The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 17, 1849.

tigidaat a draper, at Newport Pigswill, ia Burliophamehire.
Ia March, 1848, the plaintiff supplied the defendant with
Irish to the unmet of 241. 10s. In July he drew a bill at
three swaths ter the same, which was accepted by lb. 4.-
hollow. • farther surly of pooda amounting is noise
to 311. 45., was made by the *lad, to the dihedrals, am the
let if Avian ea dealt .1 three swaths as the *Wilt
egateaded. Oa the 10th of Oateher a hitherwas
Mae, aasomathig to 21. Id. Is 211% the
geode whisk wets said is Mpg the 4hiadrag the
mossy ieso gout, sad *WM that the watt hal am el-
pired.—Mr. Hill, for the ileheffaat, admitted the supply of
the geode as stated he the phial"; bat he seateaded that
the Owns ea which the sap* of Angola Ist was aide were
the gene as with the tram order. The credit, there/are,
with respeet to that partisaler supply cad not (molted at the
thee this ashes had aggsgameed, as the 11111 of November—
*, eight Ming tear gamthe owl a three ninths' bill. The
leaned mead Gaffed a wham who was present wiles the
order was glees, mad who digtisatly swore that it was ties
stated that the waft was to be " the eagle as the last"—
The Jay almost bamoodiataly returned a verdict for lb. die
tendsat.

PREROOATIVR COURT—YarriaDAy.
Moro 81r Ms Opium

MITOItIO Fralax7-71ir7Hogosid stated to the gout that
the testator died la Florence, whoa he had assiderable
FEand loft so child, bat hai adopted a girl at the Z, of 12 pan, who was sow 'pealed le a Mr. De
,While Brims he executed a doted, resents` to him
self a life interest ia his property, in which he pap the whole
of his peepers to this adopted child, and Mr. De Coster had
sakes po of the prison, at Florence. By the law
al Fiona, the child sae COSSMOrttI to be legPimatt. Mr.
Cater sow applied to have administration granted for the
purpose of tails, possession of 3,7001. Consols. standiap in
the Petatoeo same, he
ttif, by the laws of Florence, died
iatootate.—The Court t the proctor should
`ice his consent to its mi ng for the crown. When that
woo obtained it saw no objptices to granting the application.

wsll to that he saw hiss a few mesaents before. The pd. r
sneer then ran past him, hut he ailed police, and a constable
took ha r into custody.— The prisoner was remanded
Buravotancs.-11r. Norton received from Mr. ?A'Ressie,
the asserstery of the Daiwa Club, 101, the subscription of
SOBS of the members of that club for the peer-boa of this
wart.
SOUTHWARK —CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD • RAIL.
WAY COMPANT.—R. DRACON, and Mary Duncan, his wife
were twahathisold, charged nil conspiring, with another
person (set in custody), to obtain money the London
and Hall Western Railway Company, pretending that
they bed reestred serious injuries in one o the 'reglad class
=.IIIIR the 6th Sept., owing to a collision .—T. Berridge
Mint los leas in the habit of supplying Duncan with
grefgagrerwy articles, and from an entry in his book he found
that he had been at the prisoners' house on the 20. h Sept.,
and neellasted baying seen the Ina .1* prisoner, who sp-
rigged to be in her usual state of health. She dad
net mead's to him that she had met with an end.
dent on a railway, nor did she seem to be
suffering under any bodily illness. A letter, idea.
tilled as being in the male prisoner's handwriting, and
addressed to the secretary of the above companyL wanread. It asserted that Mrs. Duncan ar.d a Mr. O'Brien
had been seen by the medical genthman representing the
company, who was of opinion that they had received serious
injuries from the accident referred to, and that the writer
was willinr to accept 601. for the injuries done to Mrs. Dun-
can, and that Mr. O'Brien would accept the like sum pro-
vided it was at ones psie.—R Darks said he was acquainted
with O'Brien, who is brother-in.law to the male prisoner. In
December O'Brien called upon him and produced a letter,
which be said ha wanted him to copy—he mentioned that it
relatsite es amilestbie sister met wath In a railway carriage.
The Latter wallaby! Dee. Id, and was esfollows:

—lam O'ifm lsvf~ mate spoliation to me this TDOnlillif re-
r
minde media glide teek visa on the North Western Railway
ma So Of thgamter, I Sega Mats that I wen present, being one
aides peseagges sa that nniertome 000114111, and that I was in the
wreemnage wan Me. Maks and Mrs. Duncan when the accident
irk end therwaths I new them en the line, and likewise at
Wan end ems to ten with them. I wee very much
drat andfood did set argot It for may days, bat having received
polsoler Wury I elm trouble and( stout it, nor had I any
tinning will ad Mod spa by railway U I an go by any oiler
very much frightened sad hurt. I had
ridlrge.olltheilli=r mated me at any time he might depend
2carsem knead, if I could do so conveniently, as I con-
k a passe/ prom negligence somewhere. I will do myseU
Me hawse of waking on you this afternoon at 3 o'clock If you wish it,
but an leseing town on Saturday.
This was seethed li. Duke, and addressed to S. Harrison.
solicitor.—The witness laid he copied the above letter,
gavegrad the copy and original to O'Brien. He had pre
vioustold witness that nth a letter as that refined to was
required before the railway company would grant compensa-
tion, as • party who was present and witnessed the accident
was either absent abroad or dead. In answer to Mr. Clark-
son, witness said there was not any truth in what was as-
serted in the letter, as to his being present. Witness was to
have hod 41. or 61. O'Brien afterwards took witn, es to Mr.
Harrison, who inquired some proof of respectability of cha-
meter.—By Kr. Clarkson After I copied the above letter,
I had my suspicions. Subsequently I gave a voluntary
statement of all that I knew of the transaction to the solicitor
of the railway company. I saw O'Brien on Friday lest, and
teeters he left the room he expressed a hope that I would tot
sprier as • witness against him in the event of his apprehen-
sion.—Duncan here requested that some letters relating to
a correspondence between him and Mr. Harrison might be
read, as he considered that it would be of importance.—Mr.
Cottingham accordingly perused one of the letters, in
which a pen was drawn through the words the s:h April,
and the 6:1 of September substituted.—Darke explain-
ed this by after he made the mistake himself, and it was
corrected by Mr. Harrison.—Mr. Cottingham (te Darke) :
Then you reprasated tolir./1 liaison that you were hake train
when the alleged accident occurred. Darke: I certainly did.
In answer to Mr. Cottingham, Darks said he now regretted
what he had done, but he did believe that the accident
had really occurred to the parties, and that was the reason
he had the folly to copy the letter.—Mr. Clarkson here
took an opportunity of observing that there was nothing
whatever to reflect the slightest imputation upon the charac-
ter of Mr. Harrison in the part he had taken in the transac-
tion, when the offending parties attempted, through him, to
institute proceedings against the company. The learned
counsel then said there was still one of the offenders at large,
and on that account • remand would be necessary before
wading the case, in its present fora, for trial.—Duncan said
that he would save the time of the court by making an
avowal that he was guilty of having participated in the
offence with which he was charged, and that he was now
only anxious to make every reparation in his power,
by giving all the information he could to the emu-
pany—thet In was only guilty to a certain extent, the
chief criminal in the affair being still at large. The prisocier
then reverted to en awful aecident which occurred in his
family since his and his wife's apprehension, and said that
on Saturday last, his only bn, a child of five years of age,
was burnt to death, and that his owa sufferings on that ac-
want, as wall as the situation uwhich he and his wife were
plow% were of the most dreadful description, and he trusted
that the miseries they tethered would operate in some de-
gree as an atonement of the offence with the company—that
his wife had and entirely under his control in the affair—
and he trusted at all events that she would be permitted to
be at large upon bail, in order that she might he rant to
attend to the burial of their unfortunate child.—Mr. Cot-
tingham deeply deplored the accident, but said that he should
remand the prisoners until Monday nest, but under the cir-
cumstances would take bail for the female prisoner's appear-
ance.

WANDS WORTH.—A PatensNuasz.—Eliz Brick:tag,
a pauper in the Wandsworth Union,waa charged with ill. using
the children of Brazier.—She was sent by the paro-
chial authorities as a nurse to Brazier's wife, and was al
lowed ss. per week. His wife died a week ago, since which
time the prisoner had been continually beating the children,
one of whom was a girl about nine years of ege, and the
other a boy very much younger, whom cries were repeatedly
heard during the absence of the father. On Monday morn-
ing Brazier went out to work, and on returning home in the
evening he found the prisoner drunk, and the children cry-
ing from the ill-usage they had received. Subsequently he
went out again, and his back was no sooner turned than the
prisoner knocked down the girl, and commenced kicking her
with such violence that her shrieks brought in a neighbour,
to whom the prisoner said she would beat the child as long
as she liked. The eldest child was then on the door, and pri-
soner was kicking her.—Mr. B 4 adon said the prisoner was
a woman totally unfit to be employed as a nun-, or to be
entrusted with the managem-nt of children. Her conduct
had been brutal is the extreme. She would pay a fine of
31., or be committed for two months. She was committed.

MONEY MARKET.

T rESDAT EVECING.

The liquidation of the account was the great basi-
-1 ness of to-day, and various fluctuations of prices were
the consequence. The disturbing cause was the
French intervention in Italian affairs, by an expedi-
tion professedly in favour of the Pope, but which, it
was apprehended, might end in a collision with
Austria. Console, therefore, opened rather heavy
for money at 891, with a continuation, however,
to the February account, opened for the 13th proximo.
They improved afterwards to 891 buyers, leaving off
891 to 1 for money, and for account 891 to /. The
liquidation has been attended with some casualties,
declared, or reported to be forthcoming. A cousin of
the Rothschild' was reported in default for about
9,0001., with only about 5001. to pay with. Other
defaults were mentioned, the notice of which may be
more fitly deferred tillto-morrow, before which, perhaps,
amicable arrangements may take place. This account
has been one of the few occasion, in which the public
have but the Stock Exchange. The public have
been buyers ; the Stock Exchange sellers ; and it is
recorded of one joint-stock party that, finding their
sale speculations all running against them, they ex-
pended several thousands of pounds in the purchase
of options for the " pat" of stock at about 861, divi-
dend on, upon which they opereed for the rise to
redeem the mishap of their previous " bear " specula-
tions. Reduced Threes were 891 to 4 • the Three-
and-o-Quarter per
Cents., 901 to 5. Long Annuities,
85 to 13-16. Exchequer Bills, 40s. to 435. prem.
India Bonds, 435. to 45e. prem. South Sea Stock,
981
The transactions in foreign stocks have not been
quite so animated to-day as latterly. but prices were
well supputed, and in some stocks higher. Brazilian,
improved to 76 to 8 ; Milian, to 87 to 90. Mexican
were 26 to 1. Peruvian, 48 to 50. New Granada,
151 to 161. Venezuela, 19 to 2L Baena Ayres,
26 to 8. Spanish Fives were better at 151 to 16; the
Threes at 281 to 9 ; Paasive,__ 32 to 1. Portuguese,
26 to 7. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 49 to
50; the Fours, 771 to 5. Belgian, 77 to 8.
Magian, 102 to 4.
Foreign exchange underwent little alteration to-
day, but the transactions were marked by more
confidence. The negotiations on Amsterdam were
12.21 to 5 ; on Rotterdam, 12.24 to 5 ; on Ant-
werp, 25.70 to 75; onjlamburg,l3.lllto # ; on Frank-
fort, 1211 toy; on Petersburg, 361; on Paris, 25.60
—(at short, 25.30 to 35); on Vienna, 11.28 to 30 ;on
Leghorn, 32 to 32.5 ; on Naples, 391 ; on Madrid,
471 to 1 ; on Lisbon, 511—all at three months,
except as expressed to the contrary.
The following have been the fluctuations of prices
in Consols, from highest to lowest, in the progress of
the account now wound up, from its opening on the
12th of December last. The account wu then opened
—at highest and lowest prices for money :
Highest Lowest.
Dee. 12 s4
„ 12 s7 !co opening
„ 18 toe mho shut for the die.
so. dlv to 88$
~ 28 BB kr cipagag, es. gtv s2l
27 IN
" tea.

Jed.lthis id. .
1 ...
rise id.
The in the Routh haaleen upwards
of 2 per cent. on average, taking the dividend into
account. The Stock Exchange people have been ma-
tidally the sufferers on this account, the public
having altogether been buyers, and therefore contri-
butory to the rise.