
able value of 21?. per cent. should now tee required by the holders of
the former to fulfil her engagements; their claim is the more equit-
able, inasmuch as they gave full value in arrears of intermit (he
should have said in capital) of the original bonds, whereas, the pre-
sent foreign holders of • large portion of Active Bonds purchased
them for a small part of their original oast. There is nothing In this
repugnant to my English notions of pastice. Although, I confess, I
dialer altogether from the writer in his endenrour to enhance the fair
claims of the Passive Bondholders, by contrasting them with those of
any other class of creditors, either English or foreign. The obvious
course to pursue in any future settlement of the debt, would be to re-
duce the claim of all classes into their original element. Assuming
the actual holders of the different bonds to be identical with those
who first: advanced their money to Spain—l must deny the applica-
bility of the phrase " struck off the original bonds," made use of by
your Dutch correspondent, in reference to Positive Stock, arising out
of the first composition, the conditions having been that (sayl for every
3001. Stork cot original Ponds, the holders were to receive 2001. in
Attire Stuck and 1001. in Passive (the latter, however, to become
Active at as early a date as the financial condition of Spain would
admit) and the amount of overdue coupons in Deferred Stock. Sub-
ss)iently to this, Spain decreed the conversion of Passive into Active
Bonds, in the terms stated by your correspondent, noel if she had ful-
filled her engagements with the Passive creditors in like manner as
sae has with the Deferred, their bonds would now be of the same
value as the active ; sad, la any future arrangement of the debt, if
founded on an equitable Innis must, I presume, be se considered.—A
Scustuour to van "Bout Maws."