The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
THE "lam: Trim" NSWePAPEIL—In this ease no opiioll WU offered, and the bankrupts, proprietors of the Iron
Times, named their last ' •

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATE.
On Thursday a meeting of the magistrates of the county
of Middlesex was held at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell,
for the despatch of the county business. H. Pownall, Esq.,
11 the chair.
Hottest or COIMECTION.—The report of the Visiting ins
ticei of the above prison, which was read, stated that there
were at present confined within its walls 983 prisoners, vu.,
766 males, 728 females, and 7 children.
JUVIINILI OFFENDRIIB.—The report of the committee ap-
pointed by the court on the 9th of April hut to report to the
court their suggestions for checking the growth of juvenile
offences was then read. The report stated that the
committee are persuaded that juvenile crime is far
are extensive for private benevolence to prevent, and
are convinced that no effectual steps can be adopted
by the magistrates without the authority of an act
of Parliament. That the great causes of juvenile crime and
depravity appear to be ignorance, destitution, and the ab-
sence of proper parental or friendly care, and that all
children between the ages seven and fifteen years suffering
from those or similar causes require protection to prevent
their getting into bad company., and acquiring wild and dis-
solute habits —growing up in vtee, and becoming a burden on
the county as crtmiaals, and that such protection should be
afforded by the county. The report then suggests that an
asylum for unprotected and destitute children be founded in
and for the county of Middlesex by legislative enactme
the
nt,
and placed under the management justices of
erected to be called the County Juvenile Asylum, and
erected under the management of a committee of such jus-
tices, who shall from time to time report their proceedings to
the Home Secretary ; that provision shall be made for the
religious and moral education of the children, and their in-
struction in useful arts, trades, and occupations suitable to
their station. That the parties to be admitted to the asylum
shall be children between the area of seven and fifteen,
who have been driven from their homes b the neglect
and misconduct of their parents, or who hyda no
provide for them, or are otherwise in want of protecThat tion, an
the
d
are consequently in want of food, clothes, &c.
expenses shall be defrayed by a county rate to be recover-
able from their parents in Cases where they have the means
of providing for such children, but have neglected to do so,
and with a power of attaching their wages to satisfy the
amount of such claim. The report concludts with recom-
mending a variety of rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of the asylum. After a few observations fro
vm Mr. d
Sergeant Adams and Mr. Hatch, the report was receied, an
ordered to be printed and taken into considetionusiness on the
the
next county day. After disposing of some other b
court adjourned.
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POLICE.—YESTERDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Crain OP DUST CONTRACTORS
TO THE REFUSE OF METALS.—lVilliont Law, Ulan in
the employment of Mrs. Callow, a metal-refiner, was charged
before the Lord Mayor with having taken away dust from a
house in lioundsditch, in violation of the contract of Mr.
Dodd, the dust contractor for the eastern district of the City.
—The foreman of Mr. Dodd rated that on the 30th Novem-
ber he saw the defendant with a horse and cart at the door
of No. 144, Houndsditch. The defendant brought out seve-
ral baskets of dirt and cinders, such as the contractor was
entitled to and was in the habit of appropriating, and
emptied them into his cart. He said, upon being questioned,
that he was taking the rubbish to his employers, who were
refiners of brass, and that they were to take the brass out of
it. The witness then gave him into the custody of the
police. The contract for the dust of the district for the last
12 months amounted to 1,3201.—The solicitor to the defend-
ant admitted that the rubbish had been taken away by his
client, but denied that the contractor had the least claim to
it.—Mr. Ellis, brae-founder, who carried on business at the
house No. 144, Houndsditeh, stated that the defendant was
in the habit of taking away the cinders and dust with which
the refuse which fell from his castings into his ash-pit was
blended. Witness knew that the refuse gave employment
to several persons, and his men received a perquisite
from the defendant's employers. Sometimes a pot of metal
broke in the furnace, and the metal all blended with the
cinders. Witness did not himself extract the metal from the
cinders, as he had no mechanism for that purpose. Upm
his cross-emmination Pie witness said he would not allow
Mr. Dodd, the contractor, to take the refuse away, but he
permitted the parties who had taken it away for the last 10
years to continue the work.—The Lord Mayor did not con-
sider that the contractor had made out a case. In the con-
tract there was no mention of the refuse of metals, and the
owner certainly had a right either to sell the refuse of his
castings or to give it away.—Mr. Vann said the case was one
of considerable importance, and calculated, if decided ac-
cording to his lordship's present impression, to diminish the
value of the contract to his client 500/. a year. He hoped, ,
therefore, his lordship would postpone his decision until he
should have looked more closely into the statute.—The Lord
Mayor having consulted Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, dis-
missed the case.
GUILDHALL.—Yesterday, William Kin?, a German,'
but who speaks English very well, was brought before Mr.
Alderman Wilson, charged with shoplifting. A solicitor at-
nt
tended on behalf of the prisoner.—W. It. Hampson, assista
to his father, a silk mercer, stated that on the 27th Novem-
ber the prisoner came into the shop No. 47, Holborn, and
desired that some silk handkerchiefs should be shown to him.
Witness opened a parcel of coloured handkerchiefs for the
neck, and also took several from the window. He selected
one, which he paid for immediately. He then wished to
see some black handkerchiefs. Witness opened a parcel, but
these did not please him. Leaving them on the counter be
fetched another parcel, from which the prisoner selected
four at 14s. Witness was about to put the first parcel away,
but the prisoner said, " Don't do that, I have not quite
money enough, but I will go and bring it, and I may want
some of those when I come back." The prisoner requested
him to cut the four handkerchiefs from eachother, and place
them aside for him. The prisoner „never returned, and in a
quarter of an hour he missed from the first parcel one piece
of five handkerchiefs, and one piece of seven ; value toge-
ther, 31. 3s. The solicitor asked, if he was not standing
facing the prisoner all the time, and if he did not leave the
handkerchief he had paid for a, an earnest he would return ?
The witness said it was so. Mr. Alderman Wilson asked
how the prisoner could have secreted the two pieces almost
in his presence ?—The witness said the prisoner wore a son
of Chesterfield coat, with large pockets in front, i 1
which he might have taken away a dozen pieces.
He was sure the prisoner was the came person.
—Thomas Kelly, policeman 119 11, stated, that he appre-
hended
the prisoner as answering the description of the
person stated to have committed the theft, and knowing the
prisoner to have been already convicted of a like offence.
He bound him in a public-house in Whitechapel. lie was
in the company of several thieves. The prisoner asked
what he took him for? and when he told him he said it was
all right, but he should like to see if the gentleman could
swear he saw him take them. Witness took 4s. 4d. from
him. The prisoner said he had no more money, but witness
found a sovereign and a lialtsovereign more in his fob. isir.
Alderman Wilson asked if the prisoner had any one to show
how he obtained his living the
solicitor said he had not.
—The alderman then inquired if he was known to the
police?—The officer said he had been twice convicted.—The
prisoner was committed.
CLERK.EN W ELL.—William Holding was charged with
robbing his sister-in-law, Anna Holding, of half-a-crown,
and two duplicates, one being that of her wedding-ring, and
with violently assaulting her in the commission of the rob-
bery. The prosecutrix said she resided in a small cottage in
Pocock's-fields, and about one o'clock on Monday the pri-
soner came in, and, after saying a few words, caught her by
the throat, and attempted to put his hand in her pocket.
She screamed out loudly, upon which he knocked her down,
when he took the money and duplicates from her pocket and I
ran away.—Several witnesses were called by the prosecutrix
to support her statement, but although all said they heard
her scream, none saw either the prisoner or any person else
near the spot ; and it was also shown that there existed a
very bitter family quarrel, her husband having ran away
from her a short time ago.—Mr. Combo said it was a singu-
lar charge altogether, but with such contradictory evidence
he could not do otherwise than order him to be discharged.
MARY LEBONE.—ROIII3EItY AT THE CAMDEN-TOWN
STATION.—SHMUtt Gee, a carter, was charged with havinli
stolen a bale of goods, supposed to consist of West o
England cloth.—lt appeared that on the previous
evening the prisoner went to the Camden station of the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway, Camden-town, and in his
capacity of carman, delivered there a load of wool, which
had been forwarded Messrs. Sutton and Co., carriers.
When the goods had been delivered, he was observed
to take up a bale, which he carefully put into a sack, and
lifting it into his vehicle, he drove off with it. Information
of the robbery was communicated to the clerk at the station,
and the prisoner was followed and taken into custody. The
bale was consigned to Messrs. Hill, of Birmingham, and it
was clearly shown that it had been transferred from the stage
on the platform to the waggon with a felonious intent.—
Remanded till Thursday next.
LAMBETH.—A MAdISTRATE IMPOSED UPON BT A
BEOOINO-LETTER WRITER.—Emily Julia Williams, aged
16, and Henry Williams, aged 12 years were placed at the
felon's bar before Mr. Norton, on a charge of stealing two
glazier's diamonds, of the value of thirty-five shillings. The
prisoners, though so young, have frequently been 'brought
to this court on charges of felony, and the girl has been tried
and convicted at the Old Bailey. On the first occasion of
their being brought to this court, their parents disclaimed
all knowledge of or participation in their robberies, and
their extreme distress at the time called forth the kind
symp i
athies of Mr. Norton who relieved them to a consider-
Ole extent. The father, t appeared, had been formerly
ina
tutor, and subsequently belonged to the City Policea
which force, from his superior education, he was promed
to the situation of acting inspector, and might have reached
higher promotion, but for some reason or other he resigned
his appointment. Mr. Norton, after relieving him and his
family to a very considerable extent, and otherwise interest-
ing himself in his favour, observed something in his manner
which caused him to ake inquiries, and the result was
that he found him to be • practised begging-letter writer.
He therefore declined having anything further to do with
him, upon which Williams, forgetful of the favours he had
received, wrote two or three most impertinent letters to the
worthy magistrate.—Evidence was given of the pledging of
the diamonds by the prisoners, when Redford, the officer,
said that he should have taken the father of the prisoners'
into custody, as he bad no doubt whatever he encouraged'
his children to rob, and participated in the plunder, but he
appeared so ill at the time that he feared he would fie.—Mr.
Norton directed that he might be at once examined by the
parish doctor, and if he pronounced him in a fit state to be
removed, he should bring him to 'the court. Williams was
subsequently brought up in custody, and with his children
remanded for a week.
THAMES.—Taa FLOILE'S EXPEDITION..--FOUTtA4OI
men, who had embarked on board the Gleaelg, for the pur-

pose of serving under General Flores, applied to the sitting
magistrate, Mr. Ballet:dine, through Mr. Pelham, under the
following circumstances :—lt will be remembered that, about
a fortnight since, the sailing of an armament, ostensibly in-
tended fur the Beefactor, was suddenly arrested under certain
provisions of the Illegal Enlistment Act. The flag shipere was
the Glenelg, and the applicants formed part of her w.
The engagements entered into with them was, that they
should receive one month's pay in advance, and a second
month on their arrival in Corunna. The firstth month had
been paid, and a second being now due, e applicants
wished to know whether they could not enforce payment
from the parties by whom they had been engagecl.—Mr.
Ballantine replied, that as the whole transaction appeared to
have been illegal, the court could not interfere.
WANDSWORTH.— CHAROE OP ORTAINIHO GOODS
ENDER Faxes& PRETENCES.—Mrs. Frances Margaret Boyle
was charged with obtaining, under false pretences, a piece
of Mr. John
Irish linen and two cotton dresses, the property
Tarns, draper, No. 6,oakley-terrace, Old K ent-road.—J oseph
Bembkcr, assistant to Mr. Tarne, said, the prisoner was a
customer at his master's shop ; she came on Saturday last and
gave an order for some goods ; witness went with them to No.
4, Caledonia-row, Coburg-place, where he saw the prisoner ;
she said the goods were for an invalid lady who was staying
at her house, and that, as she was then in bed, she could not
thew them to her until 10 o'clock the next morning. Wit-
ness left the goods. lie
had delivered a bill of upwards of
£4 to Mrs. Boyle a few days previously. When he went on
Tuesday morning Mrs. Boyle had left ; he tered race h
er to Bat-
eft
tersea, and gave her in charge. lie consid whe l
the goods he was giving credit to Mrs. Boyle.—Mr. Clive
said, that there was no pretence whatever for giving the
party into custody, and she must be discharged.—The pri-
soner's solicitor applied for expenset—Mr. Clive said he
could not order him any, but he knew his remedy.
GREENWICH.—GREENWICH RAILWAY. --CHARGE OF
ATTEMPTED FRAUD .—A fashionably dressed young man,
described as John Richard Cornoch, No. 7, Cumberland-
street, Hackney, commercial traveller, was brought before
Mr. Jeremy on the following charge. —Mr. A. Maddock, in-
spector at the Greenwich terminus, deposed that the prisoner
came on the platform about seven o'clock the prev de-
ious even-
ing, and jumped into a first-class carrisge. Witness
manded his cheque. The prisoner replied that his name
was Dyer, of Blackheath-park, an annual subscriber to the
first-class carriages, and that he had left his ticket at home.
Witness said that he must produce his ticket or pay the fare.
The prisoner insisted on going in the &exclude carnage, but
was prevented from so doing ; and on going into the pay
office it was ascertained that he had paid 4d., the third-class
fare.—Mr. Jeremy : Mr. Dyer of Blackheath-Park is a &sr--
class annual ticket subscriber I—The acr .- ied to pass
himself off for that gentleman.—Mr. Jeremy asked for the
" Railway Act."—The inspector said that by the bye-laws
of the Greenwich Railway Act persons attempting to
tadsrie
and evade payment of the regulated fares were subject
penalty of forty shillings._ Mr. Jeremy asked for the pro-
duction of the bye-laws. The inspector said they werJ aty the
London office, and he would procure them.—•r. erem
said he must discharge the prisoner, but he would grant a
summons at the desire of the company for a future hearing,
and the " Act " must be produeed.—The inspector said he
would do so, and the parties retired.

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re...43otounatip7,—
bend any opposition from the Midland counties; and in answer to a
question by • shareholder, it was replied that if a well-signed requi.
salon should be
two
to the directors by the shareholders, they would
make overtures to the Eastern Counties; but the opinion of the
directors. and of sevend gentlemen present, wait decidedly againsofy
ant
plating the Ambergate tine in the position of first proposer
overtures to any company Whatever.
SOUTHAMPTON AND DONCIIEATER.This line is rapidly
approaching completion. The late storm have to some extent, inter-
fered with the works, more especially with those which run through
the Southaropbm waters. It is expected that the line will be. opened
about the e of March, or early in April.
SCOTCH RAILWATB.—The following authentic summary
of railway movements in Scotland ts from the last monthly circular of
the Mews. Allan, of Edinburgh :—."RUM011111 have been rife of amal-
gamations and leasing'. Many meett
ng,' have been held, and nume-
rous proposed an noigementa promulgated. lor example, it is cur-
rently stated that the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow have
been offered 9 per cent., or an out and out purchase of the whole stock
at the rate of 90f. for every 501. ahem; and that the North British have
refused 8 per cent. on their whole outlay, including all their latterly-
issued stock. Many proprietors doubt the powers of directors to de-
cline such to but certainy, if either of these lines for the next
ten years yield clear profits equal tog or 8 per cent., we shall be very
much aurprised. The North British, in particular, is, per-
haps, the most extraordinary of our Scotch liallways, and
certainly, to its first holders at least, it has hitherto
been the most lucrative. Its original capital was 800,000!.
The stock now created represents 3,200,0001., or quadruple what was
at first proposed. Two year., ago the shares were a drug in the mar-
ket at a disoaunt ; now, the current value of the whole capital exhibits
a premium of more than a million sterling. Of course,per cent.
be guaronteed, this premium will advance nearly one half more, per.
ticularly on the old quarter and the newly created third shares, both
of which are comparatively much under their value, the former being
registered stock, the latter representing what is sure to become so.
The new quarters are contingent on the succem of a doubtful appli-
cation to parliament for the line between Maria and Carlisle, and
consequently do not bear any relative value to the rest of the stock.
Scottish Centrals have receded in consequence of one at two heavy
holders realising ; Aberdeen., have been dealt in extensively, and Edin-
burgh and Not
are again in good request. This company is about
issuing new stock, both for whole and three-fifth shares, in the pro-
rerritilreamect To Theercsoveryluft7ourn nowtl in
eiLatenncfeo .form'fily%tlitrig are
company; but it is expected that a new scheme will ere long be pro-
posed for this line of country. The Ayrshire and Galloway, to enable
them to go to parliament, have called up the 255. they refunded about
two months ago; and
an attempt is being made to resuscitate the
East Lot Lian Central scheme of last year. The Edinburgh and Leith
Atmospheric have not yet made their promised repayment of 195."
RAILWAY SIIARR LISTS.—LONDON. DEC. 4.
Norz.—The quotations of lines In Roman characters
s. r denote actual
transactions: thowi of lines in Italics sellers' pice
PAID.
—llB4 i \2/ Los., Solis., & Yeovil 11 I
1281:011 6p. lit ILLYuarinindomirDerli e
ta. /145:411.4
1n3.49. 1"' :1425 'roix....l.l4;ilsabs"o..erares.4
4),
. 3 4p. 61 Do. Mx/meths ll •
19 21p. 42s Do. Extension. lp.
4d.. par. 10 Manchester & Birm i
5 Do. /shares el . 1 74
.111 5 Do. Do. B 77,
\ 1 Do. Do. C ll
:3 so. 422 risicet.l"" &Map.t. lip:
2 11a. toe Midland. tau
. 2 lid. 24 Do. New 2l,
2 Do. New r69
•23i 21 1 Do. Birm. & Derby 106
. 71p. ed. 20 Newcastle & Berwick. 341
iB9 it s A'onos..¢ Chester/ par.
.14 P. 23 North British Ili
• 2P. 11 Do. 1 shares.
5 Do. Fifths
i 1 I Do. 2 shares. ..... - I
Do. E..rtension ill
OU,Norfolk 122
g , Do. 4 shares 12
G Do. Extension.
9 Northern 4 Eastern. 71 8
5 Do.Scriy(iss.sdie.) 26 &
24 Do. I shares 1849,
I Do. New26 34
s North Staffordshire Bl 9
r i 04., Woster., 4 Wol. 41 44
14 Fortsmotah !Street 4 Up.
Preston and Wyre
213 SI
ii Do. 4 stares
a
; Royston and hitches I 4p.
10 Sheffield 4 Mnnrls
4 Scott
tbtts;:?l,..;:lilt,ral 64 ii
9 Shrewsbury & Diem.. }II S
Is Shropshire Union.— •
o Soia• baron 1 5d
31 S. Eastern and Dover 3S
O D0.N.(im.321.)N0.1 23
2 Do. N. (331. e5.ad.)2141
Da. N. do. 340.) 3 t 2p
4 Do. N. (.o. Ill.) 43 4
2
5 Smith Wales l5
ii Waterford cy itilkm.7 Sd
is. West Riding Union 2p.
[55- ZOlrr.anB"dLAts=lT t 9314
3 Do. New 1
2 Do. Preference / i
V fork 4 North Midtd. 1
3 Do. 4 abates
14
0 Do. Selby 7
1 Do. Extension
Do. Preference 1511
Do. E.&W.Ridg.Y : 17
POUSION RAILWAYS
BOW/09/le. Amiens... 24
Bord.TouL dr Cone ... t.

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5. Direct Boutb.+Madral
6 Dutch Rhenish II Oj
East Indian
Gt.Soutato.of Madrasli II
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