The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1848.

Butler, a drark r, in Shoreditch. The prisoner, in company
with three female enapanions, having stolen the piece of
merino from the interior of the shop, coolly stationed her-
self outside of the window to view the goods there, but
adroit as she was she had been observed, and was taken with
the property concealed under her shawl. Even then, how-
ever, aho was hardly taken aback, and with the utmost
readiness asserted that, wanting some merino for a dress, she
had merely taken the piece in question while she looked at
those in the window to so* if there was any more ouitable.
Unluckily for her she was known by the several aliases
above-mentioned, and she was committed to Newg►te for

trial.
CLERKENWELL.—Linzt ox GUARDIANS.—fr• E.
Hancock, printer, of No. 5, Somers-street, was summoned
to produce certain printed papers, and to show cause why he I
should not deliver up the name of the author of the mme.—
Mr. Boulton, solicitor, attended se clerk to the guardians of
the poor of Clerkenwell, to watch the proceedings, which I
were instituted under the Printers' Act of the 39th Geo. 111. 1
see. 29.—A short time ago a boy, named Err, fell into a cop-
per of boiling water, at Mr. Auhin's establishment for pauper
children at Norwood, which occasioned his decease, and on
an investigation before the coroner a verdict of " accidental
death" was returned. Several persona who have been noto-
rious for years in making a demon! amongst the rate-payers
have made up a book, accusing the guardians of Clerkenwell
of "a guilty connivance of the horrid affair," and otherwise
moat greedily lioelling them and other gentlemen. With a
view to prosecute the promoter or prernot,rs of such an in-
famous attack, the defendant now wascompellNl to appear or
in default to ho adjudged to pay the sum of 201. On the de-
fendant answering to the summons, Mr. Tyrwhitt asked him
if he was ready to comply with it ? He answered that before
he did so he should claim the privilege of examining the par-
ticular clauses of the statute under which he was brought
there.—Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was not bound to comply with
his request, as it was supposed that every nian knew the
law he, however, would grant his request. The magistrate ,
then read the clauses bearing on the ease.—The defendant
afterwards handed in the papers in question, upon which he
wrote the name and address of the calumniator. They were
then given back to him with a caution to produce them again
on a future day, and the summons was dismissed.
MARYLEBONE —CONTEMPLATED itonagar OF 2,0001.
—F. Swormors, recently a constable in the 1) division, was
charged with having incited James Walkley to assist him in
committing a robbery at the house of Mica Pingley, No 24,
Paddington-green. The man Walkley had lived at the
prisoner's house for the last three months. On Sunday, the
16th inst, the prisoner, on coming off duty, told him he was
reported at Scotland. yard, and if compelled to resign or he •
discharged he should go to sea. On asking the prisoner how
he would be able to meet the expense of doing so, he said
there was plenty of property in Miss Dingley's parlour, and
that his intention was then to go to France, and from thence
to Maryland, United States. He further said he could
put on Walkley'a coat (a velveteen one), and go into the
house and fetch out 2,0001. worth of jewellery and other arti-
cles. On Thursday last prisoner had some further convert.•
tion with Walkley, and asked him to go to Miss Dingley's
that night; that as coon as he (prisoner) could get the cook to
sleep he would let Walkley in, to take the property and let
him out with it, but Walkley refused to have anything to do
with the robbery, and told Se gnat Hardwick, 7 1), of the
propoml the prisoner had made him. The prisoner had
been discharged from the police force that day.— Miss
Dingley's cook and housemaid admitted that the prisoner
and Walkley had been in the habit of visiting them almost
daily at their mistress's house.—The prisoner vets remanded
until Thursday next.
CHARITY.—The magistrates of this court thankfully
acknowledge the receipt of the second half of a 51. note from
"W. C.," for the relief of the poor of this district.
" W. F. G." has likewise forwarded a donation of 51. to this
office, for the same benevolent purpose.
LAM BETH.—Avvestrven MURDER.—E. C. Fitzmayor,
a landing-waiter in her Mejesty's Customs, who had been
remanded from the preceding evening, on a charge of
attempting to murder his wife, way re-examined.—A Police-
constable informed the magistrate that Mrs. Fitsmayor, the
prisoner's wife, was unable to attend, and handed in a certi-
ficate from her medical attendant to that effect —Mr.
Briggs, an attorney, who said he had known the prisoner
and his family for some years, and attended for him as his
friend, stated that he could, by the most indisputable medi-
cal testimony, prove the prisoner's insanity. Of this fact
his wife was thoroughly convinced, and had sent him a
friendly message that morning —The prisoner's mother, in
reply to Mr. Norton's questions, said that it was
intention of her daughter in-law to have attended on
that day, but after seeing the medical gentleman, who
wee of opinion that it would not be safe to leave
the house, or even her bed, she changed her mind.—
Mr. Norton observed that when the medical man had stated
on the evening before that the prisoner's wife would be stile
to attend on that day, he doubted much whether she would
be in a condition to appear and give her evidence. The in•
juries were described to be revere, and might lead to serious
consequences, such as lock-jaw, and the patient ought there-
fore to he kept as quiet and free from eseitement es possible.
—Mrs. Fitrmayor, the prisoner's mother, hoped his worship
would make an order for the admission of her son into the
infirmary at the prison, and for his remaining there during
the remand.—Mr. Norton replied that he should do so.—
Quionier, constable, said that from the inquiries he had
made, there could be very little doubt that the prisoner's in-
sanity was brought on by excessive drinking. He had as-
certained that he had taken at one sitting as muck as a bottle
of gin, a bottle of rum, and a bottle of wine.—The prisoner
was remanded.

GREENWICH.—HIGHWAT ROREERT ANT) ATTEMPTED
MERDEIL—JOOO Jones and James lung, wat.rmen, were
re-examined, chanted with robbing Thomas Carey, a seaman,
of a quantity of sovereigns and silver, and afterwards throw-
ing him into the river, off Rotherhithe ; and the prisoner
King with further assaulting Daniel Felby, who gave the
alarm on hearing Carey's cries from the shore. Carey hod
been paid off from the Wiebeach, Russian trader, at Whi-
beach, on the 11th inst., on which day he earns
up by railway to London, and being too late to
reach Deptford, where his family resided, that night, he
proceeded to Wapping, and hired a boat to take him to
Deptford from Execution Dock stairs. He engaged the pri.
soner Jones to take him, but the prisoner King jumped into
the boat, and said, as it was late (eleven o'clock), they would
make short work of it. When in the stream, Jones proposed
to go to the " Eagle," at Rotherhithe, and have a quart ,f
" hot pot." Prosecutor agreed to this, and they pulled the
boat across the river for that purpose. In addition to the
" hot pot" the prisoners called for some rum. Three sepa-
rate half pints were drunk amongst them, when donee said,
" It is time to be getting under weigh for Deptford." They
then proceeded to the boat, and on reaching the bottom of
the causeway Jones took Carey by the collar and rifted
his pockets. Carey, who was drunk, resisted, upon which
Jones forced him off the pathway on to the bed of the
river, and nearly buried him in the mud. Felby, who was
standing on the shore, heard cries, and went to assist, when
King ran to struggle with him, and got him on the
ground. Felby roared loudly for the police, when a
police constable came and secured Jones, and another
came to the aid of Felby, and both prisoners were secured and
taken to the station. Part of the stolen property was found
on the person of Jones, consisting of two sovereigns, two
half crowns, and one shilling and sixpence in silver. The
prosecutor was, with difficulty, got out of the mud, and saved
from a watery grave. as the tide was coming up. The case
had been remanded, in order to complete the evidence, and
prepare the depositions, but on the case being called on, it
was ascertained that the prosecutor and the witness Felby
had not been home all night, and that it was confidently be-
lid that they bad been tampered with, and had some
women of the town " planted" on them for that purpose.—
Mr. Traillesid, the ends of justice should not be frustrated if
he could prevent it. He should remand the prisoners from
Meek. to week, and in the meantime issue warrants for the
apprehension of the parties.—Warrants were accordingly
placed in the hands of the police.

MONEY MARKET.

SATURDAY EVENING.

The funds were to-day iu a atilt more animated
state than during any previous period of the week, or,
in fact, since the commencement of the present ac-
coont.
The quo' ations continue to improve at the
Paris Bourse, and political affairs in France hate
become decidedly more tranquil. The Bink of Eng-
land returns, too, exhibit a further gradual acquisition
of metallic resources ou the part of the institution,
all of which contributes to the support of the markets.
Purchases, however, have gone on, for various ac-
counts, chiefly in the replacement of stocks disposed
of during the late panic, parties being fearful of fur.
ther delay, in the face of the accumulation of bullion
by the Bank, and other circumstances which seem to
favour an increased strengthening of the markets.
Consols were last called 881 to ..,.: for account ; Three
per Cent. Reduced Stock, 88t to ; the Pace-and-a
Quarter per Cents., 89k to I. ; Exchequer Bills, 265.
to 28s. premium. Bank Stock was nominally called
197; to 200, but nothing was known to have been
done in it at those figures.
There has been some increase of business in the
foreign market. Spanish Five per Cent. Stock has
been at 191 to i' and the Three per Cents. at 291 to
30. Equador Bonds were marked 3. Brazil stock
was at 83. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds
were 54k, and at the close 53.
Money has been offered, on the deposit of Consols,
reimbursable on the 24th proximo—that is to say, on
the next account day, at the very low rate of l;
per cent. per annum, such is the want of stock
experienced by speculators, in order to carry on their
operations.
The committee of the Stock-exchange have, it
appears, entered into arrangements with a French
news-agent for the forwarding of the closing prices at
the Paris Bourse, from day to day, in time for the
exhibition of the quotations to the house on the follow-
ing morning at its opening.
Messrs. Perk-ire, Schlosser, and Mullins have,
through their *elicitors, Messrs. Crowder, Maynard.
and Co., signified to their creditors their readiness to
divide among them 3s. in the pound on any early day.
Circulars to that effect have been issued.
During the past year, 21,536 ships paid the Sound
dues. Of these vessels, 10,674 were from the North ,
Sea, and 10,862 from the Baltic. This is the greatest
number recorded for the space of ten years. Last
year, 1,879 ships, of IThich 771 were laden with wheat,
patted the Great Belt.

It transpires, according to the Siusbian Mercury,
that the bank of Messrs. Arnstein and Eskeles, of
Vienna, which has suffered so much by the recent
failures at Carlsruhc and Frankfort, is about to wind
up its affairs. It is estimated that, all debts being
liquidated, Messrs. Arnstein and Eskeles will have a
surplus of five millions of florins' or about half a mil-
lion sterling. This withdrawal from business will be
an event of much interest is Germany, and to the
commercial world at large, the firm being one of the
first banking establishments in Europe, and certainly
second to one only in Vienna.
The eagerness with which the government of the
United States presses forward on all occasions the
operations of the American mint, especially in the
recoinage of foreign gold, consisting for the greater
part of sovereigns, into eagles and half eagles, ought
not to escape attention. It is indeed but the natural
sequence of the Jacksonian policy, and its complement
in the Sub-Treasury Bill, by which all customs dues
are made payable in metallic values only. That
policy contemplated, or purposed to contemplate, as
its chief object, the more extended dissemination of a
metallic circulation among the people at large.
Another leading object avow, d, which President
Polk asserts has been so far successfully achieved,
was to restrain the banks of the different states from
excessive issues of paper money, to which
they
.were accustomed when, as before, made the
recipients and deposits of government dues, and
thus were enabled to accumulate in their vaults vast
sums of specie, upon the basis of which they proceeded
to issue paper as if the state hoards in deposit were
their own. The banks are now restricted so far as
seems possible, meaning of course banks solvent and
conducted with average discretion, from any glaring
excess of issue, because more liable than before, when
bank paper was receivable in payment of treasury
dues, to be called upon for specie by their customers
and depositors who may have heavy amounts to pay
over to the government on fiscal account. It is rather
surprising that Sir Robert Peel and the party who
with him are so laudably solicitous to " saturate " the
country with gold, and keep down paper to a given
ratio, do not take the short cut to the end of the
American treasury. Instead of crowding bank com-
mittees and banking bills session upon session, to
devise and execute weans for the persecution of
hanks and paper-money makers: for coercing the
Bank of England into locking up millions of gold
more than could be called for, and drawing in its
notes accordingly, thus pinching the circulation at
both ends at once : or otherwise compelling the Bank
to buy millions of gold which it could not possibly
WIC at a fixed price, whatever the market price of the
world, and overwhelming the public with bank notes
to all the extent of the millions of gold in surplus—
instead of all this circuitous ambiguity of legislation,
why not decree simply in American fashion, that all
dues and taxes shall be receivable only in the coin of
the realm ? This is the short way to keep gold in the
country, for a time at least, although it may be
doubted whether it would contribute to bring it in.
Banking and paper-money perplexities would be re-
solved at once—how need not be told—and the con-
coctors of currency theories and Bank Charter Acts
might rest from their labours.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury states
that the amount of metallic moneys imported into the
United States during the last fiscal year (ending 30th
of June last), was 24,121,219 dollar°, of which there
remained in the country 22,276,170 ; whilst the num-
ber of pieces struck off at the mint and its branches
exceeded 20 millions of dollars in value, principally,
we arc told, from the conversion of foreign moneys into
coins of the United States.
This ardour of recoinage, principally of gold, raises
the suspicion that some advantage is found in the su-
perior purity of our standard, now known to rank
foremost in the world, to compensate at least the ne-
cessary waste and charges of the operation.
As showing the tenacity, even to disadvantage
sometimes, and commercial prejudice, of the American
government in this monetary management, it may be
mentioned that a house at New York, having occasion
to ship sovereigns by the last steamer, applied to the
collector or treasury agent to be accommodated with
25,000 against dollars, at, as may be supposed, a cer-
tain agio on the exchange. The operation was agreed
upon. Application was subsequently made for
50,000 more, upon the knowledge that the agent bad
a large amount in hand, but was absolutely refused,
although within a day or two he despatched gold to
the value of 900,000 dollars to the American mint for
re-coinage.
ENGLISH FUNDS.
3 ye Ct. Red. Amu... 881 2 hulls ltandA, £l,OOO. 19 20
3 Der Ct. Cum, Ann.., 88 2 Corool6 for Acct., 881 2 3
Now 32 par Cunt. Anna. ,092 9 2 11.11 BOIL Cl.OOO, Zil 8
longs sq. 6th Jail.. pit Lilt%

TORSION FUNDS.
5 per Ct. Brazilian Bond., 83 6 per Ct. Spanish Bonds, Acct., '
3 per Ct. Danish Rooth, 1626,1334 4 Jan. 31, 191
24 per CL Dutch Aqiitilor Bonds, 3 Ditto, Couvins, 114
1 per Ct. Onmada lids., Deferred, 4 Ditto, Passlie Bonds, 44
6 per Ct. Peruvian 88., 392 3 per Ct. Spaeth Bonds, 292 39
5 per CL Portuguow lAI,. 6 21 per Ct. Venezuela Ronda D-
-4 4 per Ct. ditto, Account, 2.51' ferrod, 102
6 per Ct.
94 Ithisdan lids.. 1422, A at., 241 per Dutch Exch., 12 OWL,
31
6 er•o.:.l.lrar 1.41 Bonds. Div. from 4Driciro.Ct,TL Ut.iitch ii•11054!1/151
34ZICHANOS8 AND STOCKS ABROAD.
111.111 e an. JAN. El.—Austrian rive per Cents., 102 ; Bank Shares,
196 hill., ituwdawithglish Loon, 1044 611E004 money: Fire per Cent.
lianthunt Certificate., 1011 money ; Ditto, First Series luserip., 192
bILL+; Ditto. 11u9e and Co., Third and Fourth Series, 4/5 money ; Ditto,
In Quilt, 95 money; New Four per Cents., Hope and Co., 861 hillx
Blare,
Bth, Stiegiltz, 85 hills, $3 Mune); Spanish New Fire per Cents., 13
hll4; Three per Cults.. 2341•91. • Portugutho-Aniglith Loan, 25
1.111.; Dutch Act. Dolt, Twoand &Half Per Cents.. 65 bills; Polish New
Your per Cent. Lan, 1811, 791811.; Danish•Enlivis Loan, Three por
Cents., 821 bills,ll24moncy.—Eschankce on Loudon: Hamburg, Jan. 18,
13 111 ; Ditto, two mouths, 13 9: Petersburg. Jan. 7, three months,
371 ; Christiana, Jou. 1, one mouth, 4 78; Stockholm, Jan. 11, ninety
I days, 1207:
throe months, Pl6l ; Frankfort. Jan. 14, two months, 120 4.
AlleTeltUANl, JAN. 21.—Dutth Active Debt Two.andw Half per
Cents., 534, 244 ; Do. Thar.: or Cents., 654 03 ; Do. Four per Cents.. 031
841 ; Amort SCud, Four.and a.lialf per Cents., &I 641 Commerdai
Company Fonrand-a. Half per Cents., 1615 102; East India Loan, Four
.7 Cern., 031 64. Exchange on London, at sight. 12.1.); Do., Two
ontha 12; Do. on Hamburg, 35 ; Do., two months, 34 62; Do. on
Part., 66 432 ' • Do. two e ~ nths, 56.
Hannan,, Jct. 22.—Chan or 1640,98 money; Ditto, 1942, 98.4 money;
Ditto, 1644, 911 money; Do., Two.rindatlalf per Cents. 501 money;
City Loan, 1843, 9,S money : Spanish Five per CND..., liquidated, 16 7-16
money. Hank of Belgium, 79 money; Ditto, issue of 1841, 191.4 bW4.
A:change on London 25 cc
rIitANDFOAT; JAN. YD.—Awl:elan Fire Isar Cenbk, 164 bills; Do.,
Four per Cents., 91) bills ; Ditto, Three per Dents., ' ; Bank
of Vienna, 1 910 bills ; Pritwilan Nun. 901 money; Ditto, St.
Soh. Seb., gr..; ittasilsh Three per Cents.. 244 242 money;
Frankfort per Cent., 84 bills.
Beaux, JAN. 19.—Cologne and Minden Rail. 91 901 few,: Itlnsgsb.
831 bills; Ath•la.Chapollo and Maastricht, 754 bills.

BADIIN.—CANISItt:HE,JAN.I9.—rIiOPOSLL OP GovEllti-
?SENT TO GUARANTEE TNT INTEREST OP THE. DEBTS OF
THE BANKRUPT BPINNERIES.—In the sitting of the 18th, of
the second Chamber of the States, the President announced
that in a secret sitting, held by that Chamber on the 15th,
government had presented a project of law relative to the
spinning factories of Waghatigel, Ettlingen, and Carlsruhe.
The object of this project of law is to give to the creditors of
these establishments a guarantee for the payment by govern-
ment of the interests of the debts during fifteen years, at the
end of which time all the debts would be paid. The inte-
rest guaranteed by government will be 4 per cent, for the
first five years, 31 per cent for the next five, and 2 per cent.
fur the last. Staatsrath Beck, in the sitting of the 16th,
gave such reasons for the passing of this project as show
that, without the intervention of government, the creditors
of these three factories would never consent to an arrange-
ment, which, in the contrary case, would ensure to them
the payment of the amounts they have disbursed. A com-
a mittee has been formed to easmine the project of govern-
ment. In the same sitting on the 17th, Staatsrath Trefurt
submitted to the Chamber a project of law for the adoption
of a universal system of exchange in Germany.