The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

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78 er 79. Had seen the prisoner four ae Ave
times at the !edgier. %r id one shilling • w The
deceased became !rands with the prime,* when she
was in the serve* of Lady Wyndham. new weeks
before the murder be told his mother that she was to fee
late the City le visit her brother. She told the prisoner,
with whose Dada. sire was &satisfied, that she =WS, fa
amenparnee, pa another le/pop. He was present at a
coarestatioes almost fear W*l4l DOOM the occurrence, at
which ease sneaks was made to money. His mother
asked him to have Sella beer, but said she had no money te
*sad for it with. The priloner said, " Oh, yea, she has
some is the drawer." Deceased was very penurious, and
casplained when she was obliged to light two nsatches.—
Cronessaained : The &aimed was a strong, hearty old
woman ,• she was very deaf.
Elizabeth Wil!s, the daughter of the deceased, identified
the articles fora in the bundles as the property of her
mother.—Mrs. Litchfield. another daughter of the deceased,
said she moollected the pauoner coning to retitle with her
mother' on the 29th of Mardi. On that day the de-
ceased told her that pincer had fainted away. She com-
plained of being iIL She was very poor. sad attributed
it to illness and the length of time she had been out of a situ-
ation. Her mother was a woman of penurious habits, and
kept her mosey is a drawer, the key of which she kept in
her pocket. Had seen *spawner eight or ten times. Some•
times stopped all day with the prisoner and her mother.
There was nothing in prisoner's conduct different from that
of other people. Was not aware that she bad fits whilst
with her mother.
John Hyacinth, water-gilder, living in King's Arms-
yard: The prisoner came to lodge at his house last Dec., and
continued there until she went to Lady Wyndham's, in Feb.,
when the said she had written to Brighton for some money,
and that she had been disappointed. She said she wished to
get to Brighton by the begianing of June, as she thought
she would do better there than in London. She said she ex-
pected money from a aeon named Hader. She was almost
starang.—Croes-esiuniard: Never heard her say that she
was obliged to leave hex place became she was considered
dangerous. Believed she told his wife that she had had fits.
km Hyacinth said she never knew the prisoner to have a
fit while she lived at King's Arms-yard. Told her she was
subject to hysteric fits. She told her after the left her place
that she bad been compelled to leave because the heat of the
fire caused her to have fits. She said she had fits after she
left that service. Hader kept her at the lodgings. He had
kept a female there before.
Wiliam Smith, butler to Gillespie, Rm., had known
the prisoner for seven years. Had not seen her for three
veers until ones in Adam-street last summer. Saw her at
Heighten two or three times a week for a period of five years.
Never noticed anything peculiar in her manner. Sew her
in several severe Ate, aced whilst she was in that state she
required four men to bold her. She was generally delirious
and quite absent after these file—Cross-examined : The de-
lirious state lasted generally half an hour or three quarters.
She was *kind, good-hearted person, and every one in
Brighton liked her. Could not may that he had ever heard
her complain of her head.
Ann James said she lodged in the same house as the pd.
sorter, at No. 25, OreatMarlborough-street, for eleven weeks.
Did not notice anything peculiar miter manner.
At this stage of the case the prisoner became almost la.
sensible, and the learned judge directed that she should be
taken down, and have restorative. applied to her; and the
court then adjourned for a short period, when the OM Rs
roamed.
Susannah Creswell said she had known the primer then
years, and never remarked anything peculiar in her
or conversation. She saw her in the evening on wl=
murder was supposed to have been committed, and she ab-
orted a difference in her appearance, and she seemed wild
and excited.—Creseexamined : The prisoner was always
considered to be a mild, kind-hearted woman.
Mr. Mate, the surgeon who was called in, described the
state of the deceased. It appeared that she had received
most dreadful injuries. Six ribs were broken on one side
and eight on the other, and the lungs had been literally
crashed ; the inj thus occasioned to those vital organs
was the immedlels canes of death. The cord round the
neck was not sufficiently tight of itself to do injury, but it
appeared to have been made use of to enable the knuckles of
the hand to be forced violently into the windpipe, which was
actually broken. He maw the body at haltpast five o'clock
in the morning, and it was then cold and rigid, and he gave
an opinion that life must have been extinct for at
least eight hours so that in all probability the dreadful act
had been committed about the time when the prisoner tip.
pared to have been making inquiries as to the hour at which
tee last sun muted for Brighteners the previous evening.--
Cross-examined : Did not think the injuries upon the body
of the deceased were the result of blows, but rather of vio-
lent proem", such ea hassling or sitting upon the body. He
was of opinion the whole of the violence must have been in-
flicted by one person. He imagined that while in that po-
sition the hands of the person committing the violence were
used to inflict the violence upon the neck of the deceased.
Battersbee the constable was here re-called, and in answer
to a question put by Mr. Clarkson, he said that upon the
poker which he observed lying by the deceased, he saw some
blood and hair, but he said it might have rolled into the
blood that was lying upon the floor.
The aoss.examination of Mr. Moats resumed: He said
that the poker would not account for the breaking of the
ribs. There appeared to have been a severe blow over the
orbit of the right eye, but not of such a character as could
be inflicted by a poker, and in his opinion the poker had
nothing to do with the cause of death. He had no doubt
that the injuries were inflicted while the deceased lay upon
the ground, and that the ribs of the deceased were broken
by her assailant "bumping " upon her chest. Reconsidered
that one bump, if it had been a violent one, would be suffi-
cient to have broken all the ribs he mentioned. He did not
examine the injury done to the eye of the deceased, because
it clearly had nothing to do with the death. Re-examined :
Considering the age of the deceased, he was of opinion that
the blow upon the eye, although not dangerous to life in
itself, would be sufficient to have felled the deceased to the
ground and rendered her insensible.
Mr. ki`Aurdo deposed that he was surgeon to the gaol of
Newgate, and since the committal of the prisoner she had
been under his notice he had been desired to pay parti-
cular attention to her, with a view to ascertain the state of
her mind. He had had repeated conversations with her,
and never observed anything to induce him to believe that
she was otherwise then of sound mind. She had complained
of headaches ; but generally, when her health was inquired
after, she represented herself as pretty well. Mr. Id•Mardo
added that, an his opinion, the prisoner was pregnant at the
present time.—The learned counsel for the prisoner cross-
examined the witness upon the subject of disorders of a pecu-
liar character to which females are subject, with a view to
show that the result might affect the brain, and cause tem-
porary madness.
The letters found upon the prisoner were then put ice.
The first was a letter from a male friend of the prisoner, en.
closing her a postoffiee order for 21. There was slur another
letter from an individual at Brighton, in which he regretted
that he could not send her any money.—Mr. Bodkin, at the
suggestion of the court, declined to have the other letters
read, and the case for the prosecution was then closed.
Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to admits the jury on behalf
of the prisoner; and having commented on the facts adduced
on behalf of the prosecution, he said that he should proceed
to lay before them evidence which he trusted would satisfy
them that, even if they believed the prisoner really com-
mitted the act imputed to her, she was at the time in such a
state of temperer/ inanity as to render her irresponsible in
a legal point of view for her actions. The following evidence
was thee adduced for the defence:
Mrs. Lucy. Gibson deposed that about eight years ago she
knew the prisoner as fellow servant at Brighton, and always
found her a kind and well disposed person. She used to
suffer a good deal from illness, and had fits several times.
Jane Rich, the prisoner's sister, who was much affected,
said the prisoner was always labouring under lowliess of
spirits, and would frequently it down and cry for half an
hour together. Her mother was subject to fits, and her
brother had been out of his Wad.
Mary Richardson said she bad known the prisoner 17 or
18 yean. She always mandared her a very good hard-
working girl. The pelesma @nye& at her house for two
months, and during that puled the had • very bad it, and
when she came tea little site third very wild.
Several other winner depend to the prisoner being
subject to fits, and to ler road &Joann of spirits.
lir. W. Verrill, st_te! the Illgina lying in institu-
tion, proved that he aflmdad the biotin of the prisoner
man tw osaudomp he delirium.
Kr. &Rag& wpm to the Brighten Infirmary,. gave
than ....=js aimed ea opinion that during a
in a female hen the particular Dine.
=die vas 'abject, she wend be in such a state of
and Is ante be aware what she was tieing, and from his
owe heaw4 he was aware that wheat In such a state a
we hill the greaten hatred towards those with
mina alte lire ham tin neat Madly.-111r.
add that was the ease hr the
Dr. Sutherland was then apiall=indidn. He said,
I on • Orkin, and ham lad onsidersloie paean In dia-
nthus of **salad. I was Mina to be proven twig by
in solicitor to the Treseary, and I have ailsaded to the
whole °L IM nithaan particularly that of the witanan for
lit phew mad cavarsiss all the fans that ham been stated
'lobe Inn tiny de net la ray ophdaa lading@ any
lIIIIPPOOdiIIeI naiad la the most
la thy degree whatimer.
. Ilethis then =pied, in a and 110/111 earl temperate
ups the whets tam
Jalkaaseutened viatrang no the mos at 10 ,
Vaislkesi d4I
14_,-.l•s7lrdist the primer was psener whO
the loath d the lienand; sad, if en islither at
in ins dm an was fseislie was la rath anti of
Wad se te Nadal bee kr her seta.
'Ma pry rental ato 12 eon& At ins
minatas pat they mated, ail delivered their math
is the prhanar gaily, bat alingty reeennaallag
t4l *WA Oak INgegt Mg Mynas good dernann.
Atha an heir bodkin InIM through,
Xr. ;min Lie paS ea theishals cap, and, after t
tati the cline of tbe panes, vas a dreadful that luirlM
held en the slightest hap at a amonutation of the
sentare, paned the seaman et deedida the usual form.—
The *scan was then Naha wham she bad anything to
say in arrest of judintatt.@-Bia Nothing."—The
prhaor, who appeared parintly asaaved upon bearing
the verdict and gentian, was than nthered from the bar.—
Tlse trial lasted more thahlboliten beam
POLIC E.—yzErrzaDAy.
BOW.IT&RET. Foaosay.—Chariss 11Phosier, late
to the Ladies' Society for the pulp el Cluitl
rklaia Win apre.
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MONEY MARKET.

THURSDAY Evinvio:

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1847.

who way to have attended bare this day to complete the case
the primmer, was yesterday given into custody by
Velt Finlay upon • charge of embezzlement, and will require
to be brought up to the Central Criminal Court by. habeas to
give evidence. After proof of the cheques being in the pri-
soner's handwriting, Immo fully committed to Newgate.
Femme DRITINO.—John 7 Wrney, a coachman in the
service of Mr. Bryant, limy-stahlekeeper, in Caroline-street,
Pimlico, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned by the coroner's jury, was finally examined on •
charge amusing the death of Robson Gray, aged 3 years,
by driving a odder' over her on Saturday Wt, in the Bird
cage-walk, St. James's-park. The several witnesses who
gave evidence before the coroner, and at the last examina-
tion, were bound over, and the prisoner was fully committed
for trial.
CLERKENWELL.—ASSAULT ON A MOTHER at HRH
DAUGHTER. Caroline Bowling was finally examined,
charged by Mary Bowling, her mother, with a murderous
meek upon her.—The mother deposed that she and the
prisoner quarrelled together, and the latter seizing a chopper,
was about to strike her, and to avoid her violence she ran
into the street. When the chopper was taken from her, the
prisoner pursued her, and seizing her by the throat got her
down, and with • rough brick (now produeed) beat her on
the head until she was insenLble and weltering in blood, and
she knew no more of what took place until she found herself
in the heepital.—Esther Bowling, her youngest daughter,
corroborated her evidence, and a policeman said he found
the prosecutrix lying on the ground bleeding and apparently
lifeless.—Mr. Combo convicted her in the penalty of 61., or
in default of payment to two months' imprisonment.—Re-
moved in default.
WORSHIP-STREET. MAJOR° MISCONDUCT OP A
POLICEMAN. Poliositoastable Thomas Storer, H 169,
was charged with assaulting Mary Stenson.—The complain-
ant stated that she was passing through Spital.equare, on
Sunday night last, when she was stopped by the defendant;
who abruptly asked her if she was a married woman, as he
should if she were single, to make her his wife. He
put his arm round her waist, and commenced kiningher, and
at the same moment seized her by the wrist and pulled elf
her glove, of which he kept possession and refused to resign
it. She was endeavouring to escape from him, when he
dragged her forcibly into the courtyard of a gentleman's
house, when he committed further violence, and in her
struggles to extricate herself, she was brukied in several
places. She screamed out loudly for assistance, when a dog
upon the gremlins commenced barking violently, which ap-
parently alarmed the defendant, who desisted from &ether
violence, and made his way into the street. She was stillest-
' big her deem and hair, which was greatly dishevelled, when
a lady and gentleman came up, to whom she was relating the
occurrent*, when the defendant again presented himself,
and threatened. unless the instantly went away, he would
lock her up.—The complainant was severely croemsamined
by Mr. Varm, on behalf of the defendant, but without elicit-
ing anything at all at variance with her testimony.—Loma
Dykes described the injured and agitated state of the com-
plainant upon reaching home, and proved that the account
she then gave of the 111-usage she had been subjected to was
in strict accordance with her evidence.—Mr. Varm addressed
the magistrate for the defence, and submitted that the charge
was altogether too improbable to deserve credence; but Mr.
Arnsld considered the charge demanded the fullest investi-
gation, and as it was probable that an account of the pro-
ceedings might attract the notice of the lady and gentleman
whom the complainant had first met after the alleged out-
Mee; Ire whose
cas to"standrd ov"erulfdornaotwbeser
,enrtiened, he should
hope that they
would come forward.
LAMBETH.—SIur PARCELS.—CTIPTION TO THE Pus-
LlC.—John Anna, a cab-driver, was re-examined, charged
with fraud. On Monday last the prisoner brought three
parcels to the Bricklayers' Arms station of the Dover Rail-
way, saying that he had brought them from the Parcels De-
livery Company's office in Fetter-lane, and demanded sa. Bd.
carriage. The money was paid upon his signing a receipt,
and he was given into custody. A number cif printed
tickets and receipts belonging to the Parcels Delivery Com-
pany were found upon hint.--Mr. William Reynolds, a clerk
to the company, stated that the prisoner bad been employed
as a supernumerary, and while so employed he had
ram to the office where the printed form were
rot Shhieurnrcel. Pr"
psase thr'ouswhisk
h thew" ed
pany's noohfficein.gNout
r
Lad parcels bean entrusted to the prisoner to be deli.
Tend at the railway. The next charge against the prisoner
MS that of having received a sum of 2.1. 10d. from a clerk at
the MOM' Railway Company's office, on Monday week,
ihr two parcels delivered at the London-bridge terminus.
Thu parcels bad been forwarded to Brighton. but no such
pease= is those whose names they bore being found they
were returned Vi the office and found to be worthless.—Mr.
Reynolds said that the prisoner had succeeded in defrauding
other railway companies, as well ass great number of private
individuals, by the same means—Mr. Elliott committed the
prisoner on both the charges above stated, and remanded
him for • week on the other alleged frauds.
THAMES.—ABLSOLT ON A POLICEMAN.—David Ross
was charged with an assault on police-constable H 212.—0 n
the previous night, as he was on duty, he saw the prisoner
lying on the pavement drunk and asleep in the Whitechapol-
road. He roused him and desired him to go home, when
he jumped up and dealt the officer a violent blow in the het
and commenced kicking him. He had a sharp piece of ben
in his hand, with which he threatened TO stab him. Two
other constable' came up, and as they were conveying him
to the station-house he pulled out a clasp-knife, and exclaim
ing, " I'll go to Newgate for yon yet," was about to open
the blade, when he was struck on the elbow by one of the
officers, and finally secured and locked up. A short time since
be was convicted of an assault on a policemaa,end sentenced to
fourteen days' imprisonment.—The primer aid dot belied
had something to drink, and he retnemberierneddeg mare,
except that the nett morning he found his arm nearly
broken.—Mr. Yardley inflicted the highest punishment the
law allowed, as retorting to the use of the knife bad latterly
become of frightful recurrence.—Sentenced to two months'
imprisonment in the Hones of Correction, with hard labour,
without the option of a fine.

The business in the funds Vaibe;ii of a quiet
order. In the earlier part of the morning the ten-
dency of prices wan decidedly downwards, but
when, towards two o'elock, it was ascertained that
the Bank board had separated without making any
notification of change in the rate of interest, the quo-1
tations of stocks ascended. Consols, at the close of
the market, were called 871 to for money ; for ac-
, count, 874 to showing a recovery from the extreme
point of the day's depression of per oent, and an
improvement upon the currency of yesterday of k.
Reduced Threes were 874 to 4. Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 894 to 4. Exchequer Bills, 2a discount
to Is. premium. India Bonds, 7s. to 3s. discount for
large bonds.
The dealings in foreign stocks represented as usual
minute quantities only. It would almost seem from
their rareness, as if apparent bargains were intended
merely to register pnces, and keep the stocks before
the public eye. Mexican were called 184 to 4.
Chilian, done at 90, and now quoted 90 to 2, have
lost I per cent. Spanish Fives were 20 to 1' • the
Threes, 30 to Portuguese, 27 to 9. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 56 to 4 : the Fours, 89 to 4.
One effect which may be expected to flow from
recent disasters in the corn trade, although
hitherto referred to in any quarter, is deserving v.
tention, u not unlikely to exercise a certain influence
within a brief period upon the course of money vale,'
The very large amounts of commodities imported 1.
the United States led to the accumulation of consider-
able balances in the hands of some of the leadi-
egency firms here and in Liverpool connected
the trade of that country. These might have been, .
probably were intended tobe, invaded and remitted
specie had the rate of exchange at New York, NN
Orleans, and elsewhere in the Union, declined latto
to the point, as expected, which would have mita,
an adequate profit upon such operations. So 6
occasion has not offered ; but meanwhile, as I
commanded as high returns here as in the
States, if not higher indeed, upon securities
realisable, whilst from their enhanced rates d
I stocks offered no temptation to purchase into
Ilthe balances which have so accumulated to the
of American shippers of produce were not withdrm
but left to be employed in this country, subject
course to draft after date, in such manner as
agents in trust should appear most beneficial a
was with malty. We learn that, if not in th
in Liverpool those funds have been laid out to
extent, for hundreds of thousands are spoken t
question, in the shape of loans upon railway
for which internal is obtained at the rate of 8
It may be ably warned, from the standing.
racier of the lighly respectable patties in
of these operations, that such loans were not
tared upon without an ample sufficiency of col
guarantee, not fuly in respect of the solidity
securities hisms*ves, and of a large margin
much lower has market rates at which the w
upon theme wain made, but in the substantial f
known esparity of the borrowers themseh
prices receded, and the limits of the margin
approachtidet as the loans should be called in, a
dos, as mho he specified periods only,
rowers of Wanes would find no 'inoperable
aalty in pnying.aft the loans when at maturity,
ruiailtsaisg hp ftesuciated prima with other r
alfillil to minibu
Dot ea the arrivs.al out in the United Bt
intalligence of the extraordinary mamma
wen plias in this market, and of largo imuinats
&whammed balm, and also, what is tudsmennt,
bills roma fruit non-payment by the protection c
cionsepoodinde, who hove still to %severed by is
mittanme from the drawers. it uor be saw pik
rralthat the int mourn* on the other aide wiE
o draw against, or otherwise call in, taw
of eathading Waling 14 hire, ea ND-
*hied, he maptersea4 inkier other epportnottien
or necemitiee regobx bubo& Now