The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1818.

request she made war, that she might be permitted to see
the decd body of ha r
Subs( quently a witneu named Samuel Rennie Fulcber,
belonging to the same battalion as the deceased, aod who
had been sent for to give evidence, leaving been previously
absent, deposed that he knew the deceased perfectly well, and
left the barrack+ with him shortly before 6 o'clock on Friday
afternoon. As they left the barrack-yard witness saw the
prisoner standing nisi. the entranee.gate. She followed
them at a distance of about fifteen or sixteen yards. The
deceased must have seen her as they came nut, but witness
did not know they were acquainted, and was certain they
did not speak to each other. On arriving at the Queen's-
square gate witness left deceased, and turned up towards
Queen's-square. Ile had arrived nearly at the Broadway
when he heard the report of fire-arms, but having no suspi-
cion of anything wrong he did not turn back.—Mr. Henry
inquired whether the deceased's age was known.—Sergeant
Dove replied, that he was 2l 'ears of age.—The evidence of
Fulcher having been added to the depositions the witnesses
were severally bound ovar to appear and give evidence at
the

MANSION - HOUSE. Fumigates UPON MESSRS.
Rovnacimu.—T. &Auk, who was upon the 31st ultimo
rimmed before the Lord Mayor with having committed for-
geries upon the house of Messre.ltothschild,wm re-examinrd.
The following additional evidence was adduced :—Mr. J. G.
Kirdmer produced a genuine hill of exchange for 1001.,
drawn by .1. J. Vern Hirsch of Wurtzhurg upon Messrs.
Rothschild, dated the 12th of November, 1847, payable one
month after date to the order of George Hugnagel, endorsed
by him to Lorenz Weber, who Ism reported to have died on
the 2nd of November, 1847, at Coreington on the Ohio, in
America. Witness had been given to understand that the
bill was remitted to Mr. Weber by his father in-law.—W.
Bartholomew, of Short's-gardens, St. Giles's, said he had
known the prisoner for four months; he was residing with
a lodger of his, and always went by the name of David
Bernhardt. WIMP'S had got the bill in question discounted
for the prisoner, after endorsing it with his own name.—
Margaret Ann Lloyd, daughter of the keeper of the Sun
coffee-house, in Long-acre, said she had taken in
letters and delivered them to the prisoner in the name of
Weber.—James Jerkin, of Broad-street, Bloomsbury., said
that he kept an alehouse, and had known the prisoner for
several months under the name of Bernhardt.—Mr. Edmund
Lade, clerk to Messrs. Rothschild, said the prisoner had
presented for payment a bill of 100 f., dated Wurtztourg, the
18th of January last, drawn by Carl Peter Prey, payable at
sight to the order of Laurence Weber. Witness saw him
write the name of Lorenz Weber upon the second bill, and
he had no doubt the signature upon the first bill was in the
prisoner's handwriting. After this the case was ordered to
stand over for three weeks that evidence might be produced
of the death of the person for whom the bill was intended.
GUILDBALL.—Centure CARR OF FORGERY.—AN
UNFORTUNATE MISDIRECTION.— W. Edwards was charged
with knowingly uttering a forged banker's bill for 24/. On
the 22nd ult. Mr. Butt, a solicitor, forwarded a bank post
bill, in a letter, parable at Jones Loyd and Co.'s, to (as he
intended) Miss Charley, No. 51, Bromplomerescent. By
some unfortunate cirenntstance be directed it to 57, Bromp•
t,n-square, and there it was taken in by a tingle laely, who
lodged at the house. Sbe was generally addressed by the
appellation of Miss Undo rwood, but at or about this par-
ticular period she changed it to Miss Mary Charley, a, come
gentlemen who visited her wished it, as she looked no much
like Miss Charley at Brompton-crescent. On the 2Gth the
prisoner, who turned out to be the son of the landlady of the
house in Bromptonaquare, pot the bill discounted at Mr.
Tucker's, in Nicholas-lane, the rash being handed in due
coarse to Miss Underwood, alias Charley, who had endorsed
the bill to ensure its payment. By this period, Mr. Butt
made some inquiries at the post-collier, about the missing
letter, the mistake was discovered, and the house where it
was delivered &act ttaint d. The lady, however, hail vanished
and the bill come into Jones Loyol's bank, from Messrs.
Glyn's, who received it from a party who had got it rem
Mr. Tucks,. The document wan radon et', and Mr. Mgt
NWUTC to the n..me of Miss (Thorley at the back of it being a
forgery.—A solicitor who appeared for the prisoner attempted
to show that no blame could be attached to the prisoner, as
he was merely sent with the instrument to get cashed, with-
out having the slightest knowledge as to how it had been
' prayed.—Mr. Alderman Gibbs said the evidence was /01M-
sent to detain him. He should remand him for a week, so
as to give time for the police to apprehend the other parties
implicated in the affair. lie refused hail.
CLERKENWELL.—Broorno IMPOSTORS.—J. Pugh
was charged with begging and fraud. The prisoner excited
the sympathy of passers by under pretence of a broken leg.
The bandages of the prisoner were removed in court, and on
examination no wound or scratch was to be found.—Mr.
Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner to the House of Correction
for one month.

WORSHIP-STREET.—CUAROS OP PtIISONINTI —T.
roe, in the service of Mr. Shire, butcher, in Westmoreland-
place, City-road, was charged with haring ailmMistered a
quantity of laudanum to a young woman named Mary
Brown, with intent to poison her. —The prorecutrix, who
was in a debilitated condition, stated that she was a domestic
servant in the family of Mr. Hook, a butcher, in Frederick-
street, Hampstead-road, and that she knew the prisoner, who
had paid his addresses to her for the last eleven month,. On
last Thursday fortnight she obtained leave from her mistress
to go out for the day, and proceeded towards Shoredit -11,
with the irtention of taking tea with a female friend named
Daly, who resided three, but called on her way at West-
moreland-place, to visit the prisoner. After some conversa-
tion be inquired where she was going, and proposed to ac-
company her, to which she acceded ; but as they were pro-
ceeding to her friend's, the prisoner left hit for about a quar-
ter of an hour, and told her, en his return, that he had been
to purchase a cigar. Having ascertained, on reaching Shore-
ditch, that her friend had gone to reside in Maryvtreet,
Holton, they were proceeding to the latter place, when the
prisoner invited her to enter a 'lterating and take Annie refresh-
meat. They accordingly entered the tap-room, and the pri-
sonn called for a pint of ale, of which be gave her a glue,
and drank the remainder. The prisoner then ordered ano-
ther pint of ale, which was brought in by the landlady, who
stood between them, and engaged her for come time in con-
versation, at the conclusion of which the prisoner handed
her a portion of the ale in a glue, which she drank, and was
shortly afterwards seized with acuteinternal paineasceompanied
with extreme dizziness in the heed, and violent sickness.
She managed to make her way into the yard, where she be-
came rapidly worse, and lapsed into a state of insensibility,
and was totally unconscious of everything that afterwards
occurred, until the following morning, when she found
herself in bed at the house of a person mimed Howes,
in New-street, City-road. She had formerly l,,d:ed with
Mrs. Howes, and the Frisonrr wan aware of that eireum-
, stance. She was there attended by a surgeon, but was after-
wards removed to the house of her mistress, and thence to
the University Hospital. where she remained until a few
days since.—Sergeant Hockaday, of the S division, produced
a certificate from Mr. Pottle, the surgeon, who first attended
the prosecutrix, and who stated, that having found her la-
bouring under all the symptoms of poison, he adopted the
necessary means to discharge the contents of the stomach ;
the result of which was, the detection of a considerable quan-
tity of laudanum, and which, if allowed to remain in the
system, must have been productive of the most serious con-
sequences.—Two other certificates were handed in from an-
other surgeon, and Dr. Franklin, of the University Hospital;
the latter of which stated, that when she was brought to that
institution, she was suffering from a congestion of the brain,
which might have been produced either by a fall, or some
exciting causes.—On being aaked if he wished to sae any-
thing, the prisoner entered into a long, rambling statement,
containing nothing at all relevant to the charge, but a ge-
neral denial of having administered anything of a deleterious
nature to the complainant —Mr. Arnold said that he should
remand the case for the attendance of the medical and other
witnesses ; but, in the present incomplete state of the evi-
dence, he should consent to accept substantial bail tor the
future appearance of the prisoner.
LAMBETH.—TriII CAEN OF CONVICTION OP AN INNO-
CENT PEN/MM.—II. !Verona's, a stick manufacturer, who
has been in custody some weeks on a charge of receiving,
with a guilty knowledge, a Over watch and gold chain, for
stealing which property a boy named Ward had been tried
and transported, and on suspicion of stealing which a young
woman, named Mary Ann Turpin, had been tried and
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, was finally examined.
--Mr. Norton, having remarked that the removal of
the boy Ward from Milbank Prison was not myste-
rious, as his friends appeared to think, but was in the
ordinary course, and not to prevent his being
examined, said he was most anxious to proceed
with the present inquiry ; but he was surrounded with such
difficulties, that although there could be no moral doubt of
the prisoner's guilt, yet a conviction would be somewhat
doubtful.—The prisoner denied his guilt, and declared the
charge had been brought and persevered in from vindictive
and malicious feelings, and added, that when his sister, Mrs.
Ward, was at the Old Bailey, she said nothing to the Re
corder about her suspicions against him, though she now
stated that she had all along suspected him of haying canoed
her son to commit tha robbery.—Mrs. Ward said she had no
occasion to mention her suspicions, as her son had pleaded
guilty. She denied having any vindictive feeling in the pre-
sent charge.--Mr. Wenman, the prisoner's father, also de-
nied urging the charge from a bad feeling.—Eventually Mr.
Norton determine 1 on discharging the prisoner, telling Mr.
Wenman, son., he could indict him at the sessions ; but,
under all the circumstances, he would not recommend him
to do so. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. Mary
Ann Turpin, the young woman who had been unjustly found
guilty, and had served some time at Brixton, was present in
the court.__

THAMES. Tins ALTTEMPT2D MIIIMIR i e SRADWELL.
—M. Hagarrhy, charged with attempting to murder a
young women named Ellen Cahill, at No. 7, St. George's-
court, Bluegate-fields, Snadwell, on the morning of the
29th ult., was finally examined.--The previous depo•itions
having been read over, the woman Cahill said that on Fri-
day night week she was in the Lord Loved beer-house,
High-street, Shedwell, with a girl named Lyons, when the
prisoner called her out. She at first refused to go, but sub-
sequently went with him to the Luke of York, where they
had some rum, and then went to hi r house. In tine morn-
ing she said she wanted to get up and wash some things, as
it was Saturday, He said, " Is it Saturday ?—l'll cook
your goose for you this Saturday !" and began to stab her in
the throat with a knife. She called to him as well as she could
speak, begging him not to stab any more, and she would not
expose kim ; but he continued to stab on, and after that, for
some time, she did not feel the wounds, as she was insensi-
ble. He then stopped a little, upon which she revived
somewhat, and called eut, " Haider- !" upon which he said,
" What!--are you not dead yet 1" and commencid stabbing
again. By this time she had dragged herself to the foot of
the bed, and was hanging over; he then renewed the at-
tack, and stabbed her several times in the fleshy part behind
as she lay on her face and hands, holding ber by the heir,
and jobbing the knife into bar. A sailor then came in with
a poker, and beckoned hoe to come out, which she did
ea well as she could, the sailor, who was afraid to enter,
keeping the door with the poker. The last stab she received
was in the arm.—The prisoner, in his defence, said he was
mad drunk at the time.—He was fully committed for trial.

WOOLWlCH.—ArisinitimaioN OP A NOTORIOta GANG
or BVROLARA.— W. Johnson, alias blondes, alias JIM the
Greek. a notorious burglar, J. Flowers, keeper of the Folly
House beer-shop, Banuby-street, Bethnal green ; and W.
Mayhew, who described himself as a gentleman, residing at
Brighton, were charged with housebreaking ; and W. Burn-
ton, &greengrocer, residing in the Albion-road, Woolwich,
was charged with conspiring to commit a felony, in conjune•
tion with the other prisoners.—Police-sergeant Parry de•
posed, that in consequence of information he received, that a
robbery was about to be committed at the Powerful Inn,
Warwicketreet, he on Wednesday last went to that house,
accompanied by three constables. At 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, the time the thieves were expected, the prisoners John-
son and Meybew followed each other into the house, and
went up-stain into the coffee-room. Flowers had mei•
ously entered, and was standing at the bar, talking to the
landlord's daughter. In about 10 minutes, a sign
which had been speed upon between the constables,
was given, and witness went up stairs, where he found the
constable struggling with Johnson. The other prisoners
were, after some resistance, taken into custody. Witness
went the same evening to the house kept by Flowers, in
Bethnal-green, and in a hole by the side of the washhouse
chimney found the bundle of skeleton keys now produced.—
Police constable Newell deposed that he accompanied the
sergeant to the Powerful Inn, end secreted himself in a room
up stairs. lie looked through the keyhole of the door, and
saw the prisoner Johnson introduce a skeleton key into the
door of the room opposite. He went into and remained
a minute or two in the room, and came out, having locked
the door. Witness then gave the alarm agreed upon,
and rushed down upon Johnson. Johnson was standing
with his back to the fire in the coffee-room, and upon the
fire was a handkerchief burning, containing a number of
skeleton keys.—Police constable Oladwin corroborated the
evidence of the preceding witnesses, and added, that seeing
Johnson with his hand under a rota, he looked and found a
skeleton key. He also produced the following articles, found
in Flowers's house : 18 skeleton keys, a crowbar, two chisels, a
dark lantern, and a piece of silk corresponding to that found
in the fire, and which contained the skeleton keys.—
Police constables Jenkins and Bali identified Flowers
and Johnson as being known to the police for
several years, as suspected characters.—Thomas James
Duffill deposed that he knew the primners Burnton,
Johnson, and Flowers. Ile had known Bunton some
time from the face of his coming to his house. On
Saturday, Jan. 22, he came to his house between half-past
six and seven o'clock, and after drinking a pint or two of
beer, he said to witneu " I want to speak to you." Wit-
nem went outside the bar, and Burnton said, "Come on,"
and they walked together down Warwicketreet ; Burnton
then said, " Would't a thick one or two be convenient this
cold weather ?" Witness laughed, and said, "I don't
know what you moan." Burnton said, " What, can't you
tumble ?" meaning can't you understand. Witness said,
" No." Burnton then said, "Do you know anyone that's
got any dust ?" Witness said, "Now I understand you
perfectly." Bunton then added, "There's no one knows
it, but I was connected with that affair of Covill's
(alluding to an innkeeper of that name, who had
been robbed of 1701. • few days previously), hut if you
know of any one that's got any cash or plate, I can bring
down some liret-rate men, and you have uni need to he seen
in the matter." They waked as far as the Tratel se and
Bunton pointed down a street to a gemer's shop kept by a
person n reed Oliver, and mid " Tbat'. one that I intend to
do." They then parted, and the prisoner came again the
next day, and asked him not to split. He called on witness
repeatedly in the course of the week. The witne s vr:nt on
to say, that on the Sunday following he communicated these
Gets to Mr. Covill, the party who had been robbed, and Mr.
Mould,:the pasty whom it was proposed to rob; and Mr.
Mould and himself then waited nn the inspector of police,
and pat him in possession of all the facts, and arranged their
future proceedings. On Menday night witness again saw
Bunton, and said to him, "There's a little concern that will
just about suit us (venting the Powerful Inn), and it
must be done before Friday." Burueon then said, " Then
we must go up to the parties, and I'll introduce you, so
as to get them down. The next day Bunton called on him,
and they went to Roff's wharf, but on their way called on
Mr. James, a silversmith, of High-street. Burnton asked
!sir. James to give him the direction of a Dr. Penny, and
while he was absent from the room. he said " there 's five
watches there, beside* plenty up ern ire. but I am afraid the
old fellow hasn't got much cash. They then went by the
Eastern Counties Railway to London, and went to Flowers's
house. After waiting an hour, Johnson end Flower* came
in, and were about to leave the room when Bunton (point.
ing to witness) said, " It's all right, he's one of u." They
then all went into the parlour, and Burnton said, " We've
brought you another bit of a job." Flowers said, "That's
right," and asked what it was. Burnton said, "It's a
public-house job, and a very good job it is toe, but it must
be done before Friday." Flowers then said, " Then we'll
go tomorrow." Burnton told them that the 'milliard
was a man who knew the world, and it would be
necessary to get him out of the way, whilst the
robbery was being committed. Witness said be thought he
could do this, as he bail to go over to Greenwich the nest
day, and he could take him with him. They then arranged
to meet the next day. at the Trafalgar, at Woolwich, at two
o'clock, and Brunton was to watch till witness and Mr.
Mould went past. Johnson said if there was anything like
1001. he would give witnees 101., and Bunton the same. A
good deal of conversation ensued, and Flowers said he was
nearly taken the other day in Shoreditch, at • wine vaults.
Waness returned to Woolwich in the evening, and commu-
nicated these facts to the inspector of police ; and on the
following morning he walked past Burnton's house with
Mr. Mould, but they returned again to the house by the
back way, end when the prisoners entered the house wit-
ness pointed them out to the poFee. in his re-examination
by
,Mr. Traill the witness added that he had printed nut to
the prisoners that the money would be found in Mr. Mould's
bedroom, between the bed and the mattress, and that the
bedroom was over the toffee-room, which was over the bar.
Mr. Traill considered that there was at present no evidence
to connect the prisoner Mayhew with the robbery, and Mr.
Barwis then called Isabella Mould, the landlord's daughter,
and Mr. E. Griffiths, a timber merchant, who happened to
be in the house, and their evidence proved that Johnson and
Mayhew were in company together previous to entering the
house, and that they conversed together whilst going up
stairs.—A remand was applied for in order to enable the
police to complete the chain of evidence against the pri-
soners, and Mr. Trail! accordingly remanded them for a
fortnight.—Mr. Mallaleu, the superintendent of the It divi-
sion, was preuntto watch the case, and it was stated that
Burnton and the gang had planned several robberies in the
town, which would no doubt have been carried into effect
but for the present well concocted plan,

MONEY MARKET.

SATURDAY ETENINO•

This has been a quiet day in the stock market.
The considerable rise in Consols established after the
regular business hours yesterday has not however
been supported. The first quotations of the morning
were indeed favourable, but as the day progressed
they gradually gave way, and left off 891- to ; both
for money and time. Reduced Threes, 89; to Z.
Three-and.a-Quarter per Cents., 90; to Bank
Stock, 200 to 202. Long Annuities, 9to 1-16. Ex-
chequer bills due in March, 245. to 275. premium ;
the June bills, 30s. to 345. premium. India Bonds,
235. to 265. premium.
Speculative business was chiefly directed in the
foreign market to Spanish and Mexican securities.
The latter were a fraction better at 18Z to 19i.
Spanish Fives, 211 to 2; ; the Threes, 32 to 3 ;
Passives, 51 to Z. Portuguese, 26 to 7. In I)utch
a fair amount of daily trading bnsiness was done
in Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 51 to 1; in Fours,
at 85; to 1. I)utch stocks, it must be observed, form
a constant medium of remittance to and fro between
this country and Holland for the adjustment of com-
mercial accounts, whenever the slightest fractional
advantage can b 3 derived fro:n this mode
of payment, on the comparison of prices ruling
on this and the Amsterdam exchange, over
hills of exchange at the rates of the day.
Russian, done at 110, were quoted 109 to 110. Bel-
gian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91. French
Five per Cent. Rentes were done at 1161 f, ; exchange
23E 00e. ; and Three per Cents. at 741 f. ; exchange
the same. Ecuador Bonds, 33 to 1. Venezuela,
39 to 40.

Advices from St. Petersburg of the 21st of January
state that there had been anr et;ng of the share-
holders of the Salamander Fire Insurance Company,
to take into consideration the defalcations of Mr. J.
C. Plitt, one of the directors, on the declaration of
whose insolvency a large amount of the funds of the
company was found to have been abstracted by
him, and involved in the general wreck of his busi-
ness. Commissioners had previously. been appointed to
make investigations into the affair, and the means
which might exist to make the loss good, but nothing
heel transpired about the result of their deliberations,
nor about Mr. Plitt's examination, who had engaged
counsel for his defence. The general opinion was,
however, that the colleagues of Mr. Plitt in the direc-
tion of the company could not be held responsible for
his acts and defaults, as had been supposed, but that
the shareholders would have to take the loss upon
themselves. _ . . . .

From Carleruhe (Baden) it is now positively stated
that the legislative chambers had agreed, on the pro-
positions of the government, to guarantee the pay-
ment of 31 per cent. interest for fifteen years to the
creditors of the three industrial establiahments of the
cotton spinnery, the beet-root sugar manufactory, and
the machine-making concern, lately conducted as
share associations by Messrs. Von Haber and Co.
This guarantee of the chambers does not apply, it is
understood, to the creditors of Von Haber and Co.
upon their separate estate as merchants and bankers,
nor is it stated whether they are to be allowed here-
after to exercise as before any control or authority in
the management of the manufactories, although it is
probable their interference will be limited to their
character as shareholders merely for the protection of
their own or the interests of their creditors.
From Fraakfert it is mentioned that the old and
respectable commission house for manufactured goods

of M. Alexander Batrt, vi hose suspension was notified
some time since, had re limed the course of its pay-
ments. . . _ .

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Complaints were made in Hamburg of the nnsatis-
factory nature of the postal overland arrangements
between England and that city, the blame of which,
with what mason cannot be exactly ascertained, is
laid upon the British Poet-office. So defective, it is
stated, are the packet or other arrangements by
Ostend and Scheveningen, that intelligence from
England by papers and letters is always received
quite as early tbrountth Frankfort, and Frankfort cor-
respondents, as by the more direct transit through
Ostend and Holland. Such delay. in the overland
communication, now that the sea navigation is closed
by the ice, must manifestly cause much prejudice, and
an inconvenient interruption to the regular course of
mercantile business. _ .

Our Edinburgh correspondent supplies the following
information : The average fall on every 100/. of paid up
capital in the Ranks and Exchange Companies of
Scotland, u at 25th Jan., 1847, and 25th Jan., 1848,
is 22/. 18s. The greatest declension is in the stock of
the Union Exchange Company, which fell from
141/. ss. to 86L Ss., making a difference of 35/.; the
least is in the case of the National Bank, which falling
from 1401. to 1311. 5s , gives a difference of 81. 15s.

SVGLIPiI FUNDS.
3 per CL Reduced Anna., 891 i Soutb Pea 014 Annuttio. t 7
3per CL Cons. A nor., 891 5 * Ontivulv fur Acct., 895 i
her 31 per CL Each Rills. £l.OOO. 34., June, 3'2 4
Lone Anna. ezp. 6th Jen., 1880. 9 30, March, 27 4 pm
luau lioudig, £l,OOO, 26 Ditto. June, 35 I :21.
FOREIGN 11 UN Pe.
84 per et. Equador Fonda, 31 3 per Ct. Smartt Bd.. Aat,
S per Ct. Illezican Amu., Feb. 15, IS. 321 i
IV per Ct. Venezuela Benda 38i
5 per Cl. Rued= Bda, 1822, £ Stier Cent. French Iteutir. 11841.,
Ilu on. 3M. dlc.
z,CLll,,igui2l3l Road', Div. from 3 per Ct. du., 741 f., ea. dlr.
45 per Ct. Sanaa Edo.. 901
Ditto, A iviinint, Feb. 15, =} 1i 11 per Ct.Dutob OWL, 54i
5 per Ct. ripauleb Derive ilds.,Sk 4 per CL Ditto Certif., SSi