The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

whom he questioned, with the view of establishing an alibi;
that however was not satisfactorily made out, and, in order
to afford time for additional inquiry to be made into the mys-
terious affair, the prisoner was remanded till Thursday

next.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. IstrostrioN ow raz
DUES OP C•xuatnos.--Janer Jolureon, • woman powered
of at least a dozen aliases, was charged with having obtained
the sum of 61. from the Duke of Cambridge under false and
fraudulent representations.—The rrisoner was taken into
custody by Botsford, the officer in the employ of the Men-
dicity Society, in consequence of a description he received
from the servants of the Duke of Cambridge.—Major Baron
Knesebeck, equerry to his royal highness, said, about the
15th inst. the prisoner came to his room at Cambridge
House with a petition, stating that her mother was a dairy-
woman at Barnes. and that six of her cows had been
poisoned by some evil-disposed persons. The petition
bore the names of the Rev. Mr. Reeves, the rector of
Mortlake, Mr. Penthyn, one of the county magistrates,
and several other persons well known to witless. He laid
the petition before his royal highness, and by his command
eave the prisoner 61. He mentioned to her that the duke
thought it a very dietressing case, and was very sorry that
he could not give a more liberal subscription. The prisoner '
then expressed her gratitude, and left the house. In cones- ,
quence of another petition witness received on the following
day from Kingston, he went to Mortlake, and found that the
petition was a fabrication, and the names all forgeries, aid
that such a circumstance as that described by the prisoner
had never happened at or near Barnes. On his return to
town, witness immediately forwarded a description of the
prisoner to the Mendicity Society.—John Pratt, footman to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, identified the
prisoner as the woman be showed into Baron Knesebeck's
room.—The prisoner admitted the charge, and urged in
extenuation of the offence that her husband was ill, and
that she had four children to support.—Mr. Bingham com-
mitted her to the House of Correction for three months.
WESTMINSTER.—DARING lIIOUWAT ROBBERY.—
H. Coyeon was charged with being concerned with another
man, not in custody, in a daring highway robbery. Mr. R.
Cole, a tailor, residing in Gray's-inn-lane, on his return from
Astley's Theatre, on Wednesday, called at a public-house at
the foot of Westminster-bridge, on the Middlesex side, and
partook of some refreshment. Whilst doing so the prisoner
and another man in a flannel jacket entered into conversation
with him, in the coune of which prosecutor expressed a de-
sire to see an old friend of his, named Dunn, who resided
somewhere in Westminster, but with whose precise address
he was unacquainted. Prisoner pretended to know Dunn
and his abode well, and proffered to conduct the prosecutor
to him; and the latter, who had been drinking a little, but
was, as afterwards proved by the testimony of other wit-
nesses, perfectly cogniaant of what he was about, con-
sented to accompany him. The man in the flannel
jacket shortly left them, and after the prisoner
had taken the prosecutor some distance, into a very
secluded place, he suddenly stepped behind the prosecutor,
and pinioned him, while another man took his gold watch
and seals from his pocket, as, also, some silver money. At
the time be was being robbed, the prisoner said, " Be quiet—
be quiet; it will be all the better for you." The man who
rifled his pockets had a bar of iron in his hand; on seeing
which prosecutor, who was much alarmed, entreated him
not to ill-use him, when he replied, " Then give up your
watch and money." Prosecutor offered no resistance, and
expreesed, in the course of his examination, his firm
conviction that had he done so be should have been I
murdered. The prisoner and his companion then walked
away with their booty, and the prosecutor was glad to escape ,I
in an opposite direction, to acquaint the police with what
had occurred, and the prisoners were afterwards captured.—
Mr. Burrell asked prisoner what he bad to say.—The ac-
cused
answered, " Nothing at present."—He was remanded
till Thursday next.
THA ABS.—ATTEMPT TO PLUNDER A WATCHMAILLE'II
SHOP.— IV. Jones and A. Hoppe, members of the swell mob, ,
wen charged with breaing a pane of lass in the window of
a watchmaker's shop, k
with intent to stgeal • number of goldl I
and silver watches, of the value of 2001. and upwards.--Mr. '
C. Ashdown, watchmaker, of Stratford, Essex, stated that
about half-put one o'clock that afternoon he went into bit
parlour to dinner, leaving a great number of gold and silver
watches he was employed to regulate and repair on his work-
bench in the shop, close to the window. He had not been
in the dining parlour more than five minutes when he heard
a noise in the shop. He rushed towards the shop, and as
he entered it saw the prisoners in the street leaning
wariest the window. Hoppe was in a leaning position,
with his hand, in whiih he held a knife, close to
a pane of glass. He immediately dropped bin band on seeing
the witness, nudged hie companion, and both walked away
past the new church. lie observed that the pane of glaze
wan starred and followed the prisoners, and after endeavour-
ing to obtain the sasiatance of several persons he met in the
street, who refused to lend him any help, he ain followed
the prisonen, who stopped for a short time and ooked back.
Witness got behind a waggon and concealed himself, and
the prisoners, supposing he had gone back to his shop again,
went on in the direction of Epping Forest. Witness
called at the Cart and Horses public-house at Stratford.
and having obtained the assistance of Mr. Bigg, the land-
lord, and others, again went in pursuit of the pri-
soners, who went up a lane leading direct to the
forest. By this time the Resistance of a police can-
stable was obtained, and while Mr. Bigg and others
followed the prisoners up the lane, witness and the police-
man went round by another road, intercepted them in
the lane near the entrance of the forest, and after some re-
&lance took them into custody. A knife was found
upon Hoppe it was very aherp,and had been used in cutting
away the putty of the pane of glass which had been starred.
The watches were on the bench, within arm's length of
the window, and if the prisoners had succeeded in forcing
out the pane of glass they would have secured a rich booty.
—Mrs. Ashdown stated that she saw the prisoners looking
about the shop just before dinner-time, and was going to
make a remark to her husband about it when she heard the
pans of glass ansp.-11. police-constable stated that he had
frequently seen the prisoners in company at a notorious n-
ceptacle for thieves in the Whitechapel-road.—Mr. Behan-
tine said he believed the prisoners starred the pane of glass
with the intention of robbing, and he sentenced them to two
months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection at Ilford.

POLICE.—YESTERDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Exec Teton or Barmen MATZ, .
room ERANCE.—A great number of distressed operatives
who have been for some time engaged in the French fac-
tories, and were obligi d to return to England, appeared
before the Lord Mayor, and represented that they were in a
state oordshipf deeti T
tution. hey had certificates from the consuls.
Hia l directed that the men and their families should
be spent, under the able superintendence of Mr. Thwaitee, MONEY MARKET.
the relieving officer of the City of London Union, to their
several places of settlement in various parts of the country. THURSDAY EVENING.
The anxie
The conduct of the whole of the industrious poor fellows ty of the speculators for the fall, who
who are thus thrown upon the world, was most credit- were considerable purchasers of stock yesterday, and
able, his lerdahip observed, to the character of the ope- the chief cause of the rise in the funds, was not dimi-
retires of Great Britain, and showed clearly that they niched to-day by the still further progress of prices.
merited, the warmest sympathy of their countrymen.—His It
was. believed, until late in the clay, that this con-
lordship felt much satisfaction in stating that he had re-
tinned
ceived a letter signed by several of the French inhabitants of advance was still the consequence chiefly of
London, and containing 611. 19s. for the service of the poor purchases for account of ?fifties in the same interest;
English workmen who were obliged to leave France. The but it transpired that a joint-stock bank, much con-
letter stated that the subscribers having seen with great pain !meted with foreign banks, had been during the day a
that many English workpeopls had from the force of cix-
ennistances been compelled to quit France, are anxious to large buyer of money stock, which there was good rea-
show that they felt for the calamity, and deeply sympathised son tobelieve must be for account of foreignsolicitous to in-
with the sufferers.—Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk of the or property of persons abroad, naturally
Lord Mayor, was engaged during a great part of the day in vest all or any part of their realised assets in securities
making arrangements for sending the operatives by the (lit
manufacturing ferent railroads to the various ring towns of Eng- of believed to be unassailable by whatever contingency
t political or other casualties abroad. Capital, in
lgdden. d Scotland.•ei.Umnriaratde of 200 arrived iv. the course sveereif
fact, would seem to be flowing in from Germany and,
comfortable tow themselves, byythe judicious management of other parts of the Continent, as well as from France,
Ithe chief magistrate and the official gentlemen under his for investment is the funds. The public at home too
' lord hip's authority. The expression of their gratitude was are known to be purchasers to Rome, though a less,
calculated to make a very strong impression in their favour.
.__ extent At the present moment there is an evident
GUILDHALL.—CHAAGE Or k OROERY.—J. Mayaese
was finally examined on the charge of having forged and ,s- r - . in •
ir tnc 'nation to invest railway stocks, foreign in-
uttered certain bills of exchange, either by altering the vestments being out of the question, although offering
date of overdue ones, or by forging the sect ptence or en- more advantageous returns, and this may be attrioun d
dorsement of Cuthbert Collingwoud Hill, Esq., of Farn-
ham Royal, Slough, Bucks.—Aid. Gibbs fully committed the in some measure perhaps to the ambitious and inju-
prieoner for trial on four charges, namely, the 1181, 401., spirit of speculation dioious
881,155., and 271. 14s. 6d. bills. some of the conductors of these important work°, in ex-
rustic-House ROBEERIES.—S. Smith, F. Jones, and tending their operations, and loading themselves with
G. Wilkes, were charged, on suspicion, with committing a fresh enterprises, on which large rates of dividend
robbery at the Red Lion public-house, Kine Edward-street, are guaranteed, whilst, also, large amounts of capital
Newgate-street, and Matilda and Mary Richards, are required to bring them into operation and realise
1 with passing a ten-pound note, part produce of
re
the robbery, well knowing it to be stolen. On any turns. In some instances, moreover, complaints
Monday evenlog the prisoner Smith, whose wife was are made by the shareholders o
whether true of having beenr
not, led
working in the house on that day as charwoman, entered astray by boards of management;
the house with the other men, Jones and Wilkes, end is not the affair of this department to examine or de-
btayed there for a time, between seven and nine o'clock, cide. But it is true, withal, that one instance of the
after which they left, when it was shortly discovered th.t a
box had been broken open in the room of Mrs. E. R. Lloyd, sort is only too readily laid hold of to discredit all
the landlady,and money abstracted to the amount of between and the most honourable undertakings.
401. and Mt., besides a watch, jewellery, and other kinds of From the combined influence of these purchasing
property. On the following morning the females went and operations for foreign account for home investment,
purchased goods to the amount of 11. Os. 3d., and the daugh- and by the speculators for the fall, Console advanced to,
ter (Matilda) tendered a 101. note, at the same time giving a
wrong name and address. This was at the shop of Mr. At the close of business they
and were done at 8',31.
Neeclis ,of 115, Shoreditch, lioendraper, and as the mu- were still 824 to 3, which sufficiently testifies to the
ther was known as a customer for years, no notice was taken strength of the market. Exchequer Bills, 265. to 30s.
until it (the note) reached the hands of Mr. White, the premium.
chief assistant, who went to the Bunk of England,
when i. was immediately stopped as being part of the
of The foreign market partook but in a slight degree
proceeds of the robbery the previous evening. Whoa tskin the more advanced position of Consols. Prices
into custody the younger female said that a gentleman gave were fractionally, or rather nominally, better, without
it to her between two and three o'clock on Monday morning; business being more active. Spanish. Fives were
which was impossible, as it was not stolen until the evening 121 to 4 ; the Threes, 221 to * ; Passive, 3 to 1.
of the same day. It was also proved that the man Wilkes
and Matilda Richards were acquaintances, and en the for- "
Portmenese, 141 to 161. Dutch*Two-and-a-Half per
mar, when taken into custody with Jones and Smith at fore Ceuta, 41 to. .3; the Fours, 61 to 3. Mexican, 141 to
latter'e lodging,being searched, there was found 141. 19s. tid., 15. Brazilian, 68 to 72. Danish, 67 to 71. Vene-
but on the others nothing. zuels, 18 to 22.
MARY LEBON E. —T u s MYSTERIOUS Casa OP CNILD It is proper to be mentioned that the dividends'
Mumma.— William Rigdon, the letter-carrier, who on Fri- eel uing on the French Three per Cents. Rents*
day, 17th inst., was charged on suspicion of having been
concerned in the murder of a female infant, was again taiUteiontbibe
yllneoonmthe, and
en odrdayegredbytothbee
Provisional
ionnalantioct
brought up. In the afternoon of the 24th January two per- pa
by
eons, named Batchelder and Randall, were shooting in afield vernment of France, have been duly received
between Kilburn and the Harrow-road, when they saw the parties interested in this country in bilis at sight, or
prisoner scraping up some mould on a bank in a field adjoin- short date, oa the house of Rothschild as one instance,
mg. In a short time afterwards prisoner came towards
them, and having mentioned to them that he had just seen and paid accordingly. But as the government have
some snipes, he passed on. Soon after this Mr. Batcheldor declared the notes of the Bank of France to be legal
and his friend repaired to the spot alluded to, and just below tender, and as therefore at Paris the dividends would
the surface of the ground they diacovered a wooden box, be discharged in there notes, which, quoad specie,
which, on being opened, was found to contain • dead infant, were about 10 per cent. discount, there must evt-
whose legs were doubled up over its body, and the cloth in
which the infant was wrapped up had upon dently be a loss to the recipient, or in other quarters,
it DOIIIOOIIII marks of blood. A coroner's inquest in the exchange operation. The matter is worthy of
had been held, and • verdict was returned of " Wil- reference, more particularly
.because, as asserted in
ful murder
that
some person or persona unknown."—Dr. respectable quarters, no loss is sustained by. the reci-
Carr proved that the child was born alive, and that the im-
mediate cause of death was suffocation, arming from pressure pients, or holders of the French securities, in the
ration. This it is difficult to understand, unless upon
on the neck, and from the head being violently' struck
against some hard substance. The prisoner was ultimately the almost incredible supposition that, as respects
met with in Portman-square, and given in charge. On foreign holders, the Bank of France, still shut to
being asked by the magi•trate what he had to sey, he denied lar business, has orders to pay in specie the sums due
all knowledge of the affair, and said that the parties were to foreign holders of Rentes, after strict investigation
entirely mistaken.—The evidence of Mr. Randall, corrobora • into the nature of the property as asserted. The fact
tive of Mr. Batchelder's, was gone into.—The solicitor for the
prisoner aciwonasained the whiteness eet the part ei the pro- of
viethe;eoarelrulsr receipts of dividends here, however,
motion at moms length, and called forward Marta pence& re under whatever circumstances.