The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1E46.

that it would be the last time be should have to pay him, as
he had lived five years in the parish of St. Mary Stainning,
and must now lay claim to that parish. Since then, he had
seen Mr. Llewellin, the vestry clerk of the latter place, and
that gentleman had written to Mr. Roberts; and he (the
applicant) had been first to one and then the other, but with-
out any effect, and be was now recommended to apply to the
magistrate for advice.—Sir P. Laurie said it seemed to him a
great hardship that a man should be driven from pillar to
pat in that manner, and that there must be something very
defective in the law to admit of such a course.—Mr. Teague
(the chief clerk) said this was only one out of a number of
such cases that had arisen upon the construction of the late
act. It was provided by the act that a person who had been
resident in any parish for five years should be irremovable,
and that no order should be granted for the removal of any
pauper from a parish in which he had resided for five years
next before the application for the order; but the time
during which any person had been receiving relief from any
parish was for all purposes of the act to be entirely excluded
from computation. Many of the large metropolitan parishes
had, in consequence of thui act, discontinued a greater part of
their outs door relief, and thrown the onus of relief on the ps rish
in which the paupers had been resident for the five years.
Sir Peter Laurie said that he thought it would be well to
call the attention of the Poor-law Commissioners to the sub-
' jest, and get them to set the matter at rest.—Mr. Teague
said he feared that a great deal of the present hardship had
been occasioned by the construction which the commissioners
had put upon the act, and would be mainly attributed to a
circular letter which had recently been addressed to the
various boards of guardians, by Mr. Lumley, the assistant-
secretary, wherein it was said, that the grounds which had
existed fur ;non-resident relief would now be removed. It
was quite evident that the intention of the commissioners
was to drive the poor into the houses, and to do away, as
much as possible, with out-door relief.—Sir P. Laurie said
he was quite of opinion that the out-door relief, instead of
being diminished, ought to he greatly extended. The
driving the poor into the workhouses had the effect of de-
priving them of their energy and independence of character,
and tended to reduce them to a state of continued pauperism.
It was the duty of the Poor-law Commissioners to take care
that none should be left to starve, and they must remember
that the poor could not wait until the law was amended
by the legislature.—The alderman directed .ss. to be given to
the poor man, and he was advised to apply to the parish in
which he resided, and let them either relieve or remove kim.
The poor man, having thanked the magistrate, withdrew.

WORSHIP-STREET.—TnE CASE or irspecroa
JULTAN.—Mr. John Julian, an Inspector of the K division,
attended on Wednesday before Mr. Brenghton, by direction
of the Commiavioners of Police, to answer the charge of
Blake

having wantonly attempted to ride over Mr. Thomas _ he,
a watchmaker, residing in London-street, Bethnal-green, on
the night of the 10th instant.—The case excited great
interest, from the station and long services of the accused,
who had been nearly sixteen years in the force. The evi-
dence given on the former occasion by the complainant was
repeated, awl the following additional witnesses were called
in corroboration of his statement :—Mr. John Gillett, a silk-
weaver, deposed that on leaving a beershop called the
Britannia, in Three Colts-lane, on the night in question, he
found a police-officer on horseback standing in front of the
house, and with his horse so placed across the doorway that
he had the greatest difficulty in getting out sideways into
the street. After walking on a few yards, be looked back,
expecting that something would occur, and heard the officer
address the complainant, who was about four or five feet in
front of the horse, with " Now, what can I do for you ?" and
before an answer could be uttered, ho struck his spurs into
the house, which had before been standing perfectly quiet,
and caused it to rear and plunge forward upon the com-
plainant in a most frightful manner. The complainant
endeavoured to escape the danger by dodging backwards and
forwards from the kerb to the wall, pursued by the officer.
At length he succeeded by a violent effort in getting into the
road. The officer then turned his horse round and rode after
him for a considerable distance, until he sought refuge in a
shop, when his assailant, "who seemed to have had enough
sport with him," turned the horse, and went off at full gal-
lop. The witness and others then went up to ascertain
whether the man was injured, and found, that although not
bodily so, he was almost paralysed with fright, and trembled
so violently that he could scarcely speak. During the pur-
suit, the complainant was under the neck of the horse, which
was rearing and plunging furiously for at least 150 feet, and
it appeared a positive miracle that he escaped some serious
injury. The whole affair occupied about seven minutes, and
he felt satisfied it was decidedly premeditated, and that the
horse was wantonly urged on by his rider in the way he had
described.--In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham the witness
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stated, that on leaving the beer-iihop, he was followed by
eight or ten other person•, all of whom were perfectly quiet
and orderly ; and he saw no one in the street at that time
but the inspector and a constable. He could declare upon
his oath that the complainant had been placed in the most
imminent danger.—Samuel Thomas Davis deposed to the
same effect, and also expressed his conviction that the home
was " goaded "on by the defendant. The witness added,
that the complainant was pursued for a distance of about
sixty feet, and that not the slightest riot or disorder
had previously taken place to provoke such an outrage.
William Piller and James White, two other silk weavers,
described the transaction in nearly identical terms. Mr.
Vann informed the bench that he had several other wit-
nesses then in attendance, who could depose to the same
facts, if the magistrate thought it necessary to hear further
confirmatory testimony.—Mr. Broughton said, he should
leave it entirely to the discretion of the solicitor to adopt what-
ever course he thought pr, Ter ; but as it had then reached
an exceedingly late hour, he would suggest an adjournment,
although, as far as he was personally concerned, he was ready
to sit there till midnight, if it were considered necessary for
the interests of justice.—Mr. Pelham said, be must request
permission to address a few words to the bench before the
proceedings went forth to the public, as nearly the whole of
the press had commented in most unmeasured terms upon
what had been alleged to be his client's indefensible conduct.
He had been taken at a great disadvantage in conducting
the case, as be had been under the impression from the
nature of the evidence in the former proceedings against
Scott, that the charge of drunkenness would be preferred
against the inspector, and bad therefore come prepared with
a phalanx of witnesses to negative that assertion, some of
whom would also prove, as he was instructed, that the occur-
rence was purely accidental. He wished it to be distinctly
understood, that so far from endeavouring to evade an inves-
tigation, his client had been most anxious to court inquiry.
The case was then adjourned by mutual consent.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A NUISANCE AT THE
ATHENN.UW.—Henry Nielson, a Server of Writs, was
brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having entered
the Athenwam Club House, and annoyed the members of
the said club. William Watson, house steward, said the
defendant came to the club about an hour ago and inquired
for one of the members of the club. He was informed that
the member referred to W LL.4 not there. Ile said he came to
serve a writ on the lion. Pelham Villiers, M.P., and he
should remain until he had an opportunity of discharging
his mission. He then sat himself down in the hall and
refused to quit, although desired to do so, and threatened
with being given into custody if he persisted in his refusal.
As the defendant annoyed the members by accosting them,
as soon as they made their appearance in the hall, witness
was obliged to give him into custody. The defendant said
he was a process-server, and he was entrusted with a copy of
writ to serve on Mr. Pelham Villiers. He had, in vain,
attempted to serve the hon. member with the copy—
but havingbeen told, at a place where he made inquiry, that
the hon. member had left word he should be at
the Athenmum Club after four o'clock, be (defendant) had
gone to the club in the hope of meeting with him. Being •
stranger to Mr. Villiers's person, he was obliged to ask those
members who appeared to resemble him, if they were the
person of whom he was in search. lie had only attempted
todischarge his duty in serving the writ, and he declared he
had no intention of creating any disturbance or insulting
any member belonging to the club. He was well-known as
a writ-server to gentlemen who belonged to such clubs, hay-
ing a deal of business to do with them ; and no one would
say that he did his business in an unnecessarily offensive
way. Mr. Hardwick said a club was of the nature of a private
residence, and therefere the defendant had no right to in-
trude himself into the premises and to insist on remaining
there, after he had been warned to quit the place. If the
defendant had any claim against a member of a club, his
proper course was to pursue that claim in the way pointed
out by the law, and not to adopt such a course as must prove
a source of great annoyance to every member of the club.—
The defendant said, having now been told that he was
wrong, he should not persevere in his error. He should
serve the hon. member with a distringaa.—Upon receiving
an assurance that the defendant would not go to the club
again, the magistrate directed that he should be liberated.
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LAMBETH.—BUILDINO SocicriEs.—Mr. Greenwood,
attended by a legal adviser, appeared before Mr. Norton, to
answer the charge preferred against him by Mr. .1. Day, of
having detained certain books and documents belonging to
the West and South Metropolitan Building Association, and
also with retaining in his possession certain of their monies.
The parties on both sides were in attendance, and, after dia-
puling for a longtime it was agreed, upon the suggestion of
Mr. Norton, that they should come to an amicable arrange.
ment in private.—Mr. Day having, in the first instance, dis-
claimed any intention of preferring a charge of embezzle-
ment against Mr. Greenwood.
THAMES.—Extrzxstra PLl:7iDEll.—George Stodelart, a
genteel-looking young man, said to be most respectably con-
nected, was finally examined on the charge of plundering his
employer, Mr. David Le BoutiHier, a draper, residing at No.
4, Northumberland-place, Commercial-road, of monies and
property to the extent, as it is supposed, of between 4001.
and 5001. It appeared from the depositions that the pri-
soner, who was a shopman in the prosecutor's employment,
was observed, on the evening of the 14th instant, in King
David-lane, with a heavy trunk on his shoulders. Seeing
a person of his gentlemanly appearance engaged in a porter's
employ, Serjeants M'Carthy and Harris stopped him, and to
their inquiries he replied that the trunk only contained his
own clothes, which he was taking to the Green Dragon, at
Shadwell. Suspecting something contraband, they asked
him to open the trunk. He replied that he had not the key
with him. The trunk was then broken open, when it was
found to contain about 251. worth of property, which was
identified by several witnesses as being the property of the
prosecutor. It was subsequently ascertained that the pri-
soner, who had been recently married, had deposited some
articles of furniture at the Green Dragon, with a view to
having them conveyed to Sunderland, by a vessel belonging
to his father. At half-past seven o'clock on the next morn-
ing Serjeant M'Carthy called at Mr. Le Boutillier's, when
he took possession of a carpet-bag belonging to the
prisoner, and a sealed packet of money, which
he required to have counted out to him. Three
calico purses, containing money, which Mr. Boutillier
took from the prisoner's carpet-bag, were also handed
to him ; one contained 681. in gold, and 11. in silver, with
7s. 6d. in coppers ; a second contained 41. 18s. 2d. in silver ;
and a third contained 2.51. in silver. Two other calico purses
were found concealed behind a screen near that part of the
counter where the prisoner was usually employed, which

contained 11. 17s. Bd. in silver, and another 191. 175., also in
silver. There was likewise a number of halfpence and
farthings. In a desk belonging to the prisoner there was
found two 61. notes, one of which the prosecutor identified
as having been taken by him in the way of business. There
was also in the desk a bank book of the East London
Savings' Bank, with acknowledgments of 301. paid in up to
the 23rd of August, 1846, and a letter to the prisoner from
his wife. Mr. Boutillier said that the prisoner's salary last
year was only 351. He had been about five veers in his
service, with an annually increasing salary•. Since the last
examination it was found that another purse, containing
property to the amount of 351., was found at the Green
Dragon.—Mr. Drummond, who manages the business, said
that he had since taken stock, and found a deficiency of
4001.—The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully
committed to Newgate fur trial.

MONEY MARKET.

THURSDAY EVZNtXO.

The change which has come over the direction of
capital for investment at dividend paying-times, to which
reference was made on a former occaston, would appear to be
still further exemplified in the state of funded values to-day.
The absence of demand, • ith no political cause otherwise
adverse, hu led to a further depression of prices. Consols
are now quGted only 941 to 1 for money, and 941 to 5 for
time, with a dull market. The surplus of national income
no longer follows the same exclusive track as heretofore.
Reduced Threes, 931 to 1. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents ,
951 to 1. The government broker took • small amount of
New South Sea Annuities at 941 for account of the reduction
of the debt, and 500n1 Three-and-a-Quarter per cents. at
951 for the Savings Banks. Exchequer Bills remain 13e. to
16s. premium. Long Annuities, 91 to 15-16. Bank Stock,
2051 to 61. India Stock, 259 to 9.
Senor Murphy's explanations have a very leaden effect
upon Mexican bonds, which, notwithstanding the cheering
assurances he has adventured, that the misektef he has made
cannot be undone, and must be accepted with all its conse-
quences by the Mexican government, went down to 2'2i
sellers. The transactions were extremely few and unim-
portant, both in those and all other foreign securities. Spanish
were dull at the depressed quotations of 261 to 1 for the
Fives ; and 371 to 4 for the Threes. Portuguese, 41 to 3.
New Granada, 201 to 11. Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents,
68} to 91 ; the Fours, 911 to 21.

ENGLISH ICI
Bank Stock, 2061 5 61
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne., 931
3 per Cent. Consols, Anne., '.hll
New 31 per Cent. Anne., eN
Loug Anna, Exp. sth Jen., 1960,
9 1 13-16 15-16
FOREIG
1 per Cent. Grenada Ronde, 21
5 per Cent. Mexican, Acct., Oct.
30th, 23 21
3 per Ct. Span. Acct , Oct 30, 371

Ditto, 30 Years, Exp. 10th Oct.,
1959, 9 11-16 f
India Stock, 4571 9
South Sea New Annuities, 911
Conso/s for Aoct., 93 41
Ex. bate. 1.1,0 en. 10,,, 13 16
Ditto, £5OO, 13 16
rumba.
si per Cent.sBl Dutch lExchange, 12
Gull., 9
4 per Ct. Dutch Ccrtitl., 911 3

EXCHANGES AND
Ocr. 14.—}bra per Cc
Three per Ceuta., 72; Loan of 180
Shares, 156—Itailwaya.--The Not.
Venice and Milan, no-I ; Leghorn, 101; .
Grceetto, trij.
Barneme, Ocr. 20.—Loan of 1810, 1001 ; Ditto, 1812, 102; Ditto,
1844, 96j; Ditto, 1836, 96; Ditto, 1634, 731; Loan of the City, 1843,
994 ; Rank of Belgium, 919.—Exchange on London, 25f. 75c.
Asreear, Oct. 20.—Exchange on London, 25f. 721 c. ; two months,
25f. 52jc.

STOCKS ABROAD.
, 1091 ; Four per Cents., 991 ;
IN ; I)itto, 111.39, 1278 ; Bank
rthernt_ 174 I ; Gloggnltz, 1451:
901; Sienna, 18 ;

MEXICAN LOAN AFFAIRS.—The Spanish American
committee met to-day, it is reported, end after some dis-
cussion resolved on waiting upon L,rd Palmerston to set
Mexican affairs right, cnd get up the price and the credit of
Mexican Converted Bonds. Literally, such may not have
been the terms of the resolution arrived at; substantially,
such is the meaning. Some years ago, it will be recollected,
the same noble lord being in office, it was the custom, when
Spanish and Portuguese bonds chanced to fall into discredit,
and prices to fall, for the loan contractors and others inter-
ested to solicit an audience, obtain a favourable opinion
about the stability of the governments and securities from
the secretary, publish it to the world, and rejoice the next
day in a strong market to sell upon.
Returning to Senor Murphy; we have it on his own ad-
mission, in the only and shortest possible extract from his
official instructions which he has condescended to give, that
he departed altogether from his powers, by which he was
expressly limited to deal with Deferred stock and Deben-
tures alone, at the rate of 40 per 100. ' The envoy took upon
himself to deal with and allow for them at the rate of 60, a
difference therefore in excess of 20, and quite enough
assuredly to vitiate the whole transaction. This is some-
thing more than the " pure lo'tical deduction" which
Senor Murphy, with a strong odour of City inspiration,
applies to a multiplication of figures, which should more
properly and vulgarly he called an arithmetical demon-
stration of account. It is the naked fact of his own state-
ment and admission. Having thus fully conceded the de-
Nitture from his powers and instructions as to the letter,
Senor Murphy would have us believe he had carried them
' out in spirit and intent. He takes credit, indeed, for making
even a better bargain for Mexico than Mexico desired. He
was more loyal and patriotic even than the government it-
self. In proof, we have a host of calculations which, with-
out offence to his ex-Excellency, it is very plain were never
manipulated or manufactured in the office of the legation.
They speak of practised hands, which have thrown Spanish-
American finance into confusion wherever admitted. A
little light may be cast upon this chaos of figures on another
occasion. Suffice it, that Senor Murphy takes credit fur not
having increased the capital of the Mexican debt. But he
increased the burden of interest, which was precisely the
pressure which the government dreaded most, and was least
able to meet—with revenues in decline, dilapidated, and antici-
pated. The intentions of the governing power were to raise a
sum for pressing necessities, without increasing the
capital of the debt, and with such slight increase of in-
terest as it was hoped the revenue might be able to meet.
We do not say the government was honest in the business ;
there is reason for suspicion, on the contrary, that the
minister of finance of that day was too much in league with
certaiu loan schemers in Mexico, to get up a financial im-
broglio for joint stock profit. ut the decree was there, the
instructions were there, come from whom they might, and
the Envoy was without excuse in departing from them in
the slightest degree. Every government reserves to itself,
finally, the right of ratification of a convention er treaty, in
any case ; a point of public law of which a diplomatic agent
should not be ignorant. Why, therefore, was not the con-
version agreement, so altered, dispatched forthwith for the
approbation or dissent of the government, and operations
upon it meanwhile suspended. The various agents and
parties concerned, here and in Islexico,•with mercenary in-
terests of commissions and jobbing profits to move them,
might stand excused perhaps for being in too great haste to
clutch their respective shares of the spoil; hut where was the
occasion for Senor Murphy's pressing on the business with
such unseemly haste ? If he had consulted the interests of the
bondholders more, and listened less to parties whose well-known
interests and objects were to work out a spoil from Mexican
financial embarrassments, at the expense of both!Mexico and
the bondholders, he would, having exceeded his powers,
with the best intentions of course, have waited at least for
the ratification of his well-meant errors. Senor Murphy
states, that " the whole particulars bf that conversion were
forwarded by me to the government on the let of June, and
had there been any objection on the put of the government
then existing, I ought to have received communications to
that effect by the packet before last." Granting the facts
stated, the government of Paredes would have received those
advices in the beginning of August. That government was
then in a state of disorganisation ; but however firmly con-
stituted, would have taken time for deliberation doubtless, so
that the answer could not have been received here before the
present month. How, upon such weak premises, can the
ex-envoy assume a tacit if not expressed approbation of his
acts ? We ask him, moreover, whether that government,
previous to its dissolution, did not formally record a minute
to the effect of repudiating his acts in the conversion, which
the present government, interim) and uninstalled by con-
gress like that of Paredes, found on its entrance into office.
Has Senor Murphy no advice or knowledge of the fact?